Great insights from the panelists including @hansonmark.bsky.social more authors, more papers (also per author), more need for thorough peer review. Work which is not paid. AI is both part of the problem & part of some solutions. Pros & cons also conc. open peer review… a lot of food for thought

Meanwhile, next door is a breakout session about the Peer Review Crisis #ECSJ2026 #wissenswerte

The Forever Pollution Project and Forever Lobbying Project bring together scientists and journalists to study the scale of the PFAS problem. Journalists share their experience at #ECSJ2026 #wissenswerte

Diehl provides some advice for #scicomm in the age of populism #ECSJ2026

However, mass media has some things in common with populism! #ECSJ2026

In today’s keynote, Paula Diehl talks about populism and its effect on science and science journalism. #ECSJ2026

Nice science journalism conference setting here in Hannover @efsj-scijourno.bsky.social #ECSJ2026

We’re now starting today’s joint conference day, with a programme that’s part in English for #ECSJ2026 and part in German for #wissenswerte

This morning #ECSJ2026 and #wissenswerte attendees had a chance to visit researchers. Here are a few pictures from TWINCORE

Winners:
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Finalists of the European Science Journalist of the Year award! Pictured: 2nd place winners @jopdevrieze.substack.com and Linda Samplonius, 3rd place winners @sigridmaerz.bsky.social and @martinruecker.bsky.social, EFSJ president @mmeagnes.bsky.social and vice president Astrid Viciano

At the same time, others were learning about comics as a way to report science. #ECSJ2026 #scicomm

Later in the day we heard from Balkan journalists how they collaborate and report in their region. #ECSJ2026

Meanwhile, other #ECSJ2026 attendees were learning how they could use vibe coding for their data reporting. A very hands-on session!

Another breakout session yesterday focused on models of European science journalism. What would be the best model to support journalits in each country in reporting science news? #ECSJ2026

Before we start day 2, some more photos of yesterday’s #ECSJ2026 breakout sessions. First: Shared Seas, Shared Stories - a session about cross-border reporting

And the European Science Journalist of the Year Award winners are:

1st Prize: Arnaud Robert (Switzerland)
2nd Prize: Linda Samplonius & Jop de Vrieze (The Netherlands)
3rd Prize: Sigrid März & Martin Rücker (Germany)

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Thanks to award sponsor @elsevierconnect.bsky.social

The third finalists are @sigridmaerz.bsky.social and @martinruecker.bsky.social who are showing examples of some of their investigative journalism.

The next finalist is Arnaud Robert. His presentation, in which he talks about his own experience of becoming quadraplegic following an accident and ending up on the other side of the microphone (from reporter to interviewee), is presented as a pre-recorded presentation. #ECSJ2026