Science Communication Journal Club Podcast

In this episode, we speak about problematic terminology in science and science publishing. In a number of fields, certain terminology promotes exclusion or carry a degrading context. What can be done to move away from these inherent issues and how can we individually improve our communication to remove biases? It's all in this episode.

The Moments from the Twitter chat can be found here. The publication we discussed can be read in ...

In this episode we are joined by the winner of second place of our 2021 State Your Mission Statement Challenge - a group of students who work to promote science communication among teens. You can follow them on Twitter @Sci4Teens.

Find the Twitter moments from the chat with their participation here.

Follow us on Twitter @SciComm_JC and on Instagram @scicomm_jc. Visit also our website www.scicommjc.org and subscribe to our newslette...

In this episode we are joined by the 1st place winner of the State Your Mission Challenge 2021 - Rashmi Sheoran also known as @astro_roxy.

You can find the moments of the Twitter chat Rashmi and Nevena hosted here and the peer-reviewed paper we discussed - here.

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In this episode, we share tips on how to approach an audience based on shared values. We cover also some experiences from a workshop we hosted at the AAAS Annual Meeting 2021 on the same topic.

You can find the moments of the Twitter chat we organised post-workshop here.

If you want to receive the handout with guided exercises in value-based communication, drop us a message on Twitter at @scicomm_jc.

You can listen to the previous ...

In this episode, we welcome a guest, who is a poet (the BBC said so!) and a scientist - Dr Sam Illingworth.

We talk about how powerful poetry is as a conversation starter, as an expression, as a bonding and outreach mechanism for science. 

We covered (half) of his paper Creative communication – using poetry and games to generate dialogue between scientists and nonscientists in a Twitter Chat. The paper can be found here. The M...

In this episode we speak about the necessity to report, cover and communicate about scientific discoveries in languages different than English. 

We start our discussion based on a Twitter chat (moments for it are here: https://twitter.com/i/events/1295024902672715779) where we discuss a publication (here: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcomm.2020.00031/full by Melissa Márquez (@mcmsharksxx) and Ana Maria Porras (...

In this episode, we talk with Mariya (@mariyav_phd) about some ground rules and key points to remember when communicating in times of crisis. 

Find the Twitter chat moments here - link.

Find the CDC manual here - link.

Link to the COVID-19 Public Opinion Survey Mariya spoke about and more info about it - here.

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In this episode we build on previous episodes. We talk about using social media for science communication with the runner up in the 2019 State Your Mission Challenge from the Scicomm_JC - Virginia Schutte. We talk strategies and tricks in using social media for scicomm as an individual and as an organisation.

Virginia was a guest on a Twitter chat where she reviewed a scientific publication on social media for scicomm back in ...

In this episode we explore the potential of social platforms for science communication and how we can apply the scientific method to study the true impact of different types of messages. The basis for our talk with Dr Lisa Lundgren is the publication "Scientific Twitter: The flow of paleontological communication across a topic network". Lisa herself, is a co-author of this work. You can get in touch on her Twitter @LisaLundgren21 o...

In this episode, we are joined by Alex Martin - a recent guest on our Twitter chats.

We talk a bit about this publication The enduring effect of scientific interest on trust in climate scientists in the United States.

But more importantly, we speak about the experiences, lessons and ideas, Alex has from his ultra-cool initiative - Sidewalk Science Center.

Connect with Alex on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and via his website. Suppor...

In this episode we recap our participation and some highlights from the Congress of the European Ecological Federation 2019 in Lisbon, Portugal.

We talk about the talk we gave (slides can be viewed here) and the book on which we based our presentation (and which our Sherry wrote) can be purchased here - Social Solutions for Climate Change. + Link to the Twitter chat moments where we also covered this presentation.

And also a link t...

In episode 10 of the Science Communication Journal Club Podcast we talk with Dr Carla Brawn (@Sci_Game_Girl) about gamifying education. Check out her website at http://www.gamedoctor.co.uk/.  Find the moments of the corresponding twitter chat here.

Read the first book summary on our website https://scicommjc.org/framework-sticky-content/.

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In this episode we talk about our recent Twitter chat topic on predatory scientific journals and how to learn to recognize them.

We cover this article to start the discussion.

Mentioned tools you can use to assess the legitimacy of scientific journals are:

• https://thinkchecksubmit.org/ 
• Journal Evaluation Tool 

Visit www.scicommjc.org to learn more about the team, get in touch, subscribe to our newsletter and...

• The article which our guest chose for the twitter chat can be read here - Our House Is Burning: Discrepancy in Climate Change vs. Biodiversity Coverage in the Media as Compared to Scientific Literature;
• The moments from the chat itself can be found here - twitter moments link @SciComm_JC;
• The other article Ruben mentioned in the conversation can be accessed here - Planetary Boundaries: Exploring the Safe Operating Space fo...

What are the moral grounds based on which some people experience various level of hesitancy related to vaccination? How can science communicators explore these values, understand them and use them as a background for more effective communication and outreach? All in this episode!

Useful links mentioned in this episode:

• scicommjc.org for summaries of latest and previous twitter chats, contacts and other news and useful sources...

Useful links mentioned in the episode:

• David S Anderson's twitter - https://twitter.com/DSAArchaeology
• The curly haired mafia page - https://curlyhairmafia.com/
• The Chapman University survey on American fears - https://blogs.chapman.edu/wilkinson/2018/10/16/paranormal-america-2018/
• The first SciComm_JC twitter chat summary on Facebook for scicomm - http://scicommjc.org/practices-promises-facebook-for-science-communicatio...