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By Martin W Bauer, PUS Editor-in-Chief The ‘deficit concept’ is widely referenced in research on science communication and the public understanding. One might even say it is the ‘totem pole’ around which the field has been dancing and revitalising since the 1980s. The concept suggests that the wider public suffers an interest deficit, a knowledge deficit, an attitudinal deficit or a

By PCST Network PCST Network is delighted to announce that the world's largest collection of papers on science communication is now online and ready for use. Over 1,000 abstracts and full papers presented at PCST conferences are currently available and more will be added soon, including those from this week’s conference in Istanbul. This valuable resource for researchers and practitioners

By CRISTINA RIGUTTO Blogs and Social media outlets are changing both the consumption and the production of scientific information and the availability of this information to non-expert audience, thus providing a great outlet by which to promote scientific knowledge, to engage the public discourse and to increase the public understanding of scientific research. The PUS Blog and social