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By Sofía VillaInstagram, Twitter, Youtube, and now Tiktok are becoming strong platforms for communicating science. Nevertheless, the most visible science influencers are Northamerican publishing content in English.To explore new perspectives for science in social media, we talked with Astromaiky, a Colombian astrophysicist who started a career as a science influencer. Throughout his profiles on

We are seeing coronavirus or COVID-19 emerging across the globe including in our own back yard. What should we be considering with respect to evaluating COVID-19 risk, making sense of numbers, and for whom this is a health risk? What do risk and crisis communication theories tell us about how to communicate about COVID-19 risk with the public and how might we think about this evolving public

By Stefanie Walter Scientists use Twitter to talk to other scientists, but communication beyond the scientific community is also important. How scientists talk to these groups differs systematically and suggests a strategic language use. Academic Twitter is popular among scholars. Scientists use Twitter to talk about their work, their success and the challenges they are facing. They share

What will the artificial intelligence revolution mean for science journalism? Most people in the field don’t seem to have given it much thought, which is scary because so much of journalism will inevitably be changed by AI – and is already being changed. Some people fear loss of jobs in the long term, but few have thought about the opportunities it provides in the short term. AI will be the

By Paige Jarreau Ph.D In general, U.S. adults trust scientists. Scientists’ credibility or trustworthiness ratings have been remarkably stable over time. Confidence in leaders of the scientific community is roughly the same or higher than it was in the 1970s according to Pew data. While U.S. adults may have very different attitudes on a variety of scientific issues than scientists do,

(science) Marching for an alternative future https://twitter.com/Millennial_Dems/status/855984811785236481 Un post condiviso da Inna Ricardo-Lax (@innalax) in data: 22 Apr 2017 alle ore 22:07 PDT Un post condiviso da neena r&d (@space_nrd420) in data: 24 Apr 2017 alle ore 00:02 PDT Un post condiviso da MillieGracePhotography (@milliegracephotography

Finding the right Twitter hashtag to engage with academics and professionals may be challenging and time consuming, thus, to help researchers, we founded the SciHashtag Project – a free open collection of Twitter hashtags about science communication in and out the academic world. by Elena Milani Twitter is becoming an integral part of researchers’ daily activities. On Twitter, academics

An interview with Catherine Williams by Cristina Rigutto "Altmetrics is the creation and study of new metrics based on the Social Web for analysing, and informing scholarship." Jason Priem, 2010 "Altmetrics are an indicator of engagement and a real-time record of the online attention surrounding an individual research output." Catherine Williams, 2016 Is altmetrics a suite of metrics for

While senior scientists are often uneasy using social media, Ph.D. students and early career researchers favour the use of social media to benefit their scholarly communication practice, disseminate their work, make new connections to build their network and discover and share information with society. I asked Beth Raps to interview two of them: Amanda Freise and Laura Haney, founders of