Scientific Knowledge

Scientists are advised to present their research in the form of an appealing narrative. A new study identifies researchers as avid tellers that present their stories to account for their findings. by Rony Armon and Ayelet Baram-Tsabari The news media is a major source of information to the general public but talking about one’s own research often clashes with the news values that journalists

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

by Rodrigo Martínez-Novo, Emmánuel Lizcano, Paloma Herrera-Racionero, Lluís Miret-Pastor Innovation is a key factor in any current economical, social or environmental policy. Also in fisheries policy where this concept shares the spotlight with co-management. In fact, innovation is often present in the narrative of scientists, politicians and aquaculturists, but what about fishermen?

Taking climate change seriously: An analysis of op-ed articles in Spanish press by Martí Domínguez, Íngrid Lafita, Anna Mateu University of Valencia, Spain Published in Public Understanding of Science, April 2016 http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0963662516641844

By JoAnn M. Valenti, Ph.D./Emerita Professor Recent headline-making discoveries coupled with international box-office hits would seem a sure demonstration of public interest in films about science, especially space exploration. Not quite at Robert Redford’s annual, snowy, mountain high Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah (USA). As has become the case at this prestigious

There's an old journalism trick that says: "If you want to get something original out of an interviewee, say nothing and wait". Thus, when I was due to interview Beth Raps, one of six winners of the essay competition on the ‘deficit concept’, instead of looking for those questions that make people comfortable enough to speak freely, I only asked her to talk about her latest publication in an