Scientific Knowledge

By Rony Armon Last week, I attended the annual lecture of the School of Communication, Education and Society at King’s College London, where Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland talked on the highly timely topic of “Post-truth, lies and fake news.” While the talk was stimulating, it led me to think that more caution is needed in defending science as truth. As a political reporter,

The PRINTEGER European Conference on Research Integrity: Why Research Integrity Matters to You will take place in Bonn, Germany, on February 05-07, 2018 The aim of the conference is to promote a culture in which integrity is part and parcel of what it means to do excellent research. It will focus on: integrity challenges in the science system; research integrity and the role of media;

Mind the Lab is a breakthrough initiative in bringing science to the general public, acting as a science teaser to attract people’s interest and boost traditional science communication activities. By Theo Anagnostopoulos Bringing science to the general public – the challenge Most science communication approaches and mediums (e.g. newspaper articles, magazines, public lectures, debates,

by Jacopo Sacquegno Science has always benefitted from the use of visualization. We can almost say that since the very beginnings of enquiring into nature in the 17th Century, producing visuals and images to describe phenomena and explain theoretical models has been intrinsic to science. Today, the evolution of advanced software tools allows researchers to generate a huge amount of visual

By Jane Gregory and Guoyan Wang Images on journal covers raise the citation rates of academic papers. According Wang, Guoyan and two of her graduate students, Cheng, Xi and Yao, Yuting, from University of Science and Technology of China, and Jane Gregory from the UK, papers published in prestige journals enjoy 120% of the citations of comparable research papers. However, when a research paper is

(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

Haeckel’s Embryos. Images, Evolution, and Fraud Nick Hopwood, | The University of Chicago Press, 2015 The book addresses one of the most intriguing and fresh topics in the history of science of the last few decades: the relationship between science and the visual. Nick Hopwood, historian of science and medicine at the University of Cambridge, focuses on a single set of biological