Scientific Knowledge

Review by Birte Fähnrich Sarah Davies and Maja Horst, both renowned STS scholars at the University of Copenhagen (Denmark), have taken a very valuable approach to mapping the field of science communication. Their starting point is the obvious but also fundamental acknowledgment that science communication is a complex phenomenon that has seen several changes in the last decades and has been both

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 Bruno Pinto In May 2018, it will be celebrated the 20th anniversary of the inauguration of Expo 98, a world exhibition which took place in Lisbon (Portugal) entitled “Oceans, a heritage for the future”. The initial goal of this initiative was to mark the 500 years of the maritime trip of Vasco da Gama to India and other Portuguese Discoveries, but the theme of the oceans soon became the

INGENIO is pleased to announce the 2018 Eu-SPRI Early Career Research Conference (ECC), a three-day conference organized by doctoral students for doctoral students. The event will take place in Valencia, Spain on 3-5 May 2018 Ph.D. Days INGENIO 2018 seeks to offer to early career researchers the opportunity to develop and refine research capabilities, presentation and communication skills as

Review by Maximilian Fochler Stephen Hilgartner Reordering Life: Knowledge and Control in the Genomics Revolution Cambridge, Mass., The MIT Press, 2017 Who controls access to and use of knowledge? Which different entitlements and obligations are connected to specific knowledge and data, even those seemingly openly available to wider constituencies? Who stands to profit from specific kinds of

By William Allen (University of Oxford) Visualisations aim to be straightforward, but they actually involve many processes and brokers that complicate how users engage with them. Researchers across several disciplines use data visualisations to communicate with public audiences. It may be tempting to think visualisation provides straightforward windows into scientific studies, helping people

Review by Hans Peter Peters Hilary Rose & Steven Rose Can Neuroscience Change Our Minds? Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2016 Neuroscientist Steven Rose and social scientist Hilary Rose have written a critique of the relationship of neuroscience and society and, more specifically, of the links between neuroscience and policy. They tell the story of neuroscientists selling and overselling