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In two new TV advertisements, the We campaign is back on message (after one major stumble), framing appeals around the tagline of “Repower America,” connecting a focus on clean energy […]
President-elect Obama’s remarks at a press conference today should sound familiar to readers of this blog: “A couple of years ago I was invited to Rick Warren’s church to speak […]
The latest issue of the American Journal of Bioethics features an important study on the effects of viewing medical dramas on the ethical reasoning of medical and nursing students. From […]
Now that Obama has his science and environmental policy team in place, there’s great optimism for important new directions in policy. Yet it will take smart and effective communication to […]
From an email sent out this morning by NSF. If readers can make it, this panel is definitely worth attending. NSF to Host Panel Discussion on Communicating Climate ChangeJournalists Andy […]
A few bloggers have registered their reaction to last week’s PRI radio segment that questions the wisdom of calling climate change and evolution opponents “deniers.” Most notably Orac, Mike the […]
The HHMI Bulletin, the monthly magazine of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, runs a lengthy feature on science blogging in its November issue. I am quoted in the article with […]
The NY Academy of Sciences offers a stunning venue for public talks, forums, and receptions, with a view from the 40th floor of 7 World Trade Center.Thursday morning I will […]
The National Academies is doing some preliminary pilot research on a new communication initiative. As part of that process, they want to find out what science blogs readers think are […]
On last week’s announcement that CNN is shifting the focus and form of its science coverage, I am going to be posting what is a very different interpretation than the […]
This summer I will be heading to Denmark to speak at a June 11 conference of the Danish Science Journalists’ Association. A major focus of this year’s conference will be […]
About a 100 attendees turned out for Thursday night’s talk at the New York Academy of Sciences. The event marked the end of a year long series on science communication […]
Over at George Mason’s Center for Climate Change Communication, they are hosting a poll asking readers to vote for the 2008 Climate Change Communicator of the Year. Among the choices […]
The University of Wisconsin news office has posted a valuable Q&A with my friend and UW professor Dietram Scheufele. The occasion is a new study he has published with colleagues […]
Think Progress, the blog for the Center for American Progress, has a detailed run down on the Obama administration’s announced appointment of Steve Chu as Energy secretary, Carol Browner as […]
Next year, as the science community celebrates the 150th anniversary of the publication of Darwin’s On the Origin of Species, leading organizations such as the AAAS, NIH, and the National […]
In a Policy Forum article published this week at Science, MIT Professor of Management John Sterman reports on an experiment that shows just how self-defeating it is to continue to […]
Obama took over the airwaves Wednesday night, hitting most of the important audience groups. According to Nielsen (above), Obama’s 30 minute 8pm infomercial which aired on CBS, FOX, NBC, Univision, […]
Polls including cell-phones are highlighted in orange.Wondering about the variation across survey organizations in estimating Obama’s national lead? As I have been discussing in my research methods course here at […]
Opinion-leaders are a commonly overlooked resource by science organizations and advocates. Public communication initiatives too often ignore the special individuals across communities and social groups that can serve as vital […]
With polls looking good for an Obama victory, here’s a clip from an interview I did with Big Think back in July, discussing why Obama has been such a successful […]
From the Chronicle of Higher Education: The 2008 presidential election has broken so many political barriers that historians may overlook one unusual fact: When Barack Obama takes the oath of […]
Photo credit.Readers in DC, New York City, and several other locations may be interested in turning out for talks I will be giving over the coming months. Details on dates, […]
What else is new in the Obama presidency? Presidents have given weekly radio addresses for decades, but Obama plans to take this vehicle for direct communication digital, offering motivated viewers […]
This past year, in the School of Communication here at American University, we were lucky to add to our faculty Lauren Feldman, a newly minted PhD from the Annenberg School […]
For members of the science policy community, I will be giving a talk tonight at 6pm at AAAS headquarters, titled “Science Communication Reconsidered: Key Issues for 2009 and Beyond.” (1200 […]
I taped an interview yesterday with PRI/BBC The World discussing the unfortunate use by science advocates of the term “denier” in debates over climate change, evolution, and other issues involving […]
My heads up on a forthcoming segment at Public Radio International’s The World has generated a discussion about the communication misfires that science advocates create when they use terms such […]
PRI The World ran a 10 minute feature today on the wisdom of using the term “denier” in the debate over climate change and other science policy controversies. Correspondent Jason […]