Repower America’s lastest advertising campaign to promote their new online feature “The Wall” is brilliant. The ads and the social media initiative vividly portray the diversity of support for serious […]
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The faculty here at American University’s School of Communication include several of the country’s leading environmental filmmakers with their work coordinated through the Center for Environmental Filmmaking. One of our […]
Over at Dot Earth, the NY Times Andrew Revkin has a good round up and preview on Gore’s new book Our Choice. His post also includes an embedded 30 minute […]
For their upcoming annual meetings in San Francisco, the American Geophysical Union is sponsoring a pre-conference workshop introducing scientists, public information officers, journalists, and other attendees to several areas of […]
Columbia University’s Center for Research on Environmental Decisions has released a primer on the “Psychology of Climate Change Communication,” synthesizing much of the research of the Center over the past […]
Earlier this year, in an article at Nature Biotechnology, I joined with several colleagues in warning that the biggest risk to public trust in science is not the usual culprits […]
For DC readers, NOAA administrator Jane Lubchenco will be speaking at American University tonight. Details are below In 1998, Lubchenco as president of AAAS argued for a new social contract […]
Richard Kerr’s recent news feature at Science magazine offers a compelling look at the many communication challenges on climate change, especially at a time of apparent “climate fatigue.” As Roger […]
I’ve been busy the past week with wrapping up the semester. As a consequence, I have not had the chance to post about continuing developments related to the stolen emails […]
If you are trying to make sense of the surge of news coverage and commentary surrounding the stolen e-mails from the East Anglia University Climatic Research Center, the place to […]
A week from today, at their annual meetings in San Francisco, the American Geophysical Union will be sponsoring a workshop I co-organized on research related to climate change communication and […]
The journal Environmental Health Perspectives leads off its December issue with a news feature on the relevance of framing research to science communication. For readers who have followed recent review […]
I have long argued that Francis Collins would make a strong candidate to head the NIH, considering his scientific credentials, his past administrative experience, and his ability to communicate effectively. […]
Last year I gave a strong recommendation to the CBC series by David Caylay “How to Think about Science” which provides listeners with a fascinating introduction to the field of […]
Over the summer, a few stories have appeared speculating about a new “twitter effect” on movie box office success. The technology is thought to speed-up and amplify the traditional word-of-mouth […]
For DC-area readers who have been following the discussion of climate change communication at this blog, you will want to turn out to Ed Maibach’s talk tomorrow at the NSF. […]
This semester, I am serving on the search committee for an exciting new tenure track position in science, environmental, and/or health journalism. Our School of Communication at American University is […]
Ted Kennedy endorses Barack Obama for president in a January rally at American University.As the nation celebrates Senator Ted Kennedy’s career and accomplishments, here at American University, Kennedy’s influence is […]
Over at the Columbia Journalism Review, Curtis Brainard previews some of the major themes and proposed initiatives from a new co-authored paper I have appearing at the American Journal of […]
In a provocative article published last year, Nature columnist David Goldston tackled the topic of science and religion, focusing on the implications for public engagement and emerging policy debates. In […]
I recently received copies of two relatively newedited volumes on science communication and public engagement. The volumes include research and perspectives from an interdisciplinary collection of mostly European scholars. I […]
Last week I participated in a two-day workshop at NSF on climate change education. The meeting brought together researchers in science education, communication, and informal learning; representatives from government agencies […]
The New York Times led their Sunday edition with an article by John Broder focusing on recent Defense department conclusions on the national security risks of climate change. Here’s the […]
If you don’t already subscribe to the daily round up and real time “peer review” of science coverage assembled by Charlie Petit at the MIT Knight Science Journalism Tracker, you […]
Last week I pointed to two edited books released in 2008 that do an outstanding job of synthesizing the relevant issues and research on science communication and public engagement. Here […]
As I wrote last week, deliberative forums and town hall-type meetings are one of the major innovations in science communication and engagement. Whether forums are focused on climate change or […]
When I was in graduate school at Cornell, David Kirby was a course mate while he was working on a post-doc in science studies. Kirby was re-training from his former […]
As I noted last week, the Pew survey of scientists finds that more than 50% self-identify as liberals compared to just 20% of the public. Which then leads to the […]
Tomorrow night, watch Spencer Tracy argue in defense of evolution.For readers in the DC area, tomorrow night at 7pm, the NIH Office of Science Education and the American Film Institute […]
About 400 people packed the classic AFI Theater last night for the NIH-sponsored screening and discussion of Inherit the Wind. Here are a few follow-up notes, especially for attendees logging […]