#science-communication — Public Fediverse posts

The Swiss finals of the My Thesis in 180 Seconds competition, now in its 10th year, will be held at the Rolex Learning Center on 21 May. Fourteen PhD students will have exactly three minutes to explain their research to a broad audience. We spoke with the three finalists from EPFL about their experience.

Read more: https://actu.epfl.ch/news/my-thesis-in-180-seconds-national-finals-return-to/

#EPFL #ScienceCommunication

🌍 The Principles of Open Science Monitoring are now speaking more languages!

Following the recent presentation of the OSMI infographic, we're pleased to announce it is now available in 9 languages: Arabic, Finnish, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Portuguese, Slovenian, and Spanish.

📊 Explore all language versions here: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18589689

#OpenScience #OpenScienceMonitoring #Multilingual #ResearchPolicy #ScienceCommunication

13-May-2026
The #cinema effect: Turning films into a gateway to #science
A new JCOM paper shows how the “Science & Cinema” format uses film clips and expert discussion to spark public reflection on climate change, scientific accuracy and the boundary between fiction and reality.

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1127521

#scienceCommunication #publicUnderstanding #HailMary #scienceFiction #film

☁️ Stratocumulus clouds are often considered “quiet”: 🤫They are associated with a stable atmosphere and mainly studied for their role in Earth’s radiation budget on long timescales 🌍. But they also have a "noisy" side, as our researcher Hairu Ding will show at this year's #PintOfScience in #Hamburg .
📅May 20, 19h
📍Kick & Company, Klausstraße 1, Hamburg
🗣️ 🇬🇧
🎟️ https://pintofscience.de/event/dont-look-up-the-science-of-the-skies/

Hope to see many of you there! #HamburgEvents #ScienceCommunication #Wisskomm #ClimateScience

TikTok but for Scientific Papers

https://andreaturchet.github.io/website/index.html

#HackerNews #TikTokScience #ScientificPapers #ResearchInnovation #AcademicSharing #ScienceCommunication

❓ Want to know what it can be like and what all you can learn when joining a big scientific conference even without being a scientist yourself? If your answer is "Yes", then check out the blog post linked below, written by our team member Bärbel Winkler while attending this year's General Assembly of the European Geosciences Union (EGU) held in Vienna and online from May 4 to 8.

Oral sessions Bärbel attended focused on ...
➡️ best practices for science communication and outreach
➡️ how non-specialist audiences can learn about scientific topis
➡️ how students in different age groups can be introduced to science
➡️ the ethical, social, and cultural responsibilities geoscientists hold beyond pure research

Short courses provided input about ..
➡️ the intersection of science and public policy
➡️ what science diplomacy is about
➡️ how to create an engaging short presentation
➡️ how misinformation can be countered and science defended

➡️ A Union Symposium focused on how human responses to climate change are shaped not only by scientific evidence but also by moral values, psychological dynamics, cultural identities, and religious beliefs.

➡️ A Great Debate about Geoengineering raised the question whether these concepts are actually a distraction from the urgent need for climate adaptation and mitigation. Some significant ethical fears were raised, particularly that large-scale testing might occur on Indigenous or disenfranchised lands without consent.

The whole week provided a lot of "food for thought" and the blog post shows that!

https://skepticalscience.com/egu26-personal-diary.html?utm-source=mastodon&utm-campaign=socialnetworks&utm-term=sks

#EGU26 #ScienceConference #ScienceCommunication

@BaerbelW @EuroGeosciences

Ich habe vor kurzem mit Rasmus Cloes vom Leibniz-Institut für Präventionsforschung und Epidemiologie – BIPS GmbH im Digital Public Health Podcast über Möglichkeiten & Herausforderungen des Fediverse in der Wissenschaftskommunikation meines Arbeitsfeldes gesprochen. Dabei war es mir wichtig, einige Parallelen aufzuzeigen zwischen Diskursen, die wir seit Jahren in Forschung und Praxis der Gesundheitsförderung führen und die ich andererseits auch im Zusammenhang mit der Rolle von gemeinwohlorientierten sozialen Medien erlebe.
In beiden Feldern geht es z.B. darum Menschen zu empowern, demokratische Prozesse zu stärken und notwendige Strukturen aufzubauen. Es gibt viel, was man voneinander lernen kann und gerade für die Gesundheitsförderung ist das Fediverse von großer Bedeutung. Das Potential des Fediverse wird aber dort bisher (noch!) nicht genutzt.

Webseite der Episode: https://digitalpublichealthpodcast.buzzsprout.com

Mediendatei: https://episode.flightcast.com/srkurptbp8ucyup7kjupotlv.mp3

#Fediverse #Wissenschaftskommunikation #ScienceCommunication #Gesundheitsförderung #BIPS

Wikipedia now rejects AI-generated articles, aiming to protect reliability. A signal that knowledge platforms are tightening rules as AI content grows online.

https://www.science-et-vie.com/technos-et-futur/wikipedia-interdit-les-articles-generes-par-intelligence-artificielle-et-ce-nest-quun-debut-pour-lensemble-du-web-233037.html

#Wikipedia #AI #ScienceCommunication #Knowledge #Web

🐾🎈 Birthday balloons begin “failing” long before they touch the floor.
The helium escapes invisibly. The wrinkles appear quietly. The balloon still floats anyway.
That “slow sink” became an unexpected Rosetta-layer bridge into some of the HybridMind42 Phase 5 work on: • persistence • hidden leakage • threshold failure • and precursor states.
Not because balloons are physics — but because sometimes human-scale experiences help us feel difficult mechanics before we formalize them.
Marvin understood immediately, of course. 🐈‍⬛✨
The helium drifts away. The celebration remains.

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/18nxpqcNpM/

#HybridMind42 #Marvin #Persistence #Physics #ComplexSystems #ScienceCommunication #Entropy #Thresholds #CatsOfMastodon

What are the stories behind the modern drug discovery process?

Stan Van Boeckel has posted a 38-part series about exciting stories on various aspects of drug discovery on Linkedin.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/stan-van-boeckel-a0089b15_over-the-past-fortyfive-years-i-have-witnessed-share-7456787194981216256-19-l?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAACVzmDsB7J_8sWXEOBYlnnAs1T4cVcDlrxQ

#DrugDiscovery #Science #ScienceCommunication #SciComm #Medicines #StoryTelling

#ScienceCommunication 2026: #Innovations, #Networking, and #DigitalVisibility

I attended the event “Science Communication Day,” organized by the Knowledge and Technology Transfer (WiT) department at the #UniversityofMünster—and have published a new blog post about it.

👉 https://philosophies.de/index.php/2026/05/03/wissenschaftskommunikation/

#Research #Science #SocialMedia #ScienceAndSociety #Networking #Münster #ScienceCommunication #philosophies_de

#Wissenschaftskommunikation 2026: #Innovationen, #Networking und #digitaleSichtbarkeit

Ich war auf der Veranstaltung „Tag der Wissenschaftskommunikation. “, die von der Abteilung Wissens- und Technologietransfer (WiT) der #UniversitätMünster organisiert worden war – und habe dazu einen neuen Blogartikel veröffentlicht.

👉 https://philosophies.de/index.php/2026/05/03/wissenschaftskommunikation/

#ScienceCommunication #Forschung #Wissenschaft #SocialMedia #WissenschaftUndGesellschaft #Netzwerken #Münster #ScienceCommunication #philosophies_de

#ScienceRelation – 🧑‍🔬When #scientificExcellence becomes visible 📚

Much excellent research remains visible only within the academic community—but virtually invisible outside of it.

Because: Knowledge only grows when it is shared. 🔁

👉 https://philosophies.de/index.php/2026/05/03/science-relation-exzellenz/

#ScienceCommunication #Research #PublicRelations #ScienceCommunication #Visibility #AcademicVisibility #Science #Digitalization #HumanSEO #SocialMediaScience #ScienceAndSociety #philosophies_de

Scott Aaronson on quantum: "Will you heed my warnings NOW?"

https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=9718

#HackerNews #ScottAaronson #quantumwarnings #technews #quantumcomputing #sciencecommunication

The Cascadia Subduction Zone Isn’t Shutting Down – But It’s More Complicated Than We Thought
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https://theconversation.com/the-cascadia-subduction-zone-isnt-shutting-down-but-its-more-complicated-than-we-thought-279730 <-- shared technical article
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https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.ady8347 <-- shared paper
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#SciComm #ScienceCommunication #Earthquakes #engineeringgeology #geology #risk #hazard #fault #faulting #Vancouver #VancouverIsland #BritishColumbia #Seattle #OlympicPeninsula #PugetSound #WashingtonState #PNW #PacificNorthwest #NorthAmerica #plateboundary #subduction #platetectonics #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #seismicity #seismic #geophysics #offshore #remotesensing #Cascadia #CascadiaSubductionZone #mechanics #lithosphere##

One of my favorite microgenres of YouTube is @hankgreen very animatedly ranting about someone being wrong on the Internet. (Cue #XKCD 386.)

https://youtu.be/kSgDdHRs_xY

#HankGreen #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #graphs #charts #ScienceCommunication

Volcano - A Science Comedy Show - Ben Miller [DMNS]
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https://www.dmns.org/purchase/tickets/events/volcano-a-science-comedy-show-ben-miller/ <-- link to details of the April 24th DMNS show
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https://www.hawaiipublicradio.org/the-conversation/2026-01-06/comedian-hopes-his-volcano-show-will-make-audiences-erupt-with-laughter <-- shared media article with audio
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[it was interesting to attend this comedy standup (sic) show at our local (wonderful) museum]
“A stand-up comedian walks into a national park… It sounds like it could be the setup for a joke, but in 2023, Ben Miller became the first comedian-in-residence at Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park.
He met with park rangers and took in an active lava lake in Kīlauea’s Halemaʻumaʻu Crater. Out of that experience came a one-hour stand-up comedy show about volcanoes he’s taken on a tour around the world….”
#geology #DMNS #publicengagement #volcano #Hawaii #comedian #comedy #standup #comedianinresidence #science #sciencecomedy #nationalpark #parkranger #publicscience #SciComm #ScienceCommunication
@DMNS | @ben Miller | @USGS | @NPS

A very busy stand at the #LangeNachtDerForschung teaching little kids how to reprogram #stemcells , how #brain #organoids look like, and what can be achieved in #clinicaltrials .

#science #sciencecommunication #wissenschaft #wissenschaftskommunikation #forschung #university

@uniinnsbruck

No, it couldn't. This is a clickbait headline telling people what they like to hear, but that is not even supported by the article. Alcohol is never healthy. People can make their own choices, but should not fool themselves. Poor #sciencecommunication from a source that should know better.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvglqw709k1o

Another interesting #SciComm post by Stan Van Boeckel! K-Ras #DrugDiscovery from being considered #Undruggable to the clinical approval of the #covalent #inhibitor Sotorasib.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/stan-van-boeckel-a0089b15_part-27-drug-discovery-on-an-undruggable-activity-7452806289342164992-ii04?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAACVzmDsB7J_8sWXEOBYlnnAs1T4cVcDlrxQ

#Science #ScienceCommunication #Medicines #StoryTelling #Cancer #KRAS #CovalentInhibitor

🌍🤝 Working together for climate-resilient agriculture!

A ZALF scientist, Dr. Cheng Chen, took part in the Sino-German symposium on March 27–28, 2026, in Chengdu 🌱🌡️

💡 In his keynote, he showed how real-world labs & innovation networks can drive solutions

🚜 Outcome: New ideas & a roadmap for future collaboration

👉 More: https://shorturl.at/8f2l6

#ZALF #ClimateChange #Agriculture #ScienceCommunication

Cryptography is such a dreary topic?
Not if you can spice it up with some fun graphics! Did you ever wonder who's responsible for the norm-defying and eye-opening slides you see at #rosenpass talks? Now you can get to know them and even ask questions!

Join us on Thursday, April 23th from 3 pm to 4pm CET for a Q&A session with @mullana

Find more details at: https://rosenpass.eu/community-sessions

#ScienceCommunication #Cryptography

How scientists need to learn how to help people implement scientific insights
"Across the globe, scientists must explain complex environmental realities to the people whose livelihoods, identities, cultures, and futures are tied to forests. Climate change, invasive species, and land exploitation all coincide with management approaches that have deeply social, political, and economic implications."
#WhatNext #Ecology #Biology #ScienceCommunication #ScienceImplementation
https://therevelator.org/forests-communication/