In this episode, we welcome a guest, who is a poet (the BBC said so!) and a scientist - Dr Sam Illingworth. We talk about how powerful poetry is as a conversation starter, as an expression, as a bonding and outreach mechanism for science.  We covered (half) of his paper Creative communication – using poetry and games to generate dialogue between scientists and nonscientists in a Twitter Chat. The paper can be found here. The Moments from the chat are here. Follow Sam on Twitter @samillingworth, on his blog The Poetry of Science and the Podcast with the same title. The poem you hear in the ..read more

In this episode we speak about the necessity to report, cover and communicate about scientific discoveries in languages different than English.  We start our discussion based on a Twitter chat (moments for it are here: https://twitter.com/i/events/1295024902672715779) where we discuss a publication (here: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcomm.2020.00031/full by Melissa Márquez (@mcmsharksxx) and Ana Maria Porras (@AnaMaPorras). We are joined by a special quest - one of the winners of the State Your Mission Challenge 2020 - Arvind Behal (@ArvindBehal). His activity for  w ..read more

In this episode, we talk with Mariya (@mariyav_phd) about some ground rules and key points to remember when communicating in times of crisis.  Find the Twitter chat moments here - link. Find the CDC manual here - link. Link to the COVID-19 Public Opinion Survey Mariya spoke about and more info about it - here. Follow us at @SciComm_JC on Twitter and on Instagram at scicomm_jc. Sign up to our newsletter and get in touch at www.scicommjc.org ..read more

In this episode we build on previous episodes. We talk about using social media for science communication with the runner up in the 2019 State Your Mission Challenge from the Scicomm_JC - Virginia Schutte. We talk strategies and tricks in using social media for scicomm as an individual and as an organisation. Virginia was a guest on a Twitter chat where she reviewed a scientific publication on social media for scicomm back in 2019. Find the article she spoke about here, and the moments and highlights of the Twitter chat here. Connect with Virginia via Twitter @vgwschutte and her webpage h ..read more

In this episode, we are joined by Alex Martin - a recent guest on our Twitter chats. We talk a bit about this publication The enduring effect of scientific interest on trust in climate scientists in the United States. But more importantly, we speak about the experiences, lessons and ideas, Alex has from his ultra-cool initiative - Sidewalk Science Center. Connect with Alex on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and via his website. Support Alex on Patreon - here. Visit www.scicommjc.org for more information and to get in touch with us. Follow us @Scicomm_JC on Twitter to stay up to date with our late ..read more

In this episode we recap our participation and some highlights from the Congress of the European Ecological Federation 2019 in Lisbon, Portugal. We talk about the talk we gave (slides can be viewed here) and the book on which we based our presentation (and which our Sherry wrote) can be purchased here - Social Solutions for Climate Change. + Link to the Twitter chat moments where we also covered this presentation. And also a link to the book of Jonathan Haidt - The Righteous Mind The full programme of the Congress is here.  The Twitter account of one of the keynote speakers - Dawn Sanders ..read more

In this episode we speak about inclusivity in STEAM with a special guest Tia Martineau (@tia_martineau and http://www.tiamartineau.science/) Get in touch with the Science Communication Journal Club Team on Twitter @scicomm_jc and our contact form https://scicommjc.wufoo.com/forms/z1cr4sug1cpyonq/ Please do rate our show wherever you listen to it and recommend it to your friends, colleagues and family.    ..read more

In episode 10 of the Science Communication Journal Club Podcast we talk with Dr Carla Brawn (@Sci_Game_Girl) about gamifying education. Check out her website at http://www.gamedoctor.co.uk/.  Find the moments of the corresponding twitter chat here. Read the first book summary on our website https://scicommjc.org/framework-sticky-content/. Find more content and contacts to our team at www.scicommjc.org Follow us on Twitter @SciComm_JC ..read more

In this episode we talk about our recent Twitter chat topic on predatory scientific journals and how to learn to recognize them. We cover this article to start the discussion. Mentioned tools you can use to assess the legitimacy of scientific journals are: https://thinkchecksubmit.org/  Journal Evaluation Tool  Visit www.scicommjc.org to learn more about the team, get in touch, subscribe to our newsletter and more! Follow us on Twitter at  @scicomm_JC and Instagram via @scicommjc ..read more

The article which our guest chose for the twitter chat can be read here - Our House Is Burning: Discrepancy in Climate Change vs. Biodiversity Coverage in the Media as Compared to Scientific Literature; The moments from the chat itself can be found here - twitter moments link @SciComm_JC; The other article Ruben mentioned in the conversation can be accessed here - Planetary Boundaries: Exploring the Safe Operating Space for Humanity; The webpage of the conference in Portugal which Ruben is co-hosting and where SciComm_JC will be also present is here - Embedding Ecology in Sustainable Developm ..read more