Why does diversity matter in science and science communication? And how can organizations empower individual scientists to do good science communication independent of their gender, religious beliefs, race, martial status, ethnicity, parental status, age, education, physical and mental ability, or sexual orientation? Answers to these questions will you get when in this episode with Lachlan Smith and Jakob Feldtfos Christensen - the makers of the Diversity in Research Podcast. Let me know what you think about this episode and please send me suggestions of people whom you would like to listen to ..read more

Antje leads a 45 communications team across five countries in probably the most political research organization in Europe, the European Commissions own Joint research centre. Check out this episode to learn how they prioritize content, how they brand the organization and how they help researchers communicate their science. Find Antje on LInkedIN and on Twitter/X. --- The Science Communication Accelerator Podcast is brought to you by Julius Wesche (PhD). With it Julius aims to empower scientists, universities, and research organizations to engage publicly and share more science on social m ..read more

How to juggle research work, supervision, and science communication? It can be challenging at times to bring all of it together. In this episode, we learn how Prof. Kimberly Nicholas manages this challenge. Kimberly has a PhD from Stanford (note: fixed typo here), has written dozens of peer-reviewed journal papers, and on the side, she creates climate science content. She runs a newsletter and has cultivated a community of 15 000+ followers on Twitter. Pretty impressive. In this episode, she tells us how she juggles all these things and how she defines the impact of science communication. You ..read more

How to juggle research work, supervision, and science communication? It can be challenging at times to bring all of it together. In this episode, we learn how Prof. Kimberly Nicholas manages this challenge. Kimberly has a PhD from Stanford (note: fixed typo here), has written dozens of peer-reviewed journal papers, and on the side, she creates climate science content. She runs a newsletter and has cultivated a community of 15 000+ followers on Twitter. Pretty impressive. In this episode, she tells us how she juggles all these things and how she defines the impact of science communication. You ..read more

In this episode I structure a science communication strategy with PhD student Saad Ahmed. Ahmed researches and develops sustainable business models (SBM) for the battery value chain considering reusing, repurposing, and recycling the batteries. In this episode I sit down with him and we go through the basic questions that help anyone to build his/her first communication strategy. Check it out if you want to build your first science communication strategy. -- The Science Communication Accelerator Podcast aims to empower scientists, universities, and research organizations to engage publicl ..read more

Today we learn from Torill Sommerfelt Ervik on how to start a successful popular science podcast. Torill is a communication advisor at the University of Bergen and she runs the UIB POPVITEN Podcast which has garnered > 66.000 streams. In this episode she tell us how she started the podcast, how they create each episode, how they host it and how the podcast is promoted. Enjoy the session :). -- The Science Communication Accelerator Podcast aims to empower scientists, universities, and research organizations to engage publicly and share more science on social media. To do so, the podcast ..read more

LinkedIn, with over 700 million users worldwide, is a professional social networking site that connects individuals and businesses, including those in the field of science communication. It allows users to create a profile highlighting their work experience, skills, and education in this area, and provides a platform for networking, job searching, and professional development within the science communication industry. LinkedIn is a valuable tool for building and managing your professional network in this field. In this episode I talk with Karlijn de Wit about how to maximize research impact o ..read more

On march 31, Twitter reveals some of its source code, including its recommendation algorithm. In this episode you learn how to optimize your tweets for maximum visibility. Here a hot summary: Optimize for likes, then retweets, then replies Images & videos help Blue badge extends your reach Avoid external links Making up words or misspelling hurts You are clustered - posting outside your cluster will get you little visibility Mutes & unfollows hurt Misinformation ranks you down Follow me for more content on how to do science communication on social media platforms (Twitter: @juliuswes ..read more

Why does diversity matter in science and science communication? And how can organizations empower individual scientists to do good science communication independent of their gender, religious beliefs, race, martial status, ethnicity, parental status, age, education, physical and mental ability, or sexual orientation? Answers to these questions will you get when in this episode with Lachlan Smith and Jakob Feldtfos Christensen - the makers of the Diversity in Research Podcast. Let me know what you think about this episode and please send me suggestions of people whom you would like to listen to ..read more

How is science communication facilitated at two of the best universities globally? In this episode you learn how.  Today's guest is Gian-Andri Casutt. Gian is the head of communications at the ETH board which is the governing body that oversees ETH Zurich, EPFL Lausanne and a number of other Swiss federal research organizations. Next to that he is also the president of EUPRIO, which is European Association of Communication Professionals in Higher Education.  In this episode you learn what trends Gian sees currently in the science communication sphere, and how they managed to empower ..read more