Tag Archives: Science Communication
Public beliefs about science and tech across the world
In a new study, we analyzed survey data from fifty-four countries, examining country-level and individual-level differences in beliefs about science and technology.
The gene editing conversation: Public dialogue will require major investments
In 2014 biochemist Jennifer Doudna of the University of California at Berkeley awoke from a nightmare that would shift the focus of her world-class scientific career. Two years earlier, with her colleague Emmanuelle Charpentier, now director of the Max Planck Unit for the Science of Pathogens in Berlin, Doudna had achieved one of the most Continue Reading »
Divided expectations: Why we need a new dialogue about science, inequality, and society
If you are reading this column, you have likely benefited from the scientific and technological advances that have transformed the world’s economy. For well-educated professionals who form the core audience for popular science magazines, these innovations have created new wealth and career opportunities. Yet paradoxically, the very success of the science and engineering sector has Continue Reading »
Evolution in the college classroom: Facilitating conversations about science and religion
Sept. 1, 2017 — For most American college students, their first serious encounter with the theory of evolution may come as part of an introductory biology course. As surprising as this might sound, the unfortunate reality is that in many high schools across the country evolution is often avoided or covered superficially as part of Continue Reading »
Preface to the Oxford Encyclopedia of Climate Change Communication
July 19, 2017 — Because of the complexity and urgency of climate change, efforts to understand the problem’s social, cultural, and political dimensions must stretch beyond the environmental sciences and economics to be truly multi-disciplinary. To this end, over the past two decades, a growing community of scholars have focused on the factors that influence public Continue Reading »
The March for Science: Partisan protests put public trust in scientists at risk
May 1, 2017– On April 22, thousands of scientists and their supporters gathered in Washington, D.C., and at more than 600 other locations across the world to participate in the March for Science. Pegged to Earth Day, protesters voiced their opposition to proposed federal cuts to funding for scientific research and the planned rollback of Continue Reading »