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Science Communication in the Era of COVID-19 | ComSciCon-Flagship 2020

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ComSciCon 2020 (https://comscicon.com/comscicon-2020-...) hosted a panel discussion about Science Communication in the Era of COVID-19 featuring Ralpha Bouquet, Dominique Brossard, Samatha Yammine, and Ali Nouri. ************** Speaker info ************** Ralph Bouquet is the Director of Education and Outreach for NOVA, the PBS science documentary series produced by WGBH in Boston. At NOVA, Ralph’s team supports science educators through the creation of free STEM classroom resources distributed through PBS LearningMedia and engages new audiences for NOVA’s broadcast and digital content through science communication events and out …...more
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Science Communication in the Era of COVID-19 | ComSciCon-Flagship 2020
ComSciCon 2020 (https://comscicon.com/comscicon-2020-...) hosted a panel discussion about Science Communication in the Era of COVID-19 featuring Ralpha Bouquet, Dominique Brossard, Samatha Yammine, and Ali Nouri. ************** Speaker info ************** Ralph Bouquet is the Director of Education and Outreach for NOVA, the PBS science documentary series produced by WGBH in Boston. At NOVA, Ralph’s team supports science educators through the creation of free STEM classroom resources distributed through PBS LearningMedia and engages new audiences for NOVA’s broadcast and digital content through science communication events and outreach campaigns across the country. Twitter:   / rlbouquet   Dominique Brossard is a professor and chair of the Department of Life Sciences Communication and an affiliate of the Morgridge Institute for Research. Brossard’s research agenda focuses on the intersection between science, media and policy. She is an internationally known expert in public opinion dynamics related to controversial scientific issues and risk communication. Twitter:   / brossardd   Ali Nouri is the President of the Federation of American Scientists where his primary focus is in the areas of science and technology capacity in Congress and addressing the COVID-19 pandemic. He previously served for 10 years as an advisor and a legislative director in the US Senate. Nouri is co-chair of the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine’s New Voices initiative; serves on the National Academy’s Global Science Diplomacy Roundtable; and chairs the AAAS Science and Engineering Fellowship Advisory Committee. Twitter:   / alinouriphd   Dr. Samantha Yammine, PhD, is a Neuroscientist, Science Communicator, and Founder of Science Sam Media. She earned her PhD from the University of Toronto researching how stem cells build and maintain the brain. In addition to her doctoral research, she co-authored a crowd-funded research study exploring the effects that #ScientistsWhoSelfie on Instagram can have on public perceptions of scientists. Samantha regularly appears as a guest expert in the popular media including spots on Netflix, TVO Kids, CBC GEM, LBC Radio UK, AsapSCIENCE, and CBC Radio. Twitter:   / heysciencesam   Instagram:   / science.sam   Website: https://samanthayammine.com. ******************************************** ********* Resources mentioned ********* FAS Ask a Scientist https://covid19.fas.org/ sciencepolicy@fas.org A great piece by Dominique Brossard and Dietram Scheufele about uncertainty and misinformation https://issues.org/covid-19-communica... Learn more about Ralph Bouquet and his team's work at NOVA here: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article... How can we leverage social media to engage often forgotten audiences with vital information, while combating misinformation that’s intrinsic to those platforms? https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/broa... Here’s a link to the review Sam Yammine mentioned by Tim Caulfield, includes some best practises for combating misinformation too:   / urn:li:activity:6671056423289458688   Article by Danah Boyd: https://points.datasociety.net/you-th... SciComm in Other Languages -- non-English accounts and people: GeoLatinas, Monica Feliu, The Geology Project, Planeteando -- ScienceBites sites in other languages: https://dev-sciencebites.pantheonsite... -- Envirobites in Spanish: https://envirobites.org/category/espa... -- Ana Maria Porras’s paper on languages in scicomm: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/... Advancing Informal Science Learning at NSF (which hasn’t been renewed) but also: https://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.... 13th (Netflix documentary) on YouTube    • 13TH | FULL FEATURE | Netflix   Threads by Ester Odekunle of over 700 Black people in STEM to follow on Twitter   / 1266762998951170049   Any papers by Susan Fiske These were specifically mentioned: -- https://www.pnas.org/content/111/Supp... -- https://www.sciencedirect.com/science... ********************************************

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