By Elizabeth Fusco, edited by Andrew S. Cale Pride Month is a celebration of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer+ (LGBTQ+)…
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post We’re Here and We’re Queer: A Retrospective of LGBTQ Individuals in STEM
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post Talking Trash for Ten Years: Interview with Children’s Author Patricia Newman
Children’s author (and PLOS SciComm contributor) Patricia Newman is celebrating a landmark anniversary of her renowned book on improving our environment. In…
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post What “12 Angry Men” Teaches Us about the Art of Persuasion
This acclaimed courtroom drama offers valuable lessons for science communicators Bill Sullivan We often find ourselves at an impasse with others and…
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post Shifting the Balance from Animals to New Approach Methods: We’re Working Toward It!
Barbara L. F. Kaplan and William Slikker, Jr. Animals and animal models have been used for centuries to provide us with an understanding…
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post Promoting science for all: how European Researchers’ Night could unlock science in rural Portugal.
In a world where the wonders of science are no further away than a Google search or a science museum field trip, it is…
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post What Does Gratitude Have To Do With The Environment?
By Patricia Newman Expressions of gratitude for nature rarely make headlines. Yet a growing body of research tells us that we feel…
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post From Litter Boxes to COVID-19: How One Scientist Strives to Educate the Public on Scientific Matters affecting their Daily Lives
Do you think cleaning the cat litter box is an annoying chore that you have to complete every day? What if I…
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post Shattering My Implicit Bias Against the STEM Learners in My Classroom
By Kate Narita My biggest aha moments in life have happened when I’ve become aware of an implicit bias that a few months earlier I would have told…
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post On the Shoulders of Giants: One Scientist’s Diabetes Research Journey
By the start of the 1920s, a treatment for diabetes, one of the world’s oldest diseases, had eluded the medical community for over two…
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post Exploring a Quandary: Kids Love Nonfiction, But Adults Assume They Don’t
By Melissa Stewart Take a moment to consider these dueling headlines: “Will My Grandkids Still Love Me If I Buy Them Nonfiction?” The…
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post Science Communication Through Poetry
By: Sam Illingworth Science and poetry are both used to understand human nature and our world. Why not combine their strengths? I…
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post Science denial: Why it happens and 5 things you can do about it
Barbara K. Hofer, Middlebury and Gale Sinatra, University of Southern California Science denial became deadly in 2020. Many political leaders failed to…