Publishing in scientific journals has long been a linchpin of success in science. But many scientists want their work to enrich the…
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Collaboration between scientists ComSciCon: Science Communication Workshops for Graduate Students, by Graduate Students
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Public Science Communication Science Writer Nathalia Holt Talks to PLOS About Rocket Girls, Silly Questions, and Trading Pipet for Pen
Nathalia Holt, Ph.D. is a science writer and the New York Times bestselling author of Rise of the Rocket Girls: The…
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Public Science Communication Is racism bad for your health?
With the recent white nationalist rallies in Charlottesville, VA and the ongoing questions around the appropriateness of Confederate monuments, it seems the…
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Public Science Communication What if we could edit our genes to cure diseases? We’re closer than ever!
I am an embryologist, which means I study how embryos—the cluster of cells that ultimately become a fetus and then a…
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Public Science Communication Science Connected: Accessible Science Communication
Kate Stone is the founder and CEO of Science Connected, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. Funding and in-kind donations are provided by the Clif…
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Public Science Communication The “Google Manifesto”: Bad Biology, Ignorance of Evolutionary Processes, and Privilege
There are biological differences between the sexes, including average body size and upper body strength, and aspects of reproductive physiology. There is…
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Public Science Communication Scientists: The Public Needs to Hear from You!
We live in interesting times…times when misinformation, alternative facts, and opinion carry equal or more weight than empirical data. Hardly a day…
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Public Science Communication Awkward To Awesome: Dr. Ty Tashiro on Communicating the Science of Being Awkward
Ty Tashiro knows awkward. As he charmingly admits in his second book, Awkward: The Science of Why We’re Socially Awkward and…
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Collaboration between scientists Can you define ‘punctuated equilibrium’ (in one sentence)? A reboot for #SciCommPLOS
PLOSBLOGS Network would like to welcome a new team of accomplished science writers who will be taking on the leadership of this blog…
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Public Science Communication #KeepMarching: How science communication can sustain a movement
On Earth Day 2017, researchers, communicators and advocates convened to show their solidarity with the March for Science movement, which featured hundreds…
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Collaboration between scientists Celebrating 100 weeks of PLOS #SciWed AMAs with #SciComm & Climate Change Chat
Ask PLOS ONE authors Kaitlin Raimi, Paul Stern, and Alex Maki about science communication strategies to convey climate change impacts – the…
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Collaboration between scientists The Time is Right for Assertive Science: Scicomm in the Age of Trump
How ecologists and climate scientists can overcome despair and constructively respond to the installation of a climate denier as US president. What is…