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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Public Science Communication Awkward To Awesome: Dr. Ty Tashiro on Communicating the Science of Being AwkwardRead more
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Collaboration between scientists Can you define ‘punctuated equilibrium’ (in one sentence)? A reboot for #SciCommPLOSRead more
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 movementRead more
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 ChatRead more
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 TrumpRead more
How ecologists and climate scientists can overcome despair and constructively respond to the installation of a climate denier as US president. What is…
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Collaboration between scientists Using ‘real life’ analogies to get past scientific uncertainty on climate changeRead more
Guest post by Rose Hendricks Many people still treat global warming as a contentious political issue, instead of one backed by scientific…
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Collaboration between scientists Where did science go last year? PLOSBLOGS’ top 16 in 2016Read more
Certain science categories and subjects dominate the content of our PLOS Blogs Network. Among these, basic research and its clinical translation, critically endangered creatures…
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Public Science Communication How open data and “animal selfies” can help conservation efforts, a PLOS Science Wednesday AMA recapRead more
The July 13 PLOS Science Wednesday Ask Me Anything session (AMA) featured Jorge Ahumada from Conservation International and Lydia Beaudrot from University…
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Collaboration between scientists New roles for science blogs in shifting sci-pub landscape: Paige Jarreau scrubs data from 2016 PLOSBLOGS Reader SurveyRead more
By Paige Jarreau Dr. Paige Jarreau is a science communication researcher and freelance science writer in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. In 2016…
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Public Science Communication Celebrating a year of ‘PLOS Science Wednesday’ with 5 leaders discussing future of global healthRead more
April 2016 marks one year since the launch of PLOS Science Wednesday, our weekly Ask Me Anything (AMA) series on redditscience where scientists explain how…
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Public Science Communication Repost: Where Does Ebola Come From? Communicating Science as a Matter of Life and Death – Part 1 of 2 By Ida JoosteRead more
Editor’s note: In light of yesterday’s confirmation by the Liberian Health Ministry of the death from Ebola of a thirty year-old woman, the first…
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Collaboration between scientists Pseudonyms in Science: Neuroskeptic speaks to Neurocritic, Dr Primestein and NeurobonkersRead more
By Neuroskeptic 20 March 2016 Over the past decade, science blogs have risen to become an important part of science communication and…