Questions tagged [science-communication]
Questions related to the general dissemination of scientific knowledge other than in scientific papers.
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After 15 years in biomedical research and 11 years hiatus what career options do I have left?
I had a very exciting research career (stem cells) PhD with the group that cloned Dolly, post docs at NYU and Cornell, even Assistant Professor in Memphis. Not a great publication record but my ...
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What are the ethics of creating educational content as an advanced undergraduate?
I had the idea to create a series of short-form educational videos intended to de-mystify quantum computing. Ideally, these videos would be suitable for a wide target audience and consequently would, ...
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Should a blog post based on a scientific paper have the same co-authors?
I recently published a paper in a scholarly journal together with two co-authors. (I was the first author and the leader of that project.)
Having found a blog on this topic, I quickly penned down a ...
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Explaining what a PhD is all about to parents
I am joining a PhD program in mathematics in a few months. But I am having a hard time explaining what a PhD is to my parents! They ask: Why is it not enough to complete a PhD just for the sake of ...
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How to learn to prepare good scientific illustrations?
I have recently started to appreciate the importance of illustrations and figures in scientific publications. Be it a visual abstract, a visual TOC, or part of a poster or a presentation, I always ...
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Is the curse of knowledge a real effect?
This post is inspired by this question discussing what is known as the curse of knowledge - the ostensible effect where having knowledge about something makes it hard to put yourself in the mental ...
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Cautions while writing non-specialist/lay versions of scientific articles
I would like to write engaging summaries/discussions of research papers in my field for non-specialists. These summaries/discussions would be posted on my personal website. The original article, ...
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Interacting with Non-academics: How to Not Compromise One's Rigor? [closed]
This is a question about interacting with other people (in particular, non-academics). Hopefully, this is a common-enough problem that it is appropriate for this community.
I consider myself an (...
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Showing book cover in public presentation
I have a follow up question from my previous question that I thought could be of benefit to others if they had the same question.
I’m giving a public talk for a sci-com event and wanted to show some ...
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Using paper figure for public talk
I’m giving a public talk (to laypeople in a sci-com event) and wanted to showcase some figures from research papers that weren’t mine. I wanted to know:
If putting citations (Author, Year) followed ...
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Reputable alternatives to The Conversation for science communication? [closed]
What are some popular press alternatives to The Conversation that are perhaps more reputable than Medium or HuffPost that accept pitches from academics communicating their research for a general ...
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The complication of not inviting my ex-supervisor to a podcast dedicated to our sub-field?
I am hosting a podcast related to our field where we invite the stars of our field, the podcast has grabbed an audience from different demographic regions and it becomes very well know in the ...
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Informative article about physics and quote on "physicists don't care about precise numbers, they care about trends" [closed]
I am writing an informative article about physics for the general public, and I was wondering if there is any quote by some famous physicist on the concept that usually physicist care about ...
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What to do when another researcher used my results without credit in a science documentary?
A former colleague (not collaborator) used main results of two of my published papers in a science documentary featuring their work. They had briefly mention to me at some point, that they wanted to ...
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How to communicate with the co-authors regarding the work (paper)
I am working on a project, where I am the author of the idea. Also, I found the data (open-source) that can work well with the idea of the paper.
I invited one of my colleagues to work with me on ...
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