Author: Mădălina
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The Show of Knowledge with Professor Brian Cox in Bucharest
One of the most active personalities in popularizing science on a global scale, Professor of
particle physics at the University of Manchester and BBC flagship figure, Brian Cox
is coming to Romania on 3
April 2024 at the Sala Palatului with the event Horizons - A 21st Century Space Odyssey.
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Nobel Prize winner for medicine: "Scientists are also translators."
Dr. Katalin Karikó, the recent winner of the Nobel Prize in Medicine, responds personally to emails she receives from ordinary people asking her about her research, one of the conspiracists' favorite topics: the development of COVID-19 mRNA vaccines.
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💬Personal Science Stories (Newsletter #35)
It's been a whole summer since the last newsletter, but we're catching up now with: a discussion of what "trust" means in science, a tool that measures how abstractly you communicate, what gave away a researcher who used ChatGPT to write his scientific paper, and what we can learn from Star Trek about personal stories in science.
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🤖AI tools for academia (Newsletter #34)
If you're curious about how ChatGPT can help us, but also mess up your research, read on. I've written before about how and why researchers are preparing to speak the language of the general public, and how aggressive communication can change the way the public views science. Finally, a look from several perspectives at the recent "research prize affair" scandal.
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In IQ Ads, about Romanian Science Digest
I started calling myself a "science communicator" without anyone having appointed me to that position. Besides, this field didn't even exist in Romania 10 years ago. I kept hearing in the press "British researchers have discovered that" / "American researchers have discovered that" and I kept asking myself: ok, but what have ours discovered?
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Behind the scenes: a press release (Newsletter #32)
Read some behind-the-scenes information about how press releases about scientific studies are written. Plus useful resources: promoting patents, a checklist for making sure you've prepared a science communication effort well, and a guide to writing an explanatory article.
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Behind the scenes: how scientific studies end up in the press
A case study from behind the scenes of communication: how does a study become the subject of a press release? How does the study find its way into the communications office? How does the collaboration between researcher and communicator work, how does the researcher help with the press release?
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🤖 Tech talk (Newsletter #31)
We start preparations for the heated discussions at the Christmas table by finding out how to argue (or not) scientifically. I'm talking about how to communicate better in tech. And we asked artificial intelligence to convince you that it's important to talk about science to the general public. Did it succeed?