I talked IQ Ads, a community of communicators in Romania, about Romanian Science Digest.
Some of my defining answers:
The element of wow is sometimes hard to find.
The difficult part is explaining research in a way that is easy to understand for non-specialists. First of all, I'm afraid of getting it wrong. Secondly, many texts that are published on academic websites are written in very technical terms or are contaminated by the language of European projects or contain a list of vague objectives. I feel like my life is draining away with every "held a debate" or "presented results during a multiplier event". The element of wow sometimes leaves itself hard to find. Let me provide an example: I was reading about a research project on the ministry's website and I didn't really understand anything from the description. I clicked through and got to the project's website and again, couldn't figure out what it was about; I downloaded a report of the research results from the project, it was about 30 pages long, and somewhere at the end of the report, it mentioned that the team had filed a patent for an artificial intelligence technique whereby they could copy the clothing and attitude from a photo of one person and "translate" these aspects onto a photo of the second person. Like a person copy-paste in images. I thought this was spectacular and included the information in the newsletter.
I started calling myself a "science communicator" without anyone having appointed me to that position.
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? So, ten years after I graduated in Journalism and Communication studies, I completed a master's degree in Physics to help me get to the point where I could at least start a dialogue with researchers about their field of study and their results. I self-educated myself in science communication using resources from abroad, because there was no such training in Romania. Gradually, I started to work with teams in the science and tech innovation area and to support them in presenting their message to a non-specialist audience, either potential business partners, authorities or children coming to play in the labs. So now I'm a "science communicator", but I have many moments when I feel like an imposter.
I want us to get bored of how often we hear about the results of Romanian researchers
Sometimes, I move forward out of inertia and because I find it very hard to abandon things I have started. (It's a flaw). Most of the time, I am motivated by the fact that I have a clear vision for this newsletter - or in fact for how I see the promotion of innovation in Romania. I want there to be a platform where the most interesting studies and results in science and technology can be discovered. With a little extra investment, I would like to be able to expand the newseltter so that it covers not just the few results that are communicated by institutions, but goes straight to the source, to published scientific articles explained in a way that is understandable to non-specialists. I want us to get bored of how often we hear about the results of Romanian researchers, and this should spur citizens to ask politicians for more investment in research.
The interview was signed by Sabina Varga, author of one of the longest running podcasts in Romania - zestabout the pleasure of writing.
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