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My Xmas compilation of #MakingSciPub blog posts! Enjoy!
November 8, 2024 at 8:54 AM
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Excellent point, may interest @MakingSciPub? MT @DNLee5: #STEM access & science literacy is a social justice issue too #BlackSTEMnews
July 25, 2014 at 3:50 PM
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For a foggy and rainy weekend a bit of botany - #MakingSciPub guest post by @flannerm <a href="http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/makingsciencepublic/2012/11/23/making-plants-science-the-role-of-herbaria-and-images-in-botany/" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/makingsciencepublic/2012/11/23/making-plants-science-the-role-of-herbaria-and-images-in-botany/
Making plants science: The role of herbaria and images in botany - Making Science Public
This is a one-off Guest Blog by Maura C. Flannery, Professor of Biology, St. John’s University, NY, reflecting on, what one may call, ‘making the private life of plants public’, or more precisely the use of herbaria, photography and art in botany, as well as issues of truth and trust. The blog is related to ...
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November 8, 2024 at 2:15 PM
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New #MakingSciPub blog on climate and energy/publics and politics <a href="http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/makingsciencepublic/2012/05/20/carbon-and-energy/" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/makingsciencepublic/2012/05/20/carbon-and-energy/
Carbon and energy/publics and politics - Making Science Public
This is a follow-up to a guest-blog on climategate, media volume and public concern. As last time, this blog was written by Alan Valdez (The Open University) in collaboration with Brigitte Nerlich (University of Nottingham) and Nelya Koteyko (University of Leicester). It is linked to research on climate change discourses funded by the ESRC and ...
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November 8, 2024 at 3:32 PM
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Blog plug for beginning of week; climate, energy, US/UK, shift/difference in perceptions #MakingSciPub <a href="http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/makingsciencepublic/2012/05/20/carbon-and-energy/" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/makingsciencepublic/2012/05/20/carbon-and-energy/
Carbon and energy/publics and politics - Making Science Public
This is a follow-up to a guest-blog on climategate, media volume and public concern. As last time, this blog was written by Alan Valdez (The Open University) in collaboration with Brigitte Nerlich (University of Nottingham) and Nelya Koteyko (University of Leicester). It is linked to research on climate change discourses funded by the ESRC and ...
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November 8, 2024 at 3:32 PM
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New #MakingSciPub blog post exploring problems and pitfalls related to protesting against new funding policies
November 8, 2024 at 3:27 PM
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New week, new #MakingSciPub blog post on 'Science for the Future' protest <a href="http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/makingsciencepublic/2012/05/27/making-science-policy-public/" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/makingsciencepublic/2012/05/27/making-science-policy-public/
Making science policy public: Exploring the pitfalls of public protest - Making Science Public
I have recently published two blogs, one on impact and one on hype. Protests against EPSRC funding policies provide an opportunity to reflect on both these and other issues related to making science public. Science for the Future – the protest On 15 May, 2012 members of a campaign group “Science for the Future” delivered ...
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November 8, 2024 at 3:27 PM
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RTs of #MakingSciPub blog very much appreciated! @jameswilsdon, @Stephen_Curry, @AdamGSpencer, @GregHollin, @ThomsonPat
November 8, 2024 at 3:27 PM
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New #MakingSciPub blog on (rain) GM food, war metaphors and perils of political entrenchment <a href="http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/makingsciencepublic/2012/06/03/gm-food-war-metaphors/" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/makingsciencepublic/2012/06/03/gm-food-war-metaphors/
GM food, war metaphors and the perils of political entrenchment - Making Science Public
It’s the Jubilee weekend. It’s raining. So I am looking through some tweets. Some make me think I should cheer myself up by writing a blog about songs used to make science (especially quantum physics!) public, others make me think that I really should write something about war metaphors in the current GM debate. As ...
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November 8, 2024 at 3:27 PM
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#MakingSciPub guest blog for LSE social science blog on blue-skies research <a href="http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/
Impact of Social Sciences
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November 8, 2024 at 3:27 PM
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#MakingSciPub blog on blue sky research (now with image of Venice) and footnote on Shapin and ivory towers <a href="http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/makingsciencepublic/2012/06/08/the-value-of-blue-sky-research/" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/makingsciencepublic/2012/06/08/the-value-of-blue-sky-research/
Between knotweed and the deep blue sky: Debating the value of science in society - Making Science Public
This blog was first published as a guest blog on the LSE blog ‘Impact of Social Sciences‘ on 7 June, 2012. Knotweeds and rats Last Friday (1 June, 2012) I was reading the Times Higher over breakfast. My eyes fell on the following sentence in the editorial: “The ubiquity of market ideology is explored in ...
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November 8, 2024 at 3:21 PM
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#MakingSciPub neuroscepticism/neurohype blog made it into the SciAm Scienceblogging Weekly :) <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/scienceblogging-weekly-june-8th-2012-005700036.html;" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://news.yahoo.com/scienceblogging-weekly-june-8th-2012-005700036.html; thanks @boraz
The Scienceblogging Weekly (June 8th, 2012)
The Scienceblogging Weekly (June 8th, 2012)
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November 8, 2024 at 3:21 PM
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#MakingSciPub blog post on science songs; something for a rainy weekend! <a href="http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/makingsciencepublic/2012/06/09/making-science-songs/" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/makingsciencepublic/2012/06/09/making-science-songs/
Making science songs - Making Science Public
I wrote what follows in 2012. Now it’s 2021, I can’t believe it, and we are living in a time when science has become a matter of survival. We are living through the Covid-19 pandemic and vaccines have been developed at speed to help us get out of this mess. Music and songs have helped ...
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November 8, 2024 at 3:21 PM
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My weekend #MakingSciPub post on science songs - suggestions for additions welcome <a href="http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/makingsciencepublic/2012/06/09/making-science-songs/" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/makingsciencepublic/2012/06/09/making-science-songs/
Making science songs - Making Science Public
I wrote what follows in 2012. Now it’s 2021, I can’t believe it, and we are living in a time when science has become a matter of survival. We are living through the Covid-19 pandemic and vaccines have been developed at speed to help us get out of this mess. Music and songs have helped ...
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November 8, 2024 at 3:21 PM
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Weekend #MakingSciPub blog post trying to grapple with 'scepticism' <a href="http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/makingsciencepublic/2012/06/16/scepticism-process-not-position/" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/makingsciencepublic/2012/06/16/scepticism-process-not-position/
Scepticism: Process, not position - Making Science Public
Scepticism activism Scepticism is as old as human thinking, as old as philosophy and as old as science. Most recently scepticism has, on the one hand, become embroiled in a major controversy about climate change, and on the other hand scepticism has also become a form of activism, with Skeptics in the Pub being a ...
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November 8, 2024 at 3:21 PM
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Weekend #MakingSciPub blog on #scepticism (and sceptical looking #Goethe; I know how he feels) <a href="http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/makingsciencepublic/2012/06/16/scepticism-process-not-position/" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/makingsciencepublic/2012/06/16/scepticism-process-not-position/
Scepticism: Process, not position - Making Science Public
Scepticism activism Scepticism is as old as human thinking, as old as philosophy and as old as science. Most recently scepticism has, on the one hand, become embroiled in a major controversy about climate change, and on the other hand scepticism has also become a form of activism, with Skeptics in the Pub being a ...
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November 8, 2024 at 3:21 PM
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Welcome to twitter @AlexTTSmith and to our gradually increasing #MakingSciPub team!!
November 8, 2024 at 3:21 PM
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#MakingSciPub Guest blog by @NottsScience on science communication lecture by Rick Borchelt @UniofNottingham: <a href="http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/makingsciencepublic/2012/06/21/science-communication/" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/makingsciencepublic/2012/06/21/science-communication/
Science communication: Some anecdotes, some stats and some questions - Making Science Public
This is a guest blog by Ash Choudry which was previously published on the Nottingham Science Blog The blog reports on a public lecture by Rick Borchelt held on Friday, 15 June at the University of Nottingham. Rick is Special Assistant for Public Affairs to the Director of the National Cancer Institute at the US ...
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November 8, 2024 at 3:16 PM
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A perhaps somewhat controversial take on the #openscience debate on the #MakingSciPub blog: <a href="http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/makingsciencepublic/2012/06/21/open-data/" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/makingsciencepublic/2012/06/21/open-data/
Open data, trust and data/visual literacy - Making Science Public
Two reports When I opened my twitter timeline on 21 June, a stream of tweets announced the publication of two reports relating to open access and open data: The Royal Society’s report on Science as a Public Enterprise (plus an article about it in the THE and a Nature news blog) and the RCUK’s Open ...
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November 8, 2024 at 3:16 PM
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#MakingSciPub Blog post on #opendata, data deluge, #dataef="/hashtag/data" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#data visualisation, trust and #data literacy <a href="http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/makingsciencepublic/2012/06/21/open-data/" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/makingsciencepublic/2012/06/21/open-data/
Open data, trust and data/visual literacy - Making Science Public
Two reports When I opened my twitter timeline on 21 June, a stream of tweets announced the publication of two reports relating to open access and open data: The Royal Society’s report on Science as a Public Enterprise (plus an article about it in the THE and a Nature news blog) and the RCUK’s Open ...
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November 8, 2024 at 3:16 PM
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New #MakingSciPub blog on the Rio Summit and a look back at hopes voiced in 1992 <a href="http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/makingsciencepublic/2012/06/26/rio-plus-20-minus-hope/" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/makingsciencepublic/2012/06/26/rio-plus-20-minus-hope/
Rio plus 20 minus hope - Making Science Public
The United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development has recently been held in Rio de Janeiro (20-22 June, 2012). This summit has come to be known as Rio+20, as it was organised to coincide with the 20th anniversary of the 1992 Rio Earth Summit, which, it should be pointed out, was organised 20 years after the ...
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November 8, 2024 at 3:16 PM
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Blog post by @AlexTTSmith for #MakingSciPub blog on EU stem cell debate <a href="http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/makingsciencepublic/2012/06/29/embryonic-stem-cells-eu/" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/makingsciencepublic/2012/06/29/embryonic-stem-cells-eu/
Battle looms over European funding for embryonic stem cell research - Making Science Public
This blog was written for the ‘Making Science Public’ blog by Dr Alex Smith, University of Warwick, Senior Leverhulme Research Fellow. He is Project Leader responsible for ‘Science, religion and the making of publics in the UK and the USA’. According to an interesting story in this week’s Times Higher, a strong challenge is being ...
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November 8, 2024 at 3:15 PM
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#MakingSciPub blog post on the Higgs, science communication and making the probable public <a href="http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/makingsciencepublic/2012/07/07/not-god-but-goldilocks/" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/makingsciencepublic/2012/07/07/not-god-but-goldilocks/
Not God but Goldilocks? The Higgs Boson and science communication - Making Science Public
Being on a rain-washed holiday in the depth of Dorset, what else is there to do but watch some news, read some newspapers and getting a long lecture on the Higg’s from one’s offspring. I still don’t understand exactly what’s going on with the Higgs, but the whole thing ties in nicely with various topics ...
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November 8, 2024 at 3:10 PM
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Weekend #MakingSciPub post on #higgsboson and #scicomm <a href="http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/makingsciencepublic/2012/07/07/not-god-but-goldilocks/" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/makingsciencepublic/2012/07/07/not-god-but-goldilocks/
Not God but Goldilocks? The Higgs Boson and science communication - Making Science Public
Being on a rain-washed holiday in the depth of Dorset, what else is there to do but watch some news, read some newspapers and getting a long lecture on the Higg’s from one’s offspring. I still don’t understand exactly what’s going on with the Higgs, but the whole thing ties in nicely with various topics ...
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November 8, 2024 at 3:10 PM
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Back from holiday #MakingSciPub blog about #unseasonable weather, climate, seasons and #sci-fi novels <a href="http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/makingsciencepublic/2012/07/15/unseasonable-weather-unseasonable-climate/" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/makingsciencepublic/2012/07/15/unseasonable-weather-unseasonable-climate/
Unseasonable weather; unseasonable climate? Facts, fictions and fantasies - Making Science Public
I have just come back from a place in Dorset that my husband’s family has visited every summer for the last forty years or so and that I have visited for the last twenty. I sometimes needed to take and wear an anorak. This has changed and I have been wearing it more often over ...
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November 8, 2024 at 3:10 PM