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To understand how false news spreads, Vosoughi et al. used a data set of rumor cascades on Twitter from 2006 to 2017. About 126,000 rumors were spread by ∼3 million people. False news reached more people than the truth; the top 1% of false news cascades diffused to between 1000 and 100,000 people, whereas the truth rarely diffused to more than 1000 people. Falsehood also diffused faster than the truth.
What if it is not the concepts described by science fiction that could have the most impact, but the act of storytelling - the creation of scientific narratives - itself?
Six experts offer advice on producing a manuscript that will get published and pull in readers.
Opioids. Fracking. Zika. GMOs. Scientists should be speaking up about all sorts of science-based issues that affect our lives. Especially now, when Trump administration officials tell us that climate change is debatable.
New Scientist, the world’s leading science and technology weekly magazine, is pleased to announce the appointment of Emily Wilson as Editor.
An article addressing the constant struggle to improve science communication.
It’s easier than ever to learn how to produce captivating clips that can boost your scientific outreach - or open the door to a new job.
PhD candidate Samantha Yammine is trying to break the stereotype that Scientists are cold, boring and out of touch with the hashtag #ScientistsWhoSelfie.
The results of the latest public opinion survey undertaken by Research!America showed that 67% of respondents had a positive image of science and indeed thought that public policy should be based on the best science available.
Tips for grad students: the options for communicating your research beyond the dissertation or journal article are nearly endless and range from video games to comic books, but two of the easiest to work with are podcasts and infographics.
ERCcOMICS is a creative and ambitious project which exploits the power of visual storytelling to innovate the way European science is communicated.
Academic cultural critique is best served in blog form and there are a slew of academic blogs waiting to dish. We’ve picked 9 of the best academic blogs.
As of December 13, we are writers and editors awaiting payment from Nautilus magazine for a collective debt totalling $50,000. Some of us have been waiting to be paid for more than a year.
Climatologist Katherine Hayhoe says that scientists have no option but to fight against the politicisation of science.
Social media gets all the attention for polarization, but TV is doing more than its share.
Celebrating the power of photography to communicate science and the role great images play in making science accessible to a wide audience.
It might feel like rocket science, but scientists need to get better at explaining things to people outside academia.
Industry chemist Nathan Allen spends his spare time creating a place for open, civil debate about science online.
SciComm: Why it is essential, and how we can do it better.
Does press coverage ever lead to papers’ rejection?
Unusual experiment reveals that news stories can boost national policy discussion on social media.
The active participation of the people is one of the central components of a functioning democracy. Research performed a real-world randomized experiment in the United States to understand the causal effect of news stories on increasing public discussion of a specific topic.
Ideally, we want science and scholarship to be not only available to the general public, but also comprehensible to them. But the challenges to doing so are real, and may vary both by discipline and by study type.
The city of Lausanne was chosen to host the 11th World Conference of Science Journalists.
The opportunities and experiences of blogging as part of teaching.
Increased provision of information in accessible repositories appears to be a cost-effective way to advance science. Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial.
Unsurprisingly, many — if not most — scientists aren’t great at science communication.
Applying to all the parts of a paper and further to other forms of communication such as grants and posters.
Experiment traces how online encyclopaedia influences research write-ups.
Why is the one federal agency dedicated to revealing the unknown to humankind so difficult for many journalists to penetrate?
