Peter Weingart warns that the competition for media attention may damage trust: "As for now, it can only be warned that universities are ill advised to sell themselves in the same way and with the same means commercial companies do."

Back to the roots? Ayelet Shavit's and Yael Silver's plea for a vision of science that combines community relevance and academic excellence in their essay for Pᴜʙʟɪᴄ Uɴᴅᴇʀsᴛᴀɴᴅɪɴɢ ᴏғ Sᴄɪᴇɴᴄᴇ 𝑱𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒏𝒂𝒍.

In his essay for Pᴜʙʟɪᴄ Uɴᴅᴇʀsᴛᴀɴᴅɪɴɢ ᴏғ Sᴄɪᴇɴᴄᴇ 𝑱𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒏𝒂𝒍 Jon D. Miller argues that while "more information is now available to citizens than in any time in human history" making use of it still requires a "core set of constructs about science". He outlines paths to re-conceptualize scientific literacy.

Special Issue Interview with John Durant about Public Understanding of Science, the deficit model, the divide between #scicomm researchers and practitioners, and more. By ayelet baram tsabari journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

Special Issue Interview: blewenstein looks back at his tenure, highlighting the debate he prompted early on in our journal about science centers, and regretting not devoting more space to creating bridges between #scicomm & #scied By Jean-Baptiste Gouyon journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

Special Issue Interview with Edna Einsiedel: ‘What the journal has done best is to illustrate the richness and diversity of the relationships between science and its many publics’. Still, many worlds remain to be explored. By Sally Stares #SciComm journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

Special Issue Interview: Martin W. Bauer offers us his keen insight into various aspects that have challenged – and still challenge – studies on public communication of science By Pablo Kreimer #scicomm journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

Special Issue Interview with Hans Peter Peters on 'how the editorial team has processed COVID-19-related submissions, what he has learned about the research community relevant to PUS, his position towards Open Science', and more. By @MejlgaardNiels #scicomm journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

Just over 2 weeks away now from our 1st Science@Culture Talk brought to you with The The Irish Times. The 1st annual talk will be delivered by Brian Trench and is sure to be fascinating. Registration is free but spaces are limited. #science Dont miss out⬇️ ⬇️ eventbrite.ie/e/mary-mulvihi…

So happy to join the ESCI team!😊My 1st experience as a social media analyst was in 2014, before joining the Science Communication Unit, UWE Bristol for my PhD. After 6 years of academic research, I'm excited to go back to practice & help the team in the analysis of #scicomm activities for #EUprojects

We had an important conversation about the difference between providing information that publics need to make decisions and using deficit-model #scicomm Is it possible to inform without treating your audience as "deficient"? Hans Peter Peters thinks so #PCST23

Neue Publikation Pᴜʙʟɪᴄ Uɴᴅᴇʀsᴛᴀɴᴅɪɴɢ ᴏғ Sᴄɪᴇɴᴄᴇ 𝑱𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒏𝒂𝒍: ExpertInnen in der Coronaberichterstattung Mit der Frage, wie es um die fachliche Expertise der in der Coronaberichterstattung präsenten WissenschaftlerInnen bestellt ist, haben sich Melanie Leidecker-Sandmann & M. Lehmkuhl zus. mit WMK-Studierenden beschäftigt.

Wie definiert man #Wisskomm als Beruf? Welche Rolle spielt dabei Wissenschafts-PR? Das diskutieren Elisabeth Hoffmann, Hans Peter Peters, Julia Serong & Rebecca Winkels in der neuen #Podcast-Folge des #WisskommQuartett|s. Zu Episode & Hintergrundinfos: 🎧 wissenschaft-im-dialog.de/projekte/wissk…

Less than 3 weeks until the call for proposals to PCST 2023 (11-14 April, Rotterdam, NL) closes. Check out at pcst.network/conferences/up…. Deadline 7 September for submitting an abstract. Great city, great conference center. PCSTNetwork

The Thematic Section is dedicated to the “Changing Communication of Higher Education Institutions”, with contributions by Kaisu Koivumäki (Innanen) Prof Clare Wilkinson Esa Väliverronen Tanja Sihvonen Salla-Maaria Laaksonen @[email protected] Merja Koskela Silke Fürst @sfuerst.bsky.social Sophia Charlotte Volk Daniel Vogler Mike S. Schäfer Isabel H. Sörensen @CharmaineVoigt & Hans Peter Peters

In an invited essay, Hans Peter Peters not only discusses the papers collected in this Thematic Section but also sheds light on developments since the 1980s, emphasizing that the public comm. efforts of many universities have moved toward a corporate model 👉doi.org/10.24434/j.sco…

“Substance over showmanship, improving one-way communication, respecting the audience.” Three theses about Sharon Dunwoody’s legacy in my commentary published by Science Communication: doi.org/10.1177/107554…. #sciencecommunication #sciencejournalism

Our editor Hans Peter Peters and managing editor Susan Howard will also be at #PCST2023! If you have any questions about our journal, you can meet them in the exhibition area of the conference center (3rd floor, Willem Burger Foyer) during lunch and coffee breaks.

We are at #PCST2023! Our editor Hans Peter Peters and managing editor Susan Howard will be in the exhibition area of the conference center (3rd floor, Willem Burger Foyer) during lunch and coffee breaks. They will be happy to answer any questions about our journal. Look for our poster!

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