Researchers and science publishers need to seize the opportunity offered by the drastic shifts in the way news is produced — ...

Scientists are crucial voices in the public debate about wicked problems—societal-scale, high-stakes issues with no clear solutions, like pandemics and artificial intelligence. In the past, experts ...

The Standing Committee on Advancing Science Communication brings together researchers and practitioners from different disciplines to expand opportunities for all to contribute to and benefit from the ...

Although the public has a generally positive attitude toward science and scientists, specific contentious issues with a science component often become controversial. As noted in Chapter 1, some of ...

Have you ever read about a scientific discovery and felt like it was written in a foreign language? If you're like most Americans, new scientific information can prove challenging to understand - ...

Faced with federal research funding cuts enacted by the Trump administration and Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency, students and early career researchers at Cornell University are urging ...

A common stereotype of scientists is that they are poor at writing. A quick internet search brings up a Reddit post that proclaims, “90% of scientific writers absolutely suck at writing.” However, ...

Authoritative, intelligent, responsible, serious—if you were asked to describe the general figure of a scientist, you would probably use adjectives like these. However, "funny" would likely not be the ...

Researchers in psychology are encouraged to engage in knowledge translation and science communication. Science-driven recommendations have changed behaviors and improved outcomes in several domains ...

Lived experiences shape how science is conducted. This matters because who gets to speak for science steers which problems are prioritized, how evidence is translated into practice and who ultimately ...

After years as an immunology researcher, Maya Fedeli found a new calling helping researchers and people work together through ...