Staying up to date as a science communicator

Geschreven door Frank Nuijens

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11 augustus 2021

How do you stay up to date on the latest news and insights in the field of science communication? This list gives you a head-start.

Blogs

Feedspot’s Top 20 Science Communication Blogs and Websites

World conferences

The Mother of science communication conferences is the PCST. It takes place every two years. The next one is in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, in 2023.
The PCST also has an active e-mail discussion list that is worth subscribing to.
The World Conference of Science Journalists is also organized every two years and open to both journalists and communicators. The next one is in Colombia in 2022.
The British Science Association organises a regular Science Communication Conference in the UK, keep an eye on their events page.
The UK Conference of Science Journalists is a biennial conference organized by the British Association of Science Writers. On this page you can still watch the sessions from the 2020 edition.
ScienceWriters202 2, the annual conference for science writers by science writers.

Dutch conferences

The yearly Vakconferentie WTC brings together science communicators, scientists and communication scientists to share theory and practise.
SciCom NL is the branch organization for science communication professionals. They have regular activities.

Newsletters

Academic journals

Podcasts

Facebook

Twitter

I curate the Twitter account SciComm News & Views, where you can find interesting links to content about science communication #scicomm, science journalism, open access #openaccess, science policy, (social) sciences and humanities, and academia and academic life in general.

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Good communication starts with listening

dec 31, 2022

What I have come to think differently about, the website Beste ID asked me and 76 other scientists, administrators, philosophers, journalists and other thinkers. That is that good communication is above all about listening. And thus that some scientists are at least partly responsible for the growing gap between science and the practically educated in society.

“If you can talk, you can communicate”

sep 21, 2022

Members of the association SciComNL have expressed what they consider important for the National Centre for Science Communication that is to be established. Especially knowledge development and knowledge sharing are, in my opinion, essential functions of such a body.

Politics and media: focus on content

jan 16, 2022

It is to be hoped that the freshly appointed ministers and state secretaries in the Netherlands are less concerned with image than with the content of their work. But I hope that the media will also take responsibility in this process.