Belgian PhD students pitching their research
On 2 and 3 July 2024, I had the privilege of teaching my popular workshop “Pitch Perfect“, where PhD students from Belgian…
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Best advice from your profession
On Reddit there’s a thread asking for the best advice from your profession. My advice as a communication professional, specialised in the…
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Reflections on the PCST 2023 conference
Yesterday the LOC of the PCST 2023 (Public Communication of Science and Technology) evaluated the conference that took place on 11-14 April…
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Good communication starts with listening
It is March 2020 and the world seems to come to an abrupt halt. An invisible and elusive danger races across the…
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Bringing society inside the walls of scientific facilities
The Public Awareness of Research Infrastructures (PARI) three-day conference held in July 2022 at the SKA Observatory’s Global Headquarters (U.K.) discussed the…
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“If you can talk, you can communicate”
What a great wish list it has become, SciComNL’s survey of its members on what people think about the functions of the…
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Politics and media: focus on content
“It is to be hoped that the freshly appointed ministers and state secretaries are less concerned with image than with the content…
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Experts in action: from megaphone to megachat
The expectations of scientists who engage with society have increased over the past years. Where scientists in the past were applauded for…
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Staying up to date as a science communicator
Blogs Feedspot’s Top 20 Science Communication Blogs and Websites World conferences The Mother of science communication conferences is the PCST. It takes…
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Want to change people’s behaviour? Then stop telling them what to do.
Say you finished a research project and you want to make your knowledge actionable. Or you have scientific facts that you want…
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Science Communication – an introduction
It’s finally here, the new academic textbook in the World Scientific Series on Science Communication: Science Communication, an introduction. The book is…
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1.0 plus 2.0 is 3.0
Leiden has great facilities in the field of education, from pre-school care to bite-sized university education at the Faculty of Arts. Of…
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ScienceOnline starts in Leiden
“What is the purpose of your visit to the United States?” The grumpy homeland security officer snarls at me at the airport….
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Why the World Needs Better Science Journalism
If you regularly do a Twitter search for the words “science journalism,” like I do, you’ll be amazed, amused and sometimes shocked…
