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My frustration with this study, at least as reported, is that the diet recommendations are founded on outdated assumptions about food quality.

E.g., the recommendaion of one serving of fish per week: where do mercury and microplastics fit in? Or the diet that recommends peanut oil but doesn't mention afflatoxin.

When experts fail to put recommendations into a bigger context, I have to do that myself -- which takes the "public" part out of public health (again). 2/n

#PublicHealth #SciComm


Overheard at a conference about #AI in #Medicine:

Speaker: "I hear neurologists prefer we say that generative AI systems 'confabulate' and not that they 'hallucinate'."

Neurologist [shouting from the back of the room]: "CORRECT!"

#psychiatry #neuroscience #sciComm #edu
Chase Parsons, DO, MBI
Chief Medical Information Officer
Boston Children's Hospital


The new idw expert database

The new centrepiece of idw's expert placement service has been an expert database.

Our idw members can upload extensive information about their own institution's experts.

Journalists accredited with idw can search for experts in the expert lists
or search for any keywords directly in the database or filter the entries by region and language.

Take a look - it's worth it!
https://experten.idw-online.de

#journalism #journalist #research #scicomm
Discover the new expert database - for journalists - there is a screenshot from the new database https://experten.idw-online.de/


An incredible person has started a movement to tell the stories of #US #scientists and #science experts who have been dismissed because of the #trump #madness over there at the moment

If you know scientists who have lost funding or jobs because of *certain decisions*, you should contact them! They are also looking for #volunteers ❤️❤️

More here: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/silencedsciencestories_faces-of-terminated-scientists-activity-7303887945944420352-Gb2j?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios&rcm=ACoAADNAIO0BuzwIm3tNVH5tUXHgOK6WxKwxPr8

#scicomm #stem #illustration #art #sciart #illustrators #terminated #federalscience #sciencematters #standupforscience


Do you love tardigrades? We love tardigrades! And thanks to nearly 30,000 Danish schoolchildren and a citizen science project, we now have NINE new species of tardigrade to love. Congratulations!

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/nine-new-tardigrade-species-discovered-thanks-to-the-efforts-of-danish-schoolchildren-180986010/

#science #scicomm
Banner text: Danish schoolchildren discover NINE new species of tardigrade, nearly quadrupling the number of known species of the extremophile. Picture of a tardigrade under a microscope. Graphic of Dr. Tardy wearing a blue SETI Institute t-shirt and saying "Congrats" in a speech bubble. SETI Institute logo.


Total wichtige Kritik, danke für die Aufarbeitung! Obwohl ich nicht übereinstimme, dass die Deutsche Umwelthilfe hier so einfach aus der Verantwortung entlassen werden darf. Wer Forschungsergebnisse nicht integer kommuniziert, gefährdet das Vertrauen in die #Wissenschaft. Das sollte eine Einrichtung, die in ihren Zielen so elementar vom Vertrauen in die Wissenschaft abhängig ist, tunlichst vermeiden. #Wisskomm #SciComm


Schon bei #FridaysforFuture ging das #MfNBerlin in den Dialog mit den Demonstrant*innen. Jetzt will man noch einen Schritt weiter gehen. Dafür müssen die Dinosaurier umziehen...

https://www.wissenschaftskommunikation.de/frau-darwin-herr-vogel-wie-politisch-ist-die-natur-84183/ #Wisskomm #Scicomm #Sciencenews


Seriously intense #airpollution across UK yesterday simply not reported; here's an info-packed but v digestible resource from Dr Pete Knapp #journalism #SciComm


Just going to link this fun looking fedi workshop from @tommi here since it seems relevant https://tommi.space/fedilab/

Hmmm... you know how there is #scicomm ? Let's perhaps start using #fedicomm for this precise topic, of _communicating_ (what) the fediverse (is)


Hear the Sun - three years of solar flares observed with the STIX instrument on board #ESA's #SolarOrbiter sonified:

▶️ https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XYXAdXf5gWU&t=80s&pp=2AFQkAIB

The video shows the sun as observed
Ultraviolet Imager instrument as Solar Orbiter moves closer to & further away from the Sun on its elliptical orbit. The blue circles are flares detected by the STIX instrument.

More info:
▶️ https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Videos/2024/12/See_and_hear_three_years_of_solar_fireworks

I'm extremely happy we hired a trainee for sonification this year 😊

#astrodon #sonification #scicomm


#PPOD: Phobos, the larger of Mars's two moons, measures 27 x 22 x 18 kilometers. It orbits Mars three times a day and is so close to the surface that it is not always visible from certain locations on Mars. This colorized image was created using a single shot from ESA's Mars Express, not a composite image. The satellite's camera scans the Martian surface, stretching the view as it moves by. Credit: ESA/DLR/FUBerlin; Andrea Luck

#space #science #scicomm
Landscape picture showing Mars's larger moon, Phobos, on the left against the black of space. The moon's surface details are seen, with several visible craters. Mars is in the background and is blurred out due to the camera's scanning.


#PPOD: Discovered last year by the Asteroid Terrestial-Impact Last Alert System (ATLAS), #Comet C/2024 G3 reached its perihelion on 13 January 2025. Unfortunately, the bright comet did not survive the close pass intact and lost its nucleus. Fortunately, many photographers have captured beautiful images such as this one, taken on 19 January at ESO's Paranal Observatory by astronomer Yuri Beletsky, which still shows the long, wispy tail. Credit: Yuri Beletsky

#space #science #scicomm
In the foreground is one of the telescopes at ESO's Paranal Observatory in Chile. Overhead, the sky is darkening into night, deep blue and full of stars at the top and orange near the horizon. Angling up from the horizon is a comet's thin, wispy tail, stretching over halfway across the sky.


My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

Some zooms into my Jurassic landscape packaging art, for the Megalosaurus coin, from the 2020 Dinosauria collection (Tales of the Earth range), by The Royal Mint and the Natural History Museum, London.

#Art #Painting #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #Dinosaurs #Birds #Reptiles #Palaeontology #Paleontology #Megalosaurus


My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

Here's my stupid face with the Jurassic landscape packaging art, for the Megalosaurus coin, from the 2020 Dinosauria collection (Tales of the Earth range), by The Royal Mint and the Natural History Museum, London.

#Art #Painting #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #Dinosaurs #Birds #Reptiles #Palaeontology #Paleontology #Megalosaurus



Extra, extra! Read the latest on how journalists interpret and report on scientific research 📢 📰

Check out this collaborative #preLight from Isabella Cisneros, Jennifer Black, Sristilekha Nath, Ryan Harrison, Benjamin Maier & Shreya Pramanik. They cover a #preprint from Alice Fleerackers & team ⬇️👀

https://prelights.biologists.com/highlights/from-impact-metrics-and-open-science-to-communicating-research-journalists-awareness-of-academic-controversies/

#scicomm #ScienceJournalism #journalism #OpenScience #education


Are you a #journalist who has reported on #cancer? You might qualify to enter the AACR's cancer journalism contest. $5000 prize. Various media.

#journalism #scicomm #medicalwriting #reporting

https://www.aacr.org/about-the-aacr/newsroom/the-aacr-june-l-biedler-prize-for-cancer-journalism/


I find more and more researchers don't respond to emailed media queries -- even when I'm trying to report on their studies. It suddenly occurred to me that maybe some of them don't think the email queries are legit. If you're uncertain (or even if you're just too busy), forward the query to your university/institutional communications/media relations team. They can sort things out.

#media #journalism #scientists #scicomm #communications #university @medmastodon


Wild mice actually enjoy running on exercise wheels

"Findings dispel the idea that wheel running is a product of captivity, indicative of a neurotic or repetitive stereotyped behaviour that may be associated with poor welfare"

by @GrrlScientist via #Substack

#AnimalWelfare #wildlife #behavior #SciComm #exercise https://grrlscientist.substack.com/p/wild-mice-actually-enjoy-running


Hey! Did you know there's a whole instance dedicated to Science and SciComm?

https://scicomm.xyz/public/local

Edited to add: there are lot of others out there! Would love to see folks reply with instances Scientists and SciComm folks should check out. And to help folks in general find interesting science posts.

#SciComm #SciArt #Science


#PPOD: NASA's JWST captured this infrared view of Saturn and its moons Tethys (left), Enceladus (middle), and Dione (right) on 25 June 2023. The planet appears dark at this wavelength, as methane gas in its atmosphere absorbs sunlight — but its icy rings stay bright. Credit: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/AndreaLuck

#space #science #scicomm #wallpaperwednesday
Image of Saturn and some of its moons, captured by the James Webb Space Telescope’s NIRCam instrument on June 25, 2023. The planet is a dark orange while the rings are a bright, pale blue. The planet is tilted from upper left to lower right, with the three moons at the top.


How is it this late into August already?!

NOMINATIONS OPEN FOR #MINCUP2024!!!

Suggest minerals for this year's competition before we put the bracket together: www.mineralcup.org/nominations

#science #geology #scicomm


“The loss of science on #Twitter is a contemporary mass extinction event”, says Professor Edward #Holmes, who recently was awarded the prestigious Croonian Medal by the Royal Society. He has also deleted his Twitter account recently. “Twitter used to be THE place where you shared ideas, data, preprints and papers. Now it’s a post-Apocalyptic hell hole.” #scicomm

https://bylinetimes.com/2024/01/16/elon-musks-war-against-science-evidence-and-objective-truth/