As the world scrambles to understand COVID-19, multiple studies seem to offer a cure or new risk factor for the disease, only to be disproven a short time later.
The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed cracks in many areas of our society, but at the same time it offers the opportunity for a fundamental rethink of what we consider normal. One of these areas is academia.
Top up and coming scientists across Australia will get the chance to show the nation how their work is for the public good, under a new partnership between ANU and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC).
"It's fantastic to be able to take the skills I've developed through majoring in science communication and put them into practice in real time at work, from stakeholder management, developing communication plans and communicating risk."
Anna-Sophie Jurgens recently organised a special themed journal issue for the Journal of Science & Popular Culture, titled Science on show: Exploring science, performance and spectacle.
In uncertain situations such as the COVID-19 pandemic, biomedical and public health experts contribute facts and their own judgements about risk to our collective thinking and decision making.
In his interview, Gascoigne expands on the making of his upcoming book "Communicating Science: a Global Perspective", which comprises of chapters written by science communicators in different countries across the world, including Brazil.
Good news: COVID-19 is not the only thing going on right now! Bad news: while we’ve all been deep in the corona-hole, the climate crisis has been ticking along in the background, and there are many things you may have missed.