Public Engagement

How Do I Share My Article? Top Tips for After Publication
Communication
January 28, 2019

How Do I Share My Article? Top Tips for After Publication

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Here Is the Science Behind Scheduling Social Media
Impact
January 14, 2019

Here Is the Science Behind Scheduling Social Media

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More Than A March: Evidence Supporters Gather in Chicago
Public Engagement
July 3, 2018

More Than A March: Evidence Supporters Gather in Chicago

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The Other Dead of 1918
News
May 15, 2018

The Other Dead of 1918

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Five Principles of Science Communication

Five Principles of Science Communication

Effective communication is fundamental to increasing public understanding and for building the bridge between the public and the sciences. Suzi Spitzer outlines five principles of holistic science communication that can facilitate collaborative learning between scientists and the public.

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David Spiegelhalter on Communicating Statistics

David Spiegelhalter on Communicating Statistics

While they aren’t as unpopular as politicians or journalists, people who work with statistics come in for their share of abuse. “Figures lie and liars figure,” goes one maxim. And don’t forget, “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.” But some people are the good guys, doing their best to combat the flawed or dishonest use of numbers. One of those good guys is the guest of this Social Science Bites podcast, David Spiegelhalter, professor of the public understanding of risk at Cambridge and current president of the Royal Statistical Society.

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Educational Reforms Still Have No Answer for School System

Educational Reforms Still Have No Answer for School System

The Gates Foundation is regrouping after its latest school improvement disappointment, but it’s not bowing out of the education reform business. As the philanthropic powerhouse led by Bill and Melinda Gates explained in their latest annual letter to the public, it ended its effort to overhaul teacher evaluation systems after determining that these efforts were failing to generate intended results.

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Is There a Need for Novelty in Science?

Is There a Need for Novelty in Science?

In a recent survey of over 1,500 scientists, more than 70 percent of them reported having been unable to reproduce other scientists’ findings at least once. Reproducibility of findings is a core foundation of science and realizing how difficult it is to assess novelty should give funding agencies and scientists pause. Progress in science depends on new discoveries and following unexplored paths – but solid, reproducible research requires an equal emphasis on the robustness of the work.

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Louise Richardson: Educational Divide Fuels Corrosive Populism

Louise Richardson: Educational Divide Fuels Corrosive Populism

Speaking before a sell-out audience of policymakers, journalists and academics in Whitehall, Louise Richardson FAcSS, vice chancellor of the University of Oxford, said we must bridge the educational divide to prevent populism for threatening democracy

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The Constant Diplomat: Neil Smelser, 1930-2017

The Constant Diplomat: Neil Smelser, 1930-2017

Sociologist Neil Smelser, whose research on collective behavior and economic sociology were rivaled by his tenure as a mentor, teacher, and liaison to a restive University of California-Berkeley student body in the 1960s, has died at age 87.

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Political Activism is Not Just for Youngsters

Political Activism is Not Just for Youngsters

David Canter reviews a new range of studies that shows people can be politically active from childhood to old age

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Limiting Campus Free Expression is Intolerance, Too

Limiting Campus Free Expression is Intolerance, Too

The response on many universities to a high tide of intolerance has been to limit free speech. That, says James Turk, is exactly the wrong response.

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