How do scientists let us know what they’re up to? More importantly, perhaps how do they help us understand what they’re doing? The communication of science is crucial… and next week Podnosh will be working with science communicators from all over Europe to explore how social media can play a role in their work.
It’s not the first time we’ve done this. We thoroughly enjoyed social reporting for a Europe wide project on communicating science early in 2011. We were supporting Kate Cooper at The New Optimists and our work helped flush out enough detail in one conference to create a final conference report (essentially) on the day (radically speeding up how these things often happen)
It’s all part of a European project, ‘PLACES’ and as well as finding out about projects from other parts of Europe we’ll be looking at two very successful projects that we know about – Shane McCracken from Gallomanor will be giving the background to ‘I’m a Scientist Get Me Out of Here…’ and the (again) Kate Cooper’s New Optimists is a great example of how social media can help to grow a project.
Any science projects online that we should be looking at? Tell us about the ones that have caught your eye.
I know I’m part of this sue, but the one that really impressed me was Shane’s work on http://scienceisvital.org.uk/ – a campaign to protect science funding as a key part fo our future economic growth
And don’t forget the role Jenny Rohn played: http://newoptimists.com/2011/04/15/jenny-rohn-science-is-vital/
[...] Nick Booth of Podnosh has asked me to write about the why and how of social reporting for The New Optimists. Here goes: [...]