Framing Science:
Bee and Michael and Chad and Eva and Timo and Cameron will be there. And so will I. And many other interesting people. Where? At the Science in the 21st Century conference at the Perimeter Institute (Waterloo, Ontario) on Sep....
Posted on April 7, 2008 11:04 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Orac: The American Academy of Pediatrics versus antivaccinationist hypocrisy Drake Bennett: Black man vs. white woman Sheril R. Kirshenbaum: The Presidential Science Debate That Happened TODAY In Boston! and The Boston Debate Mike Dunford: The Role of Science in Politics:...
Posted on February 18, 2008 10:41 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Abel PharmBoy: Herding cats and framing science What he says....
Posted on January 23, 2008 7:43 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
CBC has started a series of interviews (later available as podcasts) with scientists and others about the nature of science, the public undrestanding of science and related issues. Let me know what you think and feel free to blog about...
Posted on November 30, 2007 2:35 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Posted on November 29, 2007 2:45 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The other day, Kate organized a talk by Sheila Jasanoff about science communication and subsequently summarized the talk on her blog. You need to read the whole thing, but the main point is that there is a difference between a...
Posted on October 11, 2007 7:38 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Randy Olson's movie had a very short and limited release. Reed rallied the troops so NCSU library got a copy and there was a public viewing that I could not attend. But now, everyone can watch it, as Jennifer reports....
Posted on September 10, 2007 12:24 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
If I was not already scheduled to appear on a panel in Wisconsin at the same time, I would have loved to go to this: The fourth Image and Meaning workshop, IM2.4, part of the Envisioning Science Program at Harvard's...
Posted on September 3, 2007 6:34 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Kate Seip of The Anterior Commissure and two of her colleagues have announced the formation of Science Communication Consortium: There's been a good deal of recent discussion, both face-to-face amongst colleagues and friends and within the blogosphere itself, on how...
Posted on August 21, 2007 10:45 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
As I predicted, bloggers have waited a day or two before they wrote much of substance abour Scifoo. First, you don't want to miss out on any cool conversations by blogging instead. Second, the experience is so intense, one needs...
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Posted on August 10, 2007 4:36 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Just came back home from a very pleasant dinner with Matt Nisbet. What luck that our trips to San Francisco coincided so well! Oh, and of course, Profesor Steve Steve was there as well......
Posted on July 25, 2007 1:28 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Mindy discovered a cool series of videos on YouTube, done by a physics teacher. The first one is called The Most Terrifying Video You'll Ever See: Then, to respond to questions and comments, he added Patching Holes #1, Patching Holes...
Posted on July 18, 2007 8:12 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
These three links have recently become freely available: Chris Mooney's interview with Treehugger. Chris Mooney's article in Harper's Magazine/ And a report from the NYAS meeting....
Posted on June 27, 2007 10:36 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The Union of Concerned Scientists has picked the 12 finalists in their cartoon contest and it is now your turn to vote for the best one. While I personally prefer the TomTomorrowesque #9, I think that the simpler cartoons, e.g.,...
Posted on June 26, 2007 8:01 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
So, Anton Zuiker and I went yesterday to the Talking To The Public panel discussion at Duke, organized by Sigma Xi, The Council for the Advancement of Science Writing and The Duke Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy. There is...
Posted on June 23, 2007 11:57 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
First, a video of Jonathan Haidt - Morality: 2012 (Hat-tip to Kevin): The social and cultural psychologist Jonathan Haidt talks with Henry Finder about the five foundations of morality, and why liberals often fail to get their message across. From...
Posted on June 21, 2007 8:53 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
This one? Or this one? Framing Science is not just verbal. Visual aspects are also important....
Posted on June 18, 2007 1:38 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
"Fine in practice, but how does it work in theory?" This headline (in a French paper, of course), prompted Sally Green to pen a fine, fine post - an Obligatory Reading of the Day - about class, education, the psychology...
Posted on June 13, 2007 3:37 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
In the May 18th issue of Science there is a revew paper by Paul Bloom and Deena Skolnick Weisberg. An expanded version of it also appeared recently in Edge and many science bloggers are discussing it these days. Enrique has...
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Posted on May 31, 2007 1:28 PM • 16 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Here is the comprehensive list of links...
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Posted on April 20, 2007 1:38 AM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I guess nobody reads me, and everyone reads PZ, but I am astonished how many people, after my eight lengthy posts on the topic, dozens of posts by others who 'get it' and literally hundreds of comments by people who...
Posted on April 17, 2007 9:02 AM • 46 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
On Neurophilosopher's blog, I saw this, one of the winning cartoons from the 2006 Scientific Integrity Editorial Cartoon Contest, drawn by Reva Sharp from Warren, PA (btw, you have only about a month to send in your entries for the...
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Posted on April 16, 2007 1:18 AM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
In the latest dust-up over framing science, an unfortunate frame is emerging that I want to nip in the bud, that 'appeasers' in the big culture war against religion are the same as 'framers' in the current debate, and likewise...
Posted on April 15, 2007 7:26 PM • 15 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Brilliant! Brilliant! Why didn't I think of this? A post on Anomalous Data connects the Framing Science debate to the recent Joshua Bell experiment (check some more good bloggy reactions to it). If you are not familiar with the story...
Posted on April 15, 2007 3:02 AM • 14 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Updates, including a response to Larry Moran.
Posted on April 14, 2007 2:49 PM • 14 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Truth, All the Truth, and Nothing but the Truth. You are all familiar with the phrase. It actually figures prominently (though unspoken until now) in this whole discussion about framing science. Nobody - absolutely nobody - ever suggests that anything...
Posted on April 13, 2007 10:33 AM • 15 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
As you know, the last several days saw quite a flurry of blog posts about framing science. I posted my thoughts here and I keep updating my post with links to all the new posts as they show up (except...
Posted on April 11, 2007 11:44 PM • 25 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
As you may have noticed, there is a vigorous debate going on in the blogosphere about framing science (all the links to all the relevant posts can be found if you click on that link). For the uninitiated, this may...
Posted on April 10, 2007 11:00 AM • 20 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
My SciBlings Chris Mooney and Matt Nisbet just published an article in 'Science' (which, considering its topic is, ironically, behind the subscription wall, but you can check the short press release) about "Framing Science" Carl Zimmer, PZ Myers, Mike Dunford...
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Posted on April 7, 2007 3:33 AM • 29 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
