Science Communication Journal Club Podcast

In this episode, we discuss the ever-growing interest in pre-prints. What are they, why do they exist, who uses them and for what.  We are joined by a guest - the author of the paper we discuss in the podcast and the Twitter chat (https://twitter.com/i/events/1402484698169765888?s=20) - Johnny Coats. You can read the paper he and his collaborators wrote on the role of pre-prints in the dissemination of COVID-19 research for free in the journal PLOS One here (https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3000959). Connect with Johnny on Twitter (https://twitter.com/JACoates). Follow the SciComm_JC account on Twitter (https://twitter.com/scicomm_jc) for more chats on scicomm topics and other events. Visit our website (scicommjc.org) for more info and to get in touch.

In this episode, we speak about problematic terminology in science and science publishing. In a number of fields, certain terminology promotes exclusion or carry a degrading context. What can be done to move away from these inherent issues and how can we individually improve our communication to remove biases? It's all in this episode. The Moments from the Twitter chat can be found here. The publication we discussed can be read in full here. Follow us @SciComm_JC. Visit our website at scicommjc.org.

In this episode we are joined by the winner of second place of our 2021 State Your Mission Statement Challenge - a group of students who work to promote science communication among teens. You can follow them on Twitter @Sci4Teens. Find the Twitter moments from the chat with their participation here. Follow us on Twitter @SciComm_JC and on Instagram @scicomm_jc. Visit also our website www.scicommjc.org and subscribe to our newsletter! Get in touch with ideas for the next topic you'd like us to cover in a Twitter Chat.

In this episode we are joined by the 1st place winner of the State Your Mission Challenge 2021 - Rashmi Sheoran also known as @astro_roxy. You can find the moments of the Twitter chat Rashmi and Nevena hosted here and the peer-reviewed paper we discussed - here. Subscribe to our revived newsletter by visiting our website www.scicommjc.org. You will find even more info on this and other topics there. Follow us @scicomm_jc on Twitter for more updates and to get in touch!

In this episode, we share tips on how to approach an audience based on shared values. We cover also some experiences from a workshop we hosted at the AAAS Annual Meeting 2021 on the same topic. You can find the moments of the Twitter chat we organised post-workshop here. If you want to receive the handout with guided exercises in value-based communication, drop us a message on Twitter at @scicomm_jc. You can listen to the previous episode mentioned here. The data Mariya talks about in the beginning of the episode on COVID19 opinion results by all sorts of demographics can be accessed here: https://academics.lmu.edu/studyla/studies/losangelespublicopinionsurvey Visit our website www.scicommjc.org for more and subscribe to our newsletter! 

In this episode, we welcome a guest, who is a poet (the BBC said so!) and a scientist - Dr Sam Illingworth. We talk about how powerful poetry is as a conversation starter, as an expression, as a bonding and outreach mechanism for science.  We covered (half) of his paper Creative communication – using poetry and games to generate dialogue between scientists and nonscientists in a Twitter Chat. The paper can be found here. The Moments from the chat are here. Follow Sam on Twitter @samillingworth, on his blog The Poetry of Science and the Podcast with the same title. The poem you hear in the beginning of the episode is written and read by Sam. Hear about the research that inspired it here. Follow us @SciComm_JC and visit our website. SciCommJC is Sherry Nuraini, Mariya Vizireanu, Heather Conklin, Nevena Hristozova and Amanda Coletti.

In this episode we speak about the necessity to report, cover and communicate about scientific discoveries in languages different than English.  We start our discussion based on a Twitter chat (moments for it are here: https://twitter.com/i/events/1295024902672715779) where we discuss a publication (here: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcomm.2020.00031/full by Melissa Márquez (@mcmsharksxx) and Ana Maria Porras (@AnaMaPorras). We are joined by a special quest - one of the winners of the State Your Mission Challenge 2020 - Arvind Behal (@ArvindBehal). His activity for  which he wrote his winning mission statement is an online magazine where many scientists translate valuable scientific information in languages used by different communities in India (@ScienceCrux).  Our new team member, Amanda, can be found on Twitter as @amandacoletti5.  Follow us on @SciComm_JC and join the upcoming discussions on the #scicomm scenarios, twitter chats and more! Sign up to our newsletter at https://scicommjc.org/ for regular info! Share this podcast episode on your social media, use #scicommjc and tag all the relevant profiles who do science communication and outreach in languages other than English! 

In this episode, we talk with Mariya (@mariyav_phd) about some ground rules and key points to remember when communicating in times of crisis.  Find the Twitter chat moments here - link. Find the CDC manual here - link. Link to the COVID-19 Public Opinion Survey Mariya spoke about and more info about it - here. Follow us at @SciComm_JC on Twitter and on Instagram at scicomm_jc. Sign up to our newsletter and get in touch at www.scicommjc.org .

In this episode we build on previous episodes. We talk about using social media for science communication with the runner up in the 2019 State Your Mission Challenge from the Scicomm_JC - Virginia Schutte. We talk strategies and tricks in using social media for scicomm as an individual and as an organisation. Virginia was a guest on a Twitter chat where she reviewed a scientific publication on social media for scicomm back in 2019. Find the article she spoke about here, and the moments and highlights of the Twitter chat here. Connect with Virginia via Twitter @vgwschutte and her webpage https://www.virginiaschutte.com/. Follow us on: Twitter @scicomm_jc Instagram scicomm_jc and visit our website for more information and to get in touch https://scicommjc.org/.

In this episode we explore the potential of social platforms for science communication and how we can apply the scientific method to study the true impact of different types of messages. The basis for our talk with Dr Lisa Lundgren is the publication "Scientific Twitter: The flow of paleontological communication across a topic network". Lisa herself, is a co-author of this work. You can get in touch on her Twitter @LisaLundgren21 or Instagram @doctorlisagna. Find the moments of the Twitter Chat on the same topic here . Follow us on Twitter @scicomm_jc ; Instagram @scicomm_jc , and check out our webpage scicommjc.org to subscribe to our Newsletter and more awesome content!