Sentences with phrase «much science communication»

The REAL problem isn't so much science communication... as the fact that we have this 60 vote supermajority extra-constitutional «requirement.»

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To date much social science research in communication has focused on either the message content or media effects - linear models.

Jonathan's advice to anyone who would like to get involved in science television making is «get as much experience in the practical demonstration and communication of science as possible, either in schools or science centres.»

Rather, I'm picking up as much experience as I can in my chosen field, science communication, while still ensconced in the ivory tower.

Rather than identifying «Science Kardashians» — those who are, as Hall put it, «famous for being famous» — the top 50 list reveals that a majority of the science Twitter stars spend much, if not all, of their time on science communiScience Kardashians» — those who are, as Hall put it, «famous for being famous» — the top 50 list reveals that a majority of the science Twitter stars spend much, if not all, of their time on science communiscience Twitter stars spend much, if not all, of their time on science communiscience communication.

Results of the study by Janet Yang, a University at Buffalo expert on the communication of risk information related to science, health and environmental issues, suggest that holding a collective, communitarian belief system contributed to altruistic behavior, while those who hold more individualistic values are less likely to be altruistic regardless of how much risk is triggered.

Its major finding was that most parents actually want pretty much the same things from their schools: a solid core curriculum in reading and math, an emphasis on science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education, and the development in students of good study habits, strong critical thinking skills, and excellent verbal and written communication skills.

They simply leave out too much that matters, including other academic subjects, like social studies and science, electives, as well as an array of skills and capacities we expect students to be developing, such as critical thinking, problem solving, creativity, collaboration, communication.

Blogging is a great communication tool and I very much appreciate your work with this one, but it could also be a slippery slope that could lead to the degradation of science, simply because most of the end users don't understand the scientific method.

I traded e-mails this morning with a communications director from a major climate NGO who said this about the whole current «discussion»: Kind of symbolic of how much time the community spends talking about how to communicate science versus actually trying to communicate science.

My comment was directed toward leaving even traces of alarmism out of AGW communications so that only the science can be attacked, which is much harder to do than attacking language.

But I think the much bigger problem is that there is no «basic communication» when it comes to climate science.

One of my Pace University communication students, Martin Totlandt, spent much of the summer in South Africa and filed this «Your Dot» dispatch about the controversy over the process of chumming — luring sharks with a fishy, bloody brew spooned overboard — something done both for science and for adventure tourism cage diving operations.

In my studies on science communication, I've learnt a lot about how the human brain works — we base our beliefs as much on our values as on scientific evidence.

The complex relationship between science, communication and policy (which is not as linear as some might think or wish it to be) and the complex relationship between science, advocacy and silence is however little understood (and quite easily misunderstood) and needs much more research.

The arguments will continue about whether Chernobyl was as much a failure of communication, planning and politics as it was of engineering and science.

I don't think the public is all that confused or that better understanding and communication of the science would change much in the way of policies that the public would support.

(b) Although this matter has received a good deal of media and political attention, I have always regarded it as essentially a single graphic case study illustration of a much larger pattern of Administration interference with and spinning of climate change science communication.

It was the concern about this linkage that seemed to underlie much of what I perceived to be the Administration's intervention in managing communications by the Climate Change Science Program.

That's why more detailed science communication is important; it can play a role in improving understanding, even if it doesn't actually make much difference to people's overall views (i.e., the failure of the deficit model).

Over the years he has shown a concern for maintaining a strong scientific research and assessment program on climate change — something to which few members of Congress pay much attention — both in proposed legislation and in calling out political interference with climate science communication.

That may be interesting as a social science experiment conducted on consenting adults, but it is not much use as a guide to effective public science communication, constrained as it is to tell the truth.

Better communication requires that climate science learn from other fields that have done much better (people like Randy Olson, Matt Nisbet study this sort of thing.)

Then there's this juicy bit of «communication»: ``... it suffices to say that the climate scientists have little doubt about the human impact on the climate...» Of course, like so much science non-communication, this is followed up by some vague qualifying about extent etc so you don't really know if the first bit is a sly consensus message or just a truism.

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