Science+Story
Science+Story
Bob Lalasz
We hear it all the time: "Listen to the science!” So why aren't more people paying attention — and what can we do about it? On Science+Story, we talk with leading scientists, researchers and communicators on how they get the world to listen to them — and how we can all better spread what science wants to us to know.
Stefan Byrd-Krueger: Measuring the Impact of Your Content
The chief analytics officer of the firm ParsonsTKO talks about what content metrics he looks at closely, why research organizations need to promote their individual experts more, why he thinks the research sector is finally ready to level up the ways it measures content impact, and why a new project at ParsonsTKO aims to bring data innovation to the research world at large.
Aug 20, 2021
42 min
Gemma Derrick: Grimpact -- When Research Goes Very Bad
Derrick, a senior lecturer in higher education at Lancaster University, talks with Bob about what research grimpact is, when and why it occurs, why it’s so difficult for researchers to imagine, and why the drive for impact in research actually fuels grimpact.
Jul 16, 2021
37 min
Faith Kearns: Getting to the Heart of Science Communications
Faith on the limits of performative science communication, the risks of communicating science and her new Island Press book, "Getting to the Heart of Science Communications."
May 12, 2021
50 min
Daniël Lakens: Red Teams for Research?
To improve on peer review, social psychologist Daniël Lakens is subjecting research to a "red team" approach from software, where developers pay independent teams bounties to find bugs in their code. He even thinks red teaming your research could make communicating it easier by certifying its credibility.
Apr 24, 2021
38 min
Amy Dickman on Lions, Celebrities, Hunting & Evidence
Lion conservation scientist Amy Dickman on the evidence & emotion around trophy hunting in Africa.
Mar 26, 2021
48 min
Hugh Possingham: Culling Koalas, Dreary Conservationists & His SciComm Failures
Queensland's chief scientist on arguing with science skeptics, being a scientist/advocate & how maps lie.
Feb 19, 2021
50 min
Daniel Swain: The Climate Scientist-Communicator
The UCLA climate scientist on why his position as a scientist-communicator is so rare.
Nov 17, 2020
45 min
Trailer
Not another podcast with scientists telling stories! Uh, nope.
Oct 27, 2020
1 min
Todd Reubold on Journalism vs. Research Comms
Ensia's publisher on how to cover climate change for people who don't want to hear about it and why Greta Thunberg is so much better at communicating science than most scientists.
Oct 27, 2020
46 min
Samantha Montano: Being a Disasterologist
The disaster science and emergency management scholar on why she's so good at public engagement, what sucks about how the media cover disasters, and why she hid her age and gender when she first started on Twitter.
Oct 27, 2020
34 min
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