The scientific publishing industry depends heavily on the people that write, review and edit scientific articles. In effect, these people have the power to shape the future of scientific publishing. So, what will they make of it? Prof. Jean-Sébastien Caux, a strong believer in openness in scientific publishing, tells Crastina about how his own frustrations […]
Before scientists can ask the public to trust science, they need to trust science themselves. The ‘quality control’ process for scientific information consists of peer review, a system by which scientists read their peers’ work and decide if it is rigorous and worthy of publication. Behind the scenes, ensuring the rigour and fairness of the […]
Public engagement is a term used by higher education institutions to refer to the collection of initiatives aimed at communicating their research with the public. The concept of public engagement is by no means defined by or limited to science related activities, but a significant amount of science communication happens in these events. I have […]
The Royal Society of Chemistry organized several activities in celebration of Peer Review Week. As part of this initiative, a panel of experts got together to discuss what they understood by ‘trust’ in the peer review process, and why it mattered. I reached out to the members of this panel to ask them some questions […]
Professor Luke Drury is the former Head of the Astronomy and Astrophysics Section of the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies. Alongside Professor Maria Baghramian from the School of Philosophy of University College Dublin, Professor Drury led an interdisciplinary project called ‘When Experts Disagree’. The project focused on understanding the implications of expert disagreement in policy […]
Sounds have the power to place us in different mental spaces. Accordingly, sound and music can connect deeply to our perceptions of who we are and where we come from. While musing on how sound can be used to communicate science, I started to wonder if connecting to people’s sense of identity through sound could […]