This entire article is like a masterclass on #scicomm#SciWriting, technical writing
Clear definitions of technical terms for drug impurity, historical explanation on standards established for their limits, consequences for violating them & the difficulties in upholding them
Inside the Fight To Decide How Pure India’s Drugs Need To Be By Priyanka Pulla
“Imagine we land a space probe on one of Jupiters’ moons, take up a sample of material, and find it is full of organic molecules. How can we tell whether those molecules are just randomly assembled goo or the outcome of some evolutionary process taking place on the planet?”
We've all been there: it's puzzle time, but once you dump out the pieces and start laying them flat, you realize you don't have enough space on your table. Join me as we use physics to find out ✨HOW BIG A TABLE YOU NEED FOR YOUR JIGSAW PUZZLE ✨
Want to know what my research is about? Follow this thread 🧵 based on a 10min talk I've drawn for a meeting.
The talk was aimed at non-specialist space science colleagues (not the general public!). The slides were built up step by step, but I'm omitting this here & showing only the final graphs, less this becomes a 34-part thread. 11 is plenty enough!
So: "Understanding Winds of Massive Stars Using High Mass X-ray Binaries"
The publishing sector has a problem. Scientists are overwhelmed, editors are overworked, special issue invitations are constant, research paper mills, article retractions, journal delistings… JUST WHAT IS GOING ON!?
1/16 This July, I gave an invited talk in the "Communicating Science Through Art" session at the European Astronomical Society annual meeting, organized by the amazing @theastrophoenix . And I thought it may be something that would also interest you #fediverse folks.
The aim of the talk was partly to give people insight into my why & how of my art. But mainly to encourage others to just try. In a very subjective manner.
Here the key slides - not art-sy, but hopefully useful for some folks!
And unsurprisingly it feels super vulnerable to talk very subjectively about my art practice and about my insecurities (but also so important in order to encourage others!).
Once again the news and social media are full of stuff about an upcoming #SuperMoon .
🌕 The #Moon's orbit around the Earth is elliptical. Sometimes it's a bit closer and thus looks a tad bigger, but the difference is barely noticeable. It's not even remotely close to "super".
The Moon is always pretty, there's no need to wait for fabricated "events" to look up and enjoy it!
People who have created a fediverse account for your lab: how did you decide on a server?
We want to share our research updates with a lab account, but there are so many considerations to make regarding moderation, federation, donation, visibility, etc etc 🫨
After 15 years, yesterday was my last at #ESTEC as an ESA staff member*, & as is my longstanding habit, it ended with me cycling home late at night 🌖🚴♂️
Well, I am an astronomer, after all 🔭🤷♂️🙂
It has been a privilege, & there is much & there are many I will miss 🙇♂️
But I’m not retiring: next, a move to Germany 🇳🇱➡️🇩🇪, science with #JWST, talks & tours, writing a book, & many Space Rocks events & projects in development 🖖🤘
Wie viel Wissenschaft steckt in der Netflix-SciFi-Serie "3 Body Problem"? Darüber habe ich gestern Abend drei Stunden lange mit Dr. Lisa Ringena von IsoQuant Heidelberg & @nawik und Cedric Engels aka Doktor Whatson bei ARTE #Couchwissen gesprochen.
As a scientist who studies #science policy & risk communication, as a science journalist who has been writing in popular outlets about #ClimateChange & #scicomm for 20 years, & as a former congressional staffer focused on #climate & #energy policy in the early 2000s… This article is frustrating.
“Scientific communication failures linked to faster-rising seas”
If you prefer to read things instead of listening (as do I myself; not an audio person ... 😅 ), Physics World has now turned the podcast with me into a written interview:
It's about my science, but also about all the things I do as a scientist that are not my science - climate crisis outreach and Astronomers for Planet Earth, my art and outreach in general.
Be ungovernable, like birds who make nests OUT OF ANTI-BIRD SPIKES. A new study describes resourceful Dutch & Belgian corvids besting evil architecture by stealing metal anti-bird strips and using them like thorny twigs, to construct their homes.
Like thorns, the spikes may protect their nests from predators.
Like many other scientists I often get "debate me" emails from random people with weird ideas about #astronomy. If I answer, they feel validated. Same if I don't. So I always pick the option that doesn't waste my time. Don't fall for the "debate me" trap, folks, you can't win. #scicomm
Starting today I will post a page of my "Good Night(sky) Stories" each #Moonday. It's a visual journey through our solar system and beyond, combining cute cartoons with scientific facts and trite humor. Basically the result of an artist and an astrophysicist distracting themselves during boring meetings.
German version: https://mastodon.art/@eyeling/109501818170699384 #sciart#scicomm#astronomy#astrodon
🔭🧬🔬 Arranca la segunda jornada del #CGutenberg23 con la mesa "Ponga usted a un comunicador o una comunicadora en su organización" con🗣️Angela Monasor, Rubén Permuy, Núria Saladié y moderada por Concepción Sanz.😉
Should be going on BBC Radio 4 Today this morning around 08:50 CET / 07:50 GMT to talk about ESA’s space gravitational wave observatory, LISA, which was given the green light yesterday to proceed to the construction phase 👍
Its aim? The hear the sound of supermassive black holes & other exotic objects rumbling & occasionally shrieking across all of space & time.
Several of us overly online biologists spent years quietly doing an experiment on Twitter, trying to find out if tweeting about new studies from a set of mid-range journals caused an increase in later citations, compared to set of untweeted control articles.
Turns out we had no noticeable effect; the tweeted papers were cited at the same rate as the control set.
Our paper, headed by Trevor Branch, was published today in PLOS One:
Phew! Thanks to new data from ESO's Very Large #Telescope, we now know that a white dwarf that was set for a close encounter with our Solar System in 29000 years isn't actually headed our way. Turns out that the intense magnetic field of the #star had biased the previous measurements of the approach speed. You're welcome everyone! 😉
Reminder: As we start getting closer to the April eclipse, places are going to start selling out of eclipse glasses (some already have!) I highly recommend you order some soon, and please don’t just get them off eBay or Amazon, fakes are a problem.