by Susan Keown | Jun 29, 2024 | ScienceWire
For USA Today’s Fact Check team, Kate S. Petersen debunks a viral Facebook post that misrepresented new research on Antarctic ice shelves. The study looked at a subset of ice shelves and found they are growing, but the post conflates the ice shelves with the overall...
by Susan Keown | May 26, 2024 | ScienceWire
In an opinion piece for Scientific American, Bryn Nelson calls on the scientific community and its allies to expose and counter the extremists who are using a variety of channels to propagate and popularize an interconnected web of conspiracy theories and outright...
by Chris Tachibana | Jan 2, 2021 | ScienceWire
For Outside magazine, Jane C. Hu has a new take on the effects of wildfires. Their damage is not limited to forests, homes, and lives lost, Jane writes. Wildfires have an impact on the mental health of survivors that we’re only just learning about. Bonus from...
by Matt Vivion | Mar 13, 2013 | Past Events
Dana Lewis ( @danamlewis ) and Liz Neeley ( @LizNeeley ) shared their expertise on social media with NSWA members and guests at our monthly event on March 13 at University House. Lewis and Neeley discussed emerging best practices for using popular tools like Facebook...
by Matt Vivion | Feb 8, 2012 | Past Events
Miss ScienceOnline 2012 but wish you had been there? Listen to a recording of a Feb. 7 recap of “scio12” from five Seattle science communicators who attended the meeting. The panel discussed the latest challenges and opportunities in communicating science online....
