Why I Tweet and Blog: Captured by Beryl Lieff Benderly

You know, many people ask me - why do I talk to science reporters so often.  They ask this and then claim that science reporters are just all kinds of evil because they always get quotes and facts and concepts wrong.  Well, that has really not been my experience.  Sure, I have my examples of problems.  But overall, I have been impressed and pleased more often than not.  And here is a great example. I was interviewed a while back by Beryl Lieff Benderly about my somewhat obsessive experimentation with social media for communicating science.  And then, of course, I forgot about it.  So I was exceptionally pleased when I saw the story come out today: To tweet or not to tweet? | Science Careers.  Beryl did a remarkably good job in capturing the essence of my thoughts about Tweeting, Blogging, social media, and science communication.

If you want to know what I think about how to not get overwhelmed with Twitter, how to not spend too much time on social media, and what I think abotu aboutb social media, you don't need to wait for me to try to write my thoughts on the topic down.  Read what Beryl wrote.

Crosspost from microBEnet: Collection of papers on "The Science of Science Communication"

Crossposting this from microBEnet 

 Just got pointed to this by Sharon Strauss, the chair of the Evolution and Ecology department here at UC Davis: The Science of Science Communication II Sackler Colloquium.  This is a collection of papers from a colloquium held in Septment 2013.  Slides and videos of the talks are available online. The papers and links (copied from the PNAS site) are listed below.  There are many papers here of relevance to work done at microBEnet and are also likely of general interest to many:

• Science communication as political communication

  • Dietram A. Scheufele

  PNAS 2014 111 (Supplement 4) 13585-13592; published ahead of print September 15, 2014,doi:10.1073/pnas.1317516111
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  Gaining trust as well as respect in communicating to motivated audiences about science topics

  • Susan T. Fiske and
  • Cydney Dupree

  PNAS 2014 111 (Supplement 4) 13593-13597; published ahead of print September 15, 2014,doi:10.1073/pnas.1317505111
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  Leveraging scientific credibility about Arctic sea ice trends in a polarized political environment

  • Kathleen Hall Jamieson and
  • Bruce W. Hardy

  PNAS 2014 111 (Supplement 4) 13598-13605; published ahead of print September 15, 2014,doi:10.1073/pnas.1320868111
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  Creating a national citizen engagement process for energy policy

  • Nick Pidgeon, 
  • Christina Demski, 
  • Catherine Butler, 
  • Karen Parkhill, 
  • and Alexa Spence

  PNAS 2014 111 (Supplement 4) 13606-13613; published ahead of print September 15, 2014,doi:10.1073/pnas.1317512111
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  Using narratives and storytelling to communicate science with nonexpert audiences

  • Michael F. Dahlstrom

  PNAS 2014 111 (Supplement 4) 13614-13620; published ahead of print September 15, 2014,doi:10.1073/pnas.1320645111
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  The cultural side of science communication

  • Douglas L. Medin and
  • Megan Bang

  PNAS 2014 111 (Supplement 4) 13621-13626; published ahead of print September 15, 2014,doi:10.1073/pnas.1317510111
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  Prescriptive scientific narratives for communicating usable science

  • Julie S. Downs

  PNAS 2014 111 (Supplement 4) 13627-13633; published ahead of print September 15, 2014,doi:10.1073/pnas.1317502111
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  Communicating science-based recommendations with memorable and actionable guidelines

  • Rebecca K. Ratner and
  • Jason Riis

  PNAS 2014 111 (Supplement 4) 13634-13641; published ahead of print September 15, 2014,doi:10.1073/pnas.1320649111
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  The science of sharing and the sharing of science

  • Katherine L. Milkman and
  • Jonah Berger

  PNAS 2014 111 (Supplement 4) 13642-13649; published ahead of print September 15, 2014,doi:10.1073/pnas.1317511111
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  Integrating social networks and human social motives to achieve social influence at scale

  • Noshir S. Contractor and
  • Leslie A. DeChurch

  PNAS 2014 111 (Supplement 4) 13650-13657; published ahead of print September 15, 2014,doi:10.1073/pnas.1401211111
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  Team science for science communication

  • Gabrielle Wong-Parodi and
  • Benjamin H. Strauss

  PNAS 2014 111 (Supplement 4) 13658-13663; published ahead of print September 15, 2014,doi:10.1073/pnas.1320021111
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  Communicating scientific uncertainty

  • Baruch Fischhoff and
  • Alex L. Davis

  PNAS 2014 111 (Supplement 4) 13664-13671; published ahead of print September 15, 2014,doi:10.1073/pnas.1317504111
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