by Andrew Maynard | Jun 3, 2009 | Communication, Public Perception, Recommended
Should live tweeting and blogging from scientific meetings be controlled? Back in May, Daniel MacArthur – a researcher and blogger – wrote a number of on-the-spot blogs on the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) Biology of Genomes meeting. By all...
by Andrew Maynard | May 26, 2009 | Communication, Environment, Nanotechnology, Oversight, Recommended
Back in April, the folks at the PBS station THIRTEEN asked me to answer 13 questions on nanotechnology and the environment for their website feature Green Thirteen. The questions ended up covering most of nanotechnology – what it is, what it’s good for,...
by Andrew Maynard | May 13, 2009 | Communication, Recommended
In the long run, does art trump science? Lateral communication—sending information from point to point around the world—is so fast and efficient these days that we tend to take it for granted. But how good are we at passing information forward in time—what you might...
by Andrew Maynard | May 5, 2009 | Civic Science, Communication, Engagement
Last week I asked a rather trivial (did someone say trite?) question (the 2-second Two-Cultures poll) about perpetual motion machines – as a gentle lead-up to this week’s 50th anniversary of CP Snow’s Two Cultures lecture. So what were the results...
by Andrew Maynard | Apr 28, 2009 | Communication, Engagement, Public Perception
A 2-second distraction in the run-up to the 50th anniversary of CP Snow’s Two Cultures lecture: Take the two-cultures poll (below), and see how your answer aligns with those from others: Take Our Poll (If you can’t see the poll, click here) Now...
by Andrew Maynard | Apr 22, 2009 | Communication, Recommended
This is by way of a quick follow-on to yesterday’s post on the number of people on Twitter following science-focused users. As was pointed out, just logging the number of followers someone has on twitter is a poor indicator of either success or influence. So,...
