Had a fun and exhausting time yesterday teaching thousands of children about human evolution at my local library's "Science Alive" event. I've been doing this every year for 13 years now and estimate I've reached 50,000-75,000 people face to face. #pubsci #publicscience #scicomm #sciencecommunication
Exciting #PubSci tonight. The history of Vampires!

Looking to start up an account on Mastodon for a #London based #scicomm group called Science in the #Pub, usually shortened to #PubSci.

I'm hoping people would be interested to hear of our upcoming #meeting at the Old King's Head near London Bridge but I'm literally hashtagging out to see if there gets to be enough traction.

Our next meeting is 15 November and the topic is Science and Art, presented by Briony Marshall.

January's topic will be on working in Antarctica (TBC). #Science

NASA Selects 5 Experiments to Study 2024 Total Solar Eclipse

A total solar eclipse will darken a swath of North America as the Moon blocks the light of the Sun for a few minutes on April 8, 2024. In addition to casting a breathtaking, passing shadow over the heads of millions of people, this total solar eclipse gives scientists a unique opportunity to study the Sun, Earth, and their interactions.

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Ancient remains prove women have been running shit for at least 9000 years

The skeleton of an ancient woman with hunting gear is challenging longstanding beliefs that men went out to hunt while women simply gathered. The 9,000-year-old remains were found with a fully decked out hunting kit including 20 stone projectiles…

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Evergreen by @jenniferraff ... Adding this to syllabus for next semester. #science #scicomm #pubsci

Raff, Jennifer. 2016. β€œHow to Read and Understand a Scientific Paper: A Guide for Non-Scientists.” Impact of Social Sciences (blog). May 9, 2016. https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2016/05/09/how-to-read-and-understand-a-scientific-paper-a-guide-for-non-scientists/.

How to read and understand a scientific paper: a guide for non-scientists

From vaccinations to climate change, getting science wrong has very real consequences. But journal articles, a primary way science is communicated in academia, are a different format to newspaper a…

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