We’re almost fully de-Big Teched our tech stack and continuing to help #nonprofits #activists & #communicators to wake up and get off #BigTech.

The allure of free services is too great for many but we’re quickly seeing that “free” means that we’re the product.

Do you want the communities you support to be Big Tech’s toy? 🧸🚂🪁

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👩‍🌾 for Heart-First Activists

Supporting activists & heart-first humans navigate social change activism in today's chaotic world

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Reposted and or like the good stuff you like; $artists are like $entertainers and #communicators. They need a #stage to put themseleves out there at times to survive and succeed in the art field. This keeps the #arts alive and the #ArtCommunity vibrant!

@eblu we're gonna get there, buddy :) we just need... #COMMUNICATORS

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It's supercalifragilisticexpiala-wait...

Back into the oven. It's not ready yet.

When I say "#psychiatry puts silk gloves on top of it's silk gloves", I mean that they have to coddle the world, which includes it's #corporations, it's #governments, it's #politicians - and indeed the individual itself.

Nobody actually listens to the #scientists, which is why we have #science #communicators, and when it comes to the world of #psychiatry, it's mostly "mommy dearest" in fear of retribution or regression.

They have to dance around the lilly's, they have to walk on egg shells.

🧡18th Annual Life Love Game Design Challenge

Let's create #games that encourage kids to become better #communicators:

☮️ to prevent #violence
🤥 to overcome #rumors
👥 to build strong personal #relationships
🌇 to support healthier #communities

🎮 We believe this can be done with games, do you?

📆 Deadline: March 24

💰 $10,000 cash prizes

🐘Mastodon account on our instance 😎

🚀 Please boost this to reach beyond our limited influence!

Rules & details:
🌐https://communicating.games

@pluralistic

Communication Games Contest Website

The 2025 Life.Love. Game Design Challenge theme is communication. Submit a communication game pitch by March 24th.

Communication Video Games
Let's create #games that encourage kids to become better #communicators: ☮️ to prevent #violence 🤥 to overcome #rumors 👥 to build strong personal #relationships 🌇 to support healthier #communities 🎮 We believe this can be done with games, do you? 📆 Deadline: March 24 communicating.games

Communication Games Contest We...
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Let's create games that encourage kids to become better #communicators:

☮️ to prevent violence
🤥 to overcome rumors
👥 to build strong personal relationships
🌇 to support healthier communities

🎮 We believe this can be done with games, do you?

🧡 Help us reach the designers & devs who could envision & build such games

⭐ We want to reward them but first must reach them

🌐 https://communicating.games

#gamedev #games #communication #scholars #education #gamedesign #nonprofit #prevention #publichealth

Communication Games Contest Website

The 2025 Life.Love. Game Design Challenge theme is communication. Submit a communication game pitch by March 24th.

Communication Video Games

Earlier this year, #scientists & #communicators from the Leibniz Association gathered at the “Perspectives on #science #communication” conference at @mfnberlin

👉 Find the summary of the event in this #Workshop Report, published in our #openscience #journal: https://doi.org/10.3897/rio.10.e136750

@tuberlin @leibnizopenscience @senckenberg @HTW_Berlin Berlin #oaweek #scicomm #mfnberlin

Perspectives on Science Communication

Diverse actors within and outside the academic system increasingly call upon scientists to engage with the public through science communication as part of their academic work. This raises the question of how these actors' demands can and should be met in practice. At the conference on “Perspectives on science communication”, which took place on 27 May 2024, at the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin, interested scientists and communicators from the Leibniz Association came together to reflect on the strategic development of the field of science communication. The focus was on the exchange of realistic goals, important actions and the actors responsible for the further development of the field and practice of science communication. These three topics were discussed in the context of a keynote speech and a panel discussion, as well as with regard to specific forms of interaction between science and society, including informative, dialogic and participatory formats of science communication. The discussions reveal a diversity of goals scientists can aim for, but also a multitude of action areas that need to be addressed by a number of actors to achieve these goals. Goals particularly hinted at an increasing, yet-to-be-defined quantity of communication, including contents related to informing about facts in societal debates, engaging in democratic dialogue and encouraging participation of citizens in research to increase innovation in science, but also process-related goals such as building partnerships, communicating transparently or providing support for scientists. Action areas to achieve these goals are diverse and regard strengthening recognition and reputation, supporting and protecting scientists, providing temporal and financial resources for science communication and changing researcher’s attitudes. In terms of actors, conference participants hinted at the diverse roles of different actors, focusing the discussion on actors in academia, politics and administration, civil society as well as boundary organisations such as the media as key actors to further advance the topic of science communication. This conference report elaborates the results related to these three topics and, thus, creates the basis for an in-depth discussion of the results in Germany and internationally.

Research Ideas and Outcomes
It's #MedComms Day (12 June 2024), celebrating the contributions of #medical #communicators, both #editors & #writers. I'm proud to have been a medical editor since 1991, helping #authors communicate their #research clearly so that many #healthcare #providers & #patients benefit. #BELS #AmEditing

Dear Friends on the Internet,  

Who #broke it?  
1. Not me, somebody else!  
2. The hoi-poloi
3. Commercials
4. Its own weight  
Can we fix it? Yes we can! Well not me, I can not get into my own #computer, let alone use anything unsuitable for a #simpleton ...  

#fledglings and #committed #communicators of novel #ideas, over to you. Be raring, #daring and #caring. Join the #revolting, not the monstrous. Be #kinder than you know how. Don't be a stranger, just #strange 

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