Question: Have you seen any good static infographics communicating current COVID-19 risk or vulnerability (e.g. risk groups, exposure, severity)? I'm specifically *not* looking for pandemic visuals.

If you have examples, please share links. 🙏

#publichealth #SciComm #healthpsychology

This week's #NewBooks at the library: three more books from my employer's January sale
- The Second Jurassic Dinosaur Rush: Museums and Paleontology in America at the Turn of the Twentieth Century by Paul D. Brinkman from the University of Chicago Press;
- Shaping Humanity: How Science, Art, and Imagination Help Us Understand Our Origins, a wonderfully illustrated book by John Gurche from Yale University Press;
- Rethinking Human Evolution edited by Jeffrey H. Schwartz, a volume in the Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology from @themitpress.

#Fossils #Paleontology #Palaeontology #Dinosaurs #HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #HistSci #Anthropology #HumanEvolution #Books #Scicomm #Bookstodon @bookstodon

Discover 10 amazing animals that can have virgin births, from dragons to birds of prey

Been teaching this very aspect in my classes over the last 2 weeks as part of my ReproBio lectures.
#Parthenogenesis #Reproduction #Science #Scicomm
https://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/virgin-births-in-animals

#Storytelling in #SciComm: Why are some stories remembered while others are forgotten?

The answer may lie in our cognitive biases that cause humans to attend to certain types of information more than others. For instance, we are more likely to pay attention to
🔹 information that affects us *personally*,
🔹 information that *surprises* us, or
🔹 information that might cause *danger* to us.

Read more in the Storytelling for Science Communication Toolkit:

👉 https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/3194747/1/Little_Storytelling%20Toolkit%202025_33MB.pdf

#Wisskomm

Fearless New-To-Science Bird Species Discovered In The Amazon Mountains

"A newly described species of Tinamou bird may already be at risk of extinction."

#SciComm by @grrlscientist

#ecology #EndangeredSpecies #Brazil #Ornithology https://grrlscientist.medium.com/fearless-new-to-science-bird-species-discovered-in-the-amazon-mountains-cff9efe5f46a

Fearless New-To-Science Bird Species Discovered In The Amazon Mountains

"A newly described species of Tinamou bird may already be at risk of extinction."

#SciComm by @GrrlScientist

#ecology #EndangeredSpecies #Brazil #Ornithology https://grrlscientist.medium.com/fearless-new-to-science-bird-species-discovered-in-the-amazon-mountains-cff9efe5f46a