Science communication training through blogging
Mind the Science Gap is a blog from the University of Michigan:
Each semester, ten Master of Public Health students from the University of Michigan participate in a course on Communicating Science through Social Media. Each student on the course is required to post weekly articles here as they learn how to translate complex science into something a broad audience can understand and appreciate. And in doing so they are evaluated in the most brutal way possible – by you: the audience they are writing for!
The post that attracted me to the blog was on sugar and hyperactivity in kids, not just for the science, but because someone has actually found a good use for animated GIFs in communicating information: click to see the effect, since embedding it in WordPress seems to kill it.
Thomas Lumley (@tslumley) is Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Auckland. His research interests include semiparametric models, survey sampling, statistical computing, foundations of statistics, and whatever methodological problems his medical collaborators come up with. He also blogs at Biased and Inefficient See all posts by Thomas Lumley »
Sounds like a good idea. I have no idea what its like in public health but what I read on economics blogs is normally a lot better than what I read in newspapers or see on TV or hear on the radio. And I would suggest that one reason for this is that the bloggers know more about econ than the journalists.
12 years ago
..and so they should — in many cases econ is their day job.
12 years ago