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We talked with Fernando Racimo, Associate Professor and climate activist within Scientists Rebellion, about climate change and why passive communication might not be enough. We asked him about the strategy behind civil disobedience actions and what scientists can do beyond that to address this pressing issue.
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We talked with Dame Anne Glover about what she learned communicating with high-level politicians during her tenure as the Chief Scientific Advisor to the President of the European Commission, and why politicians are sometimes more afraid of scientists than the other way around. Additionally, we discussed the changing opinions on genetically modified organisms (GMOs) among the EU population and how Europe must prepare to combat populism and climate change.
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We talked with Rosa Arias about citizen science and engaging different actors to collaborate on the same project. Together with her team at Science for Change, she coordinates the EU funded D-NOSES project, which aims to document various smells around the world. Her current projects include building a European science communication hub called COLASCENCE.
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We talked with the renowned Science communicator Faith Kearns about her journey. And the importance of listening to the audience as well as the own emotions.
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We talked with Frontiers 4 Young Minds about the importance of understandable language, what scientists can learn from kids in the peer review and what their favorite topic in the 10 year history of this journal was.
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This season features discussions with experts who specialize in making science easy to understand by presenting it from a child's perspective, professionals adept at handling emotionally sensitive situations, top EU political advisors, activists striving for greater climate action, and creators of platforms that encourage collaboration on important topics. Each episode explores effective communication strategies tailored to various audiences.
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We spoke to the executive director of the COAlition S Johan Rooryck. With their Plan S they are one of main contributors to open science and have caused major changes in the publishing business.
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Keith Moore shares his year long experience as a librarian for the Royal Society and shares details about the oldest scientific journal, the Philosophical Transactions.
In the second part the director of publishing, Stuart Taylor, talks with us about the society's journals, the challenges which come with open access and the future of scientific publishing. -
The "Robin Hood of science", "Sciences pirating queen" or simply "Hero". Alexandra Elbakyan has gained a lot of praises for funding Sci-Hub, a website that offers free access to scientific literature. On the other hand she has already lost several curt cases against publishers because of copyright infringement. We talked with her about the Open Access Movement, the scientific publishing system and the future of Sci-Hubs also concerning ongoing lawsuits in India against her.
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We tried to introduce you to the open access movement with deeper introduction of Project Deal and the Coalition S.
They formed as a response to the serials crisis that we talked about in our last episode.
Turns out that according to Professor Björn Brembs these attempts could head into the wrong direction and could make matters worse for scientists. -
Follow us in this episode to the beginnings of scientific publishing as a philanthropic idea of open distribution of knowledge to one of the most profitable businesses of the present.
We explain how the developments of the 19th century led to the serials crisis and the open access movement that tries to make knowledge freely available.
Lets see how scientific findings find their way from the lab to the open public.
