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Thursday, November 14, 2013

Science and the News

Joe Palca of NPR gave a talk about Science and the News
  1. I wasn't tweeting during the talk, so I decided to Storify what others were saying.  It was a fantastic talk about communicating science.
  2. .@joepalca begins his talk with the worst powerpoint EVER. On purpose. His "visual joke after being stuck in an audio medium for so long"
  3. .@joepalca skewers PowerPoint talks, gets crowd-pleasing laughs to start@ucdavis talk: pic.twitter.com/RThvYGahuP
  4. @Dr_Bik Wait, we actually have dueling "worst presentations ever" between @joepalca and @Drew_Lab  https://twitter.com/Drew_Lab/status/400715903974649857  AND @CMBuddle?
  5. .@joepalca on big news vs. big science news: "The really well known Big Science News story of 2013 will be well known in 5-10 years"
  6. .@joepalca showing examples of how Nobel-papers hardly get press when first published... but tons after award. @ucdavis
  7. .@joepalca: Nobel Prize winners rarely have their most important research covered by mainstream outlets when the papers are first published
  8. .@joepalca showing graph of BRCA mentions in the mainstream media - Skyrocketed when Angelina Jolie announced her mastectomy
  9. .@joepalca: "We can do a better job of telling science stories..."@ucdavis
  10. .@joepalca started a new project: Joe's Big Idea - covering non-hyped stories, and cool basic science  https://www.facebook.com/joesbigidea 
  11. .@joepalca explains one goal of "Joe's Big Idea": to talk science as a process, not just the "practical app... https://t.co/jE04yPyUSV
  12. .@joepalca "There should be more of me" - as in, there should be more people trying to disrupt the status quo in science reporting
  13. .@joepalca response to audience question on rise of researcher-communicators/bloggers: "It's fantastically exciting..." @ucdavis
  14. .@joepalca is super excited that scientists are using blogs and twitter - question is, what is the economic model for this type of scicomm?
  15. .@joepalca is hilarious. This has been an awesome talk, and so inspiring. I want to bike right home and blog!!
  16. It was truly inspirational.  Makes me think about blogging the small 'basic science' discoveries in obscure papers I tend to read and emphasizing the scientific process.

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