Science and the News
Joe Palca of NPR gave a talk about Science and the News
- I wasn't tweeting during the talk, so I decided to Storify what others were saying. It was a fantastic talk about communicating science.
- .@joepalca begins his talk with the worst powerpoint EVER. On purpose. His "visual joke after being stuck in an audio medium for so long"
- .@joepalca skewers PowerPoint talks, gets crowd-pleasing laughs to start@ucdavis talk: pic.twitter.com/RThvYGahuP
- @Dr_Bik Wait, we actually have dueling "worst presentations ever" between @joepalca and @Drew_Lab https://twitter.com/Drew_Lab/status/400715903974649857 … AND @CMBuddle?
- .@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"
- .@joepalca: Nobel Prize winners rarely have their most important research covered by mainstream outlets when the papers are first published
- .@joepalca showing graph of BRCA mentions in the mainstream media - Skyrocketed when Angelina Jolie announced her mastectomy
- .@joepalca's non-story that hinted at @MarsCuriosity data was the most popular NPR story he had done in a decade http://www.npr.org/2012/11/20/165513016/big-news-from-mars-rover-scientists-mum-for-now …
- .@joepalca started a new project: Joe's Big Idea - covering non-hyped stories, and cool basic science https://www.facebook.com/joesbigidea
- .@joepalca explains one goal of "Joe's Big Idea": to talk science as a process, not just the "practical app... https://t.co/jE04yPyUSV
- .@joepalca "There should be more of me" - as in, there should be more people trying to disrupt the status quo in science reporting
- .@joepalca is super excited that scientists are using blogs and twitter - question is, what is the economic model for this type of scicomm?
- I wonder, does @joepalca read @deepseanews?
- .@joepalca is hilarious. This has been an awesome talk, and so inspiring. I want to bike right home and blog!!
- 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.
