IN-PERSON EVENT: https://www.seti.org/event/new-worlds-analyzing-atmospheres-exoplanets-james-webb-space-telescope

On Wednesday, Apr. 9, 2025, at 7 pm (PDT), Prof. Jonathan Fortney (U. of California, Santa Cruz) will give a free, illustrated, non-technical lecture entitled:

"New Worlds: Analyzing the Atmospheres of Exoplanets with the James Webb Space Telescope"

in the Smithwick Theater at Foothill College, in Los Altos.

The talk is part of the Silicon Valley Astronomy Lecture Series, now in its 25th year.

Ein sehr, sehr großes Stück deutscher Medien- und WissKomm-Geschichte verschwindet: aus dem Coronavirus-Update wird ab nächster Woche 11KM Stories.

Halte ich ehrlich gesagt für keine gute Entscheidung. Aber muss am Ende die Redaktion mit sich ausmachen.

#Podcast #SciComm #wissKomm

https://www.ndr.de/nachrichten/info/Coronavirus-Update-wird-11KM-Stories,audio1844906.html

“As Canadians, we need to call out political interference in science at home and abroad, continue to champion strong research partnerships, and work together to confront this renewed war on science…our need for science has never been greater.”
#Canada #Science #Scicomm
https://www.nationalobserver.com/node/45243

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

The 2022 Korean translation of Locked in Time (by Dr Dean Lomax & published by Columbia University Press) commissioned me to colourise my 50 greyscale illustrations. "A stand against the sand" shows a male Citipati protecting a nest from an approaching sandstorm.

Songbirds heavily depend on vocal communication for mate choice and territory defense. But what happens if the level of traffic noise renders their song ineffective?

Find out in my new article for Beaks & Bones:

https://beaksandbones.substack.com/p/traffic-noise

Forschende, die über kontroverse Themen sprechen, sind oft Anfeindungen ausgesetzt. The Royal Meteorological Society & Metoffice bieten mit ihrem Toolkit wertvolle Tipps für sichere & effektive Kommunikation mit Medien & auf Social Media.

#Wisskomm #Klimakommunikation #Scicomm

https://www.wissenschaftskommunikation.de/science-communication-opportunities-and-challenges-a-toolkit-for-scientists-84501/

️Meet Wilco Verberk!️

Learn more about his work in our newest episode - out now!

“Public health officials aren't skilled in information warfare,” said Jennifer Nuzzo, the director of Brown University’s Pandemic Center.

“They have to get people to understand the importance and value of getting vaccinated, but battling information warfare is not what we're taught in public health school.”

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/longform/2025/3/31/faced-with-measles-texas-healthcare-workers-confront-information

https://www.seti.org/swiss-army-knife-sun-new-simulation-method-unlocks-solar-secrets

An international team of researchers from the SETI Institute, Lockheed Martin Solar and Astrophysics Lab (LMSAL), Bay Area Environmental Research Institute (BAERI), and the University of Geneva wanted to build a more accurate and efficient computer model to understand the Sun’s atmosphere and better predict how it affects Earth and its technology.

Read the winning articles from the Loyola University Chicago Program for Neuroscience and Society’s journalism competition. Loyola undergrads report on topics related to addiction, neuromarketing, and depression. The second round of the Neuroscience Journalism Competition is open now, through May 15. Students at universities nationwide are invited to submit!

#neurosociety #scicomm #neuroscience #neuroethics

https://dana.org/article/empowering-student-journalism-on-neuroscience/

Attention #science communicators! There are still a few days to apply for a cool #scicomm #job at the ESO Supernova Planetarium here in Garching bei #Munchen.

If you're passionate about getting audiences of all ages excited about #astronomy and you're fluent in both English and German, apply here: https://recruitment.eso.org/jobs/2025_0019

ESO/P. Horálek

#PPOD: Super Typhoon Trami was the twenty-fourth tropical storm and the tenth typhoon of 2018's annual storm season in the western Pacific. Wind speeds peaked at 260 km/h, the equivalent of a category 5 hurricane on NOAA's scale. ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst captured the eye of the massive storm from the International Space Station. Credit: ESA/Alexander Gerst

FRESH ARTICLE OUT

Our new work on the role of #ClimateChange and #BiodiversityLoss in online discussions about the European #EnergyCrisis from 2021 to 2023 with @annahaus, myself, @tuuli and Gonzalo Cortés-Capano.

Our results have several implications for #SciComm and #PolicyMaking related to #sustainability #climate and #biodiversity.

The article is here: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-025-01639-1

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

The 2022 Korean translation of Locked in Time (by Dr Dean Lomax & published by Columbia University Press) commissioned me to colourise my 50 greyscale illustrations. "A whisper at twilight" shows an eclipse of moths migrating across the North Sea.

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

The 2022 Korean translation of Locked in Time (by Dr Dean Lomax & Columbia University Press) commissioned me to colourise my 50 greyscale illustrations. Here's "The Carcass Collector," showing an Archaeotherium with his food cache of body parts.

In the first episode of The Climate Chronicles' second season, Escaping the Pleistocene, Professor Dagomar Degroot describes the two biggest explosions in human history: the catastrophic eruptions of the Los Chocoyos and Toba super volcanoes about 75,000 years ago. These cataclysmic blasts chilled the Earth—but recent research suggests that, against all odds, most of our ancestors survived unscathed.

Listen here: https://theclimatechronicles.com/2025/02/18/episode-7-avoiding-the-apocalypse/

“Science was a natural thing for me to be interested in as a farm kid.”

Sure was! This article is a lovely overview of how I got here and where I'm going... Even my alter-ego Milton Mango gets a look in!

#scicomm #climatechange

https://reporter.anu.edu.au/all-stories/sharing-the-joy-of-science-how-lee-constable-helps-kids-become-superheroes?fbclid=IwY2xjawJX5vBleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHebFKwm3IRy7zlHKR1ZfA38psi1n4Pd9fgsUIgKSEqBHwJkccz4FbS0-Dw_aem_1IRxVxlW7Luqs9q-y-QxXA

How do scientists measure thermal tolerance and predict organismal responses in the field? What kind of other data is needed to make predictive models better at helping us understand species responses to high temperatures?

Listen to Feel the heat!

by Keating Shahmehri
https://www.bigbiology.org

Mining asteroids for resources seems like science fiction. However, advances in rocket technology and asteroid observation have made the idea more feasible than ever. Are we ready to prospect space rocks? This week on Big Picture Science, it's Skeptic Check: Asteroid Mining.

Listen here: https://bigpicturescience.org/episodes/skeptic-check-asteroid-mining

PRESS RELEASE: https://www.seti.org/press-release/pinball-world-asteroids-mudball-meteorite-avoided-collisions
In the Pinball World of Asteroids, a Mudball Meteorite Avoided Collisions

In April 2019, rare primitive meteorites fell near the town of Aguas Zarcas in northern Costa Rica. In an article published online in the journal Meteoritics & Planetary Science, an international team of researchers describe the circumstances of the fall and show that mudball meteorites are not necessarily weak.