public outreach

In the wake of Elon Musk’s takeover, many researchers are exploring their options with the open-source platform Mastodon.

The center oversaw programs such as the Mass Media Science & Engineering Fellowship, many of which will continue.

As the pandemic has underscored the importance—and benefits—of communicating science to the general public, it’s also highlighted the challenges that researchers can face in speaking with journalists.

A new wave of research is recruiting patients and other members of the public to serve as equal partners, bringing fresh perspectives to research on diseases and other conditions.

COVID-19 has thrown science and scientists into the spotlight. Some have accepted the challenge, amassing hundreds of thousands of followers and using the ongoing pandemic as a “teachable moment.”

Can requiring users of Facebook and other platforms to pass critical thinking tests stem the tide of widely disseminated misinformation?

An interactive online forum keeps Indian kids busy with science while they are stuck indoors during the pandemic.

Here’s how some researchers and educators are giving prospective students and the public a window into their labs.

Charles R. Knight’s illustrations shaped the public’s view of prehistoric life.

The sturgeon restoration study’s outcome won’t be known for decades.

Lincoln Brower, an American entomologist famous for his work to conserve the monarch populations of Mexico and the US, has passed away at age 86.

Officials at scientific societies and advocacy organizations urge lawmakers to push back against proposed cuts at the NIH and other agencies.

In a shifting media landscape with a growing public interest in science, some researchers are doing their own PR.

Researchers could become better at engaging in public discourse by more fully considering the social and cultural contexts of their work.

See a preview of the app that lets you ask questions of a virtual Charles Darwin.

A survey finds that arts, humanities, and social science faculty members in the U.K. engage more with the general public than their counterparts in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.

A close cooperation between science, politics, and economics has helped to control one of history’s most destructive epidemics.
 

Artist Anicka Yi explores the beauty of bacteria.

With more and more bad science infiltrating the media landscape, it’s time for researchers to speak up.