All Episodes - Understanding Science Communication
This is a podcast for sharing my journey of studying science communication and ultimately becoming a full fledged science communicator. I'm a masters student from India, living in Bristol. Expect some stories from India and some culture shocks I encounter on the way.
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#23 - Communities of practice
Found some gold for my science communication project.
#22 - The black sheep of medicine
We talk the talk of controversies, and two sides, that have things to say, about people using these alternate ways to find the truth of health and happiness.
#21 - A network and its robustness
I talk about my ideas for the Science Communication project that we have to start working on. The idea is of peer-to-peer learning and how that can make the network of science communication more robust.
#20 - As we walk into the cave...
Just a story being told of a thing we need to do.
#19 - Tapping into growth mindset
Looking back at the last two weeks of understanding what this science communication deal is.
#18 - So what did we revise?
We go through Nisbet 2009, and some ideas from afar and awide.
#17 - Podcasting and interviewing
I talk about the new module, Science on Air and on Screen. I also talk about the three upcoming interviews I've lined up. Exciting stuff!... for me atleast.
#16 - Updates on my fears and anxieties
This was going to come sooner or later. I have a crisis of confidence and am trying to gather mental resources to overcome it. Skip this one if you are reading this. Listen to something else.
#15 - Drones flying over Ash trees
I look at the research paper that I'm supposed to make an in-person live science communication activity. Some interesting moods ensue during the recording, and I start to recite(and spoil) my unfinished script of the next video, but who cares.
#14 - Myths, Neuromyths, and alternative medicine
We talk about a new paper on neuroscience and learning, and how teachers tend to believe in prevailing myths in education. Also, we discuss the topic of alternative medicine for the assessment that is due soon.
#13 - Preparing for a debate!
What is more important? Science education or science communication? We are supposed to argue for the motion, "Science education is more important than science communication" and we do have some choice arguments to throw at the other side. Let's see what happens. Stay tuned for the results on Saturday!
#12 - The Seductive Allure of Neuroscience - A paper review
We discuss the research done and the implications of said research in the paper titled The Seductive Allure of Neuroscience Explanations (Weisberg et al). It's a fascinating paper, easy to read and comprehend, and has a lot of interesting avenues to learn more about stuff, especially the research methodologies and how to extract information reliably.
#11 - What am I doing?
Just a heads up, this episode is all over the place. I talk about things related to science communication and what my next steps should be, but if you are looking for structure, beware, your time is precious, don't squander it.
#10 - A conversation with Kim Wegner
We talk about Kim's undergrad degree in physics! This is the first interview episode in this podcast, and doing more interviews is a plan of mine as that is a real tangible skill to develop in the field of science communication.
#9 - What can the AIDS treatment activism tell us about science communication?
This is a fascinating story of how AIDS treatment activists went from banging tables and shouting from the back of the room to becoming the central part of the progress of AIDS research in 4 years. There is a lot to learn from this story, let's see what we can manage to piece together.
#8 - Ignoring the denominator
This is a discussion about the most important chapter I've read yet, on the science of science communication. Chapter 3 of the Oxford Handbook of the science of science communication, is one of those chapters that really clarifies the problem and shows me a true path to understand the field of science communication and what happens when things go wrong. Let's discuss!
#7 - What are reflections anyway?
I reflect on the act of reflection that I went through as a formal process in my first module, my submission and feedback, and my thoughts on the whole process.
#6 - Reflections on last two weeks
I see what I learnt in the last two weeks and how that updates my internal model of the world of science communication.
#5 - A call to honesty
A talk about how science communication has to take the norms of science as opposed to the political norms.
#3 - What is wikilearn again?
Let's discuss what I'm trying to do here, and how that informs my other project, the youtube channel.
#2 - Why so much self doubt?
We discuss why is this criticism of science communication, that how do we define scientific literacy, a non-valid criticism.
#1 - The science of mind?
We are starting with a new series about learning how to communicate science. I'm starting my MSc in this subject and this podcast is a way to share what I learn day to day with the world. This episode comes directly from the first lecture I attended about the history of science communication and different non western perspectives that are there.