President-elect Obama’s remarks at a press conference today should sound familiar to readers of this blog: “A couple of years ago I was invited to Rick Warren’s church to speak […]

The latest issue of the American Journal of Bioethics features an important study on the effects of viewing medical dramas on the ethical reasoning of medical and nursing students. From […]

Now that Obama has his science and environmental policy team in place, there’s great optimism for important new directions in policy. Yet it will take smart and effective communication to […]

From an email sent out this morning by NSF. If readers can make it, this panel is definitely worth attending. NSF to Host Panel Discussion on Communicating Climate ChangeJournalists Andy […]

A few bloggers have registered their reaction to last week’s PRI radio segment that questions the wisdom of calling climate change and evolution opponents “deniers.” Most notably Orac, Mike the […]

The HHMI Bulletin, the monthly magazine of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, runs a lengthy feature on science blogging in its November issue. I am quoted in the article with […]

The NY Academy of Sciences offers a stunning venue for public talks, forums, and receptions, with a view from the 40th floor of 7 World Trade Center.Thursday morning I will […]

The National Academies is doing some preliminary pilot research on a new communication initiative. As part of that process, they want to find out what science blogs readers think are […]

On last week’s announcement that CNN is shifting the focus and form of its science coverage, I am going to be posting what is a very different interpretation than the […]

This summer I will be heading to Denmark to speak at a June 11 conference of the Danish Science Journalists’ Association. A major focus of this year’s conference will be […]

About a 100 attendees turned out for Thursday night’s talk at the New York Academy of Sciences. The event marked the end of a year long series on science communication […]

Over at George Mason’s Center for Climate Change Communication, they are hosting a poll asking readers to vote for the 2008 Climate Change Communicator of the Year. Among the choices […]

The University of Wisconsin news office has posted a valuable Q&A with my friend and UW professor Dietram Scheufele. The occasion is a new study he has published with colleagues […]

Think Progress, the blog for the Center for American Progress, has a detailed run down on the Obama administration’s announced appointment of Steve Chu as Energy secretary, Carol Browner as […]

Next year, as the science community celebrates the 150th anniversary of the publication of Darwin’s On the Origin of Species, leading organizations such as the AAAS, NIH, and the National […]

In a Policy Forum article published this week at Science, MIT Professor of Management John Sterman reports on an experiment that shows just how self-defeating it is to continue to […]

Obama took over the airwaves Wednesday night, hitting most of the important audience groups. According to Nielsen (above), Obama’s 30 minute 8pm infomercial which aired on CBS, FOX, NBC, Univision, […]

Polls including cell-phones are highlighted in orange.Wondering about the variation across survey organizations in estimating Obama’s national lead? As I have been discussing in my research methods course here at […]

Opinion-leaders are a commonly overlooked resource by science organizations and advocates. Public communication initiatives too often ignore the special individuals across communities and social groups that can serve as vital […]

With polls looking good for an Obama victory, here’s a clip from an interview I did with Big Think back in July, discussing why Obama has been such a successful […]