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September 21, 2023

💬Personal Science Stories (Newsletter #35)

It's been a whole summer since the last newsletter, but we're catching up now with: a discussion of what "trust" means in science, a tool that measures how abstractly you communicate, what gave away a researcher who used ChatGPT to write his scientific paper, and what we can learn from Star Trek about personal stories in science.
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July 18, 2023

Communicating science with Descriptio Moldaviae

Recently, I read an interesting study on the history of the manuscript Descriptio Moldaviae, a work written by the Romanian scholar Dimitrie Cantemir in the 18th century. The author of the article...
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May 31, 2023

🤖AI tools for academia (Newsletter #34)

If you're curious about how ChatGPT can help us, but also mess up your research, read on. I've written before about how and why researchers are preparing to speak the language of the general public, and how aggressive communication can change the way the public views science. Finally, a look from several perspectives at the recent "research prize affair" scandal.
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April 12, 2023

Romanian Outreach Initiatives (Newsletter #33)

A 100% Romanian edition. I introduce you to various outreach initiatives, present a study in which the business community demonstrates how important science communication is, and tell you about exceptional women scientists. Photo credit: SeismoLab.
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March 8, 2023

In IQ Ads, about Romanian Science Digest

I started calling myself a "science communicator" without anyone having appointed me to that position. Besides, this field didn't even exist in Romania 10 years ago. I kept hearing in the press "British researchers have discovered that" / "American researchers have discovered that" and I kept asking myself: ok, but what have ours discovered?
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February 23, 2023

Behind the scenes: a press release (Newsletter #32)

Read some behind-the-scenes information about how press releases about scientific studies are written. Plus useful resources: promoting patents, a checklist for making sure you've prepared a science communication effort well, and a guide to writing an explanatory article.
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February 22, 2023

Behind the scenes: how scientific studies end up in the press

A case study from behind the scenes of communication: how does a study become the subject of a press release? How does the study find its way into the communications office? How does the collaboration between researcher and communicator work, how does the researcher help with the press release?
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December 22, 2022

🤖 Tech talk (Newsletter #31)

We start preparations for the heated discussions at the Christmas table by finding out how to argue (or not) scientifically. I'm talking about how to communicate better in tech. And we asked artificial intelligence to convince you that it's important to talk about science to the general public. Did it succeed?
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December 21, 2022

Does Chat GPT convince you to communicate with the general public?

We asked Chat GPT to convince researchers that it is important to communicate with the general public. Did he succeed? "It's important to talk about science with.
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November 25, 2022

Innovation in tech companies is worth communicating

Tech companies are an important source of innovation. While I talk more often about how important communication is in research, the same is true in the area of IT innovation.
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October 26, 2022

3-in-1 rule for science speeches (Newsletter #30)

A new issue of the Science and Communication newsletter: we see how marketing helped a research lab increase the number of contracts with 300%; we talk to the organisers of the Romanian Science Festival and find out what factors make the public pay attention to scientific information
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October 25, 2022

Romanian Science Festival, winner in Berlin

The work of popularising science is rarely rewarded in any way. But there are exceptions.
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June 30, 2022

Science cannot promote itself (Newsletter #29)

More: Three "holiday themes" for communication training
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May 25, 2022

🎤 Why journalists don't send back that article for approval (Newsletter #28)

And why they need everything "now" and why you can't send the questions beforehand. Everything has an explanation. Plus: a dog from the Republic of Moldova published a scientific article. What??? Yes
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May 24, 2022

Why journalists don't send their articles to researchers beforehand

You may have given a press interview on a research topic. You wanted to make sure everything was understood correctly, so you asked the journalist to send you the article before it appeared. You were unexpectedly refused. And it just doesn't seem right. Sound familiar?
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