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June 30, 2020

Cave research: A beetle disappeared from Bear Cave

When I do public relations articles I prioritize having a very clear story (who discovered what?). This time, however, I put on a journalist's hat and wrote about several discoveries in the field of speleology as they were revealed by the smallest creatures in the dark: viruses, bacteria, insects.
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June 25, 2020

A research on street renaming after communism

I wrote for Mindcraft Stories about some studies done in Romania about the changes of street names in our country and I discussed about it with a researcher from Lucian Blaga University in Sibiu - lecturer Mihai Stelian Rusu.
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June 5, 2020

Science and Communication Newsletter #5

We've written about communicators in research, social media strategies for science, and some reading recommendations: 🔶 A barometer of public opinion in Germany shows...
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June 2, 2020

How was the "Social media for science promotion" workshop?

Last week I held a workshop for researchers from the "Alexandru Ioan Cuza" University of Iasi and UMF Cluj about social media for science promotion especially because the topic is out of my comfort zone. Because it's a "task", and not something I do easily, I learned how important strategy, planning and consistency are - and all of these can be worked on.
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May 20, 2020

Why you should work with a science communicator

Science communicators are the missing link between researchers and the general public in our country. They save researchers and journalists time, find interesting topics and suggest more efficient ways to package information.
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May 11, 2020

Science and Communication Newsletter #4

This edition contains a collection of free online science communication courses and a case study in which I explained at length what was involved in writing a science popularization article.I (hopefully) comment on the interesting reading part, where I selected some Romanian research articles on COVID-19.
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May 5, 2020

Free online science communication courses

Communication seems to many people, especially those in the sciences, to be an unattainable talent that can only be acquired at birth. Nothing could be further from the truth. The principles of science communication are learned like any other skill.
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April 17, 2020

Case study: how I thought up a science article on the "Our Father" prayer

What's going on behind a science article? I thought it would be useful to explain a bit of the inner kitchen of writing an article. I chose one that was based on a series of researches about the "Our Father" prayer.
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April 9, 2020

Science & Communication Newsletter #3

I have sent out the third edition of the Science & Communication newsletter, my monthly "letter" to those who would like science and research to be more...
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April 6, 2020

Romanian research on COVID19 - List of scientific articles (Selection)

For a few weeks now, I have been following what is published on COVID 19 in Romania. I have opened a list of scientific papers, which I will try to keep updated
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April 2, 2020

Journalist is an ally in science communication

Although researchers and journalists often see themselves as being on different sides of the fence, they actually have a lot in common. We used to say that in science communication, there are...
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March 27, 2020

Speculation vs. science: not all studies are created equal (in Mindcraft Stories)

I wrote for the science magazine Mindcraft Stories about how quality studies differ from knee-jerk studies and why it's important not to draw conclusions too quickly from small sample research. In communication, researchers are being asked by the press and the public to drop the nuances, to stop being so cautious, to risk a forecast. But at these times, I think the reverse is the case: the public needs to understand what the limitations of a study mean, small sample, conclusions not validated by peer review and pure speculation.
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March 19, 2020

How to structure a scientific explanation - an example

An example of science communication is Romanian-born researcher Albert-László Barabási, who talks about why it is necessary to "stop the world", even if the virus is unstoppable. How did he structure his message? He ended up talking about the "Gaussian curve", but he got there by first going through the heart of the audience.
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March 18, 2020

Coronavirus shows how science communication can serve society

The way people are talking these days about Coronavirus is the best example of how necessary it is for scientists to...
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March 10, 2020

For journalists: how to find experts for a story

BrainMap is a kind of Facebook, but with researchers. Perhaps its intention is more to connect experts with each other. There was a need for such a tool because even researchers (sometimes even from the same university!) find it hard to find each other, when someone in the sociological area needs a project partner in, say, physics. But it is also a good tool for journalists and this is what I want to focus on now.
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