We analyzed two European documents that outline the skills needed in a researcher's career and noticed that scientists are only prepared for a small slice of their job. We wrote about this in the latest Science and Communication newsletter.

I invite you to participate in an online discussion about science communication, which I am moderating at the Researchers' Night event.

Read an interview with Anisia Petcu to find out why it is so important to understand baroque paintings in museums and science in laboratories. What else you'll find in the newsletter: some free kits dedicated to science for citizens, the 100 words that fail ChatGPT when doing peer reviewing, and which Romanian university recently included the communication of science in a regulation.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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

More: Three "holiday themes" for communication training

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

Tips on how you can promote your research with minimal effort, why to collaborate with libraries in science activities for the public, and what topics Ukrainian science journalists write about.

A spring-fresh edition, with information on: how and why to build a communication strategy for a research project; figures on the status of women in research in our country; Romanian debates on the role of the researcher in society; a PhD on yeast in dance steps - yes, it exists.