{"id":2827,"date":"2020-07-26T07:51:30","date_gmt":"2020-07-26T06:51:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comunicarestiintifica.ro\/?p=2827"},"modified":"2020-07-26T07:52:15","modified_gmt":"2020-07-26T06:52:15","slug":"toata-lumea-iubeste-timbrele-chiar-si-cele-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comunicarestiintifica.ro\/en\/toata-lumea-iubeste-timbrele-chiar-si-cele-coronavirus\/","title":{"rendered":"Everyone loves stamps, even Coronavirus stamps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One \"trick\" that is used very often, sometimes annoyingly often, is to link company communication to a hot topic in society at the time. This also applies to science communication and it's starting in Romania as well: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comunicarestiintifica.ro\/en\/2020\/03\/18\/coronavirus-arata-cum-poate-fi-pusa-comunicarea-stiintei-in-slujba-societatii\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"most successful (opens in a new tab)\">most successful<\/a> Communication initiatives from universities and research institutions in this area were related to the topic of Coronavirus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But sometimes, science can bring something extra to the table besides simply being related to the \"topic of the day\": it can bring a completely new, fresh, unexpected perspective, it can provide a moment of respite from difficult news.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This was my perspective in this <a href=\"https:\/\/mindcraftstories.ro\/cultura\/timbrele-covid-de-pe-mapamond-un-prim-inventar-realizat-in-romania\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in a science article I wrote for Mindcraft Stories<\/a>. I spoke to a researcher who has started to inventory coronavirus-themed mailings from around the world. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They are spectacular and reflect even differences in philosophy and approach between countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The first COVID-19 stamp appears to have been issued by the Iranian Post on 17 March, and since then stamp collectors around the world have been tracking a new phenomenon: coronavirus stamps. Such stamps quickly surfaced in Iran, Vietnam, Switzerland, the Isle of Man, Morocco and the United Arab Emirates, and since June many more have been added. <\/p><cite><a href=\"http:\/\/Timbrele COVID de pe mapamond \u2013 un prim inventar realizat \u00een Rom\u00e2nia\">read the whole article in mindcraft stories<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"cats\"><span class=\"cats__title\">Categories<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comunicarestiintifica.ro\/en\/category\/articolele-mele\/\" rel=\"category tag\">My articles<\/a><\/div><div class=\"tags\"><div class=\"tags__title\">Tags<\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comunicarestiintifica.ro\/en\/tag\/colectionari\/\" rel=\"tag\">collectors<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comunicarestiintifica.ro\/en\/tag\/coronavirus\/\" rel=\"tag\">coronavirus<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comunicarestiintifica.ro\/en\/tag\/covid_19\/\" rel=\"tag\">covid_19<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comunicarestiintifica.ro\/en\/tag\/emisiuni-postale\/\" rel=\"tag\">postal issues<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comunicarestiintifica.ro\/en\/tag\/timbre\/\" rel=\"tag\">stamp<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes, science can bring something extra to the table besides simply being related to the \"topic of the day\": it can bring a completely new, fresh, unexpected perspective, it can provide a respite from difficult news.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2828,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[176,106,100,175,174],"class_list":["post-2827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articolele-mele","tag-colectionari","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid_19","tag-emisiuni-postale","tag-timbre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comunicarestiintifica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2827"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comunicarestiintifica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comunicarestiintifica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comunicarestiintifica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comunicarestiintifica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2827"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.comunicarestiintifica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2830,"href":"https:\/\/www.comunicarestiintifica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2827\/revisions\/2830"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comunicarestiintifica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comunicarestiintifica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comunicarestiintifica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comunicarestiintifica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}