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Framing cloning: Dolly and the monkeys

January 29, 2018

In 1999, three years after Dolly the sheep was born, we published an article on the way that cloning was then framed in the public sphere (see also Holliman, 2004). The cloning of two macaque monkeys by Chinese researchers (Cell, 2018), more than two decades after the cloning of Dolly might be a good opportunity …

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Historical fiction: A forgotten corner of science communication?

January 26, 2018

I recently read a wonderful tale about a 10th-century Arab philosopher, theologian and mathematician, Ibn al-Haytham (Alhazen). This wasn’t a biography (although I read that as well, afterwards); it was historical fiction – a historical novel. The tale was told by Bradley Steffens and entitled The Prisoner of Al-Hakim (2017). Immersed in the novel, I learned, …

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Frankenstein is about us not STEM

January 19, 2018

I was reading my tweets the other day and came across this one: “I am reading the octopus book. My main hobby now is looking up from the octopus book in order to share octofacts.” This is popular science (communication) at its best.* It also made me think. If readers of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818) had …

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Social, cultural and ethical aspects of synthetic biology: A scientist’s perspective

January 12, 2018

When you go to the website of the Dymond Research Group at the University of Brighton, you see article titles like this “Lipid Spontaneous Curvatures Estimated from Temperature-Dependent Changes in Inverse Hexagonal Phase Lattice Parameters: Effects of Metal Cations”. That probably means something to experts in the field. It doesn’t mean a lot to me. …

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Do metaphors really matter?

June 16, 2017

I, like many others, from Leibniz to Lakoff, think that metaphors are important for human thinking and acting. They make us see the world in different ways – for good or evil. So, one should keep an eye on them. Recently I have read two articles which seem to imply that metaphors matter less than …

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Science, art and pints

May 20, 2017

For the first time in my life I participated in ‘Pint of Science’ this year. This festival of science engagement takes place on three days in May in pubs all around the globe, including 26 cities in the UK, such as Nottingham. Over a drink, scientists present and discuss their latest research and findings and …

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Making science public: The science march

March 10, 2017

The other day over coffee I was reading a blog post and an article. They made me think. The blog post on …and Then There’s Physics rattled once again the rotten foundations of the ivory tower stereotype of academia, while the article by Ed Yong in The Atlantic was about the March for Science that’ll …

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Digging for the roots of the deficit model

February 25, 2017

According to my twitter feed, the deficit model (also known as the knowledge or information deficit model of science communication or of public understanding of science) has been discussed yet again, this time during the 2017 meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, in the midst of current soul searching about facts, …

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Nano does Nottingham Does Comics

December 15, 2016

This is a guest post by Phil Moriarty. It continues the story of the graphic novel being created as part of a project trying to achieve 3D printing with atoms, which I have started to document here and here. *** Yesterday evening I spent a fun few hours at the Nottingham Writers’ Studio with my colleagues …

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Antibiotic resistance, citizen science and Daleks

June 9, 2016

This morning I was having my first cup of coffee while listening to the Radio 4 Today programme. At 6.55 an item came on that made me laugh – and guess what: it was about antibiotic resistant bacteria! For a while now I have been worried that in order to raise public awareness about the …

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This blog promotes discussion of topics related to the research programme 'Making Science Public: Challenges and Opportunities'. Our purpose is not to 'make science public'. Instead, we want to study the opportunities that have emerged for science to be more openly practiced and debated, but also the challenges posed by making science public or by promoting the making public of science as a solution to a variety of problems in society and in politics.

This blog will report on these and other issues related to the Leverhulme funded research programme: Making Science Public: Challenges and Opportunities

Useful links

  • Making Science Public website
  • Institute of Science & Society
  • Brigitte Nerlich’s staff page
  • The Leverhulme Trust
  • OU Creating Publics Project
  • Science In Public conference 2013
  • OU: Engaging Research

Recent Posts

  • ‘3D printing with atoms’ and ‘Open day’ – an update
  • Making Science Public: Six years on
  • Antimicrobial resistance and climate change: Communication, governance and responsibility
  • Climate change politics and the role of China: a window of opportunity to gain soft power?
  • Fermenting hope; fermenting hype?

RSS MSP bookmarks

  • Twitter May 8, 2017
  • Social innovations in Europe #RRI November 3, 2015
  • Harvey Graff, the undisciplinarian September 20, 2015
  • Replacing Pesticides With Genetics August 31, 2015
  • Addressing hazardous chemicals in the circular economy August 25, 2015

Categories

  • antibiotics
  • anticipatory governance
  • big data
  • biotechnology
  • Bovine TB
  • Charles Darwin
  • citizen science
  • Climate Change
  • Climate Politics
  • co-production
  • Creationism
  • Definition of Science
  • designer babies
  • development
  • Embryonic stem cell research
  • energy
  • engineering
  • epigenetics
  • evolutionary biology
  • Food Security
  • Food sovereignty
  • Gardening
  • genomics
  • global South
  • GM Food
  • GMOs
  • Hype
  • images and visualisations
  • imaginaries
  • Immigration
  • Impact
  • infectious diseases
  • innovation
  • interdisciplinarity
  • Knowledge Economy
  • Knowledge Society
  • Language
  • Markets
  • Medialisation
  • Mental Health
  • Metaphors
  • microbiome
  • neoliberalism
  • Neuroscience
  • open access
  • Personal Reflection
  • Politics
  • Public education
  • public engagement with science
  • public needs
  • public participation
  • public policy
  • public service
  • publics
  • regulatory science
  • Religion
  • Republican Party
  • research impact
  • responsible innovation
  • responsive research
  • Richard Dawkins
  • risk
  • Scepticism
  • Science
  • Science and Government
  • science and politics
  • Science and Songs
  • Science Communication
  • Science Fiction
  • Science Policy
  • Social science
  • sociology
  • space
  • space exploration
  • synthetic biology
  • technology
  • transparency
  • Trust
  • Uncategorized
  • Uncertainty
  • United States of America
  • visualisation
  • wonder

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AMR antibiotic resistance climate change climate change communication climategate climate politics climate science conservatives Creationism CRISPR epigenetics evidence based policy expertise extreme weather gene editing Hype images impact interdisciplinarity metaphor metaphors microbiome open access open data Politics post-normal science public dialogue public education public engagement publics Religion responsible innovation responsible research and innovation RRI Science Science Communication Science Fiction space space exploration STS synthetic biology transparency Trust uncertainty uncertainty communication

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