Sharing Our Science by Brandon Brown is recommended as a handbook for researchers in a review by Anna Maria Fleetwood for Pᴜʙʟɪᴄ Uɴᴅᴇʀsᴛᴀɴᴅɪɴɢ ᴏғ Sᴄɪᴇɴᴄᴇ 𝑱𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒏𝒂𝒍. Brown also writes that scientists must reflect on their role and be honest with themselves about their prevalent biases. medium.com/scicomm-book-r…

At its interdisciplinary best #scicomm is a continuing exercise in reflexivity on science and its place in wider intellectual and public culture, I argue in a new Journal of Science Communication (JCOM) paper seeking greater emphasis in #scicomm education on (inter)disciplinarity. jcom.sissa.it/article/pubid/…

The Many Voices of Modern Physics, reviewed by Felicity Mellor for Pᴜʙʟɪᴄ Uɴᴅᴇʀsᴛᴀɴᴅɪɴɢ ᴏғ Sᴄɪᴇɴᴄᴇ 𝑱𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒏𝒂𝒍, covers treatments in popular physics books, journalism, patents, letters and an opera aria, highlighting the many and varied contexts in which physics ideas have had traction. medium.com/scicomm-book-r…

Glowing review in New York Review of Books for Free Agents by TCD Prof Kevin Mitchell Kevin Mitchell who is our guest in Wexford Library, Tuesday 16 Jan, 7.30 nybooks.com/articles/2024/…

Nora Trench Bowles joins us now to share her story of growing up with a stammer and being an advocate for more awareness #IrelandAM

The ever-engaging Brian Trench joins us on Saturday Jan 20th The RDS discussing lesser-known past recipients of the Robert Boyle science award medal FREE event but BOOKING ESSENTIAL bit.ly/3Hcbtr6 #ScienceandArt South East Technological University Lismore Heritage Co Routledge Books Dublin City University

The contingent nature of science can be discomforting to #scicomm notes Marianne Achiam 🏳️‍🌈 ♻️ 🇺🇦 in a Pᴜʙʟɪᴄ Uɴᴅᴇʀsᴛᴀɴᴅɪɴɢ ᴏғ Sᴄɪᴇɴᴄᴇ 𝑱𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒏𝒂𝒍 review of Beautful Experiments by Philip Ball But she commends Ball for showng the social and cultural nature of scientific knowledge construction medium.com/scicomm-book-r…

Qualities and purposes of science writing considered in my talk for ISTJA through cases of Agnes Clerke and Mary Mulvihill Mary Mulvihill Association. See it here istja.ie/events/talk-sc…

The orientation of science education towards technical training for science-related jobs which only a small minority seek is among the thought-provoking issues raised by John Rudolph in Why We Teach Science, writes Mairéad Hurley in a Pᴜʙʟɪᴄ Uɴᴅᴇʀsᴛᴀɴᴅɪɴɢ ᴏғ Sᴄɪᴇɴᴄᴇ 𝑱𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒏𝒂𝒍 review medium.com/scicomm-book-r…

From the heady heights of discussing his views of free will Wexford Science Cafe Kevin Mitchell Kevin Mitchell has been doing likewise at London's Royal Institution Royal Institution and OxfordLitFest. He will give the Science@Culture talk at Mary Mulvihill Association event 23 May. Note the date.

Current politics are ill-suited to the task of governing science and connections made between very different institutions of science policy advice often miss the point, Geoff Mulgan writes in When Science Meets Power, reviewed by Birte Faehnrich Pᴜʙʟɪᴄ Uɴᴅᴇʀsᴛᴀɴᴅɪɴɢ ᴏғ Sᴄɪᴇɴᴄᴇ 𝑱𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒏𝒂𝒍 medium.com/scicomm-book-r…

Join us at Wexford Libraries in Wexford Town, Tuesday, 16th, 7.30pm, for conversation on science and society issues, incl research priorities and funding, with Abigail Ruth Freeman Dr Ruth Freeman of Science Foundation Ireland Science Foundation Ireland

Very happy to have my entry to Dictionary of Irish Biography on versatile science communicator Mary Mulvihill published. Thanks to editor Eoin Kinsella for his support. dib.ie/biography/mulv…

New tools, clear exposition and real gems are among the things Brigitte Nerlich finds in two books on stories in #scicomm from Dr. Emma Frances Bloomfield Emma Bloomfield and S.L.Seethaler. See the review in Pᴜʙʟɪᴄ Uɴᴅᴇʀsᴛᴀɴᴅɪɴɢ ᴏғ Sᴄɪᴇɴᴄᴇ 𝑱𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒏𝒂𝒍 here medium.com/scicomm-book-r…

Philosopher Angela Potochnik writing on science and public draws on the early 20th c. multidisicplinary Vienna Circle of philosophers, physicists, sociologists, mathematicians and economists active in public engagement. See Pᴜʙʟɪᴄ Uɴᴅᴇʀsᴛᴀɴᴅɪɴɢ ᴏғ Sᴄɪᴇɴᴄᴇ 𝑱𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒏𝒂𝒍 review by Thomas Dickins, medium.com/scicomm-book-r…

Psychoanalyst and film festival founder Andrea Sabbadini in a Pᴜʙʟɪᴄ Uɴᴅᴇʀsᴛᴀɴᴅɪɴɢ ᴏғ Sᴄɪᴇɴᴄᴇ 𝑱𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒏𝒂𝒍 review says a book on cinema and psychiatry in the 60s shows how mental health professionals changed cinema culture, replacing earlier formulaic approaches to psychiatric conditions. medium.com/scicomm-book-r…