A wonderful day yesterday celebrating the graduation of our brilliant DCU Centre for Climate & Society MSc in #ClimateChange students. Huge congratulations to all of them on their achievement!

It was wonderful to share graduation celebrations with the excellent DCU Science & Health Comm graduates. They are a special bunch and I can’t wait to see what the future holds for them! @DCU School of Comms DCU Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences @ DCU

Although she could not be here in person, congratulations to Teri Fikowski on her graduation today from School of Comms DCU and @DCU with her MSc in Science and Health Communication.

Paula Murphy's new book AI in the Movies is now available to pre-order. Use the launch discount code NEW30 for 30% off!

A very interesting EPA Ireland report on Irish people's attitudes to climate change and climate action was published this morning. It has four key elements...a short 🧵epa.ie/publications/m…

Don't believe your eyes...Our Centre Co-director Dave Robbins isn't appearing on The Late Late Show! He's speaking at today's #Sustainable #Media Ireland, hosted by Coimisiún na Meán & SustainabilityWorks in partnership with RTE.

An exciting job opportunity in Irish science communication. #scicomm #scicomm jobs #ScienceMediaCentre Science Media Centre UK Airfield Estate sciencemediacentre.org/about-us/jobs/

AGM next week at RDS Club 6pm to 8pm, following Talk by Brian Trench and Declan Fahy on Science Writing and Why it Matters. Sign up here on Eventbrite
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New Academic Position Alert . . . Assistant Prof. in Multimedia post is now advertised at dcu.ie/hr/vacancies-e… We're student-centred, research-intensive, collaborative and inclusive. This is a unique opportunity to join a leading and collegiate academic department.

How do people perceive #science and its role in society? Do they #trust scientists? 🧑🏾‍🔬
We did a global 67-country survey (n=71,417) to test this, working with 239 researchers from all continents – the #TISP #ManyLabs study. It’s now available as #preprint : osf.io/preprints/osf/…

🖼️ Hang it in the Louvre.

Excited to share this new commentary where Lillie D. Williamson Michael Xenos and I synthesize important intersecting concepts and trends in #scicomm , #healthcomm , #misinformation , (mis)trust and expertise, and community-engaged research.
journals.sagepub.com/share/VHENUPPF…

⁦Lois Kapila⁩ and ⁦Sam Tranum⁩ have grown this plucky outfit over the past 10 years. Here’s a great opportunity to add your chapter to the story of ⁦Dublin Inquirer⁩

'The Laureate as Public Intellectual:
Paul Crutzen and the Politics of the Environment.'
New at Royal Society Publishing
Thanks to DCU Library for enabling open access.
DCU Centre for Climate & Society
shorturl.at/cvwH0
Photo: Max Planck Institute

NEW: analysis of millions of books published over the centuries suggests western society is shifting away from a culture of progress, and towards one of caution, worry and risk-aversion.

I think this is one of the most important challenges facing us today.

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.
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Giuseppe Incocciati and Franco Baresi (AC Milan), at the Milanello Sports Center, 1985.

John O’Donovan. A founding member of NewstalkFM, producer & presenter died last night. John gave me my break in radio like he did for many. In 02 he asked me to report on Bloomsday. I told him I hadn’t read Ulysses. He said so what. John we miss you. Regards to your family. 💔📻

The many benefits of strong commitment to #scicomm from higher education and research institutions are set out in a statement from the recent PCSTNetwork symposium. We urge institution leaders to reward and support those who do public #scicomm . Please share this statement widely