Dr. Akin is going to speak about evidence-based best practices for communicating our science and how we might teach these principles to the next generation of scientists in our courses. You won't want to miss it. We hope you will join us!

The network brings together science communication researchers, practitioners, and educators to discuss how to bridge divides about science in society and disseminate evidence-based strategies for communicating science in a way that builds bridges rather than breaks them down.

There is so much to be learned from healthcare communication for climate change communication! Thanks!

My research group wants to change this. Over the next four years, as part of my NSF CAREER award, we will be developing evidence based instruction in science classes so that many more students are exposed to basic science communication strategies for communicating about climare change. Stay tuned!

However training is mostly received only when students have the time to seek out extracurricular activities, meaning the majority of our science students will graduate without ever receiving guidance on having these extremely important conversations.

This work is part of a series of recent studies showing that undergraduate students are already important communicators about societally contentious topics and that training on how to have these conversations could be key to improving current and future communication efforts.

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