Marianne Achiam
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Marianne Achiam
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I research, teach and practice science communication. I like animals, salty licorice, and red wine. 🏳️‍🌈🤎🖤🧡
🎨 🎭 Art is increasingly used to help people connect with science, but we don’t fully understand why. Here is our attempt to answer: link.growkudos.com/1ej42ahm5ts
Why use art in science communication? Insights from those who do it in practice
Why do science communicators use art? Art is increasingly used to help people connect with science, but we don’t fully understand why. In this study, 18 professionals who work at the intersection of a...
link.growkudos.com
July 6, 2025 at 6:38 AM
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The billionaires have decided that the poor, the starving, and the sick, have too much.

This is how empires end.
February 6, 2025 at 4:47 AM
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Today in US History: On Feb. 3, 1870, the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified, granted black men the right to vote. It was passed by Congress on February 26, 1869. Black Americans were set free by the 13th amendment. The 14th Amendment guaranteed citizenship.

#BlackHistoryMonth
February 3, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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I’m gonna keep saying it.

The BILLIONAIRES are deciding that poor, starving, homeless people, have too much.

If you stay quiet, you are complicit, if you’re complicit, they’re coming for you next.

Read about the past and get pissed, or lose it all.
- human history
February 3, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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Jeg har svært ved at forestille mig noget klammere og mere dystopisk end sådan en lang række af fikserede søer der bare står og venter på at et menneske tvinger et plastikrør med sæd op i livmoderen på dem så de kan føde mere mishandlet kødprodukt til masserne.
February 3, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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Very much worth a watch if you have not yet seen the PM’s brief and moving speech to Americans and Canadians.

“From the beaches of Normandy …to the streets of Kandahar, we have fought and died alongside you during your darkest hours. We're always there, standing with you."
Trudeau: Canada will retaliate with 25% tariffs on $155B of U.S. goods
YouTube video by CBC News
youtu.be
February 2, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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Den landbrugsmodel, der bygger på at have så mange dyr på så lidt plads som muligt, uden hensyntagen til miljø, biodiversitet eller dyrevelfærd, giver absolut ingen mening. Desværre er Danmark det land i verden, der tager det til det mest ekstreme niveau. Alle taber.

politiken.dk/debat/klumme...
Vi ofrer biodiversiteten for billige frikadeller
Landbruget er den største drivkraft bag biodiversitetskrisen. Der er kun en vej frem: Vi skal have færre dyr.
politiken.dk
February 1, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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The US is on the road to fascism. Ruled by billionaire oligarchs, who managed to dumb down a population enough to win a so-so democratic election. Europe is on the same path. So fetch water, carry wood, walk the earth, and remain fiercely kind. I am sorry 😢 for us all
January 21, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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Vil du gerne forstå, hvorfor vi ikke får løst dyrevelfærdsproblemerne i den danske svineproduktion?

Det er sindssygt simpelt: Skiftende ministre har nægtet at gøre som forskerne siger.

Videnskaben har løsningen på problemerne. Men det er erhvervet, der svinger taktstokken.
Minister holdt nul møder med uvildige eksperter før udspil om dyrevelfærd. I stedet mødtes han med "hverdagseksperter"
Fødevareminister Jacob Jensen mødtes ikke med nogen uafhængige eksperter i den "grundige" møderække om landbrugets dyrevelfærdsudfordringer, der ifølge ministeren selv skulle finde "ind til kernen" af...
www.altinget.dk
December 22, 2024 at 9:12 AM
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...the ecological crises stem from an erroneous attitude of conquest... With science, we can optimize our technologies, but not scrutinize and criticize our attitude, as the natural sciences’ way of looking at the world is itself an attitude, inherent to our ideology of conquest. Ole Jensen (1976)
November 27, 2024 at 8:03 AM
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Vil vi redde en kritisk truet art?

DTU Aqua er igen helt klare i spyttet: Indstil fiskeret på stenbideren!

»Når vi går ud og anbefaler en nulkvote, er det, fordi bestanden lige nu ifølge vores data er gået så meget tilbage, at man ikke kan have et bæredygtigt fiskeri«,
politiken.dk/danmark/art1...
Ministeriets rådgivere er klare i spyttet. Vi skal holde op med at fange stenbidere
Fiskeriministeriet bad fiskeeksperterne i DTU Aqua om rådgivning. Nu er det utvetydige svar landet.
politiken.dk
November 27, 2024 at 8:39 AM
Newbie here - just sharing some stuff! In this open access paper, we wrote about how 🎨 #artwork 🎭 changed our #SciComm research questions in perspectives in ways we couldn't have foreseen!
jcom.sissa.it/article/pubi...
Creating resonance with arts-based approaches to sustainability science communication
Mainstream science communication has struggled to drive sustainability changes. We experimented with arts-based methods in a workshop series that sought to co-create new methods and formats for sustai...
jcom.sissa.it
November 27, 2024 at 9:32 AM
I'm interested in the role art and arts-based methods can play in science communication. With my colleagues, I organised three co-creation workshops to map the SciComm landscape of Denmark, with artists, educators, communicators, policymakers and others. Here's one of the outcomes!
November 27, 2024 at 6:10 AM