Rolling stories is a project, currently in its early stages, which explores the potential of engaging science practitioners in communicating their understandings and knowledge of the experienced world through the design of ‘story worlds’ for table-top role playing games (TRPGs). This short paper presents the project background and process to date.
Architecture, Urbanism & Building Sciences | Science Education and Communication
Published in BMC Bioinformatics
This article describes the motivation, origin and evolution of the student symposia series organised by the ISCB Student Council. The meeting series started thirteen years ago in Madrid and has spread to four continents. The article concludes with the highlights of the most recent edition of annual Student Council Symposium held in conjunction with...
Science Communication
Science Communication
Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences
Uncertainty is native to science and thus also to wholly accurate science communication, However, uncertainties that are inevitable in individual findings of science and in larger processes of science are often not clearly communicated to the public. Instead, many public-facing science communicators purposefully avoid discussing the uncertainties t...
A transferência de tecnologia das universidades para o mercado vem atraindo a atenção de teóricos e governantes. Um dos mecanismos capazes de possibilitar essa transferência são as spin-offs acadêmicas (SOAs). Neste contexto, a comunicação da ciência é importante para disseminar pesquisas que possam dar origem a esse tipo de empresa, sendo uma vert...
This dissertation proceeds in two steps, a theoretical one followed by an empirical one. Considered together, they help us understand how persuasive language may be used to endorse or justify scientifically shaky policies.In the first step, I introduce and define a troubling phenomenon that may occur in public decision making, Audacious Use of an I...
