Mark your calendars for LSC’s 2025 science communication colloquium series. The series brings distinguished speakers from all over the U.S. and the world to the UW-Madison campus, either in-person or virtually. Colloquium attendees will hear from experts in science communication, science policy, science and technology studies, and new informational technologies, among other interesting and relevant areas.
The colloquium will take place every Wednesday from 12:05 to 12:55 p.m. in 1420 Microbial Sciences unless otherwise noted. All UW-Madison faculty, staff and students are encouraged to attend, as well as members of the public.
This semester the colloquium is organized by LSC Chair Dominique Brossard. You can find a list of this year’s speakers below and click on their names for more information about them. When available, a recording of the presentation will be made publicly available following the individual talks.
Every spring, you can follow @UW_LSC or #uwlsc700 on X for coverage of the talks.
Speaker schedule
01/29: Maria Carmen Lemos – Professor, School for Environment and Sustainability, University of Michigan, “Scaling up Actionable Knowledge for Sustainability”
02/05: Felice Frankel – Science Photographer, Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, “More Than Pretty Pictures”
02/12: Kaiping Chen – Associate Professor, Department of Life Sciences Communication, UW-Madison, “Auditing Equity in Large Language Models: Insights from dialogue and classification tasks”
02/19: Jessica Eise – Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Indiana University Bloomington, “Colombian Coffee Farmers in the Face of Climate Risks: Tailored Communication to Support Adaptation”
02/26: Isabelle Freilling – Assistant Professor, Department of Communication, University of Utah, “ Generative AI, Social Media Algorithms, & Misinformation”
03/05: Jacob Thebault-Spieker – Assistant Professor, School of Computer, Data & Information Sciences, UW-Madison, “Online Communities, Information Gaps, Content Ecosystems and AI”
03/12: Graham Dixon – Associate Professor, School of Communication, Ohio State University “The Challenge of Addressing Pluralistic Ignorance: Vaccination as a Case Study”
03/19: Sol Hart – Professor, Department of Communication and Media, University of Michigan, “Climate Change Advocacy and Engagement”
03/26: Spring Break
04/02: Laura Witzling – Program and Policy Analyst, Public Service Commission of Wisconsin, “Making Connections: Sci Comm and the Electrical Grid”
04/09: John Evans – Professor, Associate Dean of Social Sciences, Department of Sociology, University of California San Diego, “The Ethics of Human Brain Organoids and Human-Animal Neural Chimeras: The Public and Bioethicists”
04/16: Katherine Ognyanova – Associate Professor, School of Communication and Information, Rutgers, “False Beliefs in Unusual Times: The Role of Trust, Technology, and Social Ties.”
04/23: Tiffany Taylor – Senior Program Officer, The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, “Understanding and Addressing Misinformation about Science: A National Academies Consensus Report “