College of Agricultural and Life Sciences
By Kelly April Tyrrell, UW–Madison University Communications Social media has erased many of the boundaries between leaders and the people they represent, between experts and the lay public, between scientists and nonscientists. It has enabled people to communicate directly and interact in unprecedented ways. At the University of Wisconsin–Madison, a survey of 372 scientists engaged …
Each Friday during the semester a group gathers in Hiram Smith Hall to discuss ongoing research projects, many lead by graduate students, surrounding public opinion on controversial science issues. The group is the Science, Media & the Public (SciMep) research group which explores issues relating to the social, legal, and ethical implications of scientific issues and emerging technologies. …
Many scientists may still see talking to reporters or using social media to publicize their research as a poor use of their time, but a new study by researchers in the Department of Life Sciences Communication suggests otherwise. The department’s Science, Media and the Public(SciMeP) research group just published a study in Journalism & Mass Communications Quarterly that links scientists’ …
When it comes to science, socioeconomic status may widen confidence gaps among the least and most educated groups in society, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Science, Media and the Public research group. The findings, published in June in the journal Science Communication, show that similar levels of attention …
Top scientists are not afraid to engage with the public in traditional and social media, according to new research by LSC’s Science, Media, and the Public (SCIMEP) lab published in The Scientist magazine. More importantly, public communication can also help boost their scientific careers. SCIMEP researchers found that scientists who interact more frequently with journalists …
Top scientists are not afraid to engage with the public in traditional and social media, according to new research by LSC’s Science, Media, and the Public (SCIMEP) lab published in The Scientist magazine. More importantly, public communication can also help boost their scientific careers. SCIMEP researchers found that scientists who interact more frequently with journalists had better …
New research from LSC’s scimep lab, out this month in the Journal of Nanoparticle Research, examining priming effects shows how a technology is defined can alter public perception. In the study, LSC alumna Ashley Anderson (Ph.D., ’12) and colleagues find that defining nanotechnology in terms of novel applications boosters public support for the technology but does not motivate individuals …
New research from the Science, Media and the Public (SCIMEP) lab at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, affiliated with LSC, on the adverse effects of negative comments online is out this week in the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication. The full text of the article is available here. The study is lead by LSC alumna Ashley A. Anderson (Ph.D., ’12) and co-authored by …
LSC doctoral student Sara K. Yeo leads a paper recently published in PLOS One, “Coastal Bacterioplankton Community Dynamics in Response to a Natural Disturbance.” The paper is based on her masters research at the University of Hawai’i. Yeo and her co-authors characterized the moicrobial community in a subtropical embayment using SSU rRNA gene analyses over an 8-month period, which …