The ORION Open Science Podcast
Science & Medicine
An Ignoble Pursuit: Laughing and Thinking about Science Communication and the Ig Nobel Prize
Episode Summary:
In this episode we are discussing the relationship between science and being funny. Science communication relies on grabbing attention, making science relatable and exciting, and humanising scientists, we talked to Marc Abrahams founder and emcee of the Ig Nobel Prize and editor of Annals of Improbable Research about the role humour plays in this.
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‘If you spend five seconds really looking at it, there’s something funny about it, and that’s what makes it interesting, and once you're interested, if only for five seconds, now you’re paying attention’
‘All of us were looking at each other and thinking: at any moment now some ‘grown up’ person is going to stop us’
Life Sciences in the Fast Lane: Dan Qunitana on Rapid Feedback, Tweeting, and Time Management
Are We Doing Good? Discussing Open Science and Scientific Practice at the Doing Good Conference
A Week's Worth of SciComm: Berlin Science Week and the Value of Science Communication
Compound Interest: Discussing the EU Open Screen Project at the MDC
You Don't Say! Emma Dorris on Public Engagement and How Discussions with the Public Improve Research
A Public Scandal: Paola Masuzzo on the Absurdity of Locking Up Knowledge
The FAIR is in Town: figshare, The Turing Way, and Open Science Quest at the OSFAIR2019
Laying it all out: How The Science Breaker is supporting lay summaries and science communication
A Skeptic's Guide to Open Science: Steven Novella on tackling biases, publication noise, and pseudoscience
A Metric for Optimism: John Ioannidis on Reproducibility, Preregistration, and Data Sharing
'There is no spoon': Imagining Science Without Journals
Public Money? Public Code: What 'Free' Software Really Means in Research
Signing up to Open Science: Open Peer Review and Aligning Core Values
Open Data: FAIR, foul, and meta
Retraction Watch, Research Integrity, and Peer Review
Aubrey De Grey, Aging, and Alternative Approaches to Research
Communicating Animal Research Part 2
Communicating Animal Research Part 1
Preprints: what do scientists think?
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