Tag Archives: open knowledge
The press office
A press-officer friend recently asked me for pointers on how he could help journalists cover the research institute he now works at better. My response follows: Avoid the traditional press release format and use something like Axios’s. answer the key … Continue reading
Posted in Scicomm
Tagged Axios, Creative Commons, Flickr, open knowledge, press office, press release, public outreach, science communication
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To see faces where there are none
This week in “neither university press offices nor prestigious journals know what they’re doing”: a professor emeritus at Ohio University who claimed he had evidence of life on Mars, and whose institution’s media office crafted a press release without thinking … Continue reading
Posted in Science
Tagged arXiv, Björn Brembs, conspiracy theories, Elisabeth Bik, image manipulation, impact factor, Ingelfinger rule, journal rank, Nature Medicine, Ohio State University, open knowledge, pareidolia, peer review, preprints, research fraud, William Romoser
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Authority, authoritarianism and a scicomm paradox
I received a sharp reminder to better distinguish between activists and experts irrespective of how right the activists appear to be with the case of Ustad, that tiger shifted from its original habitat in Ranthambore sanctuary to Sajjangarh Zoo in … Continue reading
Posted in Op-eds, Scicomm
Tagged activism, authoritarianism, authority, expertise, open knowledge, right to information, Sci-Hub, science communication, scientism, Ustad tiger
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No Space Age for us
We are proud of ISRO’s being removed from bureaucratic interference and we are also okay with ISRO giving access only to those journalists who have endeared themselves by reproducing press releases. Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged ASTROSAT, Dennis Overbye, Hubble Space Telescope, Indian Space Research Organisation, Mars Orbiter Mission, Open Access, open knowledge, open science, reusable launch vehicle, Space Shuttle insignia
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