Why the situation with the beached whale 'Timmy' could have served as a sandbox training ground for populist and authoritarian politics? @annetteless.bsky.social and Fabien Medvecky draw lessons for #Scicomm👇https://www.wissenschaftskommunikation.de/the-beached-whale-and-why-facts-failed-98529/

The beached whale and why facts failed

What happens when truth no longer serves as a shared compass? In populist or authoritarian contexts science communication must stop pretending that facts and truth will win hearts, Annette Leßmöllmann...

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🚨JOB ALERT🚨 3 YEAR POSTDOC in #SciComm research at @zpid.bsky.social! @kaisassenberg.bsky.social and me are searching for a postdoc with background in psychology or communication science. Own research ideas are welcome! Focus should be on societies' preparation for future pandemics. Please share!

New paper with @derbaerrennt.bsky.social about COVID-19 expertise in German mainstream media. Biomedical coverage was politicized uniformly across outlets, while non-biomedical expertise on schools, the economy, and civil liberties revealed sharper ideological divides. doi.org/10.1080/2474...

News under pressure? Politicization of scientific expertise in German mainstream news during COVID-19

Using a corpus from ten German outlets during COVID-19, we examine how mainstream media translated scientific expertise into political debate. We define politicization narrowly as coverage in which...

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This morning at #24hPolPsy, I got to share work I did with @derbaerrennt.bsky.social on the effects of #ArtisticActivism in the context of disruptive #ClimateProtests, brining together political psych and empirical aesthetics. You can also read the paper here: psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/... 🎭🎨🪧📣

A study of German COVID-19 protest movements shows that science wasn’t rejected online but rather strategically used. Analysing Telegram data, the authors reveal how scientific claims were mobilised to challenge policy during moments of uncertainty = jcom.sissa.it/article/pubi...

Evidence in the service of dissent: strategic communication of science by German corona-protest movements

This study investigates how Germany’s anti-lockdown and anti-vaccine protest movement, led mainly by the Querdenken network, allied with conspiracist and far-right groups, utilized scientific authorit...

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🚨 Call for Papers! Join us for our conference/workshop “Computational Methods in Science Communication Research” – Sept 25–26, 2025 @rptu.bsky.social @scope-rptu.bsky.social . 🔍 CSS meets SciComm 💬 Exchange & Workshop 🗓️ Deadline: July 14 📄 rptu.de/s/CSSinSciComm #SciComm #CSS #AI #CallForPapers

Conference: Computational Methods in Science Communication Research – Opportunities, Challenges, and Current Applications — SCOPE

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🚨 CAN ARTISTIC ACTIVISM RESOLVE THE ACTIVIST DILEMMA? 🚨 Art is often employed as creative and attention-grabbing form of protest, but can it help alleviate negative effects of disruptiveness? Our findings now out in Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts (doi.org/10.1037/aca0...). 🧵1/4

🚨 New Article Out! 🎨 Does Art Make a Difference? We examined how people respond to artistic vs. non-artistic climate imagery: A painting of a wildfire (vs. a photo) is seen as more beautiful & emotionally positive — but evokes less urgency and response efficacy. 📄 Read: doi.org/10.1177/0276...

Frisch erschienen! ✨Im Sammelband “Plurale Verschränkungen” fragen Christina Schäfer und ich, ob und unter welchen Bedingungen das Publikum Artistic Activism als Kunst anerkennt. Danke an Marie Rosenkranz und Nina Tessa Zahner für die Zusammenarbeit! link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

Kunst oder Aktivismus? Eine explorative Studie zur Anerkennung künstlerischer Protestaktionen als Kunst durch das Publikum

In diesem Beitrag untersuchen wir die Fragen, ob 1) eine künstlerische Protestaktion durch das Publikum als Kunst anerkannt wird und 2) mit welchen Faktoren dies zusammenhängt. In einer expl...

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