.@RebekahWh: “People keep pitching things like ‘Blue penguins!’ ‘Blue penguins’ is a Wikipedia page, not a story.” #DOCSciComm
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If scientists who actually know what’s going on hang back from a public debate, there are plenty of attention-seeking people who’ll step up to fill the knowledge vacuum. @SidonieCigale #DOCSciComm
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The Science Media Centre’s @SidonieCigale points out that the days of reporters having a set deadline each day are over. #DOCSciComm
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Listening to Amy Stewart-Badger of @docgovtnz social media on authentic photos, I suggest an entire social media stream of DOC people being bitten by endangered things. #DOCSciComm
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“My manager won’t let me tell anything but good-news stories”
@DOCTSAmbassador: “We have a new government, and a new minister. It’s a golden opportunity.”
#DOCSciComm
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We’re hearing about a jaw-dropping DOC public meeting:
“My son had his legs cut off because of painted apple moth spray, and THIS is a tumour cut out of me from 1080!”
[Hurls tumour]
[Afterwards asks for tumour back]
#betterworkstories
#DOCSciComm
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What makes science communication successful? Suggestions from #DOCSciComm Post-Its:
Two-way communication
Pictures
Feedback
Relatable
Clear steps from question to conclusion
Novelty
David Attenborough
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The official hashtag is #DOCSciComm (I just told @DOCTSAmbassador it was, which is my favourite way of sorting out hashtags.)
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