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9 years ago

Making Science Public: 2016 blog round-up - Making Science Public This has been a weird and momentous year. For me personally and, even more so, for the world. In June this year we celebrated the almost end of the Making Science Public programme, which I directed between 2012 and 2016. At the end of September I retired, after working for more than 25 years at the University ...

My fifth blog round up of the year! Mostly on #synbio, #nano, #AMR, #Zika, #epigenetics blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/makingsciencepublic/2016... #MakingSciPub

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Brigitte Nerlich

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9 years ago

CRISPR and genome editing: Real and imagined - Making Science Public For several years now there has been a buzz around a new advance in genomics called genome (or gene) editing. “Genome editing is the deliberate alteration of a selected DNA sequence in a living cell.” Scientists have been able to do gene editing for a while, but to find and replace any sequence in any ...

New #MakingSciPub post on #crispr and gene editing, real and imagined blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/makingsciencepublic/2016...

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Brigitte Nerlich

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9 years ago

The epigenetic muddle and the trouble with science writing - Making Science Public I have been interested in epigenetics, especially public portrayals of epigenetics, for about six or seven years. About three years ago I tried to get some funding to examine emerging and changing meanings of epigenetics in traditional and new media (including what one might call ‘alternative’ media), but unfortunately never got the funding. When writing ...

My #MakingSciPub post on #epigenetics and #scicomm blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/makingsciencepublic/2016...

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Brigitte Nerlich

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9 years ago

Camille Flammarion: Making science popular - Making Science Public Life on this planet is currently crazy, chaotic and confusing. In this context, I was thinking – wouldn’t it be nice to be able to poke one’s head out of the earthly firmament and look at the heavens beyond. This thought popped into my head because I had once seen an image depicting something like ...

An escapist blog post on Camille Flammarion blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/makingsciencepublic/2016... #MakingSciPub

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Brigitte Nerlich

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9 years ago

Jupiter and Juno - Making Science Public Once in a while I write a blog post about space missions – and there have been quite a few recently. I especially enjoyed the Rosetta mission to 67P and the New Horizons mission to Pluto. Now another mission has crossed my horizons, namely the Juno mission to Jupiter. While Pluto was believed to be ...

A quick #MakingSciPub post on Jupiter, Juno and Europe/a blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/makingsciencepublic/2016...

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Brigitte Nerlich

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9 years ago

Science and politics in an uncertain world - Making Science Public Our end of award conference is taking place on Wednesday 22 June and I know that I should be writing something cheerful and upbeat about our programme, what we have done and are still doing. However, the conference is happening at a difficult time, and somehow I have lost my blogging enthusiasm. The conference is ...

A somewhat sombre #MakingSciPub post about our end of award conference on 22 June blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/makingsciencepublic/2016...

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Brigitte Nerlich

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9 years ago

Epigenetics, hype and harm - Making Science Public I first became interested in epigenetics in around 2010/2011. I know this because I trawled my emails and found a link that I had sent myself on 11 February 2011 to an article in Mother Jones entitled “The illustrated guide to epigenetics”. The first paragraph of this guide is rather prophetic: “This month marks the ...

Our 300th #MakingSciPub post is on epigenetics, hype and harm blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/makingsciencepublic/2016... #epigenetics

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Brigitte Nerlich

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9 years ago

AMR, alarm and awareness - Making Science Public On 19 May the much awaited report on antimicrobial resistance (AMR), chaired by Jim O’Neill, was published under the title “Tackling drug-resistant infections globally: Final report and recommendations”. Headlines In the UK this report was announced by the newspapers under (not very snappy) headlines, such as “Warning: Rise of SUPERBUGS resistant to antibiotics poses ‘bigger ...

Some #MakingSciPub reflections on the O'Neill report, #AMR, raising awareness and the issue of alarm blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/makingsciencepublic/2016...

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Brigitte Nerlich

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9 years ago

Assembling a synthetic human genome: Science and the politics of openness - Making Science Public There has recently been some commotion in the field of synthetic biology about a meeting held at Harvard on 10 May 2016 at which scientists discussed the creation of a synthetic human genome. The meeting was a closed, invitation-only meeting. In a field of science that takes pride in its openness and transparency, this created ...

Some #MakingSciPub reflections on #synbio, synthetic human genomes, a meeting and the dilemmas of openness blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/makingsciencepublic/2016...

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Brigitte Nerlich

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9 years ago

The ghost in the machine: Of automation, algorithms and AI - Making Science Public Despite working at the fringes of a field called Science and Technology Studies, I am a bit of a technophobe. I was introduced to computers in the early 1980s and I am still not totally in tune with some of the things they do. To misquote Arthur C. Clarke, most technology, and in particular advanced ...

My weekend #MakingSciPub musings on automation, algorithms and AI blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/makingsciencepublic/2016...

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Brigitte Nerlich

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9 years ago

Science communication and the role of the Government - Making Science Public On 23 March 2016 the Science and Technology Committee launched an “inquiry on how the Government, scientists, the media and others encourage and facilitate public awareness of – and engagement in – science.” Science communication inquiry Two responses to this ‘Science communication inquiry’ have so far been submitted (as far as I am aware), one ...

Last call-out for #MakingSciPub post on #scicomm and role of government blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/makingsciencepublic/2016...

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Brigitte Nerlich

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9 years ago

Science communication and the role of the Government - Making Science Public On 23 March 2016 the Science and Technology Committee launched an “inquiry on how the Government, scientists, the media and others encourage and facilitate public awareness of – and engagement in – science.” Science communication inquiry Two responses to this ‘Science communication inquiry’ have so far been submitted (as far as I am aware), one ...

Quick post on science communication and the role of the Government blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/makingsciencepublic/2016... #scicomm #STCinquiry #MakingSciPub

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Brigitte Nerlich

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9 years ago

Science, politics and magic - Making Science Public A couple of years ago, prompted by an article by Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent, I wrote a blog post about ‘responsible innovation’ as a buzzword. About a year ago, I tried to understand the appeal of another buzzword, namely ‘co-production’. Yesterday, I cleared out some files and happened to come across some thirty-year-old notes on the magical ...

A weekend #MakingSciPub post on 'magical words' in science/politics blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/makingsciencepublic/2016...

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Brigitte Nerlich

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9 years ago

Musings on language and life, with special reference to ‘programming’ - Making Science Public This morning I opened the newspaper and read an article about a new language that lets researchers design novel biological circuits. I mumbled something about this over coffee and my husband said, oh but wasn’t that old hat, we all knew that DNA was a language, code etc. So what was new? I looked again ...

A quick #MakingSciPub post (not joke) on programming bacteria etc. blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/makingsciencepublic/2016... #synbio

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Brigitte Nerlich

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10 years ago

Acceleration, autonomy and responsibility - Making Science Public In recent emails and meetings there has been a lot of talk about ‘acceleration’, both about the rhetorical use of acceleration in the context of Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) and about the reality of living in an accelerated academy. In this post I will examine ‘acceleration’ a bit further, especially in the context of ...

New #MakingSciPub post on the accelerated academy, #synbio and #RRI blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/makingsciencepublic/2016...

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Brigitte Nerlich

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10 years ago

3D printing with atoms: Beginning a story - Making Science Public A while ago Phil Moriarty published a post here on the ‘Making Science Public’ blog to announce a new project in which we are both involved. He talked about ‘impact’, or rather, the ‘non-impact’ type public engagement work we want to do. The project deals with Mechanochemistry at the single bond limit: Towards deterministic epitaxy. ...

A #MakingSciPub post on 3D printing with atoms - or the beginning of a project blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/makingsciencepublic/2016...

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Brigitte Nerlich

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10 years ago

Sock puppets, muzzles and the impact agenda - Making Science Public This is a post by JOHN HOLMWOOD A new threat to the contribution of university research to public debate has been identified. This derives from Cabinet Office rules that would prevent bodies in receipt of grants from Government from lobbying. It has been suggested that this could muzzle academic research. Ironically, the rules derive from ...

#MakingSciPub post by John Holmwood on the anti-lobbying and impact conundrum blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/makingsciencepublic/2016...

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Brigitte Nerlich

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10 years ago

Sock puppets, muzzles and the impact agenda - Making Science Public This is a post by JOHN HOLMWOOD A new threat to the contribution of university research to public debate has been identified. This derives from Cabinet Office rules that would prevent bodies in receipt of grants from Government from lobbying. It has been suggested that this could muzzle academic research. Ironically, the rules derive from ...

A #MakingSciPub post by John Holmwood on sock puppets, muzzles and the impact agenda blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/makingsciencepublic/2016...

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Brigitte Nerlich

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10 years ago

Ripples of rumour and ripples in space: LIGO and gravitational waves - Making Science Public For some days now I have been seeing announcements on twitter that the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) would make an announcement about the detection of gravitational waves today. (The best description of these self-referential announcements can be found on Mark Hannam’s blog!) In 2014 I got a bit excited about an announcement that gravitational ...

A very quick #MakingSciPub post on ripples of rumour and ripples in space blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/makingsciencepublic/2016... #LIGO #gravitationalwaves

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Brigitte Nerlich

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10 years ago

Antibiotic resistant infections in the news - Making Science Public In 2015 issues relating to antibiotic resistance and antimicrobial resistance have been widely discussed in the media, by medical experts and policy makers. 2015 ended with reports that antibiotic resistant gonorrhoea is becoming increasingly difficult to treat and that scientists in China discovered a gene in E. coli that makes it resistant to a class of ...

New #MakingSciPub post on antibiotic resistant infections in the news blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/makingsciencepublic/2016... #AMR #antibiotics

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Brigitte Nerlich

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10 years ago

Making Science Public Just another University of Nottingham Blogs site

I have to write something about the #MakingSciPub blog. What do readers find good/bad?? (http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/makingsciencepublic/

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Brigitte Nerlich

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10 years ago

Ta(l)king responsibility - Making Science Public In social science and policy circles there has been a lot of talk about Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI). However, nobody quite knows yet what this means and how it works in the context of harsh economic realities. In the meantime, natural scientists have taken responsibility for their research and innovations in the context of ...

From the #MakingSciPub archives, a post on Asilomar, CRISPR and responsibility blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/makingsciencepublic/2015...

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Brigitte Nerlich

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10 years ago

Pro-Christian, Anti-Muslim or Anti-Refugee? What is behind European politicians’ statements favouring Christian refugees? - Making Science Public In the midst of what has come to be known as the worst refugee crisis of our generation, the wrenching images of a toddler lying dead on a Turkish beach emerged as evidence of a reality that cannot just be captured in words. This has seen many calling for the need to shift the debate ...

A #MakingSciPub post on refugee politics and religion by @r_madziva and Vivien Lowndes blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/makingsciencepublic/

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Brigitte Nerlich

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10 years ago

Kissing a comet - Making Science Public I began writing this post this morning and I have just read that Philae has reached its landing spot Agilkia (sort of)! Touchdown happened at 1605 GMT. Congratulations!! Rocks, robots and us When I switched on the ESA live feed about the comet landing this morning, I heard one of the lead scientists say that landing ...

From the #MakingSciPub archives on the anniversary of #Philae's landing blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/makingsciencepublic/2014...

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Brigitte Nerlich

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10 years ago

'Serendipity carried through to perfection' - thoughts on the Cassini mission - Making Science Public I am, as some of you might have noticed, an avid follower of …. not fashion but space exploration. I have ‘flown with’ Hubble, Voyager, Rosetta, Philae and New Horizons; I ‘follow’ Curiosity’s progress on Mars; and now I am entranced by some of the images that Cassini is sending back from Saturn and its ...

Some quick weekend thoughts on Cassini and Enceladus blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/makingsciencepublic/2015... #MakingSciPub #Enceladus

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Brigitte Nerlich

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10 years ago

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#MakingSciPub newsletter of activities autumn 2015 www.nottingham.ac.uk/html-emails/ssci/sociolo... funded by @LeverhulmeTrust

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Brigitte Nerlich

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10 years ago

Climate change and the tragedy of our shrinking horizons - Making Science Public A few days ago, on 29 September 2015, the Governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, used the phrase ‘tragedy of the horizon’ in a speech on “climate risks for the global economy and global financial stability with a focus on the insurance sector”. This got me thinking about the various times the concept ...

A #MakingSciPub post where I philosophise about the 'tragedy of the horizon' in climate change blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/makingsciencepublic/2015...

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Brigitte Nerlich

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10 years ago

Making the planet public - Making Science Public I have always wanted to make a link between ISS – the Institute for Science and Society at the University of Nottingham – and ISS – the International Space Station – in OUTER SPACE. When looking yesterday at a picture of a cloud vortex taken by Commander Chris Hadfield from a window of the ISS, ...

From the #MakingSciPub archives: Making the planet public blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/makingsciencepublic/2013...

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Brigitte Nerlich

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10 years ago

Gave my first Innovation and Society lecture of the year and found one student had read the #MakingSciPub blog. I felt very proud ;)

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Brigitte Nerlich

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10 years ago

The pause - Making Science Public About three years ago, in 2013, I became aware of discussions around the ‘pause’ (a period of relatively little change in globally averaged surface temperatures) and since then I have been observing goings-on around this new talking point in the climate change debate. I was a bit surprised by how much trouble a wiggle in ...

I finally succumbed and dug into 'the pause'.... blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/makingsciencepublic/2015... #climate change #MakingSciPub

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