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Apr 27
4 min

COVID-19 and gender-based violence

Implications for survivors and those at risk Guest post by Funmi Ayeni Graduate student in Ecological-Community Psychology, MSU At 1:20 p...

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MSU SciComm

Apr 27
6 min

An “Infodemic”

How Misinformation Could Kill During the Coronavirus Pandemic Guest post by Rae Barry Masters student in communication, MSU You read a po...

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Nick Young

Apr 7
4 min

Reflections on my first virtual conference: Science Talk 2020

Despite some mishaps, virtual conferences seem promising.

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SciLit SciComm

Mar 30
4 min

COVID-19 and Suicide: Prioritizing Our Well-Being

Guest post by CORBIN J. STANDLEY Ph.D. Student in Ecological-Community Psychology Over the last couple of months, COVID-19 has dramatica...

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MSU SciComm

Feb 18
4 min

Science and Art: Antagonists or Allies?

Are science and art really as different as people think? Perry Parks & Linda White examine the evidence.

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SciLit SciComm

Feb 14
3 min

An #AttackonScience in the Michigan Legislature

Guest post by Vanessa Garcia Polanco, Science Policy Chair, MSU SciComm Michigan lost its first chance to have an actual scientist serve ...

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SciLit SciComm

Feb 6
4 min

Are Immigrants Greener?

New Americans frequently think about the environment differently from those who grew up here. Media play a role in that.

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SciLit SciComm

Jan 13
3 min

GUEST POST: ERIC FREEDMAN

Today's post was created by Prof. Eric Freedman, who chairs the Knight Center for Environmental Journalism in MSU's College of Communicat...

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Nick Young

Dec 9, 2019
3 min

Local Anesthesia and Nuclear Physics

What do medicine in the body and nuclear physics have in common? They can both be modeled by the same decay process.

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Nick Young

Nov 12, 2019
3 min

Machine Learning, Science, and Text Generation

Machine learning is a revolutionary technology, transforming entire industries. Here's an example of what it can do with text generation.

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Tim Herd

Sep 27, 2019
3 min

Let’s Talk About It: Science from a Non-Scientific Person

My name is Tim Herd, and I am a non-scientific person. Now my self-titled “non-scientific” label does not mean that I cannot explain the ...

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Nick Young

Sep 25, 2019
4 min

My Top Eight Takeaways From ComSciCon-AIP

ComSciCon-AIP was a full two days of science communication training. Here are my top 8 takeaways.

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Nick Young

Aug 21, 2019
3 min

Colored Shadows: no illusions, just physics and biology

Using three colored light bulbs, it is possible to not only create colored shadows, but six different colored shadows from a single object.

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COVID-19 and gender-based violence

An “Infodemic”

Reflections on my first virtual conference: Science Talk 2020

COVID-19 and Suicide: Prioritizing Our Well-Being

Science and Art: Antagonists or Allies?

An #AttackonScience in the Michigan Legislature

Are Immigrants Greener?

GUEST POST: ERIC FREEDMAN

Local Anesthesia and Nuclear Physics

Machine Learning, Science, and Text Generation

Let’s Talk About It: Science from a Non-Scientific Person

My Top Eight Takeaways From ComSciCon-AIP

Colored Shadows: no illusions, just physics and biology