From Patients to Researchers: How Patients Helped Define Long COVID
“Researchers analyzed 2.8 million tweets from 2020 to 2022 to better understand how people came together to define, research, and share information about long COVID.”
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Unicorns’ Magical Healing Power: Combatting Misleading Medical Information on Social Media
“The authors discerned four distinct categories or themes to combat misleading information: educational, debunking, algorithmic, and regulatory responses.
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Go set a watchdog: Challenges of investigative science journalism
“… important stories that impact the general population can remain unrevealed and unread because their publication is not feasible.”
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Look, and DO touch: designing games for museums
“This case study highlights how future video game exhibits can be designed for both educational and social outcomes.”
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Guess Who? Scientist Edition
“Effective science communication isn’t just about explaining research clearly—it also requires making expertise easier to recognize.”
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Write for SciCommBites: applications are open for our 2027 author cohort
Looking to grow your writing and editing skills while sharing bites of science communication research? Apply by Nov 30, 2026.
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A 2016 Call Answered: Revealing What Makes Science Stories Engaging
“there is no straightforward recipe for crafting an effective story […]. Storytelling remains an art, not a formula.”
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Near, Far, Wherever You Are? How Distance from Science Affects Perceptions
“… research that’s psychologically close tends to be viewed more positively, with less skepticism, and as more credible.”
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The echo chamber of social media: Are you interacting with others, or simply looking in a mirror?
“When users can actively shape what they see, such as on Reddit, they are actually less isolated. It’s platforms with hidden, unchangeable algorithms, like Facebook and Twitter (editor’s note: now X), that lock us into segregated bubbles.”
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Building Bridges: Takeaways from the Summer School on Science Diplomacy for Outer Space and the Arctic (with a touch of scicomm)
Senior Editor Nik shares highlights from his time at the Summer School on Science Diplomacy for Outer Space and Arctic in Paris, France.
