This is the first panel I'll be joining here at Science Online 2011--happens tomorrow afternoon:
Room A - Lessons from Climategate - James Hrynyshyn, Chris Mooney and Josh Rosenau "You guys have got to start fighting back" is the message many climatologists are hearing in the wake the slanderous attack on their integrity that has been called Swifthack, or Climategate. But for many scientists, fighting back means publishing a really good paper in a reputable journal. That doesn't cut it anymore. How should scientists and their communicator allies go about planning a strategy? Joining us will be Tom Peterson, chief scientist at the National Climatic Data Center.
I'll be talking about the broad sci comm problem as it applies to climate, and introducing some techniques like framing and bridging...but it will be a very short talk so my main answer will be to simply invest in scientific communication training and infrastructure, and aim resources at young researchers in particular. What do others think scientists ought to be doing?
