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Nature – Policy: The art of science advice to government (Sir Peter Gluckman, chief science adviser to the Prime Minister of New Zealand) [OPEN ACCESS]

Guardian’s Political Science blog –

Social Science & Medicine – External factors affecting decision-making and use of evidence in an Australian public health policy environment

SCIENCE – and PUBLIC

Ipsos MORI – Public Attitudes to Science 2014 (UK)

British Science Association – Public Attitudes to Science 2014: The Results

Guardian’s Political Science blog – How to read the latest data on public attitudes to science

Guardian’s Political Science blog – Do we want GM crops in the UK?

Department of Business, Innovation & Skills (UK) Science & Society Blog – Introducing the Charter for UK Science and Society

SCIENCE – PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT

EPC Government and Policy – Coinquiry for environmental sustainability: a review of the UK Beacons for Public Engagement

Department of Business, Innovation & Skills (UK) Science & Society Blog – Research Councils UK – Concordat for Engaging the Public with Research

KMBeing Blog – A Thought Piece On Knowledge Transfer & Exchange/Knowledge Mobilization

Sciencewise Expert Resource Centre – Confessions from the Head of Public Dialogue

Communication Breakdown Blog – Bringing People with Disabilities into the Research Community

LSE Impact Blog – From STEM to STEAM: The potential for arts to facilitate innovation, literacy and participatory democracy.

SOCIAL MEDIA

Information, Communication & Society –

Media, Culture & Society – The presentation of celebrity personas in everyday twittering: managing online reputations throughout a communication crisis

Journalist’s Resource –

OTHER ROUND UPS

Ed Yong’s Not Exactly Rocket Science Blog – I’ve Got Your Missing Links Right Here (15 March 2014)

Nieman Journalism Lab – This Week in Review: Newsweek’s scoop lands with a thud, and diversity in the new news sites

LSE Impact Blog – Impact Round-Up 15th March: The Cosmos of science communication, rallying for the humanities, and #itooamoxford.

Savage Minds Blog – Around the Web Digest: Week of March 9

Speakers of Science – Reads of the Week on March 14th 2014 – Racing Cells, diamonds, speed reading and more!

The Lancet – This Week in Medicine (March 15-21, 2014)

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Record of the Week (Week of 3 March 2014)

Posted on March 9, 2014 Updated on March 11, 2014

Here is some Science ,Technology and Society (STS)-type literature that caught my eye this week:/

ANTHROPOLOGY

Social Science & Medicine – Transnational nurse migration: Future directions for medical anthropological research

Committee on the Anthropology of Science, Technology, and Computing (CASTAC) Blog – Dominic Boyer on the Anthropology of Infrastructure – Part 1 , Part 2

CONSUMPTION

Environmental Policy & Governance – ‘Going Green’?: The Limitations of Behaviour Change Programmes as a Policy Response to Escalating Resource Consumption

Journal of Consumer Culture –

Journalist’s Resource – Impact of the new USDA school meal standards on food selection, consumption and waste

ENERGY

Globe and Mail –

Environmental Policy & Governance – Which Way Does the Wind Blow? Analysing the State Context for Renewable Energy Deployment in the United States

Energy Geographies Working Group Blog – World map of energy research released

ENVIRONMENT

Open Culture – New Google-Powered Site Tracks Global Deforestation in ‘Near-Real-Time’

HEALTH, MEDICINE, etc.

Social Science & Medicine – Attitudes toward vaccination and the H1N1 vaccine: poor people’s unfounded fears or legitimate concerns of the elite?

Climate Central – China’s Toxic Air Pollution Resembles Nuclear Winter

INNOVATION

R&D Management –

INTERNET

Information, Communication & Society – Revisiting the digital divide in Canada: the impact of demographic factors on access to the internet, level of online activity, and social networking site usage

The Guardian – 25 things you might not know about the web

NANOTECHNOLOGY

Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society – Russia’s Policy and Standing in Nanotechnology

RISK

Social Science & Medicine – Gender difference in the health risk perception of radiation from Fukushima in Japan: The role of hegemonic masculinity

Risk Analysis –

SOCIAL MEDIA

Social Media Collective – Facebook “Courage” Page versus the Knights Templar’s Cartel

Journalist’s Resource – What’s new in digital and social media research, February 2014: From Twitter and the Trayvon Martin story to geolocation and robot journalism

SCIENCE

Campaign for Science & Engineering – UK science and growth: doing more with the same

The Scholarly Kitchen blog –

Science & Technology Committee (UK) – Eighth Special Report – Work of the European and UK Space Agencies: Government Response to the Committee’s Fourth Report of Session 2013-1

Perspectives on Science –

TED – A 50-cent microscope that folds like origami

The Crux blog – Einstein’s Lost Theory Describes a Universe Without a Big Bang

Retraction Watch Blog – Nobel Prize winner calls peer review “very distorted,” “completely corrupt,” and “simply a regression to the mean”

The Yale Forum on Climate Change & Media –

SCIENCE – COMMUNICATION

New York Times – A Successor to Sagan Reboots ‘Cosmos’

Ars Technica – First look: Cosmos rebooted with Neil deGrasse Tyson

University Affairs – Professor’s Surgery 101 podcasts are a huge hit

Science & Education – Special Issue: Science and Literature

New Genetics & Society – Autobiologies on YouTube: narratives of direct-to-consumer genetic testing

TED – My DNA vending machine

Physics Buzz Blog – The Misappropriated Marie Curie

Journal of Science of Communication – The uncertainties of climate change in Spanish daily newspapers: content analysis of press coverage from 2000 to 2010 [OPEN ACCESS]

SCIENCE – HISTORY

The British Journal for the History of Science – John Flamsteed and the turn of the screw: mechanical uncertainty, the skilful astronomer and the burden of seeing correctly at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich

15 Minute History podcast – Episode 44: Climate Change and World History

SCIENCE – PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT

Sciencewise – Confessions of a Citizen Group member

Sense about Science – We’re calling for the timely publication of all government research

Communication Breakdown – A Gap in the Market for Science — an Interview with Mark Henderson about Launching Mosaic

New Genetics & Society – Implicit and explicit notions of valorization in genomics research

Science, I Choose You blog – How to expand your science outreach program? My slides from #IPSEC2014 conference

Climate Desk – Citizen Scientists: Now You Can Link the UK Winter Deluge To Climate Change

RANDOM

Brain Pickings – Brian Eno’s Reading List: 20 Essential Books for Sustaining Civilization

Open Culture – Getty Images Makes 35 Million Photos Free to Use Online

OTHER ROUND UPS

Don’t Get Caught – The Weekend read

Ed Yong’s Not Exactly Rocket Science blog – I’ve Got Your Missing Links Right Here (08 March 2014)

Ideating Energy blog – Weekly roundup (3 to 7 March): Energy, Education, Caste, Postcolonialism, Spivak

LSE Impact Blog – Impact Round-Up 8th March: Happy International Women’s Day, the failures of PowerPoint, and mental health in academia

Nieman Journalism Lab – This Week in Review: Flipboard scoops up Zite, and Getty sets its photos free (kind of)

Savage Minds – Around the Web Digest: Week of March 2

Social Media Examiner – This week in social media

Retraction Watch Blog – Weekend reads: “Too much success” in psychology, why hoaxes aren’t the real problem in science

** Last Updated 11 March 2014 **

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Record of the Week (Week of 24 February 2014)

Posted on March 2, 2014 Updated on March 3, 2014

This is a round up of science, technology and society (STS) literature that caught my eye during the week of 24 February 2014.

ANTHROPOLOGY

Committee on the Anthropology of Science, Technology, and Computing (CASTAC) blog – ‘Perils of Public Engagement: Are We All #engagedacademics Now?‘

( Literature about the debate around scholarly engagement in public to which the author refers to can be found here.)

Savage Minds blog

Somatosphere blog,

CLIMATE, ENERGY, etc.

Talking Climate – ‘Unsustainable practices: why electric cars are a failure of ambition‘

Mother Jones – ‘Marcellus Energy Development Could Pave Over an Area Bigger Than the State of Delaware‘

Climate Desk – ‘Study: Global Warming Will Cause 180,000 More Rapes by 2099‘

ENVIRONMENT etc.

EPA – Environment and Planning

EPC – Government and Policy – ‘The utilisation of environmental knowledge in land-use planning: drawing lessons for an ecosystem services approach‘

EPD – Society & Space – ‘Agency, affect, and the immunological politics of disaster resilience‘

INNOVATION

Making Science Public Blog,

INTERNET

Journal Information, Communication & Society – ‘Dimensions of Internet use: amount, variety, and types‘

KNOWLEDGE MOBILIZATION

KMbeing Blog – ‘The Important Role Of The Knowledge Broker‘

Institute for Knowledge Mobilization – ‘Franziska Broell on: Current Tides – Student led knowledge mobilization‘

An Institute of Development Studies Blog – ‘Influencing and engagement: Why let research programmes have all the fun?‘

RISK

New Genetics & Society – “It’s a risk that requires evaluation and rational appraisal”: emotion and infectious risk in xenotransplantation

Journal of Risk Research ‘‘Soft Law’ mechanisms for nanotechnology: liability and insurance drivers‘

SCIENCE COMMUNICATION

Canadian Science Writer’s Association (CSWA) – ‘CSWA Annual Conference Preliminary Programme‘

Compass Blogs – ‘But what do we DO with the science of science communication?‘

Speaking of Science blog – Speakers of Science’is here!‘

Culture Cognition blog – ‘Geoengineering & the cultural plasticity of climate change risk perceptions: Part I & Part II‘

AGU’s Plainspoken Scientist Blog – ‘Illustrated IPCC Haiku?‘

Dot Earth Blog – ‘Global Warming Basics from the U.S. and British Science Academies‘

Nature Climate Change – editorial ‘Scientist communicators‘

SCIENCE HISTORY

The British Journal for the History of Science, ‘Paolo Sarpi and the first Copernican tidal theory‘

Social History of Medicine – ‘The Prevalence of Syphilis in England and Wales on the Eve of the Great War: Re-visiting the Estimates of the Royal Commission on Venereal Diseases 1913–1916‘

SCIENCE & ART

From The Guardian’s Political Science Blog, ‘DevArt: Google’s powerful new move to arts patronage‘

SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION

Nature – ‘Publishers withdraw more than 120 gibberish papers‘

This story was also picked up by Slate, ‘How Gobbledygook Ended Up in Respected Scientific Journals‘
A commentary from a science communication consultant can be found at the FrogHeart blog, ‘Science publishing, ‘high impact’, reliability, and the practice of science’

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology,

SOCIAL MEDIA

Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication – ‘More Than Friends: Popularity on Facebook and its Role in Impression Formation‘

The British Psychological Society’s Research Digest – ‘The 100 most followed psychologists and neuroscientists on Twitter‘

SOCIOLOGY

Digital Sociology – ‘An Introduction to the Sociological Blogosphere‘

Sociological Imagination, ‘Superstar professors and their growing tendency to ‘do research’ in adverts‘

RANDOM

The Guardian’s Political Science Blog – ‘How the refrigerator got its hum‘

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology – ‘E-books versus print books: Readers’ choices and preferences across contexts‘

OTHER ROUND UPS

LSE Impact Blog – ‘Impact Round Up 1st March: Data sharing, the defence of disciplines, and PhD employment‘

Ed Yong’s ‘Not Exactly Rocket Science Blog’ – ‘I’ve got your missing Links Right here (01 March 2014)‘

Sociological Images Blog – ‘This month in SocImages (February 2014)‘

Science Borealis blog network – ‘Wrapping up February with Darwin‘

Don’t Get Caught blog, ‘The weekend Read‘

Savage Minds, ‘Around the Web Digest: Week of February 23‘

Somatosphere, ‘In the Journals, February 2014‘

Ideating Energy, ‘Weekly roundup (24 to 28 February): Energy, Health, Nationalism, Film & Television, Food & Globalisation‘

** Last Updated – 3 March 2014 **

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Record of the Week (Week of 17 February)

Posted on February 23, 2014

This week I begin to expand my weekly round up (under the clever title of Record of the Week) beyond academic literature.

ANTHROPOLOGY

Somatosphere Blog,

Savage Minds Blog,

An essay by Bianca C. Williams (Professor of Ethnic Studies), ‘Guard Your Heart and Your Purpose: Faithfully Writing Anthropology”

Doing Anthropology in Public

–> This piece was inspired by the following Op-Ed column in the New York Times Sunday Review, ‘Professors, We Need You!”

Understandably this has generated a tremendous response from academics (in addition to the ‘Doing Anthropology in Public’ piece)

Just Publics @365 has a Round up of Responses to Kristof’s Call for Professors in the Public Sphere

Also from Just Publics @365, ‘Cara Mertes on the Impact of Documentary‘

From Prof. Gillian Rose at Her Visual/Method/Culture/ Blog, ‘Interactive documentary – or interactive cinemascape?‘

Committee on the Anthropology of Science, Technology and Computing (CASTAC) blog, the question ‘What’s the Matter with artificial intelligence is asked?‘

GEOGRAPHY

Journal of Economic Geography,

‘The path- and place-dependent nature of scientific knowledge production in biotech 1986–2008‘

Technological dynamics and social capability: US states and European nations‘

Antipode
‘On the Performativity of Pill Pricing: Theory and Reality in the Economics of Global Pharmaceuticalization‘

NEW MEDIA / SOCIAL MEDIA / etc.

New Media and Society has a special section ‘Re: Search‘.

Nieman Journalism Lab, ‘Facebook friend of the court: The complicated relationship between social media and the courts‘

Social Media Collective Blog, ‘New anthology on media technologies, bringing together STS and Communication perspectives‘, and the link to Chapter 1 – Introduction

PUBLIC HEALTH

Public Health Perspectives of PLoS Blogs, ‘Breaking the cold chain: Why ditching refrigerators is a big deal for Africa‘

From PLoS One, ‘Fate of Clinical Research Studies after Ethical Approval – Follow-Up of Study Protocols until Publication‘ [OPEN ACCESS]

RISK etc

Journal of Risk Research, ‘Risk policies and risk perceptions: a comparative study of environmental health risk policy and perception in six European countries‘

Risk: Reason and Reality blog at Big think, ‘Dangerous MIS-reasoning in the name of survival‘

SCIENCE COMMUNICATION

There is a new science communication website in town, sciworthy.com (‘science news straight from the lab’).
– You can read why Graham Short (researcher at the California Academy of science) started sciworhty.com over at the Communication Breakdown blog

Knight Science Journalism ‘Why is the Washington Post reprinting university press releases in its Health & Science Section?‘

Science as Culture, ‘GM Crops in Hungary: Comparing Mass Media Framing and Public Understanding of Technoscientific Controversy‘

SCIENCE & SOCIETY

Matthew Nisbet and Ezra M. Markowitz published in PLoS One the following [OPEN ACCESS] study, ‘Understanding Public Opinion in Debates over Biomedical Research: Looking beyond Political Partisanship to Focus on Beliefs about Science and Society

Author commentaries can be found at the Climate Shift Project website, at The Breakthrough, at The Scientist, at The Conversation.

At The Guardian’s Political Science blog, Mike Galsworthy argues that within the context of the debate over Britain’s EU membership, Europe offers benefits for science and innovation. ‘Eurosceptics could damage British science and innovation‘

At the LSE Impact Blog, Dr. Mark Goodwin asks, ‘Do we need more scientists in Parliament?’His recently published research suggests that they make little difference?’
The original research article about which the above blog post was written can be found in the Journal of Parliamentary Affairs, ‘Political Science? Does Scientific Training Predict UK MPs Voting Behaviour?’

NSF (USA) released Science and Engineering Indicators on February 6 (I only came across it this week). This report provides an overview of the science and technology picture in the United States and comes out every two years. You can find a discussion of the chapter “Science and Technology: Public Attitudes and Understanding” at the Communication Breakdown blog.

UNIVERSITIES, HIGHER EDUCATION, etc.

A post from KMbeing blog on ‘Universities & Research in a Knowledge Society‘

Savage Minds blog – ‘What comes after the public university?

OTHER ROUND UPS

I recognise my limitations in tracking all kinds of interesting STS-related literature. Consequently, here are a few links to other round ups from around the web.

‘Around the Web Digest’ from Savage Minds can be found here.

‘Impact Round Up from 22nd February’ – Channels of academic influence, visualisations and turning raw data into actionable knowledge’from LSE Impact Blog is found here.

‘I’ve Got your missing links right here (22 February 2014)’ from Ed Yong’s Not Exactly Rocket Science blog can be found here.

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Record of the Week – in Journals (Week of 10 February)

Posted on February 16, 2014

Just some articles that caught my attention over the last week…

Over at Science as Culture, ahead of print, ‘City under the Ice: The Closed World of Camp Century in Cold War Culture‘.

Science and Public Policy has a new issue out (Volume 41 Issue 1 February 2014).The following articles are part of the issue:

The Heterogeneity of Knowledge and the Academic Mode of Knowledge Governance: Italian Evidence in the First Part of the 20th Century
Nanotechnology: Rhetoric, Risk and Regulation.
Individual Perception vs. Structural Context: Searching for Multilevel Determinants of Social Acceptance of New Science and Technology across 34 Countries
Government R&D Funding in Economic Downturns: Testing the Varieties of Capitalism Conjecture.
The Fall of Research and Rise of Innovation: Changes in New Zealand Science Policy Discourse.
The European Research Council and the European Research Funding Landscape.
Which Extramural Scientists Were Funded by the US National Institutes of Health from Its ARRA Funds?
Argumentative Practices in Science, Technology and Innovation Policy: The Case of Clinician-Scientists and Translational Research.
Governing ‘dual-Use’ Research in Canada: A Policy Review.

Science, Technology, & Human and Values has a special a special issue [March 2014 39(2)] out, ‘The Conceptual and the Empirical – expanding STS’ . It includes the following articles for your consideration.

The Conceptual and the Empirical in Science and Technology Studies
Continuous Variations: The Conceptual and the Empirical in STS
The Ethnographic Machine: Experimenting with Context and Comparison in Strathernian Ethnography
The Empirical as Conceptual: Transdisciplinary Engagements with an “Experiential Medicine”
Seamful Spaces: Heterogeneous Infrastructures in Interaction
Who Killed WATERS? Mess, Method, and Forensic Explanation in the Making and Unmaking of Large-scale Science Networks

Information, Communication & Society, new article, “Digital inclusion and social inclusion: a tale of two cities”

Environment and Planning D: Society and Space,

Advance online publication, “Biodiversity, purity, and death: conservation biology as biopolitics“.
Theme issue: A new apparatus: technology, government and the resilient city

Teaching and Teacher Education, special section ,”Scholarly Work Beyond Written Texts”

Learning and Individual Differences, special section, “Metacognition, Decision-making and Learning: New Trends and Developments”

The Internet and Higher Education, special section, ” Digital Teaching Portfolios and the Professional Learning University Community ”

Learning and Instruction, special section, “Cognitive and Affective Processes in Multimedia Learning”

International Journal of Public Health, “Smoking ban in workplaces reduces cardiovascular risk for workers”

Journal of Science Communication, “Use of scientific research by South African winemakers“

Risk Analysis, “Evaluation of Take-Home Exposure and Risk Associated with the Handling of Clothing Contaminated with Chrysotile Asbestos”

Journal of Risk Research, ” Dis-Ag-reement: the construction and negotiation of risk in the Swedish controversy over antibacterial silver”

Annals of Science, “The ‘Chemistry of Space’: The Sources of Hermann Grassmann’s Scientific Achievements”

The British Journal for the History of Science, “‘We want no authors’: William Nicholson and the contested role of the scientific journal in Britain, 1797–1813″; also volume 47(01) for march 2014 is also out.

**The aim is to develop this into a comprehensive round up of literature that I come across during the course of the week; not just the scholarly publications. Got to start somewhere!**

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