Month: November 2017
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And Which Wall Falls Next In Your Head?
The Falling Walls Conference in Berlin commemorates the fall of the Berlin Wall. Renown scientists from around the world present Breaking Walls research. In times of rising political walls, this year’s conference took a political stance: It demanded freedom for science. A big step for science that admits: Science is political! Science is changing its…
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Alternative Facts Stop Here
By Aisling Irwin, science journalist, ABSW These days, scientists are dismayed at the devaluation of their principal currency: the fact. At the Falling Walls 2017 conference in Berlin last week they were making this very clear. Hundreds of delegates at the annual meeting of scientific luminaries posed in front of the splendid Brandenburg Gate holding…
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Who’s afraid of science journalists? Portugal’s scientists step into journalists’ shoes
By Vera Novais, Observador The “Who’s afraid of journalists?” session at SciComPT2017 meeting, in Portugal, explored the tricky relationship between journalists, scientists and press officers by having them role play each other’s jobs What would happen if you put a scientist into a newsroom, and a journalist into a research lab? They might just have…