📢Are you a #scicomm organisation from Denmark, Finland, Greece, Norway, or Poland? If you’re ready to collaborate to advance science communication in your own country and across Europe, submit your Expression of Interest by 6 October and become a COALESCE Hub: forms.gle/CmsTwMCY4pCc...

Become a COALESCE Hub! 18 countries have already active participants in the network, creating a bridge between COALESCE resources and their #scicomm community. Organisations from 𝐃𝐞𝐧𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐤, 𝐅𝐢𝐧𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐝, 𝐆𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐜𝐞, 𝐍𝐨𝐫𝐰𝐚𝐲, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐏𝐨𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐝 can submit Expressions of Interest by 𝟔 𝐎𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫 forms.gle/Vu2h5ongSVe4...

📢Join COALESCE as a 𝐇𝐮𝐛! Expressions of Interest are opening today. If your #scicomm organisation is based in 𝐃𝐞𝐧𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐤, 𝐅𝐢𝐧𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐝, 𝐆𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐜𝐞, 𝐍𝐨𝐫𝐰𝐚𝐲, 𝐨𝐫 𝐏𝐨𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐝, don’t miss the opportunity to get involved! Here you can submit your Expression of Interest by 6 October 2025: forms.gle/dx7H5yJkytAw...

🎧 The new season of #SciCommConversations is out! Our first episode features @laurafoggrogers.bsky.social from @scicommsuwe.bsky.social, who spoke with @achintyarao.in about the Curiosity Connections Green Futures project. Audio and full transcript: coalesceproject.eu/2025/09/03/s... #SciComm

Explore our sister project PATTERN’s free online training and resources designed to boost Open and Responsible Research skills. Covering topics like #OpenAccess, FAIR data and more, the trainings are designed to support researchers at all career stages. ➡️ www.pattern-openresearch.eu/trainings/

Our latest newsletter – the first under the banner of the European Competence Centre for #SciComm – is now out! 📜 coalesceproject.eu?na=view&id=21 We have some highlights from our time at #PCST2025 (cc: @pcstnetwork.bsky.social) and updates from our COALESCE Hubs. Happy reading!

How can #policy support the work of science museums, science festivals and other science outreach organisations? 🆕Find it out in the updated version of the Policy Brief on excellent #scicomm for society at large through informal activities: zenodo.org/records/1578...

By June 25 you can register at the first webinar of the Training Series on Climate Disinformation, by @edmo-eu.bsky.social You will explore the problem of climate disinformation, its history, the actors behind it and its narratives in different European countries.

📢Are you a science researcher, science communicator or a non-specialist journalist seeking to improve #scicomm competencies? Check out our latest updates on #scicomm training that the EU Competence Centre will provide: coalesceproject.eu/2025/05/27/e... And stay tuned for future information!

🚨 New from #COALESCE: A guide to help #journalists tackle science reporting in times of crisis, from #pandemics to #environmental disasters. ✅ Tips, ethics & case studies to build #trust when it matters most. 📘 Dive in: coalesceproject.eu/2025/06/13/n... #SciComm #Journalism #TrustInScience

🗣️ Aoife Taylor, Trinity College Dublin, spoke at #Ecsite2025 on the future of #science & #society, using a #futuresthinking lens 🤝 She shared how #COALESCE supports science communicators facing misinfo, crises & trust challenges 🌐 Find out more! scicommcentre.eu #SciComm #TrustInScience

What a week! A huge thank you from the whole COALESCE team to anyone who visited us at our booth, attended our workshops and sessions or simply had a word with us during the @pcstnetwork.bsky.social conference in Aberdeen

We’re thrilled to share our friendly guide for journalists on communicating science in times of crises! 🗣️ zenodo.org/records/1546... If you are attending #PCST2025, you can meet the contributors to this guide in the #COALESCE booth in the exhibition hall. Come and say hello! #SciComm #PCST

If you are #PCST2025, please come say hello to our team at our booth. We’ll be near the posters all day, except during the keynotes. CC: @dorassessment.bsky.social

Yesterday, at #PCST2025, we announced early plans for the #SciComm training that we will be offering as part of the Competence Centre. coalesceproject.eu/2025/05/27/e...

Don't forget that as well as presenting at #PCST2025 MSc Science Communication Programme Leader @doc-webber.bsky.social‬ & members of the Science Communication Unit will be available during the week for a chat about the course! courses.uwe.ac.uk/P90012/scien... #scicomm #sciencecommunication

We’ve kicked off #PCST2025, with a workshop on Teaching and #AI, organised by the @pcstnetwork.bsky.social’s Teaching Forum and led by our own @andyridgway.bsky.social. #PCST #SciComm

Meet our team at our booth at #PCST2025! Today, we’re by the registration desk in Elphinstone Hall. Come say hello! #PCST

Are you attending #PCST2025? Let’s meet at the booth of the European Competence Centre for Science Communication (@scicommcentre.eu) to explore what tools the Competence Centre can offer to support daily #scicomm practices, connect scicomm communities and what training possibilities there are.

Our own @isabelmyp.bsky.social represented COALESCE at the #FORTHEMAlliance event on #SciComm as #KnowledgeTransfer taking place at @mainzuniversity.bsky.social today. Photo by @jasonpridmore.bsky.social.

Do you do #SciComm via immersive approaches using the senses of smell, taste or touch, in interesting and/or novel ways? 🤔 If so, please participate in our workshop! 📅 Date: 12 June 2025 ⌚ Time: 12:00–13:00 BST / 13:00–14:00 CEST 📍 Location: Online Register here: forms.office.com/e/FhpAPXEYtV

During last week @jomagellan.bsky.social (co-coordinator of @scicommcentre.eu) presented the Competence Centre platform at #EUSEA2025 conference by @eusea.bsky.social

First post here! We at FECYT just published the results of a national survey on Spain’s Science Communication Units (UCC+I), directed by Marta Entradas (ISCTE). 🔗 Summary (ES): comunicacioncientifica.fecyt.es/actualidad/q... 📘 Report & recommendations (EN/ES): www.fecyt.es/publicacione...

Come celebrate DORA’s 12th birthday with the launch of “A Practical Guide to Implementing Responsible Research Assessment at Research Performing Organizations”! With guest speakers in 3 sessions, we will introduce and discuss how the guide can help take action. See you there! bit.ly/DORAGuide-La...

Coalesce was presented as one of the featured projects at the Portuguese Science Communication Conference #SciComPT2025 held in Madeira from 9 to 11 April, organised by SciComPT - the Coalesce National Hub in Portugal.

#CitizenScience and participatory approaches to research are invaluable to society. Two new policy documents published last week focus on this crucial topic. 1. “Embedding citizen science into research policy”, by @oecd-ocde.bsky.social: www.oecd.org/en/publicati... (1/2)

🗓️ Join the COALESCE team at the pre-conference workshops on 26 May in advance of #PCST Conference in Aberdeen. Don't miss our sessions to talk about AI in science communication teaching, challenges in #scicomm teaching and more! To register visit: abdn.eventsair.com/pcst2025/reg...

The Journal of Science Communication (JCOM) has published a special issue on “Science Communication in the Age of Artificial Intelligence”. Read all the articles here: jcom.sissa.it/collections/... #ScienceCommunication #SciComm #ArtificialIntelligence #AI

What can you do with a #physics degree? Find out in this week’s @physicsworld.bsky.social Live, featuring careers experts from the American Physical Society, @instituteofphysics.bsky.social and quantum consultancy @qureca.bsky.social. register.gotowebinar.com/register/743...

Afin de stimuler l'écosystème de la communication scientifique en Europe, le consortium COALESCE (@scicommcentre.eu) a publié dans une note politique une série de recommandations. Pour les découvrir et en savoir plus 👉 : www.groupe-traces.fr/post/consort...

Do you engage the public with science or know someone who does? 🤔 Apply (or nominate someone) for the Falling Walls Foundation’s Science Engagement Breakthrough of the Year: falling-walls.com/falling-wall... #ScienceCommunication #PublicEngagement #SciComm

👩🏽‍🏫 #PCST Teaching Forum pre-conference workshop 📅 26 May 2025 📍 University of Aberdeen Linklater Rooms Don’t miss the pre-conference workshops dedicated to AI and #scicomm teaching and #scicomm and teaching in different contexts. >> abdn.eventsair.com/pcst2025/reg... Photo: Omar Flores, Unsplash

Our dear colleague @clarewilk4.bsky.social from @scicommcentre.eu will be participating in this event and you shouldn't miss it.

🗣️ Our friends at the REINFORCING Project are organising a capacity-building session on the importance of facilitation in the implementation of Open Responsible Research and Innovation, on 25 Mar and 2 Apr. Find out more and register: www.reinforcing.eu/news/capacit... cc: @stickydot.bsky.social

📢 Boosting the Science Communication Ecosystem in Europe The COALESCE consortium (behind @scicommcentre.eu) has published a series of recommendations on #SciComm aimed at multiple stakeholders, including funders and policymakers at different governance levels. zenodo.org/records/1477... 🧵⤵️

👏 The COALESCE-EUPRIO Spring School for Communication Officers “Bridging AI and Sustainability: Empowering European University Communicators“, which welcomed numerous communication officers to the Venice International University's headquarters on the Island of San Servolo, has just ended #scicomm

We are very happy to have joined the @scicommcentre.eu as a National & Regional Hub for Germany. We are looking forward to contributing to this network and to exchanging ideas about differences and similarities across countries & to learn from each other to foster #SciComm in Europe and beyond. 1/6

📢 Call for participants! 🎧 Sound and #ScienceCommunication 🎙️ Have you _heard_ the latest on science? We are looking for individuals and organisations who approach and communicate science in primarily “sound” forms (for example podcasts, Science Cafes, radio, dialogue, songs, etc.).

🤖 Engagement and #AI: exchanging experiences at the latest COALESCE case clinic coalesceproject.eu/2025/02/25/e... CC: @stickydot.bsky.social, @vuamsterdam.bsky.social #SciComm #ScienceCommunication #PublicEngagement #ArtificialIntelligence

📢 Call for participants! 🎧 Sound and #ScienceCommunication 🎙️ Have you _heard_ the latest on science? We are looking for individuals and organisations who approach and communicate science in primarily “sound” forms (for example podcasts, Science Cafes, radio, dialogue, songs, etc.).

📢 Attention all students aged 18–24: The #MAGICASummerSchool returns in July! It offers an opportunity to develop sustainable entrepreneurial projects, combining innovative ideas with emerging technologies. college.h-farm.com/en/magica-su... cc: @jpiclimatemagica.bsky.social #ClimateChange

We’ve updated our handle (and profile name) to reflect our work on co-creating the European Competence Centre for #ScienceCommunication. To tag us in future, please use @scicommcentre.eu. #SciComm

We present: A new instrument to measure people’s science literacy. #OpenAccess in #ScienceCommunication: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... 📢 It’s a 14-item #survey scale in English, German, French and Italian covering three key dimensions of science literacy: civic, media and cognitive literacy 💡

Join us in our new COALESCE Case Clinic dedicated to Artificial Intellingence 📆 12 Februrary 2025, 3pm-5pm 📍 Online 🎟️ Free Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #Scicomm #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #AI

This week, the results of a #Eurobarometer survey – on European citizen’s knowledge and attitudes towards science and technology – were released. Read @ec.europa.eu’s press release: ec.europa.eu/commission/p... #SciComm #PublicEngagement #TrustInScience (1/7)

In a post-truth era, when increasing levels of disinformation and #misinformation threaten science-society relations, this new COALESCE report looks at these critical challenges and offers strategies for diverse #SciComm communities to address them. zenodo.org/records/1330...

This morning, COALESCE’s very own Charlotte Bruns spoke on the topic “Science Speaks Pop” – about #NASA’s approach to #SciComm – at #Etmaal2025 in Bruges, #Belgium 🇧🇪. cc: @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social, @nefca.bsky.social, @etmaal2025.bsky.social

💬 Testing the training activities that will be part of the European Competence Centre for #scicomm is crucial An example is the “Science and Research Communication: How to Communicate to the Public 1”: an online workshop in cooperation with the FORTHEM Alliance > coalesceproject.eu/2025/01/30/r...

💡 Joining forces for a better science communication @jasonpridmore.bsky.social, @jomagellan.bsky.social and Aoife Taylor, in an interview by the Panel for the Future of Science and Technology, describe the importance of COALESCE and its future outcomes. 📰 Read: sciencemediahub.eu/2025/01/22/j...

There's still time to register to the COALESCE Case Clinic dedicated to engaging on artificial intelligence. If you're a #scicomm practitioner that explores AI with your audiences, join COALESCE in this workshop and share your experience > Learn more and register: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...