Research spotlight! LSC PhD student Libby Foster presented at UW’s Sustainability Symposium, sharing how communities view energy storage projects. Even when concerns exist, there’s room for growth especially when involving trusted messengers and collaborative design.

Don’t miss Dr. Dominique Brossard at #SciWri25 on Nov 9! She’ll join a panel on childhood vaccines & how science writers can fight misinformation. With Tina Tan, Jessica McDonald & moderated by Dan Vergano. Register ⬇️ sciencewriters2025.org/register #ScienceCommunication

“As long as COVID and President Trump are the two most easily retrievable examples of what misinformation correction looks like, we have a problem.” Always great talking to (and getting pushback from) @kakape.bsky.social …

Want to start your own podcast, host your own radio show, or delve into the world of audio production? Check out our new online, asynchronous summer course, LSC 360: Science Podcasting & Radio! Learn more at: lsc.wisc.edu/2025/04/30/l...

✨Check our new paper👇

🙏 Many thanks to my excellent co-authors Isabel Villanueva and @kaipingchen.bsky.social @uw-lsc.bsky.social! Feel free to share our study, @comsher.bsky.social @elisabethbik.bsky.social @lakens.bsky.social @simine.com @fleerackers.bsky.social @forrt.bsky.social @aejmc.bsky.social #scicomm 🗣️

"LSC was the nation’s first department of agricultural journalism ... and now we are the first to launch a PhD program in science communication." The end of an era in @uw-lsc.bsky.social. Huge thanks to @brossard.bsky.social for all her work positioning LSC at the very top of our field ...

Missed this weeks talk? You can find a full recording at the link below! youtu.be/J1wb8hGiNsU

We are excited to announce that this Saturday, LSC Professor and Chair @brossard.bsky.social will be presenting on "Trust in Science: Where Are We and Where Do We Go From There" at St. Olaf College's Science Communications Conference Learn more at: wp.stolaf.edu/news/the-ins...

Join us this week at LSC's #scicomm colloquium to hear NASEM Senior Program Officer Tiffany Taylor present on "Understanding and Addressing Misinformation about Science: A National Academies Consensus Report". #UWLSC700 Learn more at: lsc.wisc.edu/2025/01/17/l...

Next week, @rutgerscomminfo.bsky.social Associate Professor @ognyanova.bsky.social will be presenting on "False beliefs in unusual times: The role of trust, technology, and social ties" at LSC's #Scicomm Colloquium! #UWLSC700 Learn more at: lsc.wisc.edu/2025/01/17/l...

THIS WEEK, @ucsandiego.bsky.social Professor John Evans will be presenting on "The Ethics of Human Brain Organoids and Human-Animal Neural Chimeras: The Public and Bioethicists" at LSC's Spring #scicomm Colloquium. Learn more at: lsc.wisc.edu/2025/01/17/l...

THIS WEEK, Dr. Laura Witzling, Program and Policy Analyst at the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin, will be presenting on "Making Connections: SciComm and the Electrical Grid" at LSC's #Scicomm Colloquium. Learn more at: lsc.wisc.edu/2025/01/17/l...

It was great to participate in this report, thanks for inviting me! #scicomm #trustinscience

Want to make the most out of your spring break by spending time outside? Learn more about ice and outdoor recreation safety with LSC Associate Professor @nanli.bsky.social, featured in recent reporting from the Badger Herald. Read more at: badgerherald.com/news/campus/...

Next week, University of Michigan Professor Sol Hart will be presenting on "Climate Change Advocacy and Engagement" at LSC's #scicomm colloquium. Join us in person or follow along on X at #UWLSC700 Learn more at: lsc.wisc.edu/2025/01/17/l...

New name, same great program. The Department of Life Sciences Communication has answered the growing demand for experts in science communication with the newly renamed Science Communication PhD program. Learn more at: lsc.wisc.edu/2025/03/06/d...

Next week, Ohio State University Associate Professor Graham Dixon will be presenting on "The Challenge of Addressing Pluralistic Ignorance: Vaccination as a Case Study" at LSC's #scicomm colloquium Join us in person or follow along on X at #UWLSC700 Learn more at: lsc.wisc.edu/2025/01/17/l...

This week, UW-Madison iSchool Assistant Professor Jacob Thebault-Spieker will be presenting on "Online Communities, Information Gaps, Content Ecosystems and AI" at LSC's spring #scicomm colloquium. #UWLSC700 Learn more at: lsc.wisc.edu/2025/01/17/l...

"Science" doesn't discover new medicines, develop new diagnostic tools, or save lives Scientists do that Decades of taxpayer support for biomedical scientists have returned countless discoveries to the American People What does that funding mean to those scientists? morgridge.org/story/the-am...

This week, University of Utah Assistant Professor @freiling.bsky.social will be presenting on "Generative AI, Social Media Algorithms, & Misinformation" at LSC's #scicomm Colloquium. Join us in person or follow along on X at #UWLSC700 Learn more at: lsc.wisc.edu/2025/01/17/l...

This week, Indiana University Assistant Professor Jessica Eise will be presenting on "Colombian Coffee Farmers in the Face of Climate Risks: Tailored Communication to Support Adaptation" at LSC's #scicomm Colloquium. Learn more at: lsc.wisc.edu/2025/01/17/l...

I am so proud of this report. It was a career highlight to be part of the #SciPEP (Science Public Engagement Partnership) leadership team. Some of folks who are featured: Sara Yeo, Carrie Funk, @johnbesley.bsky.social, @toddnew.bsky.social, @moefeliu.bsky.social.

Missed this week's colloquium? You can find a full recording at the link below! #UWLSC700 youtu.be/Hhc2kJvl4OA?...

Communities across Wisconsin are continuing to debate removing fluoride from local water supplies. LSC's @brossard.bsky.social comments on this evolving situation in recent reporting from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Read more at: www.jsonline.com/story/news/2...

At #AAAS2025? Join us to discuss policymakers' unmet desire to collaborate with scientists Friday, February 14th at 2:30, room 310! #scicomm #sciencepolicy (with @moefeliu.bsky.social, Adam Seth Levine and Elizabeth Day)

This week, LSC's @kaipingchen.bsky.social will be presenting on "Auditing Equity in Large Language Models: Insights from dialogue and image classification tasks" at our Spring #scicomm Colloquium. Join us in person or follow along on X at #UWLSC700 Learn more at: lsc.wisc.edu/2025/01/17/l...

In light of Meta's announcement to discontinue third-party fact-checking on their platforms, LSC's @brossard.bsky.social comments on how these changes could effect users in recent reporting from Badger Herald. Read more at: badgerherald.com/news/campus/...

“Our phenomenal faculty are top experts in the field, constantly engaging in innovative research and teaching." Excited to see our 1950s Mass Communications program transition into @uwmadison.bsky.social's brand new Science Communication Ph.D. ...

✨Excited to get the best article award with my amazing coauthors. This is our article link: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Next week, science photographer and researcher Felice Frankel will be presenting on "More than Pretty Pictures" at LSC's #scicomm Colloquium. Join us in person or follow along on X at #UWLSC700 Learn more at: lsc.wisc.edu/2025/01/17/l...

Interested in following along? We'll be live tweeting today's talk on BlueSky! Follow along at #UWLSC700 to learn more.

Next week, University of MIchigan Professor Maria Carmen Lemos will be presenting on "Scaling Up Actionable Knowledge for Sustainability" at LSC's #scicomm Colloquium. Join us in person or follow along on X at #UWLSC700 Learn more at: lsc.wisc.edu/2025/01/17/l...

Next week, University of MIchigan Professor Maria Carmen Lemos will be presenting on "Scaling Up Actionable Knowledge for Sustainability" at LSC's #scicomm Colloquium. Join us in person or follow along on X at #UWLSC700 Learn more at: lsc.wisc.edu/2025/01/17/l...

Great way to start the spring semester with an intro to #scicomm lecture to graduate students in the Freshwater School at the University of Milwaukee! Thanks for having me.

LSC's annual science communication colloquium is back for another amazing semester! Join us and our lineup of guest speakers to explore #scicomm, science policy, emerging technologies and much more. Learn more about this years speakers at: lsc.wisc.edu/2025/01/17/l...

In reporting from @isthmusmadison.bsky.social, LSC Professor and Chair @brossard.bsky.social comments on the recent public debate surrounding removing fluoride from local water supplies. Read the full story at: isthmus.com/news/news/an...

🚨New paper out. Combining a large-scale survey with an extensive #COVID media archive in five countries, we show that fear in headlines boosts our sense of risk, but can actually reduce how often we follow preventive measures. 👇 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🎉🎉 Congratulations to Kaiping Chen (@kaipingchen.bsky.social) for being promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in LSC! 🎉🎉 #OnWisconsin #scicomm

🚨Excited to share our new publication @jmcquarterly.bsky.social. In our experiment, we showed promising evidence of how to design intergroup framing in news coverage to reduce conspiracy beliefs in the context of Sino-U.S. relationship👇 #journalism #scicomm journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Bittersweet meeting at the U.S. National Science Foundation last Friday, as I held my last meeting as the Chair of the Advisory Committee for the Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences after 6 years in the role. It was a pleasure working with so many talented individuals! #sciencepolicy

Congratulations to LSC Assistant Professor @kaipingchen.bsky.social and Professor Mike Xenos for receiving Vilas Faculty Investigator Awards for teaching and research excellence! 🎉 #OnWisconsin #scicomm Learn more at: lsc.wisc.edu/2024/12/12/l...

🚨🚨Check out this timely forum on standardization in Computational Communication Science👇 It’s such a great learning experience to think and write about this with other amazing scholars!

Have you tuned in to LSC professor and chair Dominique Brossard on the radio this week? If not, you can find a rebroadcast of the interviews from WPR and WORT at the links below! www.wpr.org/shows/wiscon... www.wortfm.org/monbuzz24120...

Missed LSC professor and chair @brossard.bsky.social on WISC-TV (Channel 3000) last week? You can now watch the full interview on vaccine hesitancy at the link below! (Interview begins at 22:23) www.channel3000.com/video/news-3...

🎉Congratulations to LSC Professor and Taylor-Bascom Chair Dietram Scheufele for being inducted into the American Academy of Political and Social Science! 🎉 Learn more at: www.aapss.org/2024-fellows...

In recent reporting from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, LSC Professor and Chair @brossard.bsky.social weighs in on the impact of the nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the Department of Health and Human Services. Read the full story at: www.jsonline.com/story/news/h...

🎉 Congratulations to LSC Alumni Tara Yang for receiving a Forward Award from the Wisconsin Alumni Association! Interested in learning more about Tara and her work? You can read more at: lsc.wisc.edu/2024/11/05/q... Photos provided by WAA, photographer: Andy Manis

Missed last week's Fearless Science Speaker series with LSC Professor @dietram.bsky.social ? You can find a recap in a recent article from The Badger Herald covering the event. Read more at: badgerherald.com/news/science...

📢 We are hiring 📢 Teaching Faculty position in LSC Are you a communicator or marketer with a passion for teaching? Do you have experience in media design, web design, and social media? Click the link below to learn more about this position with LSC! jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/teachin...