Good science communication is a key force in driving change, but finding common ground can be a challenge – especially across linguistic barriers, says Jacqueline Gamboa.
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How is the rise of data-intensive research changing what it means to be a scientist?
Research involving vast quantities of data may be changing the image of scientific research, but is it changing the image of scientists too?
Scidata publishing better science through better data competition winner Jonathan Page.
An intrepid, khaki-clad explorer, machete in hand, cutting their way through some undiscovered wilderness. A bespectacled, grey-haired academic in a white coat, supervising some elaborate experiment in a lab, illuminated by glowing lights and flashing buttons. These are the classical images sometimes conjured when the word ‘scientist’ is mentioned.
Horace B. Carpenter as Dr. Meirschultz, a scientist attempting to bring the dead back to life in the 1934 film Maniac