Exploring science communication

Science communication comes in many forms. Discover your favourite, says Andy Tay

There’s a few reasons why scientists may be discouraged from science communication. Here, I’m hoping to break down some of those barriers, and introduce channels and platforms where scientists can practise. First, here are some of the reasons stopping more scientists from practising science communication, as well as my rebuttals.

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Back to the thesis

We share Nature’s back to the thesis videos, and some of our favorite #threewordthesis tweets

Last week, Nature visited a few prominent scientists to take them back to their theses.

First up was Francis Collins, director of the NIH, with Semiclassical theory of vibrationally inelastic scattering, with application to H+ and H2 (1974). This is how it went.

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