Wow - what a response to the #pcst2025 call for abstracts - well over 700 submissions! Our reviewers are now hard at work evaluating the submissions - looks like we're going to have a fantastic line up for you all.... PCSTNetwork

📢 New publication in Pᴜʙʟɪᴄ Uɴᴅᴇʀsᴛᴀɴᴅɪɴɢ ᴏғ Sᴄɪᴇɴᴄᴇ 𝑱𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒏𝒂𝒍🥳 doi.org/10.1177/096366… We examine how #ChatGPT portrays science-related topics like #climate change, #vaccinations or the #replication crisis by conducting “simulated interviews” and combining #qualitative + #computational analyses. For more👇

Finally, some years of work and engagement have materialised in this encyclopedia of #STS. Many thanks to the + 90 authors who contributed! And what a pleasure it has been to go on that adventure with Alan Irwin - thanks for being such a great colleague, conspirator and friend!

Dublin's O'Connell bridge in 1958.

1) This is a useful concept explication of the importance of media / intellectual pluralism + differences by models of public sphere by Jolan Urkens, Jaron Harambam, Leen d'Haenens. journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.11… The Honest Broker dominique brossard James Shanahan dietram a. scheufele Andrew Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ Declan Fahy

Wrote today on that other thing I spend most of my waking hours thinking about: food. To be precise, the politics of food. dublininquirer.com/2024/12/04/in-…

Cover reveal! Delighted to show-off the cover image for ‘Dillon Rediscovered’, my biography of E.J. Dillon, a special correspondent with The Daily Telegraph, coming next spring. Brilliantly designed by Oonagh Young; published by Martello Books. #dillonrediscovered The Telegraph

Front page of The News after the death of Albert Einstein, 1955.

The year ahead in climate change: rows over data centres, nitrates, and more, but the direction of travel has been set. My take in the Irish Independent (free to access): independent.ie/opinion/commen…

.Dublin City University graduates, including those from former linked colleges St Pats Drumcondra and Mater Dei Institute, will have a vote in future Seanad elections. Important that you register

Excited to see our 1950s Mass Communications doctoral program transition into @uwmadison's brand new Science Communication Ph.D. ... news.cals.wisc.edu/2025/02/03/dep… #scicomm Phil(ippe) Martin

Q&A: It promises to boost research, industry and education. So, why has it taken so long for Ireland to join Cern? irishtimes.com/science/2025/0…

New book with Brian Trench Science Communication: The Basics is available for pre-order, starting today! a.co/d/gL2XPg4 routledge.com/Science-Commun…

Session 2 of our public engagement series - on lessons of the Covid19 pandemic has attracted a lively crowd - expertly chaired by ⁦Padraig Murphy @padraigmurphy.bsky.social⁩

We've got a new one out! Check out what's in our April 2025 🔗journals.sagepub.com/toc/PUS/current

In our latest blog, Massimiano Bucchi uses a short theatrical vignette to invite critical reflection on a certain aspect of #university comms strategies. sagepus.blogspot.com/2025/04/a-new-… #scicomm

Become an effective communicator of science & health 🔬🎓 Dublin City University’s MSc in Science & Health Communication creates uniquely skilled science communicators sought after by industry: dcu.ie/courses/postgr… School of Comms DCU @Declanfahy10 Brian Trench DCU Science & Health Comm ISTJA

"From science communication to systemic public deception: The case of the ITER big science project," by Michel Claessens Open-access at Public Understanding of Science for the next six months: doi.org/10.1177/096366….

"Timing is everything". My new book "Geniuses, Heroes, and Saints: The Nobel Prize and the Public Image of Science" featured in the The MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social reader: thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-joys-and-s… #science #books #nobelprize

The Brutalist architecture of the Washington D.C. Metro system