Thanks Tara 🌈, Zoe Leviston & Clare de Castella for working together on this piece 🙏. As we've learned, publishing work based on #Evaluation is challenging despite the consistent refrain that not enough is published about the value of public engagement. Kudos Journal of Science Communication (JCOM)

Latest paper: What’s the value of university events about climate change? Learning what we can do about it but also the social value of gathering with like-minded people who care, and post event discussions #scicomm . Thanx to fab co-authors!

Just seen this now — wow!

Congratulations Shima ziajahromi, another interesting bit of media in The Guardian article 'Turf war' about the environmental concerns of synthetic turf/recycled tyre crumb
Griffith University
Griffith Science & Environment
@GU_Sciences
theguardian.com/australia-news…

6th Annual State of Infrastructure & Engagement Survey: Closing very soon!
Calling all #infrastructure professionals who value the report and insights: your expertise fuels a whole year of evidence-based advice. Mobile friendly. 20 min. Big impact. 🐘🙂

Congratulations Simon Linke Simon Linke 🎤🐠 @simonlink Katie Turlington and Daniella Teixeira for the new 🐸 #ecoacoustics paper evaluating and optimising performance frog call recognisers for restoration monitoring in the #MurrayDarling

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Pic deborah bower 🐢 🌈 🐸

Out today: the high-level design for REF 2028 from Research England UK Research and Innovation.

Great to see People & Culture + Engagement & Impact on the same footing as Contr to Knowledge & Understanding - an important step towards broad, responsible research assessment.

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Need to know more before you apply for the Engagement Australia Excellence Awards 2023?
𝗙𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 > engagementaustralia.org.au/ea-awards/
Entries close 5pm AEST 4 August 2023!
#engagementaustralia #excellenceawards2023 #communityengagement #australianuniversities

📢New Publication! 'The dark side of artificial greening: Plastic turfs as widespread pollutants of aquatic environments'🌿

We have found that artificial turf fibers account for up to 15% of the meso- and macroplastics in rivers and sea surface waters!
doi.org/10.1016/j.envp…

Brilliant!

“Someone uploads a video on Tiktok with the little noises their cat makes while drinking milk, a man from Uzbekistan puts music on it, other musicians get together in an incredible mashup and the end result is one of the best videos in the history of the internet 💜”

More transparency needed in decision-making & investment in our major infrastructure: 'contractors and other companies associated with the 24km rail line will buy a stake in the special purpose vehicle in which the government will hold a majority share'
smh.com.au/national/nsw/b…

Megan Evans taking her PhD research to the federal government and telling it like it is. Powerful #scicomm , something for us to aspire too

Water privatisation is a con.

(Location: Thames Water HQ)

Why we need a public understanding of social sciences
'The social sciences are intrinsically entangled, at both the level of the research question and the research subject/object, with public knowledge, the knowledges of publics and public interests.' Good read ahead👇

“Leave this water alone. It’s from the beginning…”

A stunning film highlighting Traditional Owner opposition to the largest groundwater licence ever granted in Australia, in the desert of Central Australia. It will draw down the aquifer by 50m and destroy sacred sites.

Still time to sign up to this event ⬇️ it’ll be taking place online on Thurs 6th July 10am (BST/UK time), come along to find out more about the series and the first two books 📚:

📢 BOOKING OPEN for FREE #SiP_Research event!
14TH JULY 2023 Early Career Workshop, Exeter

Workshop for ‘early-career’ researchers and professionals interested in science in the public sphere, to network and plan for the future #SciComm #SciEnt #SciPolicy
eventbrite.co.uk/e/science-in-p…

Great tool to explore the infrastructure pipeline in Australia. Looks like the need for high quality #CommunityEngagement and social risk assessment is not decreasing anytime soon
ping @Sara_Bice Emerson M. Sanchez @hayleyhender

'care is an anathema to capitalism. Its virtues are capitalism’s vices....To the mainstream economist, the time-intensive work of care translates as low or stagnant productivity that’s ‘holding us back’ from growth we are so obsessed with' Tim Jackson cusp.ac.uk/themes/aetw/tj…

Wow this is pretty amazing. Academics undertake unconscious bias training to sit on panels but student evaluations which are massively biased are still a big component of promotion