And is "trust in science" the main problem to address for risky health issues? A problem is that science is viewed as partisan. Scientists do not always have to be the messengers - but when they are they should be trained on the science of science communication. 2/ - ThreadSky

lkfazio.bsky.social • 15 days ago

And is "trust in science" the main problem to address for risky health issues? A problem is that science is viewed as partisan. Scientists do not always have to be the messengers - but when they are they should be trained on the science of science communication. 2/

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lkfazio.bsky.social•15 days ago

Next, @malar0ne.bsky.social on perceived experts in anti-vaccine communities. Antidotly some of the most influential voices have MDs or other symbols of expertise. Collected twitter data in April 2021 when all us adults became eligible for COVID-19 vaccine. Two communities (pro and anti vaccine) 3/

lkfazio.bsky.social•15 days ago

More perceived experts in the pro-vaccine community but present for both. Look at the links shared- low quality sources are coming from anti-vaccine community, no difference between perceived experts and non-experts. Perceived experts in both communities share academic links. 4/

lkfazio.bsky.social•15 days ago

Are perceived experts disproportionately central to the community? Yes, overrepresented by a factor of two. Perceived experts also receive more engagements than similar non-experts in both the anti-vaccine and pro-vaccine community (boost is of similar size). 5/

lkfazio.bsky.social•15 days ago

Next Anita Nikolich, she's a security scientist.

Multi-disiplinary work is hard but necessary, abstracting technical details is okay, if all scientists know something but the public doesn't there's still work to do. 6/

lkfazio.bsky.social•15 days ago

Kristen Timm - reimagining science communication. We need not just good messengers/messages, we need good organizations.

She's working in Alaska in climate adaptation. Creating a formal organization that does communication around the research connected by all the scientists in the center. 7/

lkfazio.bsky.social•15 days ago

One example - communication around the rising and changing risk of avalanches. How can you communicate with all the different decision makers: utilities, residents, recreation, transportation, etc. Creating better systems for that communication. 8/

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