I'm delighted to be part of this panel event exploring Communicating in a Crisis - at UCL on 12th March. We'll be exploring the role of scientists in public communication during emergencies. Do join us - and bring questions! Book tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/communicat... - ThreadSky

profaliceroberts.bsky.social • 1 day ago

I'm delighted to be part of this panel event exploring Communicating in a Crisis - at UCL on 12th March. We'll be exploring the role of scientists in public communication during emergencies.

Do join us - and bring questions!
Book tickets here:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/communicating-in-a-crisis-lessons-learned-five-years-after-covid-tickets-1219291827679?aff=oddtdtcreator&fbclid=IwY2xjawItZolleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHW8chFNDBpr6DC-LgJ6PqRIq5jdOcd33nHcppRmQj_bZkxxt5ImtimS0Wg_aem_yYpqRfxBXASTvEyETxYpJA

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billiousman.bsky.social•1 day ago

My question is aren't scientists as divided on subjects and possible solutions as any other profession, other than obvious fundamentals?

marnixr.bsky.social•1 day ago

That's the problem of being a scientist nowadays, isn't? How do you sound authoritative without coming across as dogmatic? How can you convince your audience that your agreement with the consensus is because of the data and not because you're a sheeple, or worse, supporting a conspiracy?

wulfsternhammer.bsky.social•1 day ago

No Neil Oliver? 😀

falconer59.bsky.social•1 day ago

I hope there are more there

profaliceroberts.bsky.social•1 day ago

I hope to explore questions such as:

What did we learn from COVID?
Do scientists have a responsibility to communicate directly with the public?
What tensions exist when scientists are informing politicians as well as communicating with the public?
Can scientists help hold policy-makers to account?

acarpen.bsky.social•1 day ago

Please can you help persuade politicians to bring back lifelong learning programmes for the things science has taught us since our generation left school in the 1990s. https://cambridgetownowl.com/2025/02/23/a-top-20th-century-astronomer-helps-make-the-case-for-lifelong-learning-for-science-and-engineering/ Note Carl Sagan’s cautionary note from 1996.

acarpen.bsky.social•1 day ago

See also the Commons Education Select Committee calling for a renaissance in lifelong learning back in Nov 2020. https://committees.parliament.uk/committee/203/education-committee/news/138043/mps-call-for-adult-skills-revolution-to-foster-new-culture-of-lifelong-learning/

chrisblinker.bsky.social•1 day ago

I think in all honesty it should be the scientists making such big decisions than the PM, if it wasn't for a late Christmas lockdown my mother would have never needed to be put into a coma and miss the whole of January. I was lucky but many weren't. Boris used that Christmas to political point score

profaliceroberts.bsky.social•1 day ago

The prestigious panel includes:
Professor Sir Jonathan Van-Tam - Deputy CMO 2017-2022
Professor Susan Michie - Health Psychology
Professor Jack Stilgoe - Science and Technology Studies
Dr Cath Haddon - Institute for Government (IfG)
Dr Philip Ball - prize-winning science writer and broadcaster

kimberlyeditor.bsky.social•1 day ago

No online option 😥

dennispatton.bsky.social•9 hours ago

Good questions. The Tories "seemed" to muffle scientists during Covid. But are Labour doing the same?

danielstrawbs.bsky.social•1 day ago

The Amazing Alice Roberts!!

Thanks for all the work you do and sharing it with us, the public, in a way which we can digest it all.

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