Fall Term 2022: Science Communication
The CDS Brownbag HS22 is dedicated to the topic of Science Communication: Conveying Evidence, Risk, and Uncertainty.
The communication of scientific evidence has become of imperative interest given the backdrop of recent and anticipated financial, health, and ecological crises that require evidence-based decisions. This semester's program is concerned with both theoretical and practical efforts to improve science communication and public engagement with science with respect to communicating evidence, risk, and uncertainty.
Date | Time | Topic | Presenter | Location |
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Tuesday 20-Sep | 12:00-13:00 | Science in the Swiss Public: The State of Science Communication and Public Engagement with Science in Switzerland | Loreen Tisdall | Room 00.007 // Zoom |
Friday 23-Sep | 9:00-14:00 | CDS @ Museum für Kommunikation | Bern | |
Tuesday 27-Sep | 12:00-13:00 | How to communicate uncertainty? Practical examples of a public scientific institution Dr. Suzan Fiack, Head of Press and Public Relations, Department Risk Communication, German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) | Dr. Suzan Fiack | Room 00.007 // Zoom |
Tuesday 04-Oct | 12:00-13:00 | Journal Club Dhami, M. K., & Mandel, D. R. (2022). Communicating uncertainty using words and numbers. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 26(6), 514-526. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2022.03.002 | Room 00.007 // Zoom | |
Tuesday 11-Oct | 12:00-13:00 | Cookies and R with CDS MSc Students This is a meeting with MSc Students, Yunrui, Edi and Gayoung on R training. CDS members are welcome to join in! | CDS Room 1.001 // Zoom | |
Tuesday 18-Oct | 12:00-13:00 | Science communication in times of crises – Connecting science, society and politics Dr. Mirjam Jenny, Head of Science2Society at the University of Erfurt's Health Communication Lab | Dr. Mirjam Jenny | Room 00.007 // Zoom |
Tuesday 25-Oct | 12:00-13:00 | Journal Club Uscinski, J. E., Douglas, K., & Lewandowsky, S. (2017). Climate change conspiracy theories. In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Climate Science. https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190228620.013.328 | Room 00.007 // Zoom | |
Wednesday 26-Oct | 17:00-19:00 | 10th Bernoulli Lecture Prof. Dr. Karen Douglas, Professor of Social Psychology at the University of Kent, UK | Prof. Dr. Karen Douglas | Bernoullianum |
Tuesday 01-Nov | 12:00-13:00 | The use of simulation in risk communication Dirk Wulff | Dirk Wulff | Room 00.007 // Zoom |
Tuesday 08-Nov | 12:00-13:00 | Journal Club Franconeri, S.L., Padilla, L.M., Shah, P., Zacks, J.M., & Hullman, J. (2021). The science of visual data communication: What works. Psychological Science in the Public Interest, 22(3):110-161. https://doi.org/10.1177/15291006211051956 | Room 00.007 // Zoom | |
Tuesday 15-Nov | 12:00-13:00 | Journal Club Hussain, Mata, & Wulff (in prep.). Semantic accounts of risk perception. | Zak Hussain | Room 00.007 // Zoom |
Wednesday 16-Nov | 13:00-18:00 | Hackathon: Semantic Accounts of Risk Perception Creating a Data Story Find out more about our hackathon here: https://cdsbasel.github.io/risk/ | Zak Hussain | Room 00.007 // Zoom |
Tuesday 22-Nov | 12:00-13:00 | Hackathon: Semantic Accounts of Risk Perception Group Feedback Find out more about our hackathon here: https://cdsbasel.github.io/risk/ | Zak Hussain | Room 00.007 // Zoom |
Tuesday 29-Nov | 12:00-13:00 | Cookies and R with CDS MSc Students This is a meeting with MSc Students, Yunrui, Edi and Gayoung on R training. CDS members are welcome to join in! | CDS Room 01.001 // Zoom | |
Tuesday 06-Dec | 12:00-13:00 | Hackathon: Semantic Accounts of Risk Perception Group Feedback and Reflection Find out more about our hackathon here: https://cdsbasel.github.io/risk/ | Zak Hussain | Room 00.007 // Zoom |
Tuesday 13-Dec | 12:00-13:00 | Student Presentations | Room 00.007 // Zoom | |
Tuesday 20-Dec | 12:00-13:00 | Student Presentations and Wrap Up | Room 00.007 // Zoom |
Brown Bag: The CDS brownbag (colloquium) takes place in the form of weekly one-hour group meetings and is a forum for discussion and training for MSc students and CDS staff members.
Hackathon: Every semester all students and CDS members participate in a joint programming hackathon aimed at developing data-analysis skills (data visualization, programming, statistical modeling). Whenever necessary and desired, MSc students can receive prior training (e.g., during the CDS brown-bag colloquium or through additional workshops) to ensure a productive hackathon. For an example of a recent project and associated Hackathon please click here.
If you have any questions related to CDS events, please contact Laura Wiles.
To see previous CDS events, please go to previous events.
Other events
Students and faculty staff of the CDS department are also invited to take part in sessions and workshops of related interdisciplinary networks. Please check their individual website for details.
