Author Archives: Aviv Sharon
Aviv Sharon
July 3, 2016
Check out Rony and Ayelet’s new blog post about how scientists tell (their) stories on the Public Understanding of Science blog.
Aviv Sharon
June 23, 2016
Our study about public engagement with particle physics on CERN’s social media platforms has been covered on the Technion website, on the Times of Israel (in English) and on nrg, News1 and Zman Tsafon Sharon (in Hebrew)!
Aviv Sharon
June 16, 2016
Check out this coverage of Yaela’s Ph.D. project and related air quality research on the Zavit website, in a story entitled “There’s Something in the Air” (in Hebrew).
Aviv Sharon
June 16, 2016
Sophie gave this fascinating interview to Ynet, published a few days ago (in Hebrew). Here’s a key quote:
Q: What message do you want to convey to parents who discover that their child has a hearing impairment?
A: “The top message I want to convey is a sentence I once ran into: Behind children who believe in themselves, there are parents who believed in them first.”
Aviv Sharon
May 30, 2016
Check out this Walla! story (in Hebrew) regarding the round table discussion Ayelet organized on May 19th about health and science coverage at the Second Authority for Television and Radio. The event brought together science and health reporters from various Israeli media outlets with scientists, physicians and other science communicators. (PDF version)
Aviv Sharon
May 29, 2016
Ayelet has been elected as one of the seven new members of the Israel Young Academy! (See announcement in Hebrew.)
Also, check out our new publication in PLOS ONE:
Kahle, K., Sharon, A. J., & Baram-Tsabari, A. (2016). Footprints of Fascination: Digital Traces of Public Engagement with Particle Physics on CERN’s Social Media Platforms. PLOS ONE, 11(5), e0156409. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0156409
Aviv Sharon
May 23, 2016
You are invited to join us at the seminar entitled Citizen Science Between the Disciplines on Tuesday, June 28th, 2016, organized by Ayelet. Some of the talks will be delivered in Hebrew and others in English.
Presenters will include Dr. Moshe Elhanati (Tel Aviv University), Prof. Denisa Kera (National University of Singapore) and Prof. Assaf Shwartz (Technion – Israel Institute of Technology).
Aviv Sharon
May 16, 2016
Ayelet will be giving a talk (in Hebrew) about “Science Communication in Israel and Around the World” at a conference entitled “How to Connect People to Science?” at the Davidson Institute of Science Education at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, on Thursday, June 30, 2016.
Aviv Sharon
May 16, 2016
Check out Prof. Bruce Lewenstein’s newly published interview with Globes (in Hebrew).
The interview was conducted when Bruce was our special guest at the Sixth Israeli Science Communication Conference in June 2015.