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Check out Graham Dixon’s commentary about the research article written by Daniela, Ayelet and Keren Landsman about social media as a platform for health-related public debates and discussions.

Check out Yaela’s amazing radio interview about citizen science with Kol HaGalil HaElyon (“Voice of the Upper Galilee”)! Look for her segment between 21:30 – 30:00.

(Here’s a backup download link, just in case.)

A paper by Daniela, Ayelet and epidemiologist Keren Landsman, “Social media as a platform for health-related public debates and discussions: the Polio vaccine on Facebook,” has just been published by the open-access journal Israel Journal of Health Policy Research. Congrats!

Check out the shout-out for Ayelet and Tzipora’s latest paper in this editorial in Educational Psychology!

Tzipora will also give her graduation seminar this Tuesday, on November 15th, 2016, at 2:30 PM in the faculty auditorium (here’s the abstract in Hebrew).

Yaela will give a talk about “Science from the bottom up: Action research for promoting public engagement with science” at the conference entitled “Action Research: Participation, Public Sphere and Communities” at the Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning at the Technion, on November 29th, 2016.

The Biologists’ Talk (Siyaẖ Biologim), an annual professional development seminar for high school biology teachers, will take place on Tuesday, December 27th, 2016, at 9:30 A.M., in the auditorium of the Faculty of Science and Technology Education at the Technion. This year, the seminar will be organized by Aviv, just like last year.

Ayelet and Bruce Lewenstein (Cornell University) have a chapter about assessment in the newly published book, Science and Technology Education and Communication: Seeking Synergy (Sense Publishers). Hooray!

Check out the wonderful coverage of the CERN social media study (in Hebrew) by Amitai Ziv in a special edition of TheMarker earlier this month.

This story was published in the Yom Kippur Eve special issue about inspiring scientific studies.

Here’s a PDF version of the story as it appeared in print.