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Last month, Ayelet and Yaela took part in a fascinating webinar about “Citizen Science in a Global Perspective” hosted by the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science. You are welcome to watch.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFQd3ukPZms
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Check out Rony and Ayelet’s new blog post about how scientists tell (their) stories on the Public Understanding of Science blog.
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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)!
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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).
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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.” -
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)
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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
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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).
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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.
