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Tressie on Crypto

Tressie on Crypto

Why public experts need other modalities besides argument.
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Bob Lalasz
COVID-Explained, Finally

COVID-Explained, Finally

The future of knowledge communication is here.
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Bob Lalasz
Twitter, Science, Power & Cal Newport

Twitter, Science, Power & Cal Newport

Does Science Twitter need blogging in a pandemic? Why Cal Newport is both right and wrong.
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Bob Lalasz
What to Do and Not to Do Now

What to Do and Not to Do Now

Communicating your research-based expertise in the teeth of COVID-19.
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Bob Lalasz
Science is Failing Its Communications Test

Science is Failing Its Communications Test

‘Follow the science’ & #notdying4WallStreet can’t obscure how science is losing the argument about COVID-19
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Don’t Just #flattenthecurve, #breakthechain to #killthemonster

Don’t Just #flattenthecurve, #breakthechain to #killthemonster

We’re going to need a more human (and sci-fi) metaphor to win this thing.
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Bob Lalasz
Don’t be a Riskhole

Don’t be a Riskhole

For COVID-19, your rationalist riskholery might actually be riskier
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Bob Lalasz
James Clear & the Abrupt POV Shift

James Clear & the Abrupt POV Shift

It’s kind of like changing your face or name.
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Assessing Your Writing Skills

Assessing Your Writing Skills

Sadly, knowing=doing
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Bob Lalasz
The Coming Agitation in Search & Social

The Coming Agitation in Search & Social

The new (old) solution: content & conversion
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Bob Lalasz
Blood Bags, Parking Tickets, WEIRDos & Big New Stories

Blood Bags, Parking Tickets, WEIRDos & Big New Stories

I see Nick Cage starring in the movie version of this study
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Scientists: Don’t Play Numbers Games

Scientists: Don’t Play Numbers Games

For one thing, there’s always somebody bigger
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Bob Lalasz
Nick Cage’s Laws for Q&As

Nick Cage’s Laws for Q&As

Three rules every Q&A you do should obey
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How to Nail a Microtargeted Research Campaign

How to Nail a Microtargeted Research Campaign

You can do this: It takes blood, sweat, email and a CRM
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Bob Lalasz
Research Organizations: You Need a Content Flywheel

Research Organizations: You Need a Content Flywheel

Or you could spritz around this nice cypress scent.
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Esther Duflo’s Home Run TED Talk

Esther Duflo’s Home Run TED Talk

How to present an idea, from a Nobel Prize winner
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The Fake News of Discovery Narratives

The Fake News of Discovery Narratives

Is your research communication promoting just another fake discovery narrative, or adding to real knowledge?
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Bob Lalasz
For the Birds

For the Birds

Stop Absolving Researchers for ‘Deceptive’ Research Comms
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Bob Lalasz
The Greta, Trump & AOC Effects

The Greta, Trump & AOC Effects

Our Age of Liberating Secret Identities
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Bob Lalasz
Greta’s New (Old) Rules

Greta’s New (Old) Rules

Is Greta Thunberg’s success an argument for restoring the deficit model of climate science communication?
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Bob Lalasz
Who’s Exaggerating the Death of Birds?

Who’s Exaggerating the Death of Birds?

Journalists? Science communicators? Scientists? Or all of us?
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Bob Lalasz
Making Research Easy

Making Research Easy

Hard is, increasingly, non-competitive.
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Bob Lalasz
Is Your Thinking Hydroponic?

Is Your Thinking Hydroponic?

Or floating free, untethered to impact?
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Bob Lalasz
Presenting Science vs. Creating a Campaign

Presenting Science vs. Creating a Campaign

Science can convince. But science + a campaign is far more likely to compel action.
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Bob Lalasz
Disasterology: What Public Scholarship Looks Like

Disasterology: What Public Scholarship Looks Like

It’s about engagement, timeliness, personal branding & building a resource
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