When scifi becomes scifact: Seven insights from the pandemic
Science fiction, or scifi, can be prescient, and scifi writers can become as ‘prophets’. Pandemics - and wars – have been used in scifi to hold a mirror to humankind...
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Selecting the right communication tools for collaborations
Computers and associated software have become vital tools for long range communication, particularly during the COVID pandemic. They can help people ‘talk around the world’, help maintain professional relations, and...
Read MoreCollaborator needs for communication in research teams
The face of collaboration is changing. The COVID-19 pandemic is fundamentally shifting the ways we work together. Where once we met face-to-face, the pandemic has opened the doors to far...
Read MoreCommunication needs for science collaboration
Collaboration is complex. It needs time and resources to establish and nurture. When it works, it provides immeasurable satisfaction and goodwill between individuals, groups and organisations as well as achieve...
Read MoreResearchers should have opinions – and let others know them
2020 is proving to be a busy year for epidemiologists. In the current global pandemic, media are daily seeking the wisdom and expertise of these scientific research specialists to help...
Read MoreWeaving your story using social media
Social media are important tools in a modern researcher’s box of communication tricks. Since the advent of Facebook in 2004, social media has been used to promote research stories locally,...
Read MoreWeb power
Websites can play a powerful role in communicating research, combining colour, sound, movement, words, pictures, connection, access, history and engagement with information - all in one package. Since they exploded...
Read MoreThe magic of television
Television holds a special place in broadcast media. TV stimulates the sound and sight senses so much that it invokes very emotional responses – it really grabs the viewer’s attention,...
Read MoreIt’s a moving feast
Ever seen a movie about making movies, and the director says to the actor standing in front of the camera, “Now do it again, this time with feeling!” This statement...
Read MoreSeeing is believing
How many times have you heard the saying, “a picture is worth a thousand words” or “seeing is believing”? Still images provide powerful communication. They stimulate one of our main...
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