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Many scientists want to open up an age-old system of submitting private research to commercial journals that they say is hidebound, expensive and elitist.

If reporters wrote stories the way some scientists seem to want, few people would read science coverage.

The session, INcredible: Stories in Science, explored not only how scientists gain, maintain and lose credibility, but also how that kind of credibility translates over into writing about science and scientists.

Compared to thirty years ago, the image of scientists in television and film is almost exclusively positive....

Scientists often solve problems by forming networks. The process is highly social, extremely challenging and purposely iterative. You perform the same experiment again adn again just like in a game.

Under their white coats, scientists are much less intimidating than many people seem to think

Seminal thinking on science, culture, and intellectual life by icons like George Dyson, Brian Eno, Douglas Rushkoff, Daniel Dennett and more.

CERN launches a new policy bringing artists and scientists together to inspire each other's work.

Imagine Science Films is a non-profit organization committed to promoting a high-level dialogue between scientists and filmmakers. ISF encourages a greater collaboration between scientists who dedicate their lives to studying the world and filmmakers who have the power to interpret this knowledge.

I have been teaching science communication workshops for scientists for over two years, and not much from those seminars is met with more skepticism than when I say Twitter can be a great tool for science outreach, even for professional development.