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We should not wait until the next pandemic or natural disaster to prepare scientists to speak.
When science is understandable, we all win. I've started a national petition calling on all institutions of higher education, and their accreditors, to require science communication and public engagement training for all STEM degrees.
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@raventhesciencemaven The petition mentioned is on change.org here https://www.change.org/p/fight-the-misinformation-epidemic-make-communication-required-in-science-degrees
(Aside: no need to use link-shortening/obscuring on mastodon AFAIK all links count as at most 23 characters)
@raventhesciencemaven here's the clickable link: https://www.change.org/p/make-science-make-sense-now-teach-communication-in-every-science-degree-program
luckily, Mastodon doesn't punish people by downranking posts that contains links, so there's no need to do the hide and seek with the algorithm (:
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