Category Archives: climate science

09Aug / 2015

When the Science is Not Enough: Communicating the Consensus on Climate Change

To highlight our coverage of the 2015 Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting (#ESA100) and an updated PLOS Responding to Climate Change Collection, PLOS Blogs invited atmospheric physicist and science communicator Sam Illingworth to discuss papers in the collection which demonstrate how scientists can better … Continue reading »

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Posted by in climate change, climate science, Ecological Society of America, ecology, esa100, Public science communication, scicomm, science communication

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25Jul / 2014

A fix for GMO battles? Plus sexual harassment during field research

 

Give us this day a fix for the GMO battles?

Two papers published in the last week were signal events for agricultural genomics. First was the draft of the huge, and hugely complex, genome of bread wheat, the …

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Posted by in anthropology, archaeology, climate science, CRISPR, Evolution, genetic engineering, Genetic Literacy Project, genetically modified organisms, Genome, Genomics, GMO, Human Evolution, media criticism, microbes, On Science Blogs, Politics, sexual harassment, wheat genome project, women

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