scicomm – Adventures in Oceanography and Teaching

Currently reading MacInnes et al. (2026) on “Who do we trust on climate change, and why?”

mglessmer — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 18:08:20 +0000

What we believe about climate change often does not depend on what we know about climate change, but on what people around us believe. This makes it really difficult for climate scientists to make their warnings heard and acted upon by people outside their own bubble. In their article “Who do we trust on climate […]

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Currently reading “The psychology of climate change communication: A guide for scientists, journalists, educators, political aides, and the interested public” by Shome & Marx (2009)

mglessmer — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 14:58:25 +0000

This feels like a bit of a throwback to my science communication phase (for example reviewing the book “communicating climate change” in 2018, or “communicating climate change to young people” in 2014), but it’s always good to remind yourself of the basics… This guide is a very helpful in-a-nutshell summary of climate communications: Know your […]

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Some thoughts on yesterday’s Grand Seminar “Exploring the complexities and potentials of environmental communication”

mglessmer — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 15:42:45 +0000

Yesterday, I attended the Grand Seminar on “Exploring the complexities and potentials of environmental communication” organised by LU Sustainability Forum, BECC and MERGE at Lund University that my friend Terese had invited me to, and I am glad I did! It started out very strong, with Nina Wormbs speaking on “Legitimising non-action”. A lot of effort in […]

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Preparing a “fortune teller” for #WorldOceanDay

mglessmer — Sat, 05 Jun 2021 15:05:03 +0000

I thought I would try a playful approach to ocean sciences for #WorldOceanDay on Tuesday. When I think back to my PhD and postdoc days, I could well imagine printing and building something like the “fortune teller” shown above, and then go visit some of my colleagues to show it to them. I would have […]

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A scicomm comic on Rossby waves and hands-on teaching

mglessmer — Thu, 27 Aug 2020 12:05:28 +0000

Last year in pre-social distancing times, Torge and I brought hands-on rotating tank experiments into his “atmosphere and ocean dynamics” class. The “dry theory to juicy reality” project was a lot of fun — the affordable DIYnamics rotating tables are great to give students hands-on experiences in small groups and to see — by running […]

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Love this #scicomm idea! #MoreThanWeeds

mglessmer — Sun, 03 May 2020 13:49:21 +0000

The hashtag #morethanweeds popped up in my Twitter timeline yesterday (thanks to @aturealexk). I didn’t think about it much because I was participating in #birdrace (shoutout to my awesome virtual team GEO-Tag der Natur where my colleagues and I jointly saw almost 100 different species of birds within a day) and was busy looking for […]

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Fastest way to read up on the science of science communication? This book!

mglessmer — Sun, 12 Jan 2020 15:55:18 +0000

(Werbung ohne Auftrag // This blogpost is not sponsored) I strongly believe that all scicomm efforts should be grounded in the science of science communication. That means reading a lot of original literature, or … reading this book that I recently found. It’s a quick and fun overview over the current understanding of what works […]

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Guest posts, take-overs, interviews, and why I love them

mglessmer — Sun, 27 Oct 2019 13:05:31 +0000

Guest posts, take-overs and interviews are a great alternative to maintaining social media channels for every scientist / project / institution individually, if that isn’t what you want to be doing (or — as in my case — a great addition) As I am preparing a workshop on online science communication, I have been thinking […]

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Guest post by Dan Wallace: A machine learning system playing a game to super-human levels, using only plastic boxes and beads

mglessmer — Thu, 12 Sep 2019 05:03:36 +0000

Hi, I’m Dan Wallace, a PhD student at the Institute of Sound and Vibration Research in Southampton, UK. I’m interested in lots of areas of acoustics — here I am working on a prototype 3D audio system in one of our anechoic chambers, as part of my Masters project. Today though, I’d like to talk […]

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Why “But I don’t have anything interesting to say, I am just teaching a block course right now” is not a good excuse for not tweeting

mglessmer — Tue, 21 May 2019 10:29:08 +0000

Sometimes I feel like I have pressured all my friends into using social media for their science communication. Today I was talking to Kristin, who was apologetic about not having tweeted in a while and tried to excuse that by saying that she didn’t have anything interesting to tweet about right now because she is […]

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