science communication – Adventures in Oceanography and Teaching

Currently reading Shreedhar et al. (2026) on “Tell don’t ask: how to use social media to mobilise local collective climate action”

mglessmer — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 08:49:59 +0000

Shreedhar et al. (2026) is a really important study on climate action and social media strategy: When you want to get people to do something (for example sign up for a talk), it’s much better to tell them to do it (“do not stand by idly!”) than to ask them for support, and it is […]

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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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Currently reading Shiffman & Wester (2025): “Scientists no longer find Twitter professionally useful, and have switched to Bluesky.”

mglessmer — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 13:53:52 +0000

I have complained a lot about how I miss the old Twitter that was such an important tool for me a decade ago, and most importantly during the pandemic, and how I have been looking for, and into several different, alternatives. And here is a paper that confirmed my impression that science Twitter has moved […]

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Currently reading and thinking about Sustainability Communication

mglessmer — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 07:00:44 +0000

Yesterday, I talked to someone about Sustainability Communication and what we should be teaching our students, and I was honestly expecting something like the Karpman Drama Triangle (see featured image) or something of that sort. Plus of course more sophisticated models. But turns out that Sustainability Communication is a much big field than I realized! […]

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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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Reading more about academics and social media

mglessmer — Thu, 23 May 2024 15:43:34 +0000

Clearly I am not completely done with Social Media yet, so much to read, so much to think about… I just read Mahon & Bergin (2024)’s “‘Sharing’, Selfhood, and Community in an Age of Academic Twitter”, which in the beginning describes an experience of X/Twitter that I can recognize: The urge to share new publications […]

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Social Media is dead, long live Social Media! Currently reading about a Social Media Entry Model for teachers (Machado et al., 2024)

mglessmer — Tue, 14 May 2024 19:25:47 +0000

Ok, so I just published two blog post, last weekend and today, on how I have lost interest in social media. And then I came across an article on a “Social Media Entry Model” for teachers to enhance student learning outcomes, by Machado et al. (2024), and here I am again… Curious enough to read […]

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Currently reading “Social media for academics” by Carrigan (2020)

mglessmer — Tue, 14 May 2024 17:18:19 +0000

I’ve been teaching about social media for academics in one way or another for a long time. I have recommended at least two books to read (links to my blogposts on “The Science of Communicating Science — The Ultimate Guide” by Craig Cormick, and “Communicating Climate Change” by A. K. Armstrong, M. E. Krasny, J. P. […]

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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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