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Bob Lalasz
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We hear it all the time: "Listen to the science!” So why aren't more people paying attention — and what can we do about it? On Science+Story, we talk with leading scientists, researchers and communicators on how they get the world to listen to them — and how we can all better spread what science wants to us to know.

Episodes

  1. Stefan Byrd-Krueger: Measuring the Impact of Your Content

    08/20/2021

    Stefan Byrd-Krueger: Measuring the Impact of Your Content

    The chief analytics officer of the firm ParsonsTKO talks about what content metrics he looks at closely, why research organizations need to promote their individual experts more, why he thinks the research sector is finally ready to level up the ways it measures content impact, and why a new project at ParsonsTKO aims to bring data innovation to the research world at large.

    43 min
  2. Gemma Derrick: Grimpact -- When Research Goes Very Bad

    07/16/2021

    Gemma Derrick: Grimpact -- When Research Goes Very Bad

    Derrick, a senior lecturer in higher education at Lancaster University, talks with Bob about what research grimpact is, when and why it occurs, why it’s so difficult for researchers to imagine, and why the drive for impact in research actually fuels grimpact.

    37 min
  3. Faith Kearns: Getting to the Heart of Science Communications

    05/12/2021

    Faith Kearns: Getting to the Heart of Science Communications

    Faith on the limits of performative science communication, the risks of communicating science and her new Island Press book, "Getting to the Heart of Science Communications."

    51 min
  4. Daniël Lakens: Red Teams for Research?

    04/24/2021

    Daniël Lakens: Red Teams for Research?

    To improve on peer review, social psychologist Daniël Lakens is subjecting research to a "red team" approach from software, where developers pay independent teams bounties to find bugs in their code. He even thinks red teaming your research could make communicating it easier by certifying its credibility.

    38 min
  5. Amy Dickman on Lions, Celebrities, Hunting & Evidence

    03/26/2021

    Amy Dickman on Lions, Celebrities, Hunting & Evidence

    Lion conservation scientist Amy Dickman on the evidence & emotion around trophy hunting in Africa.

    49 min
  6. Hugh Possingham: Culling Koalas, Dreary Conservationists & His SciComm Failures

    02/19/2021

    Hugh Possingham: Culling Koalas, Dreary Conservationists & His SciComm Failures

    Queensland's chief scientist on arguing with science skeptics, being a scientist/advocate & how maps lie.

    51 min
  7. Daniel Swain: The Climate Scientist-Communicator

    11/17/2020

    Daniel Swain: The Climate Scientist-Communicator

    The UCLA climate scientist on why his position as a scientist-communicator is so rare.

    46 min
  8. Todd Reubold on Journalism vs. Research Comms

    10/27/2020

    Todd Reubold on Journalism vs. Research Comms

    Ensia's publisher on how to cover climate change for people who don't want to hear about it and why Greta Thunberg is so much better at communicating science than most scientists.

    47 min
  9. Samantha Montano: Being a Disasterologist

    10/27/2020

    Samantha Montano: Being a Disasterologist

    The disaster science and emergency management scholar on why she's so good at public engagement, what sucks about how the media cover disasters, and why she hid her age and gender when she first started on Twitter.

    35 min

  10. SEASON 1 TRAILER

    Trailer

    Not another podcast with scientists telling stories! Uh, nope.

    1 min
  11. Natalia Mehlman Petrzela on Public Scholarship & Owning Your Ideas

    10/27/2020

    Natalia Mehlman Petrzela on Public Scholarship & Owning Your Ideas

    The New School historian on when to turn down a media opportunity, why corporations need historians on staff, how she preps for a podcast and why female scholars need to own their ideas publicly ASAP.

    34 min

Trailer

Ratings & Reviews

5
out of 5
11 Ratings

About

We hear it all the time: "Listen to the science!” So why aren't more people paying attention — and what can we do about it? On Science+Story, we talk with leading scientists, researchers and communicators on how they get the world to listen to them — and how we can all better spread what science wants to us to know.

Information

  • Creator
    Bob Lalasz
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2021
  • Episodes
    11
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © 2026 Science+Story Bob Lalasz
  • Show Website
    Science+Story