10/11/2025
New EURAXESS Smart Talks podcast!
🚨 New Podcast Episode!
🎙️ Let’s Get Science Out of the Lab! with Dr. Marina Joubert
In this inspiring episode of EURAXESS Smart Talks, we chat with one of Africa’s leading science communicators, Dr. Marina Joubert. She shares her journey from the lab to the public sphere and offers practical advice on how scientists can build trust, fight misinformation, and make their work more visible and impactful.
💬 Topics include:
✅ Models of science communication
✅ Trust and distrust in science
✅ Communicating uncertainty and complexity
✅ Tips for researchers to engage with the public
🎧 Listen here 👉 https://www.buzzsprout.com/1998474/episodes/18099203
📚 Tons of resources and training links in the episode notes!
Newsletter to subscribe to (lots of resources and jobs in scicomm)
• The Scicommer: https://thescicommer.substack.com
Resources
• Quality and Effectiveness in Science Communication (QUEST) - https://questproject.eu/
• Observatory for open and outstanding science communication (ENJOI) https://enjoiscicomm.eu
• Science communication and sensemaking (RETHINK) https://www.rethinkscicomm.eu/
• A resource page from the HSRC: https://hsrc.ac.za/home-page/science-in-society/useful-links-on-science-communication/
• A legacy page from a recent (2024) conference on communicating discovery sciences (Stellenbosch) - https://www.discoveryscience.co.za/
Companies who offer science communication services and training (there are many more!)
• Jive Media Africa https://jivemedia.co.za/
• Animate Your Science https://www.animateyour.science/
• Econnect https://www.econnect.com.au/
Join this Network – they offer many resources and networking opportunities:
• https://www.pcst.network/
• PCST YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/
Diamond, open-access journal – research and practice insights – JCOM
https://jcom.sissa.it/
Highly recommended scicomm articles
• Science communication: a messy conundrum of practice, research and theory
https://jcom.sissa.it/article/pubid/JCOM_2107_2022_C07/
• Why facts don't change minds: Insights from cognitive science …
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0006320722004396
Great reads on The Conversation
• Five golden rules for effective science communication – perspectives from a documentary maker
https://theconversation.com/five-golden-rules-for-effective-science-communication-perspectives-from-a-documentary-maker-210399
• Not just talk: how dialogue can help address complex problems
https://theconversation.com/not-just-talk-how-dialogue-can-help-address-complex-problems-256825
Online training (most of these are free, or at least partly free)
• Designing Effective Science Communication (Coursera) - https://www.coursera.org/learn/designing-effective-science-communication
• Science Communication Lab - https://sciencecommunicationlab.org/science-communication/
• Greg’s free science communication training (YouTube videos) – https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLD160RWuGai9oUnAVRq-GD2njEo1XHadF
• The art of science communication (not free, but affordable) - https://www.asbmb.org/career-resources/communication-course
• Science communication and public engagement (FutureLearn) - https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/science-communication-for-researchers
• Science communication training academy (Animate Your Science) – some free content - https://www.animateyour.science/training
• Science communication (EdX) - https://www.edx.org/learn/journalism/israelx-science-communication
• How to communicate scientific uncertainty (Oxford) - https://www.mpls.ox.ac.uk/public-engagement/latest/free-short-online-course-how-to-communicate-scientific-uncertainty
• Art of Science Communication - https://www.nucats.northwestern.edu/training/science-communication-course.html
• Online course on science communication (Tresca) - https://trescaproject.eu/online-science-communication-course/
• Effective science communication (Nature) – paid, but some bits free - https://masterclasses.nature.com/effective-science-communication/25452242
