Sander van der Linden, Ph.D., is Professor of Social Psychology in Society and Director of the Cambridge Social Decision-Making Lab in the Department of Psychology at the University of Cambridge.     Professor van der Linden, we have seen many attempts to debunk climate and health disinformation. How...

Gérard Assayag is an Ircam research director and head of Ircam Music Representation Team in Paris.   He has co-designed various music research software environments which are used in many places for computer assisted composition, analysis and improvisation.     How can an AI-tool play music together...

Emilia Gómez is a senior researcher at the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission in Sevilla and a guest professor of the Department of Information and Communication Technologies at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona.     In recent years you worked on two large European projects that...

Rumors, conspiracy theories and misinformation during a health crisis: "The problem seems to be informational reliance on social media, not social media usage per se," says expert Dr. Ed Pertwee.   With possible new Covid-19 waves in the back of our mind and in order to save lives, understanding communication...

Maria Elena Bottazzi, born in Italy, raised in Honduras, is a microbiologist and infectious disease expert at Baylor College of Medicine (Houston, United States). She and her colleague Peter Hotez led a team in India to develop the Covid-19 vaccine Corbevax, get it manufactured, and then give it away...

Petro Terblanche is Health Science Professor at North-West University and is Managing Director at Afrigen Biologics in South Africa. Next to developing an open source vaccine, Afrigen hosts a global vaccine hub to build capacity and capabilities in low- and middle-income countries to design, develop...

Interview with Ionica Smeets, professor of science communication at Leiden University, the Netherlands.     Prof. Smeets, how do you feel when you encounter buzzwords such as 'groundbreaking', 'world first' and 'landmark study' in a press release?   © Ype Driessen   Ionica Smeets: One of the first things...

Interview with Maike Winters from the Karolinska Institute.     Press releases are clearly shorter than the studies they describe. What is wrong with leaving out some aspects of studies?   Maike Winters: We saw that studies' limitations, funding sources and conflicts of interest are frequently omitted...