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A scientist’s opinion : Interview with Dr Debbie Rosen & Professor Piers Forster about Covid-19 & climate crisis
Interview with Dr Debbie Rosen, Science and Policy Manager for the EU Horizon 2020 CONSTRAIN project, based at the University of Leeds, UK, and Prof Piers Forster, professor of climate physics at the University of Leeds, the founding Director of the Priestley International Centre for Climate and PI for the CONSTRAIN project Global economic activity dramatically ramped ...
A scientist’s opinion : Interview with Aleksandra Strzelichowska about digital entertainment in lockdown
Interview with Aleksandra Strzelichowska, senior online marketing specialist at Europeana, based in The Hague, Netherlands. She has a bachelor degree in Literature, languages and linguistics, and a master degree in European Studies. What is Europeana? We are a European platform for cultural heritage, an initiative of the European Union founded in 2008. Our goal is ...
A scientist’s opinion : Interview with Dr Dan Hassler-Forest about digital entertainment in lockdown
Interview with Dr Dan Hassler-Forest, assistant professor in the department of Media and Culture Studies at Utrecht University (Netherlands). He has published books and articles on science fiction, fandom and cultural studies, media theory, anti-capitalism and popular culture, and even zombies. He writes frequently for The Washington Post and the Los Angeles Review of Books. ...
Interview with Stephan Lewandowsky, cognitive scientist at the University of Bristol
Stephan Lewandowsky is a cognitive scientist with an interest in computational modeling. Recently, he has become particularly interested in how people update their memories if things they believe turn out to be false. This has led him to examine the persistence of misinformation and spread of “fake news” in society. He has become particularly interested ...
A scientist’s opinion : Interview with Prof. David Heymann about COVID-19 tests
COVID-19 tests, a scientist’s opinion Interview with Prof. David Heymann, Professor of infectious disease epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, head of the WHO response during the SARS1 epidemic. What are the key-ingredients for coming out safely from the COVID-19 lockdown? First, countries need mechanisms to rapidly detect and respond to ...
A scientist’s opinion : Interview with Dr. Cassandra Kelly about COVID-19 tests
COVID-19 tests, a scientist’s opinion Interview with Dr. Cassandra Kelly, director of Emerging Threats at FIND. Why is FIND assessing the performance of COVID-19 tests? In the past 15 years, FIND has worked in the development of diagnostics for low and middle-income countries. During the past several outbreaks, including Ebola and Zika, companies were rushing ...
A scientist’s opinion : Interview with Dr Leyla Acaroglu about systems thinking
Systems thinking: a scientist’s opinion Interview with Dr Leyla Acaroglu, founder of Disrupt Design and the UNEP Champion of the Earth. What is Systems Thinking and how does it help us understand issues like COVID-19 and climate change? Systems Thinking is the ability to see the parts as well as the whole. When looking at ...
A scientist’s opinion : Interview with Cliona Howie Del Rio about systems thinking
Systems thinking: a scientist’s opinion Interview with Cliona Howie Del Rio, Head of Circular Economy at Climate-KIC and coordinator of CICERONE. We are living in a society full of uncertainty at the moment. What are the most urgent issues that need to be solved from your perspective? The most urgent issue that needs to be ...
A scientist’s opinion : Interview with Richard Fisher about systems thinking
Systems thinking: a scientist’s opinion Interview with Richard Fisher, senior editor at the BBC. You've spent a year at MIT as a Knight Science Journalism (KSJ) fellow to research 'short-termism' in today's society. What have you discovered? As a KSJ Fellow, I set out to answer a number of questions that I believe are important ...
Interview with Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, Director of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism on Covid-19 misinformation
Rasmus Kleis Nielsen is Director of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. He is also Professor of Political Communication at the University of Oxford. He was previously Director of Research at the Reuters Institute and Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Press/Politics. His work focuses on changes in the news media, on political communication, and the ...