Posts by Trevor Corson
Should scientists express opinions? If so, how?
Among the top 100 most-influential scientists on Twitter—according to an early and somewhat controversial survey by Science way back in 2014—was Trish Greenhalgh (pictured). Today Greenhalgh is at Oxford, where she directs interdisciplinary research at the crossroads of social sciences and medicine. Since those early days of social media, when “sci-comm”—science communication—was exploding across Twitter…
Read MoreFighter moms support vital research into mitochondrial diseases
Describing science through simple stories and metaphors helped Brendan Battersby, a University of Helsinki research director in mitochondrial biology, connect with the parents of a child with Leigh Syndrome, which led to a new collaboration on research funding. The family felt that Brendan was the first medical expert who’d explained their child’s disease to them…
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