Science Communication Accelerator - scicomX (scicomm, social media, and digital science marketing)
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
#60 After Hours Insta – Balancing a 9-5 Job while Crushing it on Social Media (with Sevim Aktas, EU Policy Influencer)
07 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
For many of us researchers, communicating science is something that we do in addition to writing papers, teaching, supervising, and acquiring research...
#59 Communicating science in a highly political environment (Antje Collowald, Joint Research Centre - European Commission)
24 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Antje leads a 45 communications team across five countries in probably the most political research organization in Europe, the European Commissions ow...
#58 How to be a climate scientist, a content creator and write a bestseller all at once (Prof. Kimberly Nicholas, Lund University)
10 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How to juggle research work, supervision, and science communication? It can be challenging at times to bring all of it together. In this episode, we l...
#57 Building a PhD Student's Science Communication Strategy (with Saad Ahmed)
26 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode I structure a science communication strategy with PhD student Saad Ahmed. Ahmed researches and develops sustainable business models (S...
56. Building Brand, Unleashing Knowledge: Inside CERN's communication department (with Ana Godinho, Head at CERN for Education, Communications and Outreach)
27 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Embark on a captivating journey with Ana Godinho, Head of Education, Communication, and Outreach at CERN, as we explore the evolving landscape of scie...
#55 How to start a successful Popular Science Podcast (with Torill Sommerfelt Ervik, University of Bergen)
13 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today we learn from Torill Sommerfelt Ervik on how to start a successful popular science podcast. Torill is a communication advisor at the University ...
#54 Maximizing research impact on Linkedin (with Karlijn de Wit - CEO of Noscura)
02 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Where can you (potentially) reach 700 million users to see your research results? 𝗬𝗲𝘀, 𝗟𝗶𝗻𝗸𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗻! It is not a job pla...
#53 The Twitter Algorithm Unveiled – 10 ways to optimize your tweets for maximum visibility
11 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On march 31, Twitter reveals some of its source code, including its recommendation algorithm. In this episode you learn how to optimize your tweets fo...
#52 How to empower diverse voices in science communication (Lachlan Smith & Jakob Feldtfos Christensen | Diversity in Research Podcast)
28 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Why does diversity matter in science and science communication? And how can organizations empower individual scientists to do good science communicati...
#51 How ETH Zürich and EPFL Lausanne facilitate science communication (Gian-Andri Casutt, ETH board)
14 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How is science communication facilitated at two of the best universities globally? In this episode you learn how. Today's guest is Gian-Andri Ca...
#50 There is an AI for that - Keynote at the NTNU Communications Network meeting
06 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is only for organizational communicators and how they can use AI to create content and build brand for their organizations. The epi...
#49 Creating meaningful impact for research (with Dr. Julie Bayley)
11 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the Science Communication Accelerator Podcast, host Julius Wesche speaks with Dr. Julie Bayley about her book "Creating Meaningful ...
#48 How to write an academic book (with Assoc. Prof. Roger Søraa from NTNU)
24 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast, we typically focus on digital science communication, specifically for content creation strategies. However, today we're going offline...
#47 ChatGPT - Six hands-on suggestions on how to use artificial intelligence for content creation
10 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Who will use Artificial Intelligence (AI) for content creation in the future? Everyone will. In this episode, we'll be introducing ChatGPT3, a powerfu...
#46 Keynote: Scicomm on Steroids - Why social media is key for the science communication of the future (at TU Delft)
25 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this keynote you learn why social media is key for the science communication of the future. You also learn how to develop your own science communic...
#45 Conception, Creation, & Management: How to build a content Strategy? (Emilia Miller-Emilia.Loves.Science)
14 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Once you decided on the why and with whom you want to communicate your science, you will need a system that helps you create content efficiently over ...
9,8 Million TikTok Followers - How to use TikTok for Science Communication (with Justin Cottle from the Institute of Human Anatomy)
01 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
TikTok: The platform has changed tremendously over the last years. It is not the dancing girls anymore, but you find everything on it. Justin Cottle w...
#43 Talk at the European Commission: Pure Rage? 14 min on why Social Media is steroids for Science Communication
18 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
If you like rather slow episodes, then please don't listen to this one. Crazy, last week I was invited to give a talk about why I think social media i...
#42: Building brand and building reach for a sustainability research institute - a reflection interview with Sturle Simonsen, the leaving head of communication of the Stockholm Resilience Centre
04 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Stockholm Resilience Center (SRC) is probably among the best communicated and hence also branded research institutions on the planet. In this epis...
#41 Open Science (with Robert-Jan Smits, President of TU Eindhoven)
20 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The goal of the Science Communication Accelerator Podcast is to increase the visibility of science, so that societies are empowered to make smart deci...
#40 Future-Proofing Science Communication (with Stephan van Duin)
05 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
How can we future proof our science communication? And the whole science communication ecosystem as a whole? I get to discuss these topics in this epi...
#39 How to build your reach on social media - eleven approaches that work
23 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
How to build your reach and brand on social media. These are probably the two questions that I get asked the most. Hence, find in this episode eleven ...
#38 How to build a science communication department in 2022 (with Dr. Patrick Honecker from TU Darmstadt)
09 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
How do science communication departments in universities and research organizations need to look like in order to embrace the fast changing communicat...
#37 How to communicate transformative change (with Charlotte Ballard, Utrecht University)
26 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode I chat with Charlotte Ballard about how to support researchers in their communication activities who have a message on how we can save...
#36 How to create contet at scale - Building a content creation machine
12 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The most important asset is positive attention. The most straight forward way to gain positive attention is probably to create content at scale that p...
#35 The Science of Science Communication (with Prof. Baruch Fischhoff, Carnegie Mellon University)
28 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What works and what does not work in science communication? In this episode Prof. Baruch Fischhoff joins the scicomX Podcast. Baruch is Professor at C...
#34 The scientific media agency - five characteristics that define the communication department of the future
16 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
With the rise of social media, universities and research organizations have immense potential at their fingertips to build visibility and brand. Howev...
#33 Why universities are content gold mines and how to structure efficient content creation
30 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Universities and research organizations are content gold mines, because they are filled with intelligent people who create knowledge that may help tac...
#32 How to build a functioning science communciation department? (Fireside chat by invitation of the European Research Council)
16 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is the recording of a Fireside chat organized by the European Research Council. Special thanks to Tony Lockett and his team for having me...
#31 Picking the right video for your science communication (with Dr. Kiki Sanford)
04 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Kiki is an American neurophysiologist and the go to science communicator when it comes to video making. Originally starting out with a PhD in "bir...
#30 How to build a great reseacher webpage (with Liesbeth Smit - Co-Founder of the Online Scientist)
19 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Think about your message, goal, and audience. You’re not building it for you, but for your audience! This is the first tip that you will get from Li...
#29 How to get your research into newspapers (Andrea Tiltnes - Andresse Newspaper Trondheim)
28 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast I talk often how social media can be used to communicate science. But there is another very prominent way to get your research out the...
#28 Ask scicomX: You ask questions - I answer them (formats, key learnings, why scicomm, and science communicator or scientist communicator)
21 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode I try something new. It is called “ask scicomX”. This podcast is for you and to empower the science communication space, by provid...
#27 How to leverage science communication in research organizations (with Johanna Kollmann from ZEIT Verlag)
15 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In most cases, research organizations have a lot of potential for science communication that they do not utilize a lot. In this podcast I tackle this ...
#26 How to build an organizational Instagram account (with Hannah Oldenburg - Science Communicator at Öko Institute in Berlin)
01 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Instagram is one of the largest social media networks of our time. While Twitter is known to be one of the prime networks used by researchers, more an...
#25 Seven design insights on how to make SciComm sexy (with Liesbeth Smit, Founder of The Online Scientist)
22 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Making design sexy. That is the mission of today`s guest. Liesbeth Smith dropped out of her PhD program to start her own design company and to make sc...
#24 Seven things you should never do when you talk about science (with Amy Aines - co-author of Championing Science)
15 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode I am joined by Amy Aines. Amy supports researchers to be more effective when talking about their science and she co-wrote the known sc...
#23 Eight tactics - on how to level up your social media game (Mashup) (science communciation)
07 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Do you have a question on how to do science communication? If yes, this is your chance to get it answered. Please record it (for example with your sma...
#22 How the European Research Council supports science communication (with Tony Lockett - Head of Communication at the ERC)
25 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The European Research Council (ERC) is one of the largest funders of scientific research in Europe - reason enough to sit down with it’s head of com...
📈 #21 Current Social Media Trends in Science Communication & Academia (with Rebecca Winkels)
18 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
For today’s episode I talked to Rebecca Winkels - the Director of Communications and Strategy at Wissenschaft im Dialog. What are current social med...
🆙 #20 Don't Look Up Movie - seven lessons for scientists (with Mark Bayer)
11 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Don’t Look Up made waves. A lot of waves. While Leonardo DiCaprio states that “In a nutshell, (the film is) an analogy of modern-day culture and o...
🎙️ #19 How to produce a podcast (with Markus Fritz) (science communication)
28 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Be among the first ones to join the scicomX Discord Server: https://discord.gg/BVNCXXTScZ A great way to provide in depth value to your audience is ...
☕ #18 Scicomm Café - or how to couple online and offline scicomm events (with Franziska Sattler)
20 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
During the pandemic a lot of things changed. Also a lot of formats that were offline were moved online and now as the the pandemic will (hopefully) be...
👨🔬 #17 Who is Julius & how does he see the future of science communication? (by Amber O'brien)
07 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Who are you? This question I was asked by Amber O'Brien about two months ago. She said: "It's really helpful to listen to your podcast episodes, and t...
👏🏼 #16 How to incentivize and increase the appreciation of scicomm (with Markus Weißkopf - from Wissenschaft im Dialog)
23 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Science communication is severely hampered because the incentive system in research organizations and universities is too often based solely on ...
🖇️ #15 Why & How to do Scicomm (Mashup)
09 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
From tomorrow on the scicomX Podcast will publish new episodes every OTHER Tuesday. Look below for finding out why. For this episode I try something n...
🦸♀️#14 Engaging the Disengaged (with Dr. Haydon Mort)
03 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
„When engaging the disengaged, what I mean is engaging the majority“. This is how today’s guest Haydon describes his work as a science communica...
🏕️ #13 Science Storytellig (with Josh Ettinger)
26 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Storytelling is an ancient art form and can be described as the social an cultural activity of sharing stories to audiences. Using storytelling elemen...
🖼️ #12 How to visualize scientific data? (with Martins Zaumanis)
19 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
There are four formats how to communicate information: written, audio, video, and visualizations. In this episode I look together with Martins Zaumani...
❎ #11 TIKTOK and Science Comunication (with Andy Miah)
11 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
While TIKTOK still has a reputation of being a teenage dancing app it has evolved substantially over the last couple of years. In 2020 it surpassed tw...
📻 #10 Social Audio - How to use Clubhouse & Twitter Spaces for SciComm (with Stephanie Castillo)
04 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Not even a year ago a new audio only smart phone app made big waves. Its name was clubhouse and suddenly every entrepreneur and political actor who ha...
🔥 #9 Personal Branding for Scientists (with Cornelia Böhm)
28 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Communicating science gives visibility to your research, but it also builds your personal brand. A personal brand is what people talk about you when y...
💻 #8 YouTube, Animation, & Science Communication (with Lizzy Steib from Kurzgesagt - in a Nutshell)
21 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
YouTube is one of the major content platforms for video. Videos are great to create engaging content around scientific topics, but oftentimes science ...
🕴️#7 Linkedin – How to communicate science on a business platform? (with Mike Young)
14 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Initially started as a business platform to share CVs, Linkedin has grown into a fully fledged social media network. It is regularly used by researche...
🎯 #6 How to craft a scicomm strategy for research projects (with Elmar Bartlmae)
07 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Who is your target audience? This is the most important questions that needs answering when crafting a communication strategy for a research project, ...
📳 #5 Instagram & Science Communication (with Sophie Milbourne)
31 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Instagram is one of the largest social networks. To figure out how science communication can work on Instagram I invited Sophie Milbourne (aka. @soph....
👩🏻🔬 #4 Science Communication on Twitter (with Elodie Chabrol)
27 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Twitter. A live stream of news and one of the largest social media networks. It is also one of the most appreciated networks amongst scientists. In ...
👨🔬#3 Five principles for researchers on social media (with Marcel Bogers)
26 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How to use and act on social media? If this is a question that you have been asking yourself, then this episode is for you. In this episode I talk to ...
⚖️ #2 How to increase impact of science? (with Julie Bayley)
25 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Science communication and social media is not an end in itself - they both are means to creating impact for scientific results, so that we are informe...
❎ #1 Science communication with social media – an introduction
24 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Social media is the place where the attention is. Hence, social media is one of the grand opportunities for science communication. Everyone in the dev...
❎ #0 What to expect of the Science Communication Accelerator Podcast
24 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The goal of the Science Communication Accelerator Podcast is to create a knowledge hub for science communication on social media. In this first episod...
🎬 Trailer - The scicomX Podcast
12 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Launch August 24th. How to empower scientists, universities, and research organizations to share more science on social media? That was a question I...