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Hosting #SidewalkScienceCenter 3-5 days a week provides an incredible chance to interact with my local community in truly impactful ways.
I want to share an email and a Facebook response from some people who have visited SSC:
I want to share an email and a Facebook response from some people who have visited SSC:
Experience Daliona @ExpDalScience is the name of my company, through which I run #SidewalkScienceCenter.
Responses and stories like this are why I have continued to host SSC for 2.5 years, nearly every single week. My goal is to hire paid educators and create thousands....
Responses and stories like this are why I have continued to host SSC for 2.5 years, nearly every single week. My goal is to hire paid educators and create thousands....
....of SSCs all around the world. In fact, over the weekend, I reached a Patreon goal that will allow me to hire my first educator by March 2021! It's exciting to know I'll have a regular teammate alongside me.
(read the milestone here! patreon.com/posts/45026007)
(read the milestone here! patreon.com/posts/45026007)
Let's discuss news sources, and how they affect public perception of science and astronomy.
Educators can probably agree that the recent articles calling the Jupiter & Saturn conjunction a "once in a lifetime" or "hasn't happened in 800 years" is extremely misleading. (1/)
Educators can probably agree that the recent articles calling the Jupiter & Saturn conjunction a "once in a lifetime" or "hasn't happened in 800 years" is extremely misleading. (1/)
As someone who interacts with dozens of people on the street each day at #SidewalkScienceCenter, you can expect most people don't spend nearly as much time familiarizing themselves with the night sky.
So when people see headlines with these misleading claims, I find myself (2/)
So when people see headlines with these misleading claims, I find myself (2/)
...explaining over and over again that Jupiter & Saturn do in fact pass each other in the sky every 19-20 years.
As a communicator, you have to take every interaction as a teachable moment, and maintain a civil, level discourse, where both parties have a chance to speak. (3/)
As a communicator, you have to take every interaction as a teachable moment, and maintain a civil, level discourse, where both parties have a chance to speak. (3/)
Part of the reason the pandemic is so bad in US is because people who are never involved with scientific method are seeing Science unfold in real-time. Errors, evidence, & changing methodology happen 100%, but in public eye, seen as "they have no idea what they're talking about."
Transparency on this scale backfires bc in nearly all other circumstances, science is opaque & mostly provided to public eye through 2nd-3rd sources. People only see end result, not a process, so anything less than perfect is automatically labeled "deceptive" and "backtracking."
Even in a COVID world, we here at #SidewalkScienceCenter are still trying to safely perform public outreach in some capacity that encourages healthy dialogue & engages people with the scientific method firsthand. Support our efforts on @Patreon!
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