Video guide to SciBeh knowledge base You can watch the video below for a quick visual guide to using SciBeh's hypothes.is knowledge base. The video covers all the content covered below. About hypothes.is and the SciBeh knowledge base SciBeh maintains an eclectic knowledge base. Here you can find a wide range of items ranging from tweets, newspaper and blog articles, reports to preprints and peer-reviewed articles, all on the topic of behavioural science and responding to COVID-19. We use the tool hypothes.is to annotate each item in the knowledge base. This means that the curated items are tagged with key words, dates, and links to where the item has been referenced on the Internet. How the tool works SciBeh collects input from different sources: discussions on Twitter, Reddit, links sent to us by contributors. Our team of volunteers annotate all of these links---each volunteer annotates 100s each week!---using hypothes.is. When an item is annotated, it gets added to SciBeh's hypothes.is collection. That's the knowledge base you can search for COVID-19-related research and discussion. You can read more about the process of curating items for the knowledge here.
9/16/2022Our process, in brief, has been: Workshop was held with notes taken by assistants. [I’m trying to find this---the SciBeh notion page got upgraded and so it’s moved!] We invited attendees to sign up as authors or CLAs, with the commitments laid out (specifically: minimally a paragraph of writing for authors) Three different structures proposed (Ulrike, Miso, Dawn). Miso + Dawn independently reviewed the workshop notes and highlighted relevant points. This is all the stuff in the initial outline after the << NEW STRUCTURE AFTER VOTING ENDS HERE >> line on the g-doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xbWN9BwfKz4bzRKt0KHc9GaFjOUsPqmh/edit CLAs had a meeting to discuss structure, based on this proposal after people had commented as a springboard for discussion: • Establishing the problems that require CI as a solution o Current platforms/channels & limitations o External forces (“landscape” of SciComm and actors involved)
6/24/2022A Manifesto for Science Communication as Collective Intelligence Authors Join the conversation! Why citizens need reliable knowledge Many of the most pressing challenges societies face today—from climate change to global pandemics—require large-scale, collective decisions informed by the best available evidence. It is only when public beliefs are built on reliable knowledge, rather than poorly informed opinions, that we can successfully address these challenges. However, there are barriers to effective science communication, especially in rapidly evolving crisis situations or when evidence conflicts with political or commercial interests. Barriers: social media Social media notoriously prioritises emotion above evidence-based information and it is especially vulnerable to very active, extreme voices, which can skew users' perceptions of the opinion landscape. The rejection of authoritative sources can also create an "epistemic vacuum," leading people down the rabbit hole of conspiratorial sources and low-credibility content as they seek alternate sources and explanations.
5/5/2022Why citizens need reliable knowledge Many of the most pressing challenges societies face today—from climate change to global pandemics—require large-scale, collective decisions informed by the best available evidence. It is only when public beliefs are built on reliable knowledge, rather than poorly informed opinions, that we can successfully address these challenges. However, there are barriers to effective science communication, especially in rapidly evolving crisis situations or when evidence conflicts with political or commercial interests. Barriers: social media Social media notoriously prioritises emotion above evidence-based information and it is especially vulnerable to very active, extreme voices, which can skew users' perceptions of the opinion landscape. The rejection of authoritative sources can also create an "epistemic vacuum," leading people down the rabbit hole of conspiratorial sources and low-credibility content as they seek alternate sources and explanations. Barriers: misinformation Organized efforts to misinform or confuse the public, or to propagate conspiracy theories, endanger informed public discourse. For example, disinformation lobbying groups can disrupt science communication such that collectively supported opinions become treated as equal to collectively supported evidence. As a result, they restrict citizens from implementing scientifically sound solutions. Against organised disinformation campaigns, individual scientists are poorly matched, as they are vulnerable to direct attack from those opposed to specific types of scientific data.
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