Guest Thinkers

The NY Times’ Andrew Revkin details a study at Nature that finds that in the Caribbean there have been centuries where strong hurricanes occurred frequently even though ocean temperatures were […]

In a letter published at Science, Cornell University professors and media relations staff offer their recommendations on media training training for scientists. The recommendations are based on a media relations […]

The talk that Chris Mooney and I gave earlier this month at the meetings of the American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS) is now available on YouTube. In the next […]

Imagine for the moment a classic work of modern art as pictured above. When a curator takes a heavy and bulky wooden frame, places it around the complex and uncertain […]

Thanks to a post by DarkSyde over at Daily Kos, the You Tube clip of our Speaking Science 2.0 presentation has been viewed more than 5,000 times. Here’s a time […]

A crowd close to 200 is expected for tonight’s Speaking Science 2.0presentation at the New York Academy of Sciences in Manhattan (7 World Trade Center, 6-730pm, reception to follow.) Chris […]

Chris Mooney’s latest Seed column is now available free at the magazine’s web site. Chris spotlights several panels at this year’s AAAS meetings that focused on how to better engage […]

As we go on the road with our Speaking Science 2.0 tour, it’s a chance for many to hear a more detailed presentation of the Nisbet & Mooney thesis. It’s […]

Consider the following events, their political timing, and their impact on the framing of the stem cell debate: 1) Last week, as the House was preparing to vote on legislation […]

As we argue in the Nisbet & Mooney Framing Science thesis, one reason that traditional science communication efforts fail to reach the wider American public is that the media tend […]

Yesterday, stem cell researcher John Gearhart, Washington Post reporter Rick Weiss, and physician William Hurlburt appeared on NPR’s Diane Rehm Show to discuss the latest in the stem cell debate. […]

Previously, I’ve noted the major hole that the IPCC digs itself by releasing its consensus reports on Fridays, only to be lost in the weekend news cycle. Back in February, […]

In our last major talk of the summer here in DC, on Tues. June 19 we will be delivering our Speaking Science 2.0 presentation at the Center for American Progress. […]

With action on Iraq and major domestic initiatives such as immigration stalled, Congressional Dems have lost the sense of approval and optimism that greeted them in January. The gap in […]

First John McCain was against embryonic stem cell research, now he’s for it.First Mitt Romney was for embryonic stem cell research, now he’s against it.If either of these GOP candidates […]

Today I received the latest issue of Dartmouth Alumni magazine to discover inside an interesting poll of graduating seniors at my alma mater. Long branded a conservative campus–with notable right […]

Something to think about…Kyoto was strategically framed by conservatives as an unfair economic burden on the U.S. , deflating public support across polls. Yet according to Gallup trends and other […]

“I think one movie can make a difference; I do believe that,” says director Michael Moore. Indeed, speculation over the impact of his new documentary SICKO was the subject of […]

How do you engage the Republican base on global warming, connecting the issue to their core values and interests? For one part of this segment, as I have argued, you […]

The Barna Group maintains some of the best data tracking the consumer and opinion market for religious Americans, especially among Evangelicals. Though not an independent survey organization like Pew, over […]

Why is it so important to provide the wider American public with readily available and scientifically accurate “frames” that re-package complex issues in ways that make them personally meaningful and […]

How do you influence conservative media outlets to take climate change seriously, re-casting the issue in a light that connects to their conservative audiences? You got it: Framing.It’s a strategy […]

In an op-ed today at the Sydney Morning Herald, Australia’s paper of record, Chris Mooney weighs in with more on our framing science thesis. Chris has been on the road […]

As we argue in our Framing Science thesis, in order to engage a religiously diverse public on pressing problems like climate change, it’s important to offer positive and personally meaningful […]

On Friday, May 4, I will be back at my doctoral alma mater to give the following presentation sponsored by the Dept. of Communication. Readers at Cornell or in the […]

Posted from La Guardia airport in transit to a talk at Cornell University. Will have more comments this weekend.

Even before the publication of our Science and Washington Post commentaries, Chris and I were asked to do a number of joint talks in various cities. As attention grew to […]

With the semester finally winding down, over the weekend, I updated the tabs “What is Framing?” and “Popular Science vs. Framing.” These new sections of my blog explain in detail […]

In her book Evolving God: A Provocative View on the Origins of Religion, William & Mary anthropology professor Barbara J. King argues that religion is not so much a cognitively-derived […]

On Monday, we will be doing our first Speaking Science 2.0presentation for the DC-area community as part of the annual meetings of the American Institute of Biological Sciences. The talk […]