Mason Posner teaches anatomy and physiology, marine and vertebrate biology at Ashland University in Ohio. He does research on the evolution and function of the vertebrate eye lens and has interests in undergraduate research and teaching technology. He leads a Biology capstone course on science communication.

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Science on Twitter

I signed up for my Twitter account about two years ago, and then realized that I didn’t really want to let the world know what TV show I was watching, or what my daughter was having for breakfast.  I didn’t see the use until noticing that I could follow news stories in real time, keep [...]

March 2nd, 2010 | Tags: | Category: communication | One comment

Does good climate reporting make a difference?

This week in my undergrad science communication course my students discussed whether it was possible to change an anti-science, denialist perspective with good communication techniques.  There was a mix of perspectives, but one view was that people will believe what they want, and will disregard scientific evidence to the contrary.

I thought about this conversation [...]

February 19th, 2010 | Tags: , , | Category: communication, Teaching | 4 comments