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Colour is doing things behind your back

Serious research, gloriously unserious route. This isn’t a manual — it’s a reminder that the colours around you carry centuries of culture, marketing and quiet manipulation. Read it if you like learning while laughing.
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Publish or Perish Had a Sequel Called Be Visible or Vanish. This Is the Reboot

GEO is not new to everyone. Cristina Rigutto, a science communicator who called it Semantic Engine Optimization in 2013, explains what is changed — and what to do about it.

The Vanity Metrics Trap: Why Citizen Science Does not Need to Go Viral

Citizen science does not need viral reach. A look at why small, trained Discord and Telegram communities often produce better data than mass social campaigns.

What Happens When the Science Communicator Becomes the Skeptic

I have always believed in vaccines — until the day I had to actually decide, alone, for someone else entirely.

The Merchants of Doubt Do not Question Science. They Make You Question It.

How the merchants of doubt learned to weaponise scientific language — and what we can do about it.

The Ghost in the Room: How WHO, CDC, and ECDC Are Talking Around the Pandemic Nobody Wants to Mention

A look at what institutional risk communication looks like five years after the pandemic that nobody wants to name again.

Some Lessons in Health Communication Come with Ice Packs

Before people trust the science, they often need to trust the system, the messenger… and the reality behind the message.

When Words Mislead and Meaning Slips

From “forecast” to “projection,” from “possible” to “probable,” small linguistic shifts quietly reshape how we interpret reality.

Turning Numbers Into Meaning in a World Full of Data

Numbers are everywhere — and they are not just counting things. They are nudging your clicks, inflating your grocery bill, and making climate data feel either catastrophic or completely irrelevant, depending on how someone frames it.

The Illusion of Visual Understanding

A floppy disk, a cassette with a pencil, and a pair of smart glasses. What people recognise — and what they don’t — reveals something deeper about how we process meaning.

How to Survive the Q&A Without Losing the Room

The Q&A is negotiation time, is about managing uncertainty, ego, and attention in real time — and understanding that credibility is built not when we speak, but when we respond.

The Day My Students Destroyed a Perfectly Good Poster

Without context, an image doesn\’t just become harder to evaluate — it becomes something else. It absorbs whatever frameworks, concerns, and assumptions the viewer brings to it.

From Boomers to Gen Alpha: How Internet Generations Think — and Why We Keep Misunderstanding Each Other

From Boomers to Gen Alpha, this article explores how internet generations shape the way we search, trust, and understand information — and why simple words are not always enough.

Risk is never neutral (and neither are we)

Risk is not a single concept, and it does not travel in a single language. How we talk about it depends on our disciplinary background as much as on our audience — and many communication gaps start long before we begin to adapt our message.

Colour free ebook

This isn’t a manual. It’s a reminder: colour is never just colour.
It’s culture, power, habits, identity — basically, us. This book comes from serious research and takes a very unserious route.
Read it if you like learning whilela ughing and feeling just a little bit uncomfortable.

Marketing for Scientists Who Hate Marketing

Marketing can create needs, and that phrase makes scientists understandably nervous. In science communication, the ethical version of “creating need” is not inventing urgency—it’s revealing relevance.

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