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The climate battles of ideas: Minority discourses in readers' comments to climate change articles in the Portuguese press. 气候观念之争：读者对葡萄牙报刊气候变化文章评论中的少数派论述。

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Public Understanding of Science Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2024-06-12 DOI: 10.1177/09636625241254505

Nuno Monteiro Ramos, Paula Castro

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'Follow the science': Popular trust in scientific experts during the coronavirus pandemic. 跟着科学走"：冠状病毒大流行期间民众对科学专家的信任。

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Public Understanding of Science Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2024-06-12 DOI: 10.1177/09636625241253968

Ben Seyd, Joseph A Hamm, Will Jennings, Lawrence McKay, Viktor Valgarðsson, Meridith Anness

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Are plain language summaries more readable than scientific abstracts? Evidence from six biomedical and life sciences journals. 纯语言摘要是否比科学摘要更易读？来自六种生物医学和生命科学期刊的证据。

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Public Understanding of Science Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2024-05-24 DOI: 10.1177/09636625241252565

Ju Wen, Lan Yi

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Is science to be trusted? How environmentally active youths relate to science in social media. 科学可信吗？热衷环保的青少年如何在社交媒体上与科学建立联系。

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Public Understanding of Science Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2024-05-28 DOI: 10.1177/09636625241249915

Karin M Gustafsson

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Cognitive, affective, and behavioral engagement with science news predicted by the use of accessibility strategies in science-minded and general audiences. 通过对具有科学意识的受众和普通受众使用无障碍策略来预测他们对科学新闻的认知、情感和行为参与。

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Public Understanding of Science Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2024-06-10 DOI: 10.1177/09636625241252561

Ifat Zimmerman, Tali Tal, Ayelet Baram-Tsabari

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Chinese scientists' mediated participation in public outreach: Multiple direct and personal norm-mediated predictors. 中国科学家通过中介参与公众宣传：多重直接和个人规范中介预测因素。

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Public Understanding of Science Pub Date : 2024-11-01 Epub Date: 2024-03-28 DOI: 10.1177/09636625241237927

Xing Zhang, Anfan Chen, Jianbin Jin

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The public you want, the public you get: Exploring the relationship between the public and science in the debate on xenotransplantation. 你想要的公众，你就能得到：在关于异种器官移植的辩论中探讨公众与科学之间的关系。

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Public Understanding of Science Pub Date : 2024-11-01 Epub Date: 2024-03-04 DOI: 10.1177/09636625241232098

Johannes Kögel

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Climate change by any other name: Social representations and language practices of coastal inhabitants on Mayotte Island in the Indian Ocean. 气候变化的其他名称：印度洋马约特岛沿海居民的社会表述和语言实践。

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Public Understanding of Science Pub Date : 2024-11-01 Epub Date: 2024-03-31 DOI: 10.1177/09636625241235375

Miki Mori, Esméralda Longépée, Gaëlle Lefer-Sauvage, Arnaud Banos, Nicolas Becu, Philippe Charpentier, Thomas Claverie, Matthieu Jeanson, Matthieu Le Duff, Damienne Provitolo, Georgeta Stoica

{"title":"Climate change by any other name: Social representations and language practices of coastal inhabitants on Mayotte Island in the Indian Ocean.","authors":"Miki Mori, Esméralda Longépée, Gaëlle Lefer-Sauvage, Arnaud Banos, Nicolas Becu, Philippe Charpentier, Thomas Claverie, Matthieu Jeanson, Matthieu Le Duff, Damienne Provitolo, Georgeta Stoica","doi":"10.1177/09636625241235375","DOIUrl":"10.1177/09636625241235375","url":null,"abstract":"As population-related climate change research increases, so does the need to nuance approaches to this complex phenomenon, including issues related to cultural and linguistic translations. To explore how climate change is understood in understudied societies, a case-study approach is taken to address social representations of climate change by inhabitants of a Maore village in the French island of Mayotte. The study explores how local fishers understand the issue when considering observed environmental changes. Based on analyses of 30 interviews, the study found that social representations and related climate change discourses are not well established, except for individuals in close contact with French institutions. Issues regarding local culture and language reveal the importance of understanding the different components of climate change. Climate change communication and awareness-raising on the island are explored, as well as considerations of culturally and linguistically complex settings with a Global North/Global South interface.","PeriodicalId":48094,"journal":{"name":"Public Understanding of Science","volume":" ","pages":"978-997"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11528869/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140330226","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Issue ownership of science in the United States. 美国的科学所有权问题。

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Public Understanding of Science Pub Date : 2024-10-01 Epub Date: 2024-02-18 DOI: 10.1177/09636625241229199

Bruce W Hardy, Meghnaa Tallapragada, Elizabeth Sungsoo Baik, Abraham Koshy

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Who are the "Heroes of CRISPR"? Public science communication on Wikipedia and the challenge of micro-notability. 谁是 "CRISPR 英雄"？维基百科上的公共科学传播与微注释的挑战。

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Public Understanding of Science Pub Date : 2024-10-01 Epub Date: 2024-02-28 DOI: 10.1177/09636625241229923

Arno Simons, Wolfgang Kircheis, Marion Schmidt, Martin Potthast, Benno Stein

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