Scientists become targets on social media, and battling space weather

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🗓️ 24 March 2022

⏱️ 30 minutes

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On this week’s show: Why it’s tougher than ever to be a researcher on Twitter, and a highlight from this year’s AAAS Annual Meeting First up, Contributing Correspondent Cathleen O’Grady talks with host Sarah Crespi about the harassment that COVID-19 researchers are facing and a survey conducted by Science that shows more media exposure is linked to higher levels of abuse. Next, producer Meagan Cantwell shares another interview from this year’s AAAS Annual Meeting. She talks with Delores Knipp, a research professor in the Ann and H.J. Smead aerospace engineering sciences department at the University of Colorado, Boulder, about what happens when our well-behaved Sun behaves badly. This week’s episode was produced with help from Podigy. [Image: SkyLab 4/NASA; Music: Jeffrey Cook] [alt: solar flare image taken from Skylab 4] Authors: Sarah Crespi; Cathleen O'Grady Episode page: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adb2091 About the Science Podcast: https://www.science.org/content/page/about-science-podcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:18.9	This is a science podcast for March 25, 2022. I'm Sarah Crespi. Each week we talk about the most
1:26.0	interesting news and research from science and the
1:28.8	sister journals. First up, contributing correspondent Kathleen O'Grady. We talk about the harassment
1:34.7	that COVID-19 researchers are facing and a survey conducted by science that shows more media
1:40.3	exposure is linked to higher levels of abuse. After that, producer Megan Cantwell brings us
1:45.7	another highlight from the AAAS 2022 annual meeting. She talks with Dolores Kinnip about space weather,
1:52.3	or what happens when our well-behaved son behaves badly. This week, the science news team put a spotlight on scientists grappling with the current harsh social media landscape.
2:08.5	As part of the package, contributing correspondent Kathleen O'Grady surveyed researchers and asked them about their experiences speaking out about scientific issues and the blowback they
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