This Making Science Public blog has its distant roots in a Leverhulme Trust funded research programme on science and politics called ‘Making Science Public: Challenges and Opportunities’ that I directed between 2012 and 2016. As part of this programme we wrote blog posts on scientific controversies, science policy issues, science and publics, and science communication. After my retirement in 2016, I continued to blog mainly about the role of metaphors and other framing devices in science, policy and and media, focusing on climate change, infectious disease, genetics, genomics, epigenetics, synthetic biology, nanotechnology and now AI. I have also sometimes explored the history of science and the history of science communication, including the use of visuals. The old Making Science Public blog was hosted by the University of Nottingham. However, the University is closed down its blogging site at the end of 2025 and I decided to restart the blog as my own personal blog site here. All the posts that I published on the Uni site can be found here.
There are about 700 posts to explore all sorts of topics relating to science in society, science communication, history of science and so on. If you want to know what I have written about climate change for example, just search for this phrase, or for genomics or whatever. Enjoy!
I have also sorted my blog posts into categories in the Wakelet for easier perusal. But Wakelet recently began asking for money, so I had to stop uploading after the end of 2025….
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