Heather Akin

Our findings from @NERuralPoll - Rural Nebraskans voice water quality concerns news.unl.edu/newsrooms/toda…

More than four in 10 respondents to the 2022 @NERuralPoll believe fuel prices, inflation, grocery prices and health care costs will become much worse in the next 12 months. bit.ly/3g84vtj #Nebraska #UNL #NUforNE

Great round three of our #OLLI class with @tk_lorenz closing it out! So happy to work with this #dreamteam and teach some amazing OLLI students. Here’s to lifelong learning! @heatherakin @SydneyMCaparaso and Ashley Votruba.

Great session two of #OLLI Science for the Curious Consumer! @UNL_BSE @UNL_ALEC @heatherakin @tk_lorenz @SydneyMCaparaso and Ashley Votruba!

OPEN ACCESS: “When Science Journalism is Awesome: Measuring Audiences’ Experiences of awe from Reading Science Stories” by @LandrumAR, Kristina Janét, @kelsi_opat & @heatherakin. Available here: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

@andrealgilmore Wanted to heart that multiple times! So so important.

@SunshineMenezes SAME. I read it over a year ago and can't stop thinking about it.

I'm pleased to announce that Susan Weller, Heather Akin, and I are working with a team of 15 incredible UNL faculty and staff to increase science literacy. Our planning grant is titled "Midwest Science Engagement Consortium." @Moth_lady15 @heatherakin news.unl.edu/newsrooms/toda…

@scheufele @UWMadisonCALS @UW_LSC Perfect to share on my first day of class - thanks! ✨

"Employment in media and communications is projected to grow faster than the average for all other occupations ... over the next 10 years." Time to become a @UWMadisonCALS @uw_lsc major! fhttps://www.axios.com/2022/07/28/communications-media-jobs-employment-growth #scicomm

@QuantumOfSalsa IT’S TRUE!!

. @QuantumOfSalsa's talk at #NoCoastSciComm might have been the most powerful #SciComm presentation I've ever seen.

Good morning, #NoCoastSciComm! Happening now: our fourth (and sadly, final) keynote speaker, @QuantumOfSalsa! Join now to hear how Corey ties his Blackfoot culture to astrophysics!

Thoroughly enjoyed moderating (fangirling) during this keynote #NoCoastSciComm @UNLincoln with @TheSpaceGal - one takeaway: #SciComm needs emphathy. See 🧵 for the takeaways

@Becky_Wachs @GeoffLorenz @andreabasche I’m in!!

@GeoffLorenz This is so great Geoff! I look forward to attending too. @heatherakin and @andreabasche may too!

Excited to be a part of UNL CAS Inquire's year long series on "Searching for Common Ground in a Polarized World". cas.unl.edu/cas-inquire-20…

This conference is so good I'm actually tweeting about it! It's the ✨LAST DAY TO REGISTER✨ for SciComm 2022 - Aug 17-19 #NoCoastSciComm @UNLincoln #SciComm

LIGHTS!💡 CAMERA!🎥 ACTION!▶️ TODAY IS THE LAST DAY to register to enter the #NoCoastSciComm Film Festival! Learn more at scicommcon.org/filmfest/, & register the for the conference at go.unl.edu/scicomm2022. #scicomm #sciart #filmmakers

Congrats to the finalists in our first-ever LIVESTREAMED #NoCoastSciComm #ScienceSlam! Join hosts @lab_shenanigans & @SciTalker, & cheer on Slammers @YarelisAcevedoR @SaraDoesScience @_ashley_foltz_ Seth Kurfman @ScienceBey @richathan_you @CrystalUminski @WinifredWaters_! 🎉

HEY SCIENCE VIDEOGRAPHERS! We seek short videos for the Film Festival portion of the @UNL_SciComm 2022 on August 17-19! When you register for the conference at scicommcon.org, you can sign up to submit your short (<10 min length) video #SciComm

Some work w/ @heatherakin + @TaliaStroud speaks to this. Most are unlikely to know they live nearby (eg only 30% of fracking + 24% refinery-proximal residents do). High risk perception is linked with underreporting proximity (i.e. dissonance reduction) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…