This is a great article citing the frustrations faced by legitimate scientists when presenting their work to an online audience. Popular science is flooded with algo-optimized terms, misrepresented graphic images, and science factoids bereft of relevant significance or context. Worth a read👇#SciComm
@balmer.bsky.sociali wrote a blog about science communication, astronomy in particularly, in the era of AI slop. seems like people here might get a kick out of it
> www.astrowill.page/blog/astrono...
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astronomy communication in the age of slop - astro will
i've been wading through the increasingly sloppy internet for most of my adult life. one of the places that i always seem to encounter low effort content is in astronomy "communication"