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Reset America @reset-america.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

🌈 Happy Pride Month ♥️

Dan Richards-Doran @dancampuspr.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

I'm not a natural baker, so I've been reluctant to experiment since buying my first breadmaker a few weeks ago. In a departure from our usual wholemeal loaf, tonight I bit the bullet and attempted banana bread. Oh my god it's good. 😋

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Dan Richards-Doran @dancampuspr.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Do you know your good #statistics from your bad statistics? #scicomm I rediscovered this guide to stats from Sense About Science when I was preparing for some training this week. Very useful background reading for science communicators and press officers. senseaboutscience.org/activities/m...

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Making Sense of Statistics - Sense about Science

Published: 29 April 2010

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Dan Richards-Doran @dancampuspr.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Our tree is an eclectic mix of deccys collected over the past 15 years. It's more like a memory tree 🎄 The robots are a staff secret Santa gift from British Science Association - many years ago. This year's addition is an alpaca from a morning walking alpacas in the Welsh mountains with friends ♥️

A Christmas decoration shaped like a silver robot, hanging on a tree

A Christmas decoration shaped like a black robot, hanging on a tree

A woolen Christmas decoration, it's a smiling alpaca

From behind - some people walk alpacas in the mountains.

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Dan Richards-Doran @dancampuspr.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

The UK Parliament Knowledge Exchange Unit's newsletter is always an interesting read - it's great for getting a sense of what's on the #policy agenda and where researchers can contribute. This week they're plugging a call for #evidence about misinformation committees.parliament.uk/work/8641/so...

Screengrab of UK Parliament website, committees section showing a call for evidence about social media, misinformation and harmful algorithms.

It reads:
Between 30 July and 7 August 2024, a wave of anti-immigration demonstrations and riots took place across the UK. Some targeted mosques and hotels housing asylum seekers, driven in part by false claims that spread on social media platforms relating to the killing of three children in Southport.

Ofcom, the regulator, has said that illegal content and disinformation spread "widely and quickly" online following the attack, and that the riots demonstrated the role that “algorithmic recommendations” can play in driving divisive narratives in a crisis period. It said the response by social media companies to this content had been “uneven”.

The Online Safety Act 2023 tightens the law on disinformation and gives providers new duties to reduce the risk that their services are used for illegal activity, and to take down illegal content.

The Science, Innovation and Technology Committee is launching an inquiry into the links between algorithms used by social media and search engines to rank content, generative AI, and the spread of harmful or false content online. The inquiry will examine the effectiveness of current and proposed regulation for these technologies, including the Online Safety Act, and what further measures might be needed. It will investigate the role of these technologies in driving social harms, with a particular focus on their role in the summer 2024 riots.

The Committee welcomes submissions on some or all of the following points by 23:59 Wednesday 18th December:

To what extent do the business models of social media companies, search engines and others encourage the spread of harmful content, and contribute to wider social harms?

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Dan Richards-Doran @dancampuspr.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

I love Word of the Year, mainly because I've always been fascinated by how language evolves, and who owns language. Demure has my vote. But here's my favourite word from our little corner of Cymru: "Bendigedig beyond" - more fantastic than you can possibly imagine.

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Dan Richards-Doran @dancampuspr.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

I loved making this research into action film with Grace @ Bounce Video and @oxsocsci.bsky.social Can you spot the puppies? 🐶 It's great to see the series launched today ⤵️

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Dan Richards-Doran @dancampuspr.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Time for an #introduction I'm a science communicator (of other people's research), my comms superpowers are writing and strategy and I lead Campus PR, a specialist sci comm agency in the UK. 🧪 I live in a vibrant community in rural Wales. I'm learning Welsh (badly), poetry and attempting Mozart 🎹

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Space @redditspaceviewes.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

NASA’s new rendering of the Christmas Tree Nebula

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Dan Richards-Doran @dancampuspr.bsky.social · 09/10/2024

The Campus PR team have come together to kick AI's various tyres this week. Can we embed #AI into our ways of working❓ We've agreed that ⤵️ ⭐We champion trustworthy, human-generated #scicomm content ⭐We need an ethical framework + transparency ⭐AI can deliver efficiencies but won't replace us.

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Dan Richards-Doran @dancampuspr.bsky.social · 19/09/2024

When research comms makes the frontpage - I've been reminded that size isn't everything! We successfully pitched exclusives to the FT and BBC about Aston University's report on the impact of the Brexit trade agreement on imports and exports.

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Dan Richards-Doran @dancampuspr.bsky.social · 18/09/2024

I really enjoyed interviewing the team at Aston University and Alpharmaxim for this Knowledge Transfer Project case study. The KTP has created the world’s first evidence-based behaviour change tool to support the adoption of new drugs for rare and complex diseases. www.aston.ac.uk/business/col...

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Innovating a behaviour change model for complex medical communications

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Dan Richards-Doran @dancampuspr.bsky.social · 17/09/2024

It's been a pleasure to work on this report from Aston University, showing the stifling effects of Brexit on EU-UK Trade. The Campus PR team have secured broadcast and print coverage for the research today across the BBC and FT. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Brexit deal impact 'worsening', economists say

The findings come from a report covering the three-year period after the Brexit deal was signed.

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Dan Richards-Doran @dancampuspr.bsky.social · 05/09/2024

I quite like BlueSky, it has the simplicity of Twitter when I joined way back in 2009.

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Dan Richards-Doran @dancampuspr.bsky.social · 05/09/2024

Holiday mode is loading... After a busy busy summer, it's time for a short break to recharge the mind and soul. I'm very much looking forward to switching off and exploring North West Wales in our campervan!

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Dan Richards-Doran @dancampuspr.bsky.social · 04/09/2024

Despite my irrational fear of buzzy things, its been great to achieve top-tier media coverage across several outlets for this UKCEH story this week - highlighting the great work of citizen scientists in spotting the invasive Asian hornet. #stempr #ecology www.ceh.ac.uk/press/citize...

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Citizen scientists rally to combat yellow-legged hornet threat

The public are urged to continue to use their eyes, ears, and the ‘Asian Hornet Watch’ smartphone app to report potential sightings of the yellow-legged hornet, also known as the Asian hornet. This ye...

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