Big Bang

Two years after the very first BE SciComm Freelancer Breakfast, we found ourselves back where it all began: BODEGA in Ghent.

Our next SciComm Safari is taking us quite literally to new depths. On Tuesday 16 June, we’ll head 225 meters underground to visit HADES, Belgium’s unique underground research laboratory in the Boom Clay in Mol.

Last week, we hosted the second BE SciComm Career & Networking Fair and it was exactly what we hoped it would be: a room full of people talking.

For this issue on different media used for science communication, Miguel Vissers dug deeper on a quote that has long survived the speaker: “The medium is the message.”

...you’ll get what you’ve always got. The famous saying with unknown origins, and attributed to a variety of people, came to mind as I started reflecting on this edition of Big Bang . The diversity of science communication approaches that are used to reach different publics has changed over the years. But has what science communicators do really changed, or are we still doing what we always did? Let’s have a closer look. Once upon a time in Belgium Some of the work of Geert V

On April 25, 1953, a short paper appeared in the journal Nature that changed the world.1 It was barely a page long and contained a single, simple diagram. But what stands out today isn’t just the discovery of the DNA double helix; it is the quiet, unassuming confidence of the opening sentence: “We wish to suggest a structure for the salt of deoxyribose nucleic acid (D.N.A).”