Miguel Vissers

In this article Miguel Vissers confesses he did not know who Mary Anning was. Whether the name sounds familiar or not, he invites you on a trip through the Natural History Museum of London on his road to discovery amongst fossils, gemstones, and first editions of science books. And as always, he exits through the gift shop. Writing a piece of so-called ‘forgotten figures in science’ is tricky. Claiming that ‘we’—whoever this we may be—have forgotten someone starting from your own experience...

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.”

A warning against scientism and a proposal for science communication focused more on scientific process(es) than scientific facts