Comments on: Link Dump for the Rock Stars of Science campaign

By: Chris Mooney

Chris Mooney — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 21:27:51 +0000

@10 Doh. fixed that

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Rock Stars of Science | Division of Libraries — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 19:07:25 +0000

[...] the full text of the magazine from 2001) has a great website with great blogs, and has been writing a lot recently about the Rock Stars of Science [...]

By: schrokit

schrokit — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 13:59:18 +0000

I think you mean Neurotic Physiology re: SciCurious’ blog!

By: Sean McCorkle

Sean McCorkle — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 13:47:55 +0000

4&6 – agreed – its not very inspirational in my opinion. At a casual glance, there’s nothing to distinguish the featured scientist from say, bankers, auto salesmen, administrators or insurance company employees. It separates the individuals from what they do – their science. The science is the exiting part, not necessarily the individuals. Or rather, what makes the scientist exciting is what they do or have done.

At the very least I’d reduce the size of the people in the picture and have a cool background image or montage appropriate to the research – molecular simulations, particle displays, astronomical images, etc – whatever is relevant. If no data images are available, then illustrations. Pictures have impact.

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Fri, 19 Nov 2010 13:11:53 +0000

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By: Sputnik

Sputnik — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 00:21:24 +0000

Honestly, I find these photos incredibly awkward. I can’t help but laugh at some of the poses, the poor lighting and photoshop work. The choice of people is also puzzling…Dr. Oz?

By: DNLee

DNLee — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 23:34:59 +0000

hey, you forgot Princess Ojiaku of Science with Moxie. She blogged about the GQ article, too.

http://sciencewithmoxie.blogspot.com/2010/11/rock-stars-of-science.html

By: 22ndCenurySean

22ndCenurySean — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 21:43:29 +0000

As one of the initial fans of the 2009 campaign I was psyched to see things evolve a bit for 2010. Science and scientists need some good PR and this is a great campaign that gets a lot of attention. But I can’t say it is all that inspiring, especially to young folks. I’ll be posting an entry on Future-ish tonight on this year’s campaign and I’ll have a few zingers on both the style/design of the campaign and the content but for now I’ll just offer an SNL Debbie Downer “wah-wah” sound effect for my first impressions. We need to make science aspirational and using pop culture is certainly one way to do this. Over at Future-ish, we’re trying to increase interest, literacy, and involvement in science by highlighting true ‘scelebs’ (celebrity scientists), as well as Smart Stars. Sadly, I don’t think this year’s spread makes science more interesting or accessible like last year’s did. But in the end, it will get a lot of press and as any pop-culture groupie knows…any press is good press (interesting how that is not the case in the science world).

By: Chris Mooney

Chris Mooney — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 20:24:58 +0000

Thanks Tara! I missed you last time but you’re leading my next link dump. Thanks for your thoughts on the campaign