Igor Morić and Ryan Manzuk, researchers at the Program on Science and Global Security, have both been selected for the Museum of Science’s inaugural Science Communication Fellowship. There were almost 450 applicants.
This first-of-its-kind six-month Science Communication fellowship is designed to help scientists, researchers, and content creators bring science to the public. To reach this goal, Fellows will be paired with established digital communicators to co-create engaging, innovative, and impactful science content. The fellowship seeks to create cross-disciplinary and intergenerational collaboration with the mission to inspire a lifelong love of science in everyone.
Morić and Manzuk will participate in a multi-week training and speaker series to equip them with diverse approaches to modern communication. All submissions will be featured in the Museum of Science’s first ever science communication conference.
During the Fellowship, Igor Morić hopes to develop a communication strategy to reach those that are indifferent or disconnected from the realities of nuclear danger by creating visually appealing content adaptable across multiple digital platforms and suitable for different audiences. To do so, for the Fellowship application he proposed a series of animated short stories dramatizing historical nuclear near-misses: incidents where a nuclear weapon was almost used or a nuclear accident nearly occurred, resulting from false alarms, malfunctions, or human error.
Ryan Manzuk’s project explores how to make Earth observation more democratic. He is proposing to undertake a social-media storytelling project that pairs personal accounts of environmental change with satellite-derived evidence of those same impacts. By combining lived testimony with accessible Earth-observation visuals, the project aims to show that remote-sensing data can be absorbed outside expert circles and empower communities to shape the narratives around environmental change.
The Museum of Science is a nature and science museum and indoor zoological establishment based in Boston and Cambridge, and was founded in 1830. It is among the world’s largest science centers and New England’s most attended cultural institution, engaging nearly five million people a year.
For more on the Museum, see: https://www.mos.org. For more on the Fellowship, see: https://www.mos.org/science-communication-fellowship.