{"id":597,"date":"2025-10-21T15:56:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T15:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digitalwarta.live\/?p=597"},"modified":"2025-10-21T15:56:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T15:56:12","slug":"science-communication-workshop-held-at-csir-ihbt-palampur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digitalwarta.live\/?p=597","title":{"rendered":"Science Communication Workshop Held at CSIR-IHBT Palampur"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Palampur 21 Oct. :<\/strong> A two-day national workshop, &#8220;Communicate to Connect: Science for All,&#8221; was jointly organized by <strong>CSIR-NIScPR<\/strong> and <strong>CSIR-IHBT<\/strong> in Palampur from October 14 to 15, 2025. The event brought together leading scientists and communicators to find new strategies for making science accessible to the public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Key Highlights:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Combating Misinformation:<\/strong> Speakers, including a director from Microsoft India, stressed the urgent need to combat misinformation, ensure fact-checked content, and provide oversight, especially in the age of Artificial Intelligence (AI).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Two-Way Communication:<\/strong> Experts called for an &#8220;army of communicators&#8221; to deliver verified science from the labs to the public and emphasized a crucial <strong>&#8220;two-way flow of knowledge&#8221;<\/strong> between the scientific community and the land.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Integrating Science:<\/strong> The importance of integrating science communication into all aspects of governance and public life was highlighted, drawing lessons from successful public health campaigns like polio eradication.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Scientific Temper with Empathy:<\/strong> The workshop stressed that effective science communication must be based on scientific understanding combined with <strong>empathy and feelings<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>CSIR&#8217;s Commitment:<\/strong> The event underscored CSIR&#8217;s commitment to fostering a rational and inclusive society by bridging communities, empowering marginalized groups, and establishing public feedback mechanisms to continuously improve scientific innovations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The workshop also included brainstorming sessions on the media&#8217;s role, popular science writing, and utilizing diverse formats like social media, science fiction, and poetry for outreach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Palampur 21 Oct. : A two-day national workshop, &#8220;Communicate to Connect: Science for All,&#8221; was<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":598,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalwarta.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalwarta.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalwarta.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalwarta.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalwarta.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=597"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/digitalwarta.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":599,"href":"https:\/\/digitalwarta.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597\/revisions\/599"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalwarta.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalwarta.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalwarta.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalwarta.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}