Mentor Chats - Aug 2024 - Mapping the civic science landscape with Fanuel Muindi

Join the SciCommers and Fanuel Muindi as we talk about the many aspects of civic science such as funding, training, and scholarship.
Fanuel Muindi is a former neuroscientist turned civic science scholar-journalist and entrepreneur.
He is the Founder and Chief Resident of the Sai Resident Collective (SRC), a non-profit incubator that funds emerging civic science entrepreneurs to launch new ventures that connect science to society. Within the collective, he leads the Civic Science Media Lab which conducts investigative civic science journalism to interrogate and unravel ongoing progress and shed light on important issues across the field.
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RESOURCES and shared stuff
The growing imperative for civic science journalism
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Civic Science Media Lab
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Civic Science Funding Landscape Dashboard
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Stories by Bernadette Weigman - Civic Science Times Correspondent Looking at neuroscience and society funding landscape
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Public Engagement with Science Hub (PESH) at Northeastern University
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Training Initiatives​ for Scientists in Public Engagement Dashboard Version 2.0
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Mentioned Papers
Distribution of the National Science Foundation’s Advancing Informal STEM Learning Awards (AISL) between 2006-21 (Houzenga, H. M., & Muindi, F. J. (preprint))
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Evolving Structure and Diversity of Human Narratives in the Journal of
Stories in Science (Mach, R. Q., Tsai, J. W., & Muindi, F. J. (preprint))
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How should we organize science communication trainings to achieve competencies? (Lewenstein, B. V., & Baram-Tsabari, A. (2022))
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