A week to go until our book club meeting to discuss Anne Helen Toomey's Science with Impact! Save the date and join us June 23rd at 3pm ET
If you missed our Quarterly Read with NOAA Newsletter here are some snippets from it. Make sure your name is on our list to get the newsletter going forward. (NOAA Staff & Affiliates only)
How's the reading going?
We've put together an outline of some discussion questions to get us started when we meet up on June 23rd!
In chapter 6 Anne discusses the many forms of participatory science, one of the projects mentioned the library hosted a Citizen Science webinar on. You can watch the recording on our YouTube Channel!
You can listen to the author discuss the book on this Podcast episode of Talk Nerdy
Finished the book and want more?
Here are some recommended books, and podcasts mentioned in the reading!
Recommended Reads from this book:
- Manu Saadia, Trekonomics: The Economics of Star Trek,
- J. Bayley, Creating Meaningful Impact: The Essential Guide to Developing an Impact-Literate Mindset,
- B. Misztal, Trust in Modern Societies: The Search for the Bases of Social Order
Recommended Podcasts from this book:
- Alan Alda’s Clear and Vivid ,
- David McRaney’s You Are Not So Smart, and
- Shankar Vedantam’s Hidden Brain
Interesting articles we're reading:
- The impacts of expertise, conflict, and scientific literacy on trust and belief in scientific disagreements
- Lessons from the happiest countries in the world
- Using bibliometrics to detect questionable authorship and affiliation practices and their impact on global research metrics: A case study of 14 universities
- On the relationship between monthly mean surface temperature and tornado days in the United States
Questions or feedback? library.reference@noaa.gov