ReproducibiliTea journal club attendance March
Welcome to explore our next interesting topic "Storytelling or spinning narratives - what's the difference?"
Does the data always tell the same story or does storytelling impact how we understand the results?
Join us to hear and discuss this topic with our guest Trevor Corson. Trevor Corson is an acclaimed narrative journalist and science writer, and a health researcher at Helsinki University Hospital. He teaches the course “Storytelling for Scientists” in the Doctoral School and is also the director of NeuWrite Nordic, a Helsinki-based creative science-writing workshop.
We are offering small snacks and would like to know if you plan to join. The registration is not binding but helps us to plan the amount of snacks. Please let us know by March 25th but still come over even if you are late for the registration!
What? Join us to discuss "Storytelling or spinning narratives - what's the difference?"
Storytelling is a powerful and increasingly popular mode for both scientific writing and communicating science to the public. At the same time, bias and spin in scientific reporting are increasingly being called out as part of the crisis of credibility in science, while public trust in science has been collapsing. Is it really possible to craft compelling narratives without compromising scientific integrity? Where does bias come from, and could there be ways to tell stories and be objective at the same time? Join us as we open this Pandora’s box and dive deep into narrative thinking and the philosophy of science!
When? March 28 at 12:00-14:00 (12-2 pm)
Where? CP18 Skutsi, Biomedicum 1, Haartmaninkatu 8
Paper: “Storytelling” (2013) by Krzywinski & Cairo and commentary on it “Against storytelling of scientific results” (2013) by Katz (
pdf here)
Encouraged extra reading: “Hide results to seek the truth” (2015) by MacCoun & Perlmutter (
pdf here)
Should you have any questions, please feel free to contact our team (grp-reproducibilitea@helsinki.fi)
Happy reading,
Julia, Henna, Anastasiia, & Vootele
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