Listening to prominent social scientists @brossardd and @mcnisbet discuss building science engagement in a disrupted democracy live. Highly recommend tuning in if you have a spare moment: https://www.earth.columbia.edu/videos/view/how-to-build-science-engagement-in-a-disrupted-democracy

"The problem is on both sides, it is not only on one side... [higher ed needs to] teach people to have constructive conversations" @brossardd

"if we are going to rebuild our civic culture... a starting place is our land grant universities" - @mcnisbet

"You can also make things worse if you don't know what you are doing" re: scientists engaging public groups; "not everyone should be going to talk to communities" - @brossardd

"There are limits to what communication and public engagement can do... experts need to share responsibility for the mess that we are in"; "the outputs of science creates great wealth, but that wealth is not equally distributed" - @mcnisbet

"Maybe we cannot have a general view [of what science is]..."; we ought to expand "our view of what science means" - @brossardd

"It's a mistake to reduce the future to climate change... when we do that, we overlook these other [immediate] threats" - @mcnisbet