The development of new scientific areas imposes a set of challenges to communicating and disseminating news on such development. Results are in the making, conceptual frameworks remain under construction and often at a high level of abstraction, levels of uncertainty are generally unavoidable. This scenario leads to a dilemma to any serious attempt of communicating and disseminating cutting-edge and ongoing scientific work: to rely on well-established repertoires of communication with the risk of systematically failing to keep track of standards these repertoires require, or to advance new means of communicating and disseminating in parallel to the development of new scientific areas. This second part of the dilemma –which suggests including the science of communication in the realm of broader scientific agendas– involves high risk-taking in the process of reporting scientific enterprises.
The Research, Innovation and Dissemination Center for Neuromathematics (NeuroMat) is now on Facebook and on Youtube. On Facebook, NeuroMat will release research updates, event information and other pertaining news related to neuromathematics. The NeuroMat Facebook page will also strengthen bonds among people interested in the development of a theory of the brain.
NeuroMat, the Research, Innovation and Dissemination Center for Neuromathematics, calls on its members and supporters to deploy the capacity of Wikipedia to represent neuromathematics as fully and as accurately as possible. This initiative is part of the broad commitment of NeuroMat toward scientific dissemination and open science, and it has been announced as a “call to duty” by Antonio Galves, the head of NeuroMat.
Claudia Domingues Vargas, a NeuroMat co-principal investigator, appeared on a short documentary on how brain and body communicate. The movie was produced by Imagine Science Films, in June 2014. The official description of the documentary is below, and the official webpage is here.
by Kelly Rosa Braghetto*
