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Erica Kleinknecht O’Shea's avatar

Narrative / Message control is a huge problem for Psychology. Most research scientists and professors stay out of the public eye for a variety of reasons, but when mistaken interpretations and pseudoscientific stances go viral on social real harm can come from it! What you bring up is so important! We -the professoriate in many disciplines- need to grapple with this. Appreciate your reflections here.

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Anne Thomas's avatar

I feel very similarly to you about this specific topic (plant intelligence), without knowing all that much about outside of my general plant biology knowledge as a plant ecologist. I’m also highly interested in scicomms around plants, especially blended with lyrical writing styles (something I try to do) and always have my radar out for conversations like this (last time I was in a bookstore I snapped pictures of at least 5 new plant popsci book covers, including this one). I haven’t read your review yet, but would you recommend The Light Eaters to scicomms-oriented plant scientists despite the moments of potential cringe?

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