Scientists love to talk to other scientists but while this is an importance part of the scientific process, the reluctance to engage with those outside scientific circles is a likely contributor to the growing distrust between scientists and the public. The project “BIOgraphies: The lives of those who study life”, in the original Portuguese “BIOgrafias: Vidas de quem estuda a vida”, hopes to begin tackling this issue. With it we aimed to bring the life of field biologists to the public in a format that is not only free from scientific jargon but also compatible with the competing interests faced by readers.
Read all about it in the recent open access paper in Journal of Threatened Taxa