The TWiV Council explores the finding that facial appearance affects science communication, and evidence that RNA interference confers antiviral immunity in mammalian cells.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, and Kathy Spindler

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Links for this episode

JMBE SciComm Issue
Facial appearance affects science communication (PNAS)
Your face matters to science (virology blog)
RNA based antiviral immunity in mammals (Immunity)
How mice say nodavirus (TWiV 245)
Press release on science meeting gender disparity
The Traditional Lecture is Not Dead. I Would Know – I'm A Professor (virology blog)
Sound of Silence by Disturbed (YouTube)
Letters read on TWiV 449

Weekly Science Picks

Kathy - ASV 2017 Virolympics Crossword (pdf) Dickson - The Visible Mouse Alan - Is profitable publishing bad for science? Vincent - Locally Sourced Science

Listener Pick

Neva - Michael Summers interview and Virus coloring book

Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees.

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TWiV 449: The sound of non-silencing