Jess Wade: Why I wrote a children’s book about nanoscience
Innovations enabled by nanoscience can transform lives, helping to provide clean drinking water and more sustainable public transport, and driving advances in health and medical research. But the successful translation of nanoscience from the lab to the real world requires a society that trusts, accepts and appreciates our discoveries.
The COVID-19 pandemic was the first time such nanoparticle vaccine technology was manufactured on a global scale, and efforts to educate the public on its safety and efficacy fell behind as governments raced to vaccinate populations., and an unjustified fear of the very small contributed to widespread vaccine hesitancy, which probably translated to hundreds of thousands of preventable deaths.
Public engagement isn’t just about addressing misinformation. As scientists, much of our research is taxpayer funded: we have a moral responsibility to communicate the outputs of our discoveries to the people who pay our salaries. We also have a responsibility to inspire and motivate future generations of nanoscientists, who are hopefully more diverse than the generations who have come before.
I’ve taken many approaches to science communication, including science festivals, podcasts, school workshops and poetry slams. I’ve written pages on nanoscience-related topics for Wikipedia and, most recently, set out to explain nanoscience in a children’s picture book. With award-winning illustrator Melissa Castrillón, I wroteis Mel’s first non-fiction book, and she almost didn’t take it, having been warned by her illustrator friends that nanoscience would be a very boring subject.
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