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  organization: Wolfson Centre for Age-Related Diseases, King's College
    London, Guy's Campus, London, UK
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  organization: Neuroscience Center, Helsinki Institute of Life Science
    HiLIFE, University of Helsinki, Finland
article:
  elocation-id: science-communication-reproducibility
  volume: 2
author:
- Sara E. Jager
- Katja Kaurinkoski
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  link: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
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date:
  day: 12
  month: 08
  year: 2021
journal:
  eissn: 2670-3815
  publisher-name: Publishers of Trial and Error
  title: Journal for Reproducibility in Neuroscience
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title: Science communication of reproducibility
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# **Abstract**

The importance of reproducibility is a widely discussed topic within
academia, and there is an increased awareness about the issues in
reproducibility, as we start to more actively tackle it within different
fields of the scientific community. Outside of academia, however,
reproducibility isn't as well-known a concept, and there should be
increased emphasis on the importance of reproducibility when engaging
with the public. The importance and impact of thoughtful science
communication is starting to be recognised within academia, with more
funding proposals requesting a SciComm plan alongside the research plan.
But what about the science communication of reproducibility in and of
itself? While understandable that researchers would like to avoid
discussing the pitfalls of science for fear that our words will be
misconstrued and used in the wrong context, we shouldn't hide the
limitations of science either; this merely upholds the incorrect
stereotype of robotic and elitist scientists, which unfortunately still
exists to some degree today.

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