No. 113/2021

5 HUMBOLDT KOSMOS 113/2021 12 Photos: Humboldt-Stiftung/ Julian Maehrlein, Christiane Heinicke, Illustration: Martin Rümmele IMPRINT HUMBOLDT KOSMOS 113 FOCUS 12 The hot topic Why good science communication is so difficult 21 Overhasty science Guest commentary: How research needs to change now 22 “You can’t calculate it” I nterview: Communication researcher Hektor Haarkötter on strategies to counter shitstorms 28 24 FOCUS ON GERMANY The Communication Boom 28 CLOSE UP ON RESEARCH The Martian 32 NEWS 34 THE FACES OF THE FOUNDATION A who’s who of the people behind the scenes at the Humboldt Foundation PUBLISHER Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation EDITOR IN CHIEF Georg Scholl (responsible), Teresa Havlicek EDITORS Nina Hafeneger, Ulla Hecken, Lisa Purzitza ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS Dr. Lynda Lich-Knight PRODUCTION & GRAPHICS Raufeld Medien GmbH Nina Koch (Project Managment), Daniel Krüger (Creative Direction), Karo Rigaud (Creative Direction), Carolin Kastner (Art Direction) FREQUENCY twice a year CIRCULATION OF THE ISSUE 44000 PRINT Bonifatius GmbH, Paderborn ADDRESS Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung Redaktion Humboldt Kosmos Jean-Paul-Straße 12, 53173 Bonn, Germany presse@avh.de , www.humboldt-foundation.de ISSN 0344-0354