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This manuscript aims to bring reflections and inspiration towards how the university can act as a vector for tackling the 17 SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals) of the 2030 Agenda from the UN (United Nations) and the role of its community (undergraduate and graduate students, staff, and faculty members). In this regard, the Institute of Chemistry from Sao Paulo State University – UNESP combines efforts with the university's central administration and non-governmental organizations to implement and stimulate activities to spread green chemistry and sustainable practices in each of the four fundamental pillars of the university: teaching, research, outreach, and administrative sectors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract: This article proposes to reflect, in the light of Digital Humanities, on the influence of post-truth on the credibility crisis of science. The objective is to identify the role of scientific divulgation in the recovery of science’s credibility and combat post-truth and the possibilities of using social networks for scientific divulgation by public universities. When defining itself as descriptive, the research seeks to accomplish an analysis of the benefits and contributions that can result in the contextualization of the problem with the field of knowledge regarding the Digital Humanities. The results showed that scientific divulgation through social networks contributes to combating the effects of post-truth culture and, consequently, recovering the credibility of science. Finally, it was concluded that the protagonists actors in the promotion of scientific divulgation strategies are public universities, because they have the democratization of access to knowledge as a social commitment.

In the State University of Ponta Grossa is a reference institution in Paleontology in the State of Paraná, for being located on top of fossiliferous terrains of the Devonian and, mainly, by the tradition in research in this area since 1969. In 2020, the Museum of Natural Sciences (MCN) was created on the UEPG campus with the proposal to enhance the scientific collections of regional and state geodiversity and biodiversity. Among the material on display in this space, there is a set of fossils representative of the Paraná paleontology with didactic potential and also for tourist visitation. The MCN has the support of research laboratories and their researchers to advance in the communication of science and, in the case of fossils, the Laboratory of Paleontology and Stratigraphy of the Department of Geosciences supports the curatorship and scientific investigation of the museum. The MCN concentrates on the most representative fossils of the region, culturally valuing the university collection and bringing to the public the results of decades of academic research, usually not accessible to the community. This paper presents the characteristics of this paleontological collection.

The Insecta Class is the most diverse group of animals on the planet. A big part of this composition is available in the collections of Natural History Museums, being essential for researches and diffusion actions involving a specialized and lay public. This paper aimed to verify the importance of an entomological exhibition of a Science museum for the acquisition of new knowledge and conception change regarding insects. To this end, 128 fourth-graders from elementary school were asked to draw an insect and write a brief description of it in relation to their knowledge about insects. Then, they visited an entomological exhibition, and a week later, using the "stimulated recollection method", they made a new drawing and description. The extracted data were organized in categories and statistically analyzed. Significant changes were observe regarding the children’s knowledge and concepts on insects in most of the analyzed aspects, such as the decrease of drawings and descriptions of animals belonging to other taxonomic groups and an increase on correct descriptions of concepts.

Under the perspective of the Bakhtin Circle's theory, this paper aims to study a few specifications, as well as aspects that constitute the digital scientific divulgation (DSD) utterances. Besides verbal and verbo-visual aspects, which characterize scientific divulgation utterances in several print genres, it is important to consider that our object of study is also composed by/in the complexity of the digital environment. We intend to present a reflection upon hypertextual dialogic relations, conclusibility and utterance alternation, and finally the conditions of production and reception in DSD utterances.

The following interview with Professor Fox was conducted by Gildo Magalhães at the University of São Paulo’s Institute of Advanced Studies on November 16, 2017, with the participation of Raiany Oliveira, Flávio Magalhães, and Sara Albieri.

The Insecta Class is the most diverse group of animals on the planet. A big part of this composition is available in the collections of Natural History Museums, being essential for researches and diffusion actions involving a specialized and lay public. This paper aimed to verify the importance of an entomological exhibition of a Science museum for the acquisition of new knowledge and conception change regarding insects. To this end, 128 fourth-graders from elementary school were asked to draw an insect and write a brief description of it in relation to their knowledge about insects. Then, they visited an entomological exhibition, and a week later, using the "stimulated recollection method", they made a new drawing and description. The extracted data were organized in categories and statistically analyzed. Significant changes were observe regarding the children's knowledge and concepts on insects in most of the analyzed aspects, such as the decrease of drawings and descriptions of animals belonging to other taxonomic groups and an increase on correct descriptions of concepts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The contact with science is very important to the development of a conscious citizen, even if he, or she, never work with. Astronomy is an excellent way to do this approximation, simply because everyone can see the sky and has questions about it. This project aims to use observational night to discuss the classroom situations. We have made interventions in a rural local school in Caçapava do Sul (Brazil) during five years which we explain what we will see and, after that, we observe it. Since 2018, we have used the Caçapava do Sul Meteorite, that available a direct contact with a real space rock, when everyone can test the resistance and the weight of this meteorite. During this time it was almost 2 000 people has been attending by us and we noted that the students had increased their notion and comprehension about science in general. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

O objetivo desta pesquisa foi fazer uma análise crítica das concepções alternativas sobre força e movimento na revista Superinteressante. Para embasar essa análise, fizemos uma revisão bibliográfica sobre o tema, abrangendo desde a teoria dos movimentos naturais de Aristóteles até as três leis de Newton. Em seguida, fizemos uma comparação das concepções encontradas em várias pesquisas sobre esse assunto com as desses pensadores. Guiados por essa revisão bibliográfica, concluímos que muitas das concepções dos estudantes sobre força e movimento estão presentes na revista, mas em percentagem menor, comparadas com as encontradas nessas pesquisas. O que exige, dos educadores interessados na aprendizagem significativa dos seus alunos, cuidados especiais em sua utilização como um recurso didático.This paper deals with a critical analysis about alternative conceptions on force and motion in the Superinteressante Magazine. This analysis was based on a bibliography review about this subject, from Aristotle's natural motion theory to the three Newton's laws of motion. Afterwards, we made a comparison between the conceptions found in various researches about this matter and that of those thinkers. Guided by this review, we conclude that many of students' conceptions about force and motion are present in the magazine, but in a lower percentage, compared to those found in the review. The research outcomes show to the educators interested in their students' meaningful learning, special care when using this magazine as didactical resource.

Este artigo tem como objetivo discutir algumas características da divulgação científica que toma as ciências biológicas como tema central. Optou-se pela análise de livros que, no contexto brasileiro, alcançaram sucesso público e que são, freqüentemente, mencionados por alunos universitários, tanto em sala de aula quanto em seus escritos. O enfoque dado à pesquisa é de cunho antropológico, enfatizando-se que, na pós-modernidade, fluem paralelamente duas culturas, rotuladas por Giddens (2002) de a "cultura da segurança" e a "cultura de risco".The aim of this study is to discuss some characteristics of the diffusion of science taking the Biological Sciences as a central theme. Those books considered a commercial success in the Brazilian context and frequently mentioned by university students in classroom and in their papers, were selected for the analysis. The focus given to the research is an anthropological one, emphasizing that, in postmodernity, ideas flow in two parallel cultures labeled by Giddens (2002) as being the "safety culture" and the "risk culture."

The JSNCARE involves stimulating graduate nurses to work upon scientific themes to publish and communicate to other nurses in the high complexity health care. JSNCARE will improve the appropriation of nursing knowledge by the health workers, as well the extensive use of nursing science, and promotion of innovation in the nursing care.

A comunicação científica, o periódico científico e o aumento do acesso à informação e comunicação pelas redes eletrônicas introduzem a discussão da relação da comunicação com a divulgação científica. A ampliação da audiência proporcionada pela Internet e a maior visibilidade da ciência com as versões eletrônicas dos periódicos científicos são exploradas e é discutida a aproximação entre público especializado e não-especializado, bem como a possível convergência de audiências a partir da comunicação em rede eletrônica e das tecnologias de informação e comunicação - TICs. Conceitos, características, funções da comunicação e da divulgação científica, bem como aspectos históricos da formação do público e da ciência, remetem aos principais autores dessas duas áreas e a re-pensar a divulgação da ciência e a “ciência pública” para além dos muros acadêmicos. Pressupostos teóricos fundamentam o caráter público da ciência e a natureza transformadora da informação, enquanto aspectos técnicos, mostram o campo para novas tecnologias de informação e comunicação, transferência de informação e interatividade entre público acadêmico e não acadêmico, sugerindo tecnologias como agentes de mudança de cultura, tendo a Sismologia como área de demonstração.