10/09/2026
👨🏽🔬 WHY I DECIDED TO BECOME A SCIENCE COMMUNICATOR
For more than 16 years, I have worked in science — researching, teaching, publishing, and sharing knowledge across food science, nutrition, food safety, agriculture, sustainable food systems, health, and climate change. But I have increasingly realised something:
- Good science is not enough if it does not reach people.
- As scientists, we communicate through journal articles, conferences, lectures, and technical reports. Yet many important scientific conversations now happen outside academia — on social media, in communities, workplaces, and around our dinner tables.
- Every day, people encounter claims about what they should eat, whether foods are “healthy” or “dangerous”, pesticides, additives, supplements, climate change, and new technologies.
Unfortunately, good evidence and good engagement do not always travel together.
That is why I have decided to become more active as a Science Communicator on my personal social-media platforms. I believe:
🔬 Science should be accessible to everyone, not just academics.
⚠️ Misinformation matters. Misleading claims about food, nutrition, health and climate change can influence real-life decisions.
🌍 Research creates greater impact when it reaches beyond academia — to policymakers, practitioners, farmers, industry and the public.
🧑🔬 Representation matters. I want to inspire the next generation, particularly young people from diverse backgrounds, to see a future for themselves in science.
🤝 Scientists should be part of public conversations. If evidence-based voices are absent, misinformation and pseudoscience can fill that space.
My goal is simple:
To make science understandable, interesting and useful — without compromising scientific accuracy.
I hope to explore food, nutrition, health, agriculture, environment, climate change and new scientific discoveries, while examining popular claims and asking:
“But what does the science actually say?”
I also hope to bring perspectives sometimes underrepresented in mainstream science communication, connecting Africa, Europe and the wider world.
This is the beginning of a new journey — one of learning, listening, engaging and communicating science differently.
Because science shouldn't only be researched and published. It should be understood, shared — and used. 🌍🔬
WHAT SCIENTIFIC TOPIC DO YOU THINK IS MOST MISUNDERSTOOD BY THE PUBLIC TODAY ?
— Dr Joseph Galani
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