Conventional seated audiences have relatively restricted opportunities for response. Perhaps the most salient is applause but they use their hands to make other visible movements: to fix hair, adjust glasses, scratch ears. The question we address here is whether these apparently incidental movements may provide systematic clues about an audience’s level of engagement with a performance. We inve...

study into the mauve stinger. “The trouble is that we know so little about jellyfish,” says Haughton. Most people think of them as having little impact on ecosystems. “Now we need to learn, very quickly, about their behaviour and about their breeding patterns in our waters.” The team is getting its first basic data by monitoring the number of jellyfish spotted from the decks of ferries crossing...

OBJECTIVE The National Quality Forum (NQF) Safe Practices are a group of 34 evidence-based Safe Practices that should be universally used to reduce the risk of harm to patients. Four of these practices specifically address leadership. A recently published book, 7 Lessons for Leading in Crisis, offers practical advice on how to lead in crisis. An analysis of how concepts from the 7 lessons could...

When looking at modern music club settings, especially in the area of electronic music, music is consumed in a unidirectional way on a sound engineering level – from DJ or producer to the audience – with little direct means to influence and participate. In this paper we challenge this phenomenon and aim for a new bond between the audience and the DJ through the creation of an interactive dance ...

There is growing attention to student assessments designed reach beyond the classroom, including with an immediate or future audience. The impact of audience, however, has not been examined in multimodal across continents, institutions, disciplines, and teaching contexts. Using qualitative data, this article examines on learning incorporating audience awareness diverse settings through projects...

This issue of The FASEB Journal marks a transition with respect to an aspect of our enterprise for the last five years— editorials exclusively penned by the Editor-in-Chief. Combining editorial and essay forms, they have addressed both professional scientists and broader audiences , in keeping with his many engaging books (e.g., Ref. 1). By now inviting other members of the editorial board to p...

Conferences are novel sites for understanding medical work. Through describing styles of presentation that take place at conferences attended by patients and parents, this article highlights how clinicians on stage present ordinary and extraordinary aspects of medicine. Attention is drawn to the reaction of the parents in the audience. The power of the presenter to direct proceedings highlights...