Proceedings of the International scientific and practical conference ―Science, Technology and Art in Global Context‖ (December 12-14, 2025) / Publisher website: www.naukainfo.com. – Cambridge, United Kingdom, 2025. – 190 p.

146 experts and society, forms a culture of critical thinking and increases resistance to manipulation. The communication of uncertainty plays a special role. During crises — pandemics, man-made accidents, environmental threats — scientific information changes as new data emerge. If scientists do not explain the logic of these changes, society may perceive them as a contradiction or error. Therefore, it is important to talk openly about the limits of knowledge, possible alternative models, statistical errors, and the nature of scientific predictions. Thus, communicative trust is not just an additional aspect of scientific activity, but its fundamental condition in the global information environment. It determines whether scientific knowledge will be taken into account in public decisions, whether it will have an impact in the political process, and whether science will remain an authoritative source of truth in the era of information turbulence. A serious epistemological resource and at the same time a challenge is globalization combined with cultural diversity. The globalization of knowledge unites processes of openness and at the same time reproduces structures of inequality that affect the accessibility and visibility of scientific results. On the one hand, the global scientific space creates opportunities for transcultural exchange - the movement of ideas, methods, research approaches and value perspectives between different academic communities. On the other hand, it forms new epistemic hierarchies in which centers of knowledge, provided with infrastructure, funding and access to global publishing platforms, play a leading role. Cultural diversity in this context is a significant epistemic resource. Local forms of knowledge—including ethnomedical practices, traditional ecological observations, cultural classification systems, and humanitarian traditions—can enrich global scientific discourse. In many cases, they offer alternative ways of understanding the world that are sensitive to local ecological, social, and cultural conditions. Sometimes, such knowledge provides clues to solving problems that lie outside the standardized ―Western‖ scientific paradigm.