Jesús Crespo Cuaresma, Professor of Marcoeconomics at WU Vienna, who has published extensively on climate-conflict migration, shares his decades-long insight into migration research and science communication: What works, what doesn’t work, and where researchers’ responsibility for how their research is publicly and politically received ends. We also explore Jesus’ own experience as a migrant in Austria and why arriving in the mid-1990s meant a true culture shock for him.