For our first meeting of 2021, we decided to focus on a science communication topic we haven’t covered before: photography. “A picture is worth a thousand words,” as the saying goes. In this meeting we learned how to make those… Continue Reading
These days it seems like everyone is on some kind of social media, whether it’s Instagram on your smartphone, Facebook on your desktop, or YouTube on your tv. Still, many of us haven’t started using social media to effectively talk… Continue Reading
Job interviews, conferences, thesis defenses, and community engagement activities will be online for the foreseeable future and aspects of them will likely stay online even when we can travel again. So, investing time practicing how to deliver a great online… Continue Reading
Science communicators face a dilemma. Some of the most important contemporary issues in science, from climate change to vaccination, can be highly controversial. That makes communicating effectively about such issues a difficult task. But there are some strategies for writing… Continue Reading
As we face the middle of our semester head-first, we thought our second meeting would be best spent learning about some guidelines to consider for research poster design. To begin the discussion, Bradley put together a game of what he… Continue Reading