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
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
For our first meeting of the semester, we got to hear from newly-minted Mentorship Co-Chair Katy May about her science communication work for the Center for Human Health and the Environment. As is tradition though, this was preceded by a… Continue Reading
For this week’s meeting, we hosted Michelle Jewell, Chief Science Communicator for the Department of Applied Ecology, to talk with us about how being an institutional science communicator works, and what led her to down the path of being a… Continue Reading