A Top-20 Reading List: Starting Points for Science of SciComm
In the spirit of my earlier post sharing my detailed scicomm bibliography, today I'm sharing a top-20 reading list. [1, 2] When I posted...
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Can ChatGPT write a #SciComm grant proposal?
This screenshot was an attempt to recreate the initial chat, because I didn’t think to take a screenshot before I ended the chat and...
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Science communication bibliography
Screenshot of the bibliography linked to in this post. Follow the links for an accessible, plain-text version. If you’re looking for a...
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Meteor: The honest podcast about scicomm with impact
Last year, I launched Meteor, a podcast, with friend, collaborator, and fellow dreamer-schemer Virginia Schutte. We just wrapped Season 2...
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Article: Sharing Science Through Shared Values, Goals, and Stories: An Evidence-Based Approach to Ma
Screenshot of first page of the paper Last fall, I had the great pleasure to accept an invitation to write a paper for a special issue in...
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SciComm Advice: Start at the End (what are you trying to do?)
©2021 – Student sketching in a notebook surrounded by educational materials I frequently get asked by students and faculty what kind of...
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Canadian Science Publishing interviews me about creative ways of doing science communication and sha
I was invited to serve as the People’s Choice Judge for Canadian Science Publishing*’s 2021 Visualizing Science contest (which you can...
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Article: Using collages & surveys to understand public opinion about managing agricultural lands
Screenshot of article I was fascinated and delighted to join a group of researchers who used art (collages made by community members) to...
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Words Matter For Scientists—Here’s Why: Public Radio covers a paper I co-wrote
In an audio interview and edited transcript, Wyoming Public Radio reporter Ashley Piccone interviewed me and Nell Smith (a student) ...
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Article: In the space between: Public information officers in science
This invited article in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment clarifies the role that public information officers play in modern...
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Drawn to Science Communication: Art-Science Synergy as a Career and a Way of Life
I recently gave an invited career talk at the 2020 annual conference of the Ecological Society of America. In case others are interested,...
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Article: Poetry as a Creative Practice to Enhance Engagement and Learning in Conservation Science
This article was such a fun research and writing project. We were working from the foundational question of how to connect scientists to...
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I don’t usually post selfies, but that’s about to change. OR, some things #scientistswho
Me (left) teaching a #sketchingforscientists workshop in Laramie, Wyoming I’ve been thinking a lot about the recent Science op-ed that...
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Article: Creative convergence: exploring biocultural diversity through art
I had the great honor of collaborating with my friend Dr. Jean Polfus and her Sahtu Dene community collaborators on this publication. In...
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Teaching teachers to integrate cichlid phylogeny, resin sculptures, and drawing in k12+ classrooms
The longer I am involved with art-science integration, the more time I get to spend teaching teachers — teaching them how to use drawing...
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Commissioning SciArt Illustrations? Know what you want and what you can spend. (Using Images-A Best
This article is the sixth in a series aimed at helping you enhance your #scicommand #sciart by avoiding #visualplagiarism. It will do so...
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SciArt illustration contracts for your science communication project (Using Images-A Best Practices
This article is the fifth in a series aimed at helping you enhance your #scicommand #sciart by avoiding #visualplagiarism. It will do so...
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Getting the most out of working with an illustrator for your science communication project (Using Im
This article is the fourth in a series aimed at helping you enhance your #scicommand #sciart by avoiding #visualplagiarism. It will do so...
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Finding the Creator…and Asking for Permission (Using Images-A Best Practices Primer, Part 3)
This article is the third in a series aimed at helping you enhance your #scicomm and #sciart by avoiding #visualplagiarism. It will do so...
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Finding great scicomm & presentation images for free (Using Images-A Best Practices Primer, Part
This article is the second in a series aimed at helping you enhance your #scicomm and #sciart by avoiding #visualplagiarism. It will do...
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