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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Blog & Tips
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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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Sketching Tip: Sketching Techniques Toolkit
Student practicing simplifying a complex image into essential line work (at a Sketching for Scientists workshop I taught at Harvard...
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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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Sketching Tip: Using words for all they are worth
Hares sketched in East Africa – this was the best I ever could do, because they didn’t stick around long enough! (© B.G.Merkle, 2016) Not...
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Sketching Tip: Sketching your notes at conferences, meetings & in class
Notes from a training I did in preparation to volunteer for an amphibian monitoring citizen science project in Wyoming. These tips are...
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Summer 2017 newsletter: Drawing on windows, making fish & more art-science tips
Click image to view full newsletter. Happy summer, dear readers! I trust this finds you enjoying the weather and doing a bit of...
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Sketching Tip: Drawing on Windows
This is a simple short cut for situations when you have a complicated landscape to draw, and you don’t feel up to it, or don’t have the...
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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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April 2017 CommNatural Newsletter: Migration, multimedia sketching & more
Click image to view full newsletter. Happy April, dear readers! The weather is getting warmer and warmer. In addition to obvious shifts...
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Tips for ethical and legal use of images in science presentations and other science communication (U
When you are looking for great images to communicate about science, the internet is a treasure trove. But it is easy to overstep legal...
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March 2017 CommNatural Newsletter: Making connections between art & other disciplines
Click image to view full newsletter. Happy spring, dear readers! The spring equinox was just a few days ago, and my tulips noticed. While...
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Jan/Feb 2017 CommNatural Newsletter: Snow sketching, winter vocabulary & more
Click image to view full newsletter. Happy not-quite-spring, dear readers! Although we’re a long way from actual spring, the weather in...
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Suggestions for integrating drawing into university-level biology courses
This post has been updated (2021) to point to two more recent publications in which I detail the drawing-science integration approach I...
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November 2016 newsletter: SciArt Animation & Sharing
Click image to view full newsletter. Sharing SciArt can be fun for everyone! I’ve been busy working on illustrations for an exhibit of my...
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