Leveraging grad student training to transform institutional attitudes on scicomm

I'm currently out of the office dealing with a death in the family (hence the skipped post last week). This week's post is brief, and future posts may be brief for a while, as I tend to family matters and do the necessary recalibration that comes from taking time away from work.

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I've done a few talks/panels in the past year that share a common theme: academia isn't set up to value, support, or reward scicomm [1], BUT -- good news! -- there are ways that we can leverage insights from scicomm and approaches to grad student training to shift these attitudes.

I'm always happy to chat (or present) more about how collaborators and I are strategically approaching this work at and beyond UW.

But for today, I'm just going to share with you the video recordings of these talks. Please feel free to follow up with me via email, social media, or the comments!

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Public Engagement with Science: Training Landscape Panel

Research!America, November 12, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmgjXfyOIkE

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Power for Good: Leveraging Scicomm Insights to Enhance Institutional Capacity

University of Wyoming, October 24, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jte0usAQ4XI

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Leveraging Graduate Student Training to Build Institutional SciComm Capacity

Learning Actively Mentoring Program, UW Science Initiative, September 22, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29f1qOyN-CI

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NOTES

[1] If you want a more detailed orientation to the reality that prestige paradigms in academia devalue, resist, and impede scicomm and associated training, careers, research, etc., have I got the paper for you! :) 👇

Broder, E.D.♦, B.G. Merkle♦, M. Balgopal, E. Weigel, S. Murphy, J.J. Caffrey, E. Hebets, A. Sher, J. Gumm, J. Lee, C. Schell, and R. Tinghitella♦. 2024. Use your power for good: An applied framework for overcoming institutional injustices impeding SciComm in the academy. BioScience early view. https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biae080 or PDF.

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