📢Paid opportunity to integrate science communication into grad courses

Join our research study & get paid to make a difference for grad students' scicomm access!

https://youtu.be/6K1KnZfGrpc?si=oapIlkW9bx8iM6QT

Dear Troublemakers,

Many of you are here because you care about scicomm and think STEM grad students students should get trained in it. But if you’re working in most situations, and definitely academia, you likely feel stymied by barriers like time, colleague/supervisor resistance, lack of familiarity with scicomm, etc.

That’s why I’m working with collaborators to run a study designed specifically to help you! This work grew directly out of the work we and so many others have done to establish and grow resources for scicomm training in academia.

Please read on for project info and share widely with anyone you know who might be interested!

(tl;dr: there's a stipend 💵 and lots of resources available for folks who join the study and teach a scicomm module in their class in the next academic year.)

Thank you!

~Bethann

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We are recruiting professors, instructors, and trainers of students in ecology, evolution, behavior, and/or conservation (EEBC) to participate in an exciting new research project (Scicomm LIFT; DGE #2429657) to enhance graduate students’ ability to communicate science effectively and ethically with non-specialist audiences.

💵🙌We can offer support (and even a stipend!) for participants who:

• Teach a graduate course in an EEBC field or teach a full term scicomm course (in the 2026/2027 academic year)

• Are willing to engage their students in educational interventions that teach ethical scicomm

🎯There are many perks to participating!

• A stipend for your time and effort

• Collaboration with a growing community of practice focused on teaching scicomm

• Access to vetted scicomm teaching resources

• Support to overcome barriers that may prevent instructors from embedding science communication (scicomm) training in graduate programs

✅You can express interest in participating by taking this 5-minute survey! 👈

🏫If selected:

• you will take part in one of three intervention trainings: a one-hour workshop, a one-week module, and/or a full-term course*.

• Onboarding will include synchronous virtual training on July 9 or 10, 2026 with a second training option offered in mid August, 2026.

For more information about this study, visit us at scicommlift.com/aim-2.

Many thanks,

The Scicomm LIFT in Classrooms team

Robin Tinghitella

Dale Broder

Kailey Hicks

*Don't worry! If you're not teaching a full-term course, we won't assign that to you. :)