Some good news
- bethann29
- 7 days ago
- 2 min read
We could use a little, eh?
This is a brief palate cleanse if you need a break from doom scrolling. I’m writing this week to celebrate that two papers I found enormously meaningful to co-write have separately received awards this fall!
#1 Our paper in BioScience—“Use your power for good: An ethical scicomm framework for making a difference in the academy”—was recently given the Scicomm in Practice Award from the Ecological Society’s Communication and Enagagement Section!
Read more about the paper here (click image to view). 👇
#2 Our paper in Sustainability Science—“Reimagining the language of engagement in a post-stakeholder world”—was recently given a Best Paper Award from the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies and the Integrated Research System for Sustainability Science!
Read more about the paper here (click image to view). 👇
It might sound corny, but I’m grateful for the recognition of our work. Analyzing systems and articulating tools for enhancing them is not glamorous work. And, as we discuss in detail in the Power for Good paper, it’s very easy for this work to get dismissed as less-than, devalued in comparison to “hard science” work. But, as many a wise organizer has said, we cannot change or fix the machines if we don’t know how they work. So, I think this work is profoundly necessary, and I find it fulfilling to do it with other people who also see the function it serves in fostering broader efforts to improve how we do and share science.
And, although we don’t need awards to validate our work, recognition by others of the importance of this work is absolutely welcome!
These two papers are a great place to start if you want more info about my work to make science and academia better, and thereby help people make the world a better place.
How about you?
What’s something you’ve been working on (perhaps for the long haul) that you feel good about!?!
P.S. You still have time to get 30% off of Teaching and Mentoring Writers in the Sciences! Just use the code UCPNEW. This is a labor of love I co-wrote with Stephen Heard to help folks in the sciences connect with the 50+ years’ of research on how to effectively teach writing. It comes out from University of Chicago Press in a few weeks!
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