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- Breaking up with a professional society & why I'm considering it
Connecting with each other in-person at the annual conference is the main benefit of membership in ESA Put another way, in ESA as in scicomm, most of the free programming/content is offered by folks with None of those things are possible while I'm in transit to/from or spending time at an ESA conference. But, when I left that job, I stopped going to ESA. I calculated I may have worked a 0 25 or 0.5 FTE for ESA for several years!
- People make it possible: Making the world a better place is about relationships, not awards
For example, when I met the amazing people who co-founded the ESA Communication and Engagement Section We saw a lot of potential and need for change in ESA to support professionals like us whose expertise also slogged uphill against a lot of gatekeeping that (largely) kept us out of the upper levels of ESA For example, ESA members regularly told us that they had felt there was nothing in ESA for them after ESA staffers by then saw sufficient value in it that they took over making the list.
- Are we addicted to trying to make academia (and professional societies) better?
I have a lot of relationships through (or associated with) ESA. My first years as an ESA member, I was a freelance journalist. The origins and beating heart of ESA are STEM academics, and yes, I knew that. But I saw many ways that ESA could serve and support people like me. To my knowledge, none of them have gone to an ESA conference in years.
- Big awards are nice, sure. But they shouldn't drive our work.
Through the programs I lead at UW, led in ESA, have more recently launched at global levels , and through receive this award now is a big deal, personally, because I've been involved in leadership roles in ESA So, this award matters both as affirmation of the importance of this work in ESA and also as a nod to Similarly, getting ESA to value and support scicomm has been a long slog. which is why I stopped going to ESA's annual meeting several years ago.
- Are the hidden perks enough to stay intensely active in a professional society?
An invitation to write a regular Writing Science column in one of ESA's journals. This was especially true when I was first an ESA member. staff (who make the ESA world go round). My work in ESA has been fulfilling (despite all the hurdles). Just a reality that many of us want from ESA, or see potential in ESA for, some things that aren’t typical
- Over the river and through the sand...to a kinda-sorta-scicomm-conference we'll go
So, at least in my experience, ESA is a kinda-sorta-scicomm conference. NOTES [1] I haven't attended ESA for several years, after being deeply involved in leadership roles there ] As I've mentioned already few times this spring/summer, I'm pretty conflicted about going to the ESA involved with launching the C&E Section has stopped going to the conference or stopped being active in ESA I reconnect to it through this award, in an advisory role for this Scicomm Fellowship program that ESA
- Could #sketchyourscience be key to increasing appreciation of SciArt among ecologists?
Cross-posted on ESA SciComm Section blog #sketchyourscience at #ESA100 settled it. ), so I am in a great position to infuse #sciart into #scicomm at ESA. This year, at ESA’s annual conference/meeting ( #ESA100 ) our section had a booth at which we encouraged themes emerged as I pulled all this together: SciArt A lot of ESA members ( @ESA_org ) are interested And yet, again, we’re not hearing much about SciArt at ESA.
- Scientists’ SciArt featured by The Times-Picayune (New Orleans, LA)
fact, The Times-Picayune print edition featuring #MSPaintYourScience on the home page came out while ESA #MSPaintYourScience #ESA2018 pic.twitter.com/TLhxOoiZrA — Dr.
- How do we articulate our own metrics for success in academia?
But now, “through the programs I lead at UW, led in ESA, have more recently launched at global levels The shift I'm helping to get us to on our campus and in ESA—a shift to actually valuing training in communication
- Resources: Sketching, learning by drawing, and more
Cross-posted at the ESA Communication & Engagement Section's site *This list is dynamic, and in-development
- I've spent most of my career advocating for strategic planning, but never thought I needed to do it personally. Now, I'm rethinking "resolutions" & what they mean for academia.
NOTES [1] See my series on my ESA Early Career Fellow award for a loooot of thinking through of how
- Jan/Feb 2017 CommNatural Newsletter: Snow sketching, winter vocabulary & more
working with an illustrator; 2/22 Poem published in Montana anthology I’ve been elected chair-elect for ESA













