By Melissa Stewart Take a moment to consider these dueling headlines: “Will My Grandkids Still Love Me If I Buy Them Nonfiction?” The…
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By: Sam Illingworth Science and poetry are both used to understand human nature and our world. Why not combine their strengths? I…
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post Science denial: Why it happens and 5 things you can do about itRead more
Barbara K. Hofer, Middlebury and Gale Sinatra, University of Southern California Science denial became deadly in 2020. Many political leaders failed to…
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Public Science Communication Top 7 Discoveries in Human Evolution, 2021 EditionRead more
This year – 2021 – has been a year of progress in overcoming the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on human evolution…
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By Anna Funk Pitching articles to popular science magazines and websites is a grueling process. Most editors will tell you that their…
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By Anna Funk It was embarrassingly recent that I realized that I had been conflating science communication (#SciComm) and science journalism in my mind…
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post So You Want to Be a Science Writer (For Science Grad Students)Read more
By Anna Funk Well, hello there! I see you’ve come seeking answers to a question, like the many before you who have…
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Public Science Communication Can Science Be Simple? Distilling Complexity into Engaging ImagesRead more
The COVID-19 pandemic sparked an explosion of research, breakthroughs, and collaboration within the scientific community. However, now that the clinical trials have…
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Bill Sullivan (@wjsullivan) Communicating science has always been a challenge. Scientific discovery is built upon generations of accumulated knowledge that takes years…
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post preLights – Highlighting Preprints from and for the Biological CommunityRead more
By Helen Robertson, João Mello-Vieira, and Mariana De Niz Publishing in the life sciences is changing. Over the past eight years, the…
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post Turning Terror into a Scientific MemoirRead more
Interview with Steffanie Strathdee, author of The Perfect Predator: A Scientist’s Race to Save Her Husband from a Deadly Superbug Bill Sullivan In…
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Education Life-Health Sciences Internship: An Undergraduate OpportunityRead more
Written by Jessica Rech an undergraduate student at IUPUI and coauthored by Brandi Gilbert, director of LHSI. I am an undergraduate student…