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 Dissecting the Popular Science Book: What Do Fans Want?Read more
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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…
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Public Science Communication Bright ClubRead more
By day, Rebecca Shepherd is a very serious PhD candidate at Lancaster University, UK, where she researches the role of fat cells…
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Public Science Communication Top 9 Discoveries in Human Evolution, 2020 EditionRead more
2020 has been… quite the year! The pandemic changed a lot about the world including the ways in which paleoanthropologists, archaeologists, and…
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Public Science Communication Talking about Science in a Pandemic: A Golden Opportunity for Science CommunicationRead more
I’ve always been fascinated by how things work. Did you watch Mr. Roger’s neighborhood while growing up? I loved the episode showing…
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Education Can Comics Improve Pre-College Science Education?Read more
As more learning occurs online and at home with the global pandemic, keeping students engaged in learning about science is a challenge…
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Education A Thriller Author Talks about How to Sell ScienceRead more
By Brad Parks A few years back, while driving to my favorite daily writing haunt, the local radio station spit out one…
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Community Engagement COVID Communication to Keep Local Communities Up to DateRead more
In March of this year I started posting a daily COVID update for the state of Indiana on Facebook: Hoosier COVID-19 Update. It has…
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Education A Guide to Using the Scientific Method in Everyday LifeRead more
The scientific method—the process used by scientists to understand the natural world—has the merit of investigating natural phenomena in a rigorous manner. Working…
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Collaboration between scientists Unconferencing During a Pandemic: What One Science Educator LearnedRead more
I’m an undergraduate biology educator. In one of my courses, I teach about science communication strategies for biology students engaged in public…