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 The (Important) Difference Between SciComm and Science Journalism
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post So You Want to Be a Science Writer (For Science Grad Students)
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 Images
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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post Dissecting the Popular Science Book: What Do Fans Want?
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 Community
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 Memoir
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 Opportunity
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 Club
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 Edition
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 Communication
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?
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 Science
By Brad Parks A few years back, while driving to my favorite daily writing haunt, the local radio station spit out one…