Our guest writer for this piece is Mark Kesling. Mark is the founder and CEO of The daVinci Pursuit, an Indianapolis-based non-profit…
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Community Engagement Radio Conversations: The Art of Radio Communication of Science
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Community Engagement Hashtag SciComm: How Social Media Platforms Are Shaping the Future of Science
Early in school, we are introduced to the scientific method as a stepwise process of experimentation used to answer questions that have…
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Collaboration between scientists How your science communication can turn multi-lingual!
Active participation in science communication is important. However, it tends to be time consuming and not the highest of our priorities…
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Community Engagement STEM-Themed Books for Kids: A New Approach
In the not too distant past, children’s book publishers produced just one kind of nonfiction—survey books that provide a general introduction to…
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Community Engagement The Power of Picture Books: Finding Ways to Bring Meaningful Nonfiction Facts to the Page
Numbers are boring. Perhaps not to everyone, but to the majority of kids, numbers don’t stand a chance. Not against spiders or…
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Public Science Communication Getting over the hype and into the meaning of stories about science
I spent the first decade of my science communication career as a storytelling skeptic. While my colleagues waxed poetic about the power…
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Public Science Communication The climate is changing. Why does that matter to me and why should it matter to you?
This week, the Trump administration announced plans to create an ad hoc group of scientists to review the conclusion set forth in…
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Public Science Communication Yes, I’m A Scientist on Twitter. Stop Judging Me.
By Bill Sullivan Scientists have been surprisingly slow to embrace Twitter and other forms of social media. Even today, a certain…
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Public Science Communication Top 6 Human Evolution Discoveries of 2018
Here we are, once again, at the end of a calendar year filled with lots of exciting news in the field of…
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Community Engagement An objective-driven long-term initiative to communicate fundamental science to various target audiences – a case study in fruit flies
Communicating scientific research to the public including relevant decision makers is important in order to build trust and to sustain a political…
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Community Engagement Peter Hotez: Defending Vaccines
Back in the 1980s, when I was an MD/PhD student in New York, I learned a lot about biochemistry and molecular…
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Community Engagement How to communicate basic research in schools – a case study using Drosophila
The Manchester Fly Facility maintains an objective-driven, long-term science communication initiative which started in 2011 and promotes the importance of fundamental biomedical…