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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Community Engagement The Power of Picture Books: Finding Ways to Bring Meaningful Nonfiction Facts to the Page
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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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Community Engagement HPV Vaccination is Not Just for Kids: Communicating Effectively to Promote Cancer Prevention on College Campuses
Today, March 4, 2019 is the second annual International HPV Awareness Day, which aims to promote education and awareness about the human…
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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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Mentorship Predatory Publishers Want to Write Your Autobiography!
Yes, you read that title correctly. Oasis Publishing Group Ltd. recently sent me an email that offered to write my autobiography. The…
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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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post ABRCMS: A conference model that brings together key members of the biomedical science pipeline
For the last several years, my primary professional organization, the American Association of Anatomists (AAA), has sent a leadership delegation to connect…
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Education It is unethical to teach evolution without confronting racism and sexism
On November 19, 2018, Holly Dunsworth wrote the essay below and posted it on her blog, The Mermaid’s Tale. This piece was…
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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 The Art of Service Design in Science
To whom are you accountable? This deceptively simple question is one worth asking if you’re a researcher. This week we share the…