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9 November 2015
What makes newsworthy science? Depends on your audience.
As a scientist-turned-journalist, I have approached scientific research from two different angles. When I was a researcher, I paid the most attention to papers that related to my specific areas of interest, and evaluated them based on how they furthered my community’s understanding of my field. As a reporter, however, I consume new research with a slightly different set of questions in mind. I still wonder, “what do these results tell us about how the world works?” but I also have to ask myself, “will my audience be interested?”
16 April 2015
Climate scientists and faith-based groups come together this Earth Day for GreenFaith Day 2015
A wide range of climate science experts, including researchers, state climatologists, and Fulbright students, will volunteer their time to meet with churches, synagogues, mosques, and other faith groups in more than 20 U.S. states to speak on climate change and explore solutions on a local level.
3 December 2014
“Yes, And …”: How Improvisational Acting Improves Your Communication Skills
The idea is not new – doing improv does improve your ability to communicate. While the specific vehicle – improvisational acting – may seem foreign from the scientific process, the concept connects the realities of life (improvised, after all) with the vagaries of doing science (experiments don’t always go according to plan, right?).
21 November 2014
Thinking of giving a TEDx-style talk? Do it – but with plenty of preparation!
Although presenting my research to scientific audiences has always been one of my favorite parts of being a scientist, I’ve never found the opportunity or the courage to share my work more publicly. But that changed last March…
8 October 2014
Send us your science-themed Halloween costumes
Whether they’re from the department party last year or your childhood obsession with Marie Curie, we want to see your science on display.
23 June 2014
Three tips for sharing science with any audience
When researchers run an experiment in the laboratory, it is usually after taking time to craft and design the experiment that will provide the most accurate results. Science communication is the same: crafting a complex message about science before delivering it to the public takes time and editing to yield the best results.
20 June 2014
AGU Communications Workshop Speaker Joe Romm on The Importance of Plain Language
By Mary Catherine Adams “There is no more important element in the technique of rhetoric than the continual employment of the best possible word,” Winston Churchill said in his “The Scaffolding of Rhetoric.” Joe Romm, the Founding Editor of ClimateProgress.org and Chief Science Advisor for the Showtime TV series, “Years of Living Dangerously,” shares more of Churchill’s thoughts on using plain language, along with George Orwell’s “six simple rules for writing …
11 June 2014
Send us a postcard from the field
It’s exciting and eye-opening to see where people do fieldwork and what questions they’re asking–it introducesothers to the fun, majesty, grubbiness, hardship, and wonder of studying science. That’s why we’d like you to share your work, and your field locations, with us by submitting a Postcard from the Field to AGU’s new Tumblr site.
The Plainspoken Scientist is the science communication blog of AGU’s Sharing Science program. With this blog, we wish to encourage scientists to reach out to non-scientists and to do so with plainspoken discussion.