Entertaining and Informing: The Art of Fun Science Abbreviations

Have you ever had to read a paragraph or a sentence several times to understand it? I know I have. I often take 3-4 passes to understand particularly complex sentences, and it goes like this: the first pass, I just power through to see if I can get the overall gist of it. The second …

De-Jargonification of Scientific Explications (AKA How to Say Stuff More Simply)

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Scientific writing is notoriously full of jargon. Jargon includes technical terms that are specific to a certain discipline, or sometimes it can be everyday words that mean something different in science than they do in normal life. Jargon has its place -- it can help scientists be very precise when communicating with each other. But …

Podcast Ep 13. Communicating About Science with ‘Lab Girl’ Author Hope Jahren

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Dr. Hope Jahren is a geobiologist who studies fossil organisms and the global environment, and is also the New York Times-bestelling author of the memoir Lab Girl. In this episode of the podcast, we interview Dr. Jahren about communicating science with the public, the joys and challenges of writing academic articles, and her thoughts on …

Let’s Talk About Responsible Science Communication…

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I am a TED enthusiast. TED is an organization that describes itself as a ā€œnonpartisan nonprofit devoted to spreading ideas, usually in the form of short, powerfulĀ talks.ā€ Chances are you’ve seen a TED talk at some point – maybe Meg Jay's advice for 20-somethingsĀ or Bryan Stevenson’sĀ talk about the issues in our criminal justice system? They …