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27 November, 2019 in Watershed Moments 3.0.

Are You Self-Promoting or Bragging?: Balancing Your Exterior and Interior Lives

Earlier this year, American writer Dani Shapiro published a piece at LitHub about balancing social media and writing. She recounts how she sent out a newsletter about a new show she’d created on Facebook – and then received an email not intended for her that said “Is she for fucking real?” Like most writers, Shapiro…

18 April, 2018 in Watershed Moments 3.0.

#WordsMatter: Language in Science Communication

As I’ve been writing my recent blog posts about science communication, I’ve run across a number of terms that are key to science communication, though we still argue about exactly what some of them mean. I thought it would be interesting to look at a few of these words and how we use them, because…

6 December, 2017 in Watershed Moments 3.0.

Is it time to stop using the phrase “science literacy”?

Earlier this week, I shared a comment made by Canada’s new Chief Science Adviser, Dr. Mona Nemer, on Twitter: ““Survey after survey is giving us a picture that I would say is somewhat worrisome. We have close to half the public who doesn’t believe in science, who think it is opinion or propaganda or things…

4 October, 2017 in Watershed Moments 3.0.

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