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…
Tone is a tricky part of science communication. In a previous post I’ve touched on issues of tone in science communication and how they relate to scientific accuracy. In this post I look at how we communicate climate science in particular, and whether we should scare people or give them hope. Should we write about…
*Edited Dec 13 to add link to post on Bernadette Conant, CEO of Canadian Water Network. *Edited Dec 14 to add link to Editors BC blog post. Last week I talked about words we use in science communication, and tried to unpack what a lot of them mean. It wasn’t my most popular post, but…
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…
Lately I’ve been writing a full blog post every Wednesday, but this week I came across so many interesting topics that I’ve decided to go back to a linkfest. 1. Sackler Colloquium: The Science of Science Communication III (SSCIII) I had no idea this workshop was happening until the hashtag #SacklerScicomm started appearing in my…
