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Scientists on Twitter

December 1, 2019November 27, 2019

The science behind Twitter reach.

Tags audience, decision-makers, microblogging, outreach, public, scicomm, science, science communication, scientists, social media

Communicating Science Communication to Scientists

December 1, 2019November 20, 2019

Something I’ve been thinking about a lot lately is how and where we apply science communication. We use it when connecting with the lay public, … Read more

Tags learning, scicomm, science, science communication, scientists, teaching

Better Late Than Never: New Directions for Watershed Moments

November 10, 2019October 16, 2019

I didn’t get today’s blog post written yesterday, in large part because I’m rethinking what I want to write about here and what I want … Read more

Tags blogging, clifi, climate fiction, confessional, current events, forests, gardening, literature, reviews, science, science communication, water, wildfire, writing

"I will admit that I am not well."

November 21, 2018

“Writing this, right now, I am not well. This will colour the writing.”

Tags daylight savings, Indigenous, mental health, mental illness, NaNoWriMo, SAD, SAD lamp, scicomm, science communication, science writing, truth, Victoria, workshop, writing

Finding Your Niche

September 12, 2018

I have a friend, Kim Moynahan, whom I’ve only met in person once way back in 2013. We communicate on email and Slack, we work … Read more

Tags book review, empowerment, essay, expert, friends, interpreter, memoir, mental health, mental illness, museums, niche, reporting, scicomm, science borealis, science communication, women in academia, writing

On Claiming Your PhD

June 20, 2018

I didn’t attend my PhD convocation. I barely finished the degree itself, as I was struck by a deep depression in my last year of … Read more

Tags academia, arrogance, convocation, degrees, depression, mental illness, ordinary, PhD, science communication, tall poppies, thesis, writing

Communicating Scientific Results to Local Communities: BC Floods 2018

May 23, 2018

The top disaster news in the past few weeks has been major flooding in communities across Canada. From New Brunswick to Alberta and British Columbia, … Read more

Tags BC, climate, climate change, Flood, flooding, floodplains, Grand Forks, Kootenays, municipalities, PCIC, scicomm, science communication, snow, snowpack, streamflow, temperature, weather

Writing a Book (Part 2)

May 9, 2018

The past few months have been pretty busy. Then suddenly it all stopped, with the exception of one book review for Science. As I wrote … Read more

Tags Audre Lorde, autobiography, Banff Centre, book, community building, editing, emotion, Faith Kearns, Jan Redford, language, Lou Woodley, memoir, mental health, mountains, relationship building, scicomm, science communication, science writing, sciwri, voice, women in STEM, words, writing

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

April 18, 2018

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 … Read more

Tags bragging, community, Dani Shapiro, excited, Hannah Arendt, Miya Tokumitsu, private, public, Richard Power, science communication, self-promotion, sharing, social media, Susan Sontag, work, writing

What motivates us to act on climate: fear or hope?

January 10, 2018

Climate change communication is often characterized by either doom and gloom or unrealistic optimism. Which is more effective in getting people to act? Tone is … Read more

Tags audience, climate change, climate science, compassion, David Roberts, David Wallace-Wells, doomsday, emotions, empathy, Eric Holthaus, Faith Kearns, fear, hope, Kathryn Schulz, Lucia Graves, scicomm, science communication, Tamsin Edwards
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