Posts in: Reflections

By Brooke Smith Published January 22, 2014 Title: Building A Metro For Science Communication Categories: Leadership, Reflection Tags: Brooke Smith, culture, evaluating, funding, goals, graduate school, more resources, training, workshops “Doors Closing. Please stand clear of the doors.” For anyone who lives, or has spent time in Washington, D.C., you recogniz...

By Liz Neeley and Erica Goldman Published January 8, 2014 Title: Reporting Back And Looking Forward From #GradSciComm Categories: Communication, About COMPASS, Science Tags: Liz Neeley, Erica Goldman, careers, evaluating, frames, funding, goals, GradSciComm, graduate school, more resources, motivation, presenting, tools, writing This post is co-authored by Liz Ne...

Building Infrastructures To Support Scientist Engagement 16 December, 2013 by Brooke Smith Categories:Communication, Leadership Tags:Brooke Smith, collaborating, community, convening Last week, the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) Roundtable on the “Public Interfaces of the Life Sciences” (which I have the huge honor of serving on), convened a workshop to e...

This post continues our series focused on science communication research. Instead of reporting on or recapping a single paper, we’re asking what the literature has to say about urgent or recurring questions in our field. This is inspired, in part, by John Timmer’s call for an applied science of science communication. A flash of insight can be profoundly pl...

Last week we shared insights from the National Academy of Sciences’ Sackler Colloquium on the Science of Science Communication. The premise of this gathering was: if we rely on evidence for our research, why do we rely on hunches to communicate it? With this in mind, the organizers assembled a stellar group of scientists who shared data about how people proce...

If scientists rely on evidence for their research, why do they rely on hunches when they communicate their research? This was the challenge that framed the kick off of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) Sackler Colloquium on the Science of Science Communication. Known to many of us as #sackler, for three days last week, over 400 people gathered in person a...