Posts in: Reflections

By Nancy Baron Published December 23, 2015 Title: Do You Want Your Research To Change The World? Categories: Communication, Leadership, Science Tags: advocacy, conferences, connecting, government, journalists, audience, outreach, So What?, Nancy Baron At the 21st Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals held last week, I  stood in front of a vast con...

By Heather Mannix Published Oct. 6, 2015 Categories: Communication Tags: conferences, context, connecting, IMCC, know your audience, passion, perspective, practice, story A little over a year ago, eight scientists stepped out of their comfort zones and took to the stage to share a piece of their worlds. Without leaving a dark auditorium in Glasgow, we were transp...

By Liz Neeley Published March 31, 2015 Title: 5 Steps For Integrating #SciComm Into STEM Graduate Education Categories: About COMPASS, Leadership Tags: collaboration, community, culture, evaluation, facilitation, GradSciComm, graduate school, more resources, tools, trainings, workshops, Liz Neeley Last month, an article in The Atlantic stated, “Beginning this...

By Nancy Baron. Published Feb. 27, 2015 Categories: Announcements, Leadership Tags: coaching, community, convening, fellowship, goals, inspiration, land, training, Wilburforce, workshop The New Year is a time for thinking about “What do you want to do with your one wild and precious life?” (Mary Oliver). The first week of January, I spent a few days in Yosemit...

By Brooke Smith Published February 24, 2015 Title: Going Public: What Do We Know About Our Investment In Science Communication? Categories: Leadership, Science Tags: conferences, context, culture, evaluation, funding, Brooke Smith At this year’s AAAS annual meeting, the volume of sessions and workshops about science communications clearly reflected the communi...

By Karen McLeod. Published Feb. 19, 2015 Categories: Communication, Reflection Tags: advocacy, change, connecting, context, convening, frames, informing, know your audience, navigators, relevance, So What? We’re bombarded by headlines touting the public’s doubt in science. National Geographic’s March cover story begins: “We live in an age when all manner...