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By Brooke Smith Published February 17, 2015 Title: No Silver Bullets: SciComm Insights from NAS Workshop Categories: Science, Leadership Tags: perspective, ScioSciComm, context, culture, Brooke Smith Recently, the National Academy of Sciences’ Public Interfaces of Life Science Roundtable hosted a 2-day workshop called “When Science and Citizens Connect: Pub...

By Liz Neeley Published February 3, 2015 Title: The Hidden Curriculum In Graduate Education Categories: culture, goals, GradSciComm, publications, social media, Liz Neeley Tags: Science, Communication, Reflection As we prepare to roll out the final #GradSciComm Report this week, I’ve been revisiting the moments of inspiration and flashes of insight that shaped...

By Heather Mannix and Chad English Published January 13, 2015 Title: Want To Get Policy Makers Engaged With Your Field Of Research? Integrate Them Into Your Scientific Conference Categories: About COMPASS, Policy, How To Tags: context, culture, conferences, facilitating, navigating, relevance, So What? Heather Mannix, Chad English Scientific conferences are hotspo...

By Karen McLeod. Published Oct. 14, 2014. Categories: Interviews, Reflection, Science Tags: academia, advocacy, collaboration, connecting, convening, credibility, culture, finding your why, informing, inspiring, motivating, opportunity, passion, relevance, So What?, transforming Solving mysteries? Stellar colleagues? Saving the world?
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By Karen McLeod. Published Oct. 7, 2014 Categories: Communication, Reflection Tags: academia, advice, advocacy, bias, context, credibility, culture, finding your why, inspiration, motivation, passion, perception, So What?, training, trust Being a scientist is more than a job – it’s a way of thinking, a way of living, a way of interacting with the world. For s...

Science plays many roles in the policymaking process. Describing those roles is often harder than I expect.  While attending the North American Congress of Conservation Biology (NACCB) in July, I was introduced to a new—and helpful—description of those roles, during a talk by Stephen Posner. Stephen is a PhD candidate at the Gund Institute at the Universit...