Science Communication
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Escape from the Ivory Tower: A Guide to Making Your Science Matter
This book explains how to engage your audience and explain why a particular finding matters. Author Nancy Baron explores how to ace your interview, promote a paper, enter the political fray, and use new media to connect with your audience. The book includes advice from journalists, decision makers, new media experts, bloggers and some of the thousands of scientists who have participated in her communication workshops.
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Every Great Presentation Needs a Story—Here’s How You Tell One
In this blog post you will learn the importance of stories, why stories are key to a great presentation, 5 story structures, when to use them and examples that show them in action.
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The Open Notebook
Free trainings and resources on the craft of journalism that is focused on science stories.
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University of Wyoming Science Communication Initiative (WySCI)
Wysci provides consulting support, training, collaboration etc. around science communication. Explore the home page.
WySci also curates a newsletter 1x a week with resources and opportunities for sci comm, you can subscribe to the newsletter here.
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Canva
Canva makes designing beautiful creative assets easy for everyone. From social media images, videos and gifs to posters, websites, booklets, multimedia presentations, and more. There is a free option.
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Resource Guide
Press officers and journalists are keen for scientists to get involved in documenting their science through multimedia, so we’ve assembled a guide to give you a taste of the different ways to tell your stories through audio video (AV), illustration, photography and writing.
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Getting to the Heart of Science Communication
In Getting to the Heart of Science Communication, Faith Kearns has penned a succinct guide for navigating the human relationships critical to the success of practice-based science. The meat of the book lies in the middle chapters, where Kearns offers key tools for communicators: listening, working with conflict, and understanding trauma, loss, and healing. She concludes the book with a substantive discussion on diversity, equity, and inclusion in science communication, and advice to readers for handling their own emotional needs in an unpredictable career landscape.
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Phylopic
Free silhouette images of organisms for figures, presentations, etc.
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Gaining trust as well as respect in communicating to motivated audiences about science topics
Scientific article published in PNAS suggests that scientists may have the respect, but not necessarily the trust of the public. This gap can be filled, we suggest, by showing concern for humanity and the environment. Rather than persuading, we and our audiences are better served by discussing, teaching, and sharing information, to convey trustworthy intentions.
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Tips for creating a scientific poster
Strategies on how to create a scientific poster for a conference or a similar event.
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University of Maryland Media Library
The IAN symbol libraries currently contain custom made vector symbols designed specifically for enhancing science communication products with diagrammatic representations of complex processes. You can download them individually, or as an entire package in AI, SVG, or PNG formats.