Science Communication
Upcoming Events
07/26/23
AGU's Sharing Science on Visual Storytelling
How can storyboarding help enrich your science communication skills?
Science is more compelling when told as a story, and visual storytelling can be an especially captivating way of conveying information. In order to effectively tell a good visual story, it’s critical to be able to storyboard—to develop and put together the pieces of the visual narrative. In this workshop, AGU's Sharing Science program will provide context, tips, and examples for how to storyboard your science into a clear and memorable set of visuals.
Register here for this free event.
How to talk to the media with Jordan Sandler
How do we cut through today’s noise, misinformation, and political polarization to connect science to the average American? How can we increase the average American’s appreciation for science as well as the image of scientists?
In this seminar, Emmy Award-winning TV broadcaster and media trainer Jordan Sandler sat down with the STEAM team to explore how scientists can leverage local news media to our advantage. Learn more about Jordan and JMedia training here.
Sound Health
The STEAM Team attended Renew/Remix is the most recent installment of the Sound Health initiative at the Kennedy Center, a powerful partnership with the National Institute of Health (NIH), soprano Renée Fleming, and Dr. Francis Collins, science advisor to the President and longest serving director of the NIH. The goal of Sound Health is to promote the intersection of music, health, and wellness.
Missions Like No Other: Dynamic Communications and Communicators with Jennifer Plozai
Jennifer Plozai is the Branch Chief of Public and Media Affairs at the National Science Foundation (NSF). Ms. Plozai has more than 20 years of experience working in media relations at government agencies including the Department of Defense (DoD), NSF, and the Transportation Security Administration (TSA). Join us to discover Ms. Plozai's journey conveying scientific information to diverse audiences while navigating the rise of misinformation and media relationships in cyberspace, printed media, speech writing, and more.
Science Misinformation in the Media with Dr. Michael Miller
Over the past 2 years Dr. Miller has talked with several groups about the COVID situation, which since the middle of 2021 focused more and more on vaccine confidence and misinformation. He has also written about this – including a blog for clinicians about how to talk with their unvaccinated patients. The STEAM Team chatted with Dr. Miller about his work on science communication, and the influence of vaccine misinformation on science policy.
How Dean Oliver, Washington Wizards coach, wrote the Moneyball of Basketball, "Basketball on Paper"
You've probably heard the story of Moneyball by Michael Lewis - where Oakland Athletics General Manager Billy Bean and his statistically-inclined assistant, Paul DePodesta, applied mathematics to the game of baseball to select players in the Draft. The story you probably haven't heard is the one of Dean Oliver who, unbeknownst to Lewis, simultaneously applied similar mathematical and statistical concepts to basketball and wrote the book Basketball on Paper ("the handbook for basketball analytics") in a residence only a few blocks away!
Katherine Wu - Science Writer for The Atlantic
Dr. Katherine Wu is a science writer for The Atlantic and a senior producer at Story Collider. She has previously written as a science reporter for the New York Times, staff writer for the TV show NOVA Next, and was an early career fellow at the Open Notebook. She was also a AAAS Mass Media Fellow at Smithsonian Magazine and a production editor at Undark. Dr. Wu earned her PhD in immunology and microbiology from Harvard University. She is the 2020 winner of the Evert Clark/Seth Payne Award for Young Science Journalists. https://www.katherinejwu.com/about
Joe Palca - Science Correspondent for NPR
Since earning his PhD in psychology from UC Santa Cruz, Joe has been communicating science with NPR since 1992. Recently, he has been reporting extensively on the development and rollout of vaccines to treat the coronavirus. He is also the creator of the eponymous series "Joe's Big Idea" where he examines the origins of scientific breakthroughs and the motivations of the scientists behind them. And he is the founder of "NPR Scicommers", a collective of freelance science writers who assist each other in developing stories (Link to Bio: https://www.npr.org/people/2101004/jo...)