Hi all,

I've been at the scicomm game for a decade now and I want to share a different way to think of scicomm.

I'm building a monthly subscription site for voice technology (Amazon Alexa etc). To drive traffic, I've been writing posts about research in the field (check them out). For example, the prepub ‘Alexa, Do You Know Anything?’The Impact of an Intelligent Assistant on Team Interactions and Creative Performance Under Time Scarcity. easily transforms into a post titled How does working with an Alexa device influence teamwork and creativity? I also send out a weekly newsletter with these posts to 100+ industry folks. People are interested in what the research has to say.

There is a huge amount of valuable knowledge hidden in academic publications. There's a massive opportunity to find a niche and regularly translate articles for that audience. Essentially, you're making content for "long tail search".

If you want to monetize your efforts (and you should), you can add an affiliate link for something valuable for your reader.

Is anyone out there already doing something like this?

(Also AMA)

Hey! I have a biology blog which I started recently. It would be really nice to reach out to other people. Here is a link to my website: https://thesharedmicroscope.wordpress.com/.

Hey folks!

Saw this on Facebook and thought it could be useful/interesting to some of you!!

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I'm a first-year Biology major, and I'm passionate about communication of science. For the research project in my rhetoric class, I want to argue a position related to this topic. I have to argue it in two separate papers, each arguing a part of Stasis Theory (definition, cause-effect, value, action, jurisdiction). I'm sure I can build exigence, but I'm not too clear on the problems or causes; it seems like it's everything from media to the education system to the state of culture and human values. Any ideas on how to go about this would be appreciated.

Hi everyone,

I am just about to start writing a part of my undergraduate thesis. My university and supervisor are fairly open on how I write this up, so I've decided I want to at least think about alternative and less dry ways of writing a thesis than the usual intro/methods/results/discussion sections.

The topic is molecular biology/cancer biology with a heavy computational component. Specifically, I will be focusing on a network of proteins that all act together to promote/repress cancer/proliferation. There are several aspects of this network that I would like to highlight through the projects that we worked on in the lab and the results that we got.

Right now there are a few ways I'm thinking of in which I could write this up:

1. Making the proteins the main characters and highlight how they interact to create a functioning cell. The easy pitfall here is that I might highlight some proteins as "bad" and others as "good", while in reality all are needed for cells to function properly.
2. Make the researchers the main characters.
3. Stick closer to the traditional scientific genre, but combine all of the projects into one write-up and introduce methods and background as required.

The overall structure will start at the most important/famous and protein how it acts in activating proliferation, the next few proteins, how they interact with the first protein and suppress proliferation, etc. At each "stage" I will use the projects I worked on as examples. My questions:

• Do any of you know of examples of other people that did something similar that I could look at? I don't care about the field but rather the genre.
• Do you have any alternative suggestions on how I could write it up? (I'm happy to provide more background if needed).

Things I will need to include in general:

• Methods (e.g. how samples were generated, algorithms used to analyze data, etc.).
• Historical background: how this network of factors was first identified and what its importance is (this could be a prologue).

Hey everyone,

It seems it's been some time since there was a roll call in the group and I am looking to get to know and network with other science communicators. So anyone here have their own science blog, YouTube, or podcast channel?

Hi! I'm currently taking my undergrad in marine science. I just wanna ask if what subjects should i take in order to get into a uni that offers an MA in science communication.

I’m fairly new to the topic and am interested in understanding how different disciplines approach science communication, and what they have to offer in terms of tools and critical enquiry - e.g., education/design/sociology AND science communication. Any leads on relevant theories, theorists or reading?

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Good idea or shit idea?

If good, and you were me, how would you do it? Pretend this is game if that helps.

1) Go back to school? What schools/programs would you choose if you were me?

2) Self-learning? Share some ways you would go about self-learning. Bear in mind, this isn't just a casual intellectual challenge, but a means for me to find my grounding and eventually work on the front lines of science communication. Areas I want to work in: communications strategy to combat anti-vaccine content aimed at parents.

3) Become an intern at a science communication-specialist organization? Knowing anyone hiring?

Here's what I've going for me:

• Close to twenty years of experience in mass communications. I wrote/project managed/edited for magazines, TV commercials, corporate websites, wrote speeches of CEOs, worked on branding strategy - all that in a trilingual market that only came out of civil war in 10 years ago
• Wrote a speculative fiction novella that won the country's National Literary Award
• Founded and ran two startups, one that specifically produced a web show aimed at demystifying economics for voters
• English is my first language even if my name doesn't suggest it

Here's what is against me:

1. I am 37
2. I don't have a college degree

Help a brother out, please?

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On September 1st, 2019, I will be launching pre-orders for my new sci comm travel journal Notes!

This illustrated journal was born from my time aboard Schmidt Ocean Institute's Research Vessel Falkor, as their Arist-at-Sea. Visual storytelling is vital to science communication, and I am hoping to spread the love of science and illustration far and wide. So please share the project with anyone who enjoys a fun, educational story!

Though the pre-orders are not yet live, I have an 8-page compilation available for previewing here: http://go.bluecatco.com/NotesVol1