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TikTok for Science Communication

February 26, 2020

How many of you use TikTok? It has about 500 million users, 41% of whom are between the ages of 16 and 24. I don’t … Read more

Tags Facebook, instagram, scicomm, science communication, social media, twitter, YouTube

Working Out the Bugs

December 13, 2019

Anytime you start something new with technology, there are always bugs to be worked out. Maybe your widget won’t show your Twitter feed, or your … Read more

Tags blogging, LinkedIn, social media, twitter, web design, website

Twitter: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

December 2, 2019September 6, 2017

The other day I turned on Twitter and was confronted with this tweet: "Your next 10 minutes would be far better spent meditating than reading … Read more

Tags current events, dumpster fire, echo chamber, negativity, politics, science communication, science writing, social media, twitter

Environment writer interviews: Abby Palmer

December 2, 2019July 6, 2015

For background on this series, see my first post. So far we’ve talked with Rebecca Lawton, an environment writer based in California. Our second interviewee … Read more

Tags environment writing, gender, interview, nature writing, twitter, women, writers, writing

Taking a few side roads

December 2, 2019April 10, 2015

While I’ve written a few posts here recently, I’ve also been busy elsewhere and thought I’d share some of my posts that have come up … Read more

Tags guest posts, scicomm, science, science communication, science culture, social media, teaching, twitter, women in science

Scientists on Twitter? Heresy!

December 2, 2019May 7, 2014

My latest post for Canadian Science Publishing takes on the unexpectedly controversial topic of scientists using Twitter. “Recently, Kirk Englehardt, Director of Research Communication at … Read more

Tags academia, outreach, public science, science communication, scientists, social media, twitter

Riding the social media wave

December 2, 2019April 3, 2014

Sometime in the last few days I passed 2000 followers on Twitter. I was keeping track because Paige Brown (@FromTheLabBench) wrote a great blog post … Read more

Tags blogging, outreach, science, science communication, social media, twitter
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