Comments on: Can Scientists be Great Communicators? http://apps.exploratorium.edu/blogs/marym/2007/08/02/can-scientists-be-great-communicators/ Telling the Stories of Science Sun, 07 Sep 2008 13:48:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=wordpress-mu-1.2.1 By: Stephanie Chasteen http://apps.exploratorium.edu/blogs/marym/2007/08/02/can-scientists-be-great-communicators/#comment-342 Stephanie Chasteen Mon, 16 Jun 2008 14:46:52 +0000 http://apps.exploratorium.edu/blogs/marym/2007/08/02/can-scientists-be-great-communicators/#comment-342 Matt Nisbett is giving a full-day workshop for graduate students and postdocs at Cal Tech soon, on communicating science. I think this is a wonderful thing, because this is not part of the standard training for soon-to-be-scientists. Graduate students are trained to do science, but generally not how to teach it or to write or talk about it. Regardless of how you feel about the framing issue (whether it's "spinning" or not), the simple act of talking to future scientists about how to communicate their message can have nothing but positive impact. Read post from me about it on my blog, too: http://sciencegeekgirl.wordpress.com/2008/06/16/talking-to-scientists-about-the-media/ Matt Nisbett is giving a full-day workshop for graduate students and postdocs at Cal Tech soon, on communicating science. I think this is a wonderful thing, because this is not part of the standard training for soon-to-be-scientists. Graduate students are trained to do science, but generally not how to teach it or to write or talk about it. Regardless of how you feel about the framing issue (whether it’s “spinning” or not), the simple act of talking to future scientists about how to communicate their message can have nothing but positive impact.

Read post from me about it on my blog, too: http://sciencegeekgirl.wordpress.com/2008/06/16/talking-to-scientists-about-the-media/

]]> By: Talking to scientists about the media « Sciencegeekgirl http://apps.exploratorium.edu/blogs/marym/2007/08/02/can-scientists-be-great-communicators/#comment-341 Talking to scientists about the media « Sciencegeekgirl Mon, 16 Jun 2008 14:42:20 +0000 http://apps.exploratorium.edu/blogs/marym/2007/08/02/can-scientists-be-great-communicators/#comment-341 [...] that there was also an interesting post from Mary Miller at the Exploratorium about the backlash to Matt Nisbetts (the Framing Science guy) perspective on communicating science [...] […] that there was also an interesting post from Mary Miller at the Exploratorium about the backlash to Matt Nisbetts (the Framing Science guy) perspective on communicating science […]

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