Comments on: Can Scientists be Great Communicators?

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By: David Spector

David Spector — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 13:59:16 +0000

I think that scientists can be more engaging that trained professionals in communicating the excitement of science. There is a certain innocence, confidence, clarity, and just plain relating as a human being exemplified by Dr. Frank Oppenheimer, Dr. Carl Sagan, Don Herbert (”Mr. Wizard”), Prof. S. Hawking, and the dozens of current working astronomers and other scientists who are seen regularly on TV interview programs, TV news segments, and their own shows. If there is a scientific breakthrough to be described on TV, I would rather learn about it from a scientist than a news presenter who has mangled it in a misguided attempt to make it accessible to the general populace. People can understand just about anything if it is described by someone who really knows what they are talking about.

By: Stephanie Chasteen

Stephanie Chasteen — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 14:46:52 +0000

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

Talking to scientists about the media « Sciencegeekgirl — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 14:42:20 +0000

[...] 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 [...]

By: marketing

marketing — Fri, 30 May 2008 15:47:09 +0000

communication is an art for every work of life so needed by all the scientist need to communicate his work . so he needs to be a good communicator.

By: breyana

breyana — Fri, 30 May 2008 14:39:09 +0000

The issue of genetics is very important in life since it deals both with plants and animals.AS such it helps to actually know the good genes required for any growth of living things

By: Franklin Jons

Franklin Jons — Tue, 27 May 2008 11:21:48 +0000

Reading your blog makes me remember one I read of telling us how a professional communicator became a scientist. From these, I can now see that it is very possible for professionals to change profession if they want to. Thanks for sharing this information.

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