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SCIENCE TALK '21 SPEAKERS SERIES: Meredith Fore

2/16/2021

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Welcome to the Science Talk Blog’s Meet the Science Talk ‘21 Speaker series! Each week we will highlight some of our exciting speakers.
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Meredith is a Freelance Science Writer based in Seattle, Washington. She pursued a PhD in physics before deciding that research was not her calling. She's written for WIRED, Symmetry, Physics, Chemical and Engineering News, and Inside Science.
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She will be speaking on the panel "Should I Stay or Should I Go?: The Value of a PhD" on  Thursday, March 25. The full agenda is available on the Science Talk website.

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Science in the Media: A Game of Telephone

2/11/2021

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By Stephanie Batalis
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A group of children sit in a circle, decorated with party hats and giddy from cake and ice cream.  The first child turns to the second and whispers a made-up phrase. The second child giggles, turns, and repeats the message to his neighbor.  By the time the message has been passed all the way around the circle, it’s completely unrecognizable.  The classic telephone game has twisted the original message into nonsense.

Breaking scientific discoveries are distorted through a similar game of telephone.  On the journey from the lab to your Facebook feed, a scientific message is morphed by a series of exaggerations and misunderstandings. 

Although scientific reporting has always been vulnerable to misrepresentation, the COVID-19 pandemic has put this process on a global stage.  Information about the health crisis is time-sensitive, pressuring news outlets to report quickly and often without adequate fact-checking or context.  The world has watched in confusion as single studies have spawned a whole slew of contradictory messages.   

Alison Bernstein from the blog SciMoms calls this phenomenon the “Chain of Exaggeration.”  As information passes through multiple sources, each step “amplifies fear, loses nuance, and loses context.”  

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SCIENCE TALK '21 SPEAKERS SERIES: Julie Rehmeyer

2/9/2021

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Welcome to the Science Talk Blog’s Meet the Science Talk ‘21 Speaker series! Each week we will highlight some of our exciting speakers. Registration for Science Talk ‘21 is now open!
Julie Rehmeyer
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Julie the Author of "Through the Shadowlands: A Science Writer’s Odyssey into an Illness Science Doesn’t Understand" and is a Freelance Science Writer based in Santa Fe, NM and Boulder, CO. She was a graduate student in mathematics at MIT and found the culture so abusive  that she left, brokenhearted. She found a new calling in science writing, and she’s written for the New York Times, Washington Post, Wired, Discover, Slate and many other publications.
She will be speaking on the panel “Should I Stay or Should I Go?: The Value of a PhD” on  Thursday, March 25. The full agenda is available on the Science Talk website.

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Science Talk '21 Speakers series: Bárbara Pinho

2/8/2021

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Welcome to the Science Talk Blog’s Meet the Science Talk ‘21 Speaker series! Each week we will highlight some of our exciting speakers. Registration for Science Talk ‘21 is now open!
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Bárbara is a Freelance Science Writer. She is an award-winning science communicator with a track of experience from top science institutions worldwide. With words in international magazines, Bárbara writes about science, namely about health, environmental issues and policy. Bárbara will soon be working as a Communications Officer at INESC-TEC, a private non-profit technology institution in Porto, Portugal, where she will plan communication campaigns and develop content. She's still writing about science and forever defying the limits of weekly working hours.

She will be giving a short talk on “How to make digital tools work for your scicomm” on  Thursday, March 25. The full agenda is available on the Science Talk website.

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How To: SEO Keyword Research for Science Communications

2/4/2021

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By Susan Silver 
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As a mathematics blogger with an interest in science communications, I’ve observed that there aren’t many tutorials for SEO keyword research available. This is a serious gap that needs filling, especially as more scientists begin to understand the modern appeal of blogging. SEO is key in helping your blog get noticed and bringing traffic to your website.

Generally, SEO is the practice of optimizing the quantity and quality of traffic to your website by including content so that a search engine recognizes it. This is most often done through choosing one or more keywords and optimizing your content so that a search engine recognizes those words on your blog. The goal is not to overly use keywords, but create a balance of keywords and related phrases. 


Read on to learn my “5 Practical Steps for Keyword Research and Strategy”, a self-taught, cost effective method to improve traffic to your website.

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Science Talk '21 Speaker series: Lisa Wald

2/2/2021

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Welcome to the Science Talk Blog’s Meet the Science Talk ‘21 Speaker series! Each week we will highlight some of our exciting speakers. Registration for Science Talk ‘21 is now open!
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Lisa is a Science Communicator at the U.S. Geological Survey. She is a science communicator, web designer, and web content manager and creator for several U.S. Geological Survey hazards groups. She started with a Master's degree in Geophysics and was a research scientist for 12 years, after which she created an Outreach and Education Program in the Pasadena, CA Earthquake Hazards Program Field Office. Her favorite current project is writing web articles targeted for non-scientists about new hazards research within the USGS.

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science talk '21 Speaker Series: Mariana Joubert

2/1/2021

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Welcome to the Science Talk Blog’s Meet the Science Talk ‘21 Speaker series! Each week we will highlight some of our exciting speakers. Registration for Science Talk ‘21 is now open!
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Dr. Marina Joubert is a Science Communication Researcher at Stellenbosch University in South Africa. She promotes pro-active involvement of researchers in open dialogue between science and society, and the development of evidence-based science communication practice.

She will be speaking on the panel “Scicomm Resilience: Lessons from History” on Friday, March 26. The full agenda is available on the Science Talk website.

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Science talk '21 Speaker Series: Marlit Hayslett

1/26/2021

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Welcome to the Science Talk Blog’s Meet the Science Talk ‘21 Speaker series! Each week we will highlight some of our exciting speakers. Registration for Science Talk ‘21 is now open!
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Marlit Hayslett, PhD, is the Director for Communication Training and Strategy in the Office of Graduate and Postdoctoral Affairs at the University of Virginia. She works with graduate students on sharing their research with non-technical audiences.

She will be leading the workshop “Building Analogies to Explain Complex Ideas” (limited seating) on Friday, March 26. The full agenda is available on the Science Talk website.

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Science Talk '21 Speaker Series: Chris Impey

1/25/2021

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Welcome to the Science Talk Blog’s Meet the Science Talk ‘21 Speaker series! Each week we will highlight some of our exciting speakers. Registration for Science Talk ‘21 is now open!
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Chris is a Distinguished Professor at the University of Arizona. He has 210 publications, 11 teaching awards, and has taught online classes to over 250,000. As a science communicator, he has written 80 popular articles, 2 textbooks, a novel, and 8 popular science books.
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He will be giving a short talk on “How to be Resilient Against Fake Science” on Wednesday, March 24. The full agenda is available on the Science Talk website.

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Communicating the science of School start times

1/21/2021

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By Naomi Wallace
​If you are the parent of a teenager – or if you just remember your own adolescent years – you know how hard it can be to get a teen out of bed and ready for school in the morning. Many people view these difficult mornings as a sort of moral failing and fall back on the “lazy teenager” stereotype. However, the reality is that adolescent sleep timing is the result of biological changes, not personal choices. In 2014, The American Academy of Pediatrics officially recommended that all middle and high schools should start at 8:30 am or later. This recommendation is based on the negative effects of early waking on teenagers’ sleep, academic performance, and mental and physical health. However, this recommendation is still not being followed, with most schools in the US starting at 8 am. To address this major public health issue, we need to communicate the science of sleep and circadian rhythms.  

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