#SciComm resource round-up
#ESA2016 is in full swing, and #ESASciComm is a big topic this year. Between our smashing success #upgoESA Ignite session….
UM GUYS, #upgoESA was TRENDING on the Twitters! #scicomm FTW! #ESA2016 pic.twitter.com/NA2YgEEVWf
— Dr. Holly Menninger (@DrHolly) August 9, 2016
…and our dynamic interactive scicomm workshop…
Great #scicomm workshop & feedback on my outreach writing at #ESA2016 Thx to C.Hart @DrHolly @commnatural @neillosin https://t.co/JGiAQsJWme
— Joan Meiners, PhD 🐝🚴♀️ (@beecycles) August 9, 2016
…inspiration and discussion about #scicomm is trending. And, there’s more scicomm to come throughout the week!
#SciComm – related activities and sessions at #ESA2016 https://t.co/vG44EKj4au
— Mitch Zuckerman 🫐 (@ec0p0lis) August 8, 2016
We’ll be re-capping on this blog, ESA’s EcoTone blog is going to town with #ESA2016 scicomm highlights, and PLoS Ecology Reoporting Fellows are going to be writing up the week, live. Plus, there’s a cosmos of science blogging that happens all the time, and many great bloggers are in attendance at this year’s conference.
To help maintain the momentum, here’s a blogging-centric scicomm resource smorgasbord:
- Multimedia SciComm Resource Guide – Ecological Society of America SciComm Section
Loving this Multimedia SciComm Resource Guide! Nice job #ESASciComm! https://t.co/ZgoVvkdjfV via @wordpressdotcom
— Impact Media lab (@impactmedialab) August 5, 2016
- Collaboration encouraged: The art of knowing when you are in over your head with science communication – Paige Jarreau of @FromTheLabBench
- Blog Strategies – Center for Public Engagement with Science & Technology
- Blogging Tips for Science Bloggers, From Science Bloggers – also from Paige Jarreau
- Blog, tweet, and avoid the pitfalls – Sharon Ann Holgate, Science
- Building a blog readership takes time revisited; and seven good reasons for academic blogging – Jeff Ollerton
- “‘How I Write About Science’ By Established Science Writers” – Wellcome Trust, The Guardian, and Scientific American
- How to break into science writing using your blog and social media (#sci4hels) – Scientific American
- https://blog.wellcome.ac.uk/science-writing-tips/
- http://blogs.plos.org/onscienceblogs/2016/02/26/writing-about-science-writing/ – Tabitha M. Powledge (@tamfecit)
- How science blogging can lead to a science writing career – Bec Crew
- Science Blogging 101 – Sarah Boon (@SnowHydro)
- Science Blogging: The Essential Guide To Taking It To The Next Level – @Open_Notebook
- Science Communication: The Eight Ideas I Keep Coming Back To – also from Matt Shipman
- The Science Writer’s Handbook & companion website
- What news story characteristics make people more likely to share it – Matt Shipman (@ShipLives)
- 12 Tips for Scientists Writing for the General Public – Katie L. Burke (@_klburke) in American Scientist
Also, because scicomm and good images are a synergy we love to see, here are some image credits resources:
Haven't given your #ESA2016 talk yet? Check out this @creativecommons for image credit tips: https://t.co/LYtbW8o46x. #scicomm #sciart
— B.G. Merkle talkin' abt Hard Things 😷✊🏽 (@commnatural) August 8, 2016
How to access Google's reverse image search (see photo), plus their help info re using it: https://t.co/xClYNOb2Dw. pic.twitter.com/1I56laoJIm
— B.G. Merkle talkin' abt Hard Things 😷✊🏽 (@commnatural) August 4, 2016
Check out this sweet image search function from @creativecommons! https://t.co/tI4Ot7NYoA pic.twitter.com/5dGAuV8iqO
— B.G. Merkle talkin' abt Hard Things 😷✊🏽 (@commnatural) August 3, 2016
#copyright = “all rights reserved”, #CC = “some rights reserved”, #publicdomain = “no rights reserved”
— Creative Commons (@creativecommons) August 3, 2016
US Copyright Office re "How to Obtain Permission" to reproduce copyrighted material: https://t.co/4tQFieupqC. pic.twitter.com/iJH2n6q4bX
— B.G. Merkle talkin' abt Hard Things 😷✊🏽 (@commnatural) August 3, 2016