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Communication

How we communicate our science and the broader relevance of it to students, friends and family, policy makers, and the media plays an important role in nearly all ecology related careers. This page is designed to help you find resources to improve your communication skills through workshops, outlets, online tools, and ideas/examples of effective communication. 

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COMMUNICATION TRAINING

Basic communication skills are important in every walk of life. Below is a set resources for useful training on basic communication training

FORMAL MEDIA ENGAGEMENT/COMMUNICATION

Find formal media outlets to discuss and share your science. These are places you can contribute short articles or find some ideas of how to get started 

Ideas and How-to’s on hosting a science blog: 

Contributing to public radio (NPR “Science Friday” and CBC “Quirks and Quarks“)

  • Media Relations departments/groups at home institutions
  • The Conversation: A collaboration between scientists and journalists to maintain scientific rigor in news reporting. Accepting science stories daily. 
  • Upgoer text five text editor: Explain your science in the ten hundred most common words.
  • Bootcamp communication training hosted by AIBS in Washington DC. A short multi-day workshop on honing your message to share with journalists and policy makers to make your science story resonate.

PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT COMMUNICATION

Training resources  for engaging the general public in science yourself

  • Science festivals: Festivals held all around the world celebrating science.
  • Reddit (AMA, AskSci)
  • Nerd Nites: Casual atmosphere to share ideas about science (often in collaboration with museums etc.)
  • Twitter (Biotweeps, Realscientists, etc.)
  • Translating Science: Language Scientific provides high quality scientific, technical, and medical translation services to over 150 different languages.
  • SciStarter: Citizen science network to post your research program to engage interested members of the public.