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Science Communication Workshop

Comm 5660, a workshop for graduate students (and others)

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November 2, 2014

Two great Cornell examples: Steve Squyres on The Colbert Report (2006) http://thecolbertreportcccom/videos/g6gwcq/steve-squyres Chris Barrett on The Daily Show...

November 2, 2014

Here are the slides we've used in the workshop this weekend Comm566020141Science Communication Workshopintro (basic overview) Comm566020142science journalism (this...

November 2, 2014

Several times this weekend I've referred to the social media guidelines that science writer Maryn McKenna has presented Here are the links: Maryn McKenna,...

November 1, 2014

Here are links to some of the stories Alison Fromme mentioned in class today: New Zealand mud snails: http://wsmwsuedu/s/indexphpid=325#UjtVkeASxK4 Coyote...

March 1, 2014

Listening to Sharon Tregaskis this morning reminded me how important the details of writing are -- thinking about voice, pacing, which quotes to use, etc THE classic commentary on...

February 25, 2014

A couple of readings before this weekend’s Comm 5660, Science Communication Workshop: Local science writer Sharon Tregaskis will be walking us through the writing process on...

February 24, 2014

Steve Strogatz, professor of applied math at Cornell and a prominent popular writer about math, will be on the opening panel for the workshop He forwarded the link below to a...

February 23, 2014

If you're a Twitter user, or someone who likes social media aggregators, you might find the following information useful: Hashtags: #scicomm, #gradscicomm, #scipolicy,...

February 23, 2014

I've now posted the syllabus for Spring 2014:...

February 23, 2014

A post below, made in 2013, refers to COMPASS, an organization that offers training similar to this workshop Over the last year, it has run a project collating information on...

March 3, 2013

COMPASS is an organization, based in the ocean sciences but active more broadly, that helps train scientists for communication  (They run workshops similar to this one)  They...

March 2, 2013

Here are the guidelines for writing tweets that students in Comm 3020, "Science Writing for Media," developed in Fall 2012  I have also posted a copy in the "Class notes and...