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Science Communication Without Borders: reflections on ScienceOnline 2012

Science Communication Without Borders: reflections on ScienceOnline 2012

By Sarah Webb on January 25, 2012

 I’m hardly a newbie to science communication. But last week was my first trip to ScienceOnline. The energy buzzing around that conference for 72 hours made me flash back a decade to when I was still in a chemistry Ph.D. program but desperate to reboot my career without leaving science behind. At that point, I [...]

Posted in career, how it's served up, media, science, writing | Tagged #scio12, inform-vs-educate, journalism, Science Online 2012 | 1 Response

Science, Journalism and Inform-vs-Educate

By Sarah Webb on June 2, 2009

Almost 6 years ago, I attended a conference of scientists and communicators about issues of communicating global warming to the general public.  At that point I was still wearing my graduate student hat and was still learning the ropes of science writing. The issues related to global warming and the public were different– this was [...]

Posted in career, science, writing | Tagged cell, climate change, DNA, education, Inconvenient Truth, inform-vs-educate, journalism, protein | 3 Responses

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