Planet SciComm: Recent Episodes
Jason McDermott (@redpenblackpen), Patrick Videau, Sara K. Yeo (@sarakyeo)
Welcome to the Planet SciComm podcast, where a science communication enthusiast, practitioner, and researcher talk about science communication and any other musings that come to mind! Intro song by Mantis Jackson (https://www.facebook.com/mantisjacksonmusic/).
Jason, Patrick, and Sara chat with Dr. Angela Rasmussen about her experience with the media during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Jason, Patrick, and Sara chat with Dr. Bryan Welm of the Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah. Dr. Welm is faculty in the Department of Surgery at the University of Utah. He studies breast cancer and is also a metal sculptor who creates science art.
- Bryan Welm’s website: https://www.bryanwelm.com/
- Kimball Art Center, Park City, UT: https://kimballartcenter.org/
- ASM Agar Art Contest: https://asm.org/events/asm-agar-art-contest/home
- Twisted Doodles: https://linktr.ee/twisteddoodles
- Scientific Computing Institute (University of Utah): https://www.sci.utah.edu/
Patrick, Jason, and Sara chat with Bella McDermott about the intersection between industrial design and science communication.
This week we welcome Dr. Bruce Kirchoff (University of North Carolina at Greensboro) to talk about his recent book, Presenting Science Concisely.
- Presenting Science Concisely
- Dr. Kirchoff's YouTube Channel
- Association of Science Communicators
- Jon Wagner's website
- Mike Morrison's Better Poster
Happy 2023! Jason and Sara kick off the new year with guest, Michelle Nijhuis, author and science journalist who is currently Acting Editor of High Country News. In today's episode, we discuss Michelle's books, including her latest Beloved Beasts: Fighting for Life in an Age of Extinction, Michelle's path to science journalism, and ChatGPT.
- Michelle’s linktree
- Beloved Beasts: Fighting for Life in an Age of Extinction
- The Science Writer’s Essay Handbook
- SCISPACE: AI Copilot
- Open Notebook’s The Craft of Science Writing
- National Association of Science Writers
- Society for Environmental Journalists
Happy holidays from the Planet SciComm team! In this episode, we check out some satirical research articles from the British Medical Journal and recap our year(ish) of episodes.
We also discuss:
- ChatGPT
- Spurious relationships
- The Radium Girls by Kate Moore
This month, we ask Dr. Stephen Heard, a Professor in the Department of Biology at the University of New Brunswick, about his book, The Scientist's Guide to Writing, his blog, Scientist Sees Squirrel, his paper about funny titles in journal articles, and his forthcoming book with Bethann Garramon Merkle, Helping Students Write in the Sciences.
Also mentioned...
- The Heard lab at the University of New Brunswick
- Of Microscopes and Metaphors
- BMJ satirical issue
We chat with Julia Krolik, an information designer, data scientist, artist and entrepreneur who founded Art the Science and PIxels and Plans, about the intersection between art and science communication, biosafety levels, the Mantoux test, and other such digressions. You can find Julia's portfolio here.
And in case you're interested, Patrick mentions this study about researchers analyzing Vincent van Gogh's The Starry Night and the turbulent properties of his swirling structures.
Jason and Sara chat with Drs. Anthony Dudo (University of Texas at Austin) and John Besley (Michigan State University) about their upcoming book, Strategic Science Communication: A Guide to Setting the Right Objectives for More Effective Public Engagement.
Also mentioned:
- Strategic Science Communication website
- Research 4 Impact
Patrick and Sara chat with Dr. Shupei Yuan (Northern Illinois University) and Dr. Jacqueline Goldstein (SciCommBites) about podcasts, goals, and objectives.
- Dr. Shupei Yuan
- SciCommBites
- Dr. Yuan's article in Science Communication (tweet @planetscicomm or @sarakyeo for a copy)
- Advancing Research Impact in Society (ARIS)
- Communicating Science, Health, Environment, and Risk Division (ComSHER) of AEJMC
- Society for Risk Analysis (SRA)
- The Link at Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science
- Dr. Rey Maktoufi’s book: Communication Lessons from the Wild
- Dr. Rey Maktoufi’s Etsy shop
- Sci Comm Identities Fellowship
Jason, Patrick, and Sara discuss Jason’s creativity and art, Reviewer 2 and 3, the peer review process, and Dungeons & Dragons. Also included are benign violation theory, -80ºC freezers, the process of science, and vicissitudes.
You can find Jason on Twitter as @redpenblackpen. We also mention @xkcd.
We chat with Dr. Mónica Feliú-Mójer about her award-winning science communication work and her path to the field.
- More of Monica’s work and information about her can be found on her website
- Ciencia Puerto Rico
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Aquí Nos Cuidamos (see this video in English for a summary of the project)
- And the Falling Walls award
- Science Communication Lab
- Reimaging Science Communication in the COVID Era and Beyond
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Inclusive SciComm
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Canfield et al. (2020) paper on inclusive science communication
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Indigeneity and genetic research
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Summer Internship for INdigenous Peoples in Genomics
- Dr. Keolu Fox on “Why Genetic Research Must Be More Diverse”
This week, Dr. Mike Cacciatore (University of Georgia) hijacks our podcast and chats about framing.
Also in this week's episode...
- Kasha Patel
- Mike Birbiglia’s Working It Out
- Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee
- University of Wisconsin-Madison Life Sciences Communication
- Dr. Michael Cacciatore
- The End of Framing as We Know it… And the Future of Media Effects
- Brooklyn 99
- Jasper Fforde
Sara, Jason, and Patrick chat with Dr. Chelsea Parlett-Pelleriti about her science communication on TikTok and Twitter. But we don't actually get through her introduction in 1.5 hrs, so she'll be back in a future episode!
We also discussed...
- Bill Nye's blood & circulation song on YouTube
- The Number Devil
- The Phantom Tollbooth
- Chelsea’s dissertation: Parlett, C. (2021). Novel Applications of Statistical and Machine Learning Methods to Analyze Trial-Level Data from Cognitive Measures [Ph.D., Chapman University].
- Jason's map
- Elisabeth Bik
- Dunning Krueger effect
- PhDemetri
Jason, Patrick, and Sara discuss their recent panel on humor at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Annual Conference (Feb 17-20, 2022).
The inaugural episode of Planet SciComm. Jason (Twitter: @redpenblackpen), Patrick, and Sara (Twitter: @sarakyeo) talk about how they met and the birth of the podcast.