Hi,
I am running my own audience-based collaborative science communication website in marine biology and part of the public outreach of our ITN project. I realized that so few researchers are doing scicomm, or only to their peers (e.g. conferences, workshops...) and not a lay audience.
Nowadays it takes me 30 min to write a popular summary of my own articles or on my own topic because I know the topic and I already did and constantly update my literature review.
As my audience and referencing is growing more and more people find and read my research. It seems it can only be beneficial to maintain an online presence.
Thus, I am curious to know what is stopping you? Lack of time? Imposter syndrome? You don't know where or how to do it? Fear of what your colleagues might think? Would you do it more often if someone would handle all the technical parts like publishing?
We will write an opinion piece on scicomm and I am interested to know :
- if you are already doing scicomm at your own scale (is it going well? how often do you publish? where? what are/were your struggles?),
- and if not what stops you from starting. :)
Thanks a lot in advance,
Best
Pierre, Eloi, Nathan Olivier -
Thank you for your question. I do not have my SciComm, but your question is making an impact. I am thinking about its value in reaching out our science/medicine and medical education communities.
I see this webpage - Top 10 Tips for breaking #SciComm is useful.
http://www.fromthelabbench.com/from-the-lab-bench-science-blog/2017/6/25/top-10-tips-for-breaking-into-scicomm
Sci-comm refers to any form of interaction that the public may have with scientists and their research outside of a classroom and there are more ways to engage with it than ever before. Youtube explainers, podcasts, radio shows, TV documentaries, magazines, blogs and newspaper articles are easy to find. There is also a growing community of entertainers offering science cabaret and comedy at one off events and festivals, and informal science discussion groups such as Pint of Science and Café Scientifique have popped up all over
What prevents use is the lack of equipment that helps to form the correct foundations
Mohammed Jawad Kadhum Alsalami
What if there would be a way to learn? ;) And a platform to make everything simpler for people to start?
In marine biology, I started OceanFact, where marine biologist can submit their popular summaries and popular articles. I take care of the promotion, marketing around it.
And soon, I am gonna start my online course in science communication after I graduate.
I will invite other people experience in scicomm to help people get started
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