Can ChatGPT write a #SciComm grant proposal?
A Friday-morning rabbit hole that answers the question: Can ChatGPT write my #SciComm grant proposal? Complete with chat transcripts and cheeky commentary.
Author: Bethann Garramon Merkle
Productivity can kill us, but productivity still matters. 🤔Or, some thoughts on the piles of productivity advice.
I’m co-teaching a graduate course called Science Career Next Steps this semester. It’s a new course we’re piloting, and I’m thrilled to be leading a specific mindset and work-life-harmony thread of the course. I’m also coming to the course as someone who didn’t start in academia and only recently considered an academic career as a...
Science communication bibliography
If you’re looking for a starting point for understanding evidence-based, inclusive science communication, the literature about science communication can be overwhelming. This body of literature, sometimes known as the science of science communication, is actually a collection of disciplines that ranges from behavioral psychology to economics, and from writing studies to data visualization, and more....
Exciting news: I’m (co-)writing a book!
I’ve been itching to share this news, and now I can: I’m writing a book I’ve been wanting to write for nearly a decade!! I’m co-writing it with Stephen Heard. It’s been hard to keep this quiet for so long, but we’ve just signed a contract with the University of Chicago Press (UCP), so now...
Meteor: The honest podcast about scicomm with impact
Last year, I launched Meteor, a podcast, with friend, collaborator, and fellow dreamer-schemer Virginia Schutte. We just wrapped Season 2 a few weeks ago, and I am so pleased to have so much to share with you! We started Meteor because we crave advanced-user conversations with other mid-career scicomm professionals (like us!). We intended to...
