Association of Science Communicators

**Get ‘em talking.** Science Talk attendees engage in a group discussion activity during my “Evolve your SciComm Skills and Career” workshop.

Science Talk 23: Find your People

April 30, 2023 in Science Communication

“Okay, you have five minutes. Ready, set, go!”

As soon as I say the word “go”, the room erupts. I watch 34 people (divided into pairs) talk animatedly with their partners, and I can’t help but smile. This moment has been a long time coming.

**Examples of excellent science writing:** This shelf includes just a few of the books I put on the Recommended Reading list for students enrolled in my freelance science communicator course.

From Student to Teacher

November 30, 2022 in Science Communication

I stare at my laptop screen, trying to ignore the butterflies in my stomach. I click “Launch Meeting” and a Zoom window opens. One by one, I watch faces and names appear in the video chat. But they aren’t the familiar faces of clients or colleagues — the ten people on this Zoom call are students enrolled in a course I’m teaching.

Me? A teacher? Since when? While I have given dozens of presentations about my work over the past few years, I have never officially “taught” anything before. But when I gave a presentation about being a full-time freelance science communicator at Science Talk last March, Allison Coffin, president of the Association of Science Communicators, asked me about the possibility of expanding my 20-minute talk into an online course.