Morton A. Meyers, MD is Distinguished University Professor and emeritus chair of the Department of Radiology in the School of Medicine SUNY, Stony Brook. He is the author of the seminal textbook on abdominal radiology (now in its sixth edition) that has been translated into Spanish, Italian, Japanese, Chinese, and Portuguese editions. He is also the founding editor in chief of the international journal Abdominal Imaging. The author of award-winning Happy Accidents: Serendipity in Modern Medical Breakthroughs, he lives in Stonybrook, New York.
Monthly Archives: June 2012
Reaching Out: So You Want To Communicate Science Online: The Flowchart
Science Online New York (SoNYC) encourages audience participation in the discussion of how science is carried out and communicated online. To tie in with June’s event which will discuss how scientists can reach out of the ivory tower, we’re hosting a series of guest posts on Soapbox Science. We will hear from a range of contributors: scientists, writers, enthusiasts, communicators, events organizers, policy makers and teachers, each sharing details about how they reach out to engage with the public.
Miriam is a Ph.D. student at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, where she studies the ecological impacts of plastic trash in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre. She blogs at Deep Sea News and tweets at @MiriamGoldste.
Every so often, my colleagues drift into my office, wondering about this whole online science thing. For you, gentle Nature blog readers, I’ve distilled my standard spiel into a handy (somewhat tongue-in-cheek) flowchart. This is by no means the One True Way, and I welcome comments and feedback. Continue reading
Reaching Out: 1,000 Scientists in 1,000 Days
Science Online New York (SoNYC) encourages audience participation in the discussion of how science is carried out and communicated online. To tie in with June’s event which looks at how scientists reach out of the ivory tower, communicating science to the public, we’re hosting a series of guest posts on the nature.com blogs. We will hear from a range of contributors: scientists, writers, enthusiasts, communicators, events organizers, policy makers and teachers, each sharing details about how they engage and reach out to the public.
Rachel Scheer is the Corporate Public Relations Manager for Nature Publishing Group. She handles the PR efforts for Scientific American including writing press releases, facilitating partnerships and organizing media opportunities for the editorial team. Continue reading
Reaching Out: Science has a PR Solution
Science Online New York (SoNYC) encourages audience participation in the discussion of how science is carried out and communicated online. To tie in with June’s event which looks at how scientists reach out of the ivory tower, communicating science to the public, we’re hosting a series of guest posts on the nature.com blogs. We will hear from a range of contributors: scientists, writers, enthusiasts, communicators, events organizers, policy makers and teachers, each sharing details about how they engage and reach out to the public.
David Wescott is a Director of Digital Strategy at APCO Worldwide, a global public affairs firm. He has served as a legislative assistant to a United States Senator and administrator of a Pediatrics department at a public hospital in Boston. He blogs at It’s Not a Lecture and is a contributor at Virtual Vantage Points, Science Cheerleader, Earth and Industry, The Broad Side, and Global Voices Online. He lives in Durham, NC. Continue reading
Reaching Out: Harvard Student Organization – Science in the News
Science Online New York (SoNYC) encourages audience participation in the discussion of how science is carried out and communicated online. To tie in with June’s event which looks at how scientists reach out of the ivory tower, communicating science to the public, we’re hosting a series of guest posts on the nature.com blogs. We will hear from a range of contributors: scientists, writers, enthusiasts, communicators, events organizers, policy makers and teachers, each sharing details about how they engage and reach out to the public.
Tammy Slenn is a 5th year PhD student at Harvard University and current co-director of Science in the News, a graduate student organization focused on communication of science to the general public. Science in the News provides programming in the greater Boston area about current science for those who have completed their formal science education. Programming includes two lecture series, a science café series, an e-newsletter, education outreach, and participation in stand-alone events. For more information about Science in the News, visit sitn.hms.harvard.edu, “like” Science in the News at Harvard University on Facebook, follow us on Twitter @sitnharvard, or email sitnboston@gmail.com. Continue reading
Reaching Out: Why Geeks Need a Manifesto
Science Online New York (SoNYC) encourages audience participation in the discussion of how science is carried out and communicated online. To tie in with June’s event which looks at how scientists reach out of the ivory tower, communicating science to the public, we’re hosting a series of guest posts on the nature.com blogs. We will hear from a range of contributors: scientists, writers, enthusiasts, communicators, events organizers, policy makers and teachers, each sharing details about how they engage and reach out to the public.
Mark Henderson is the author of The Geek Manifesto: Why Science Matters, published by Bantam Press, which explores the relationship between science and politics. He is also Head of Communications at the Wellcome Trust. He joined the Trust in January 2011 after 15 years at The Times, where he was Science Editor.
At The Times, Mark was instrumental in founding Eureka, the newspaper’s monthly science magazine, and developed a reputation as one of the UK’s leading science journalists. He won several awards for his journalism: three prizes from the Medical Journalists’ Association, the Royal Statistical Society’s prize for statistical excellence in journalism, and the European Best Cancer Reporter prize from the European School of Oncology.
His first book, 50 Genetics Ideas You Really Need to Know, was published in 2009. Continue reading
Reaching Out: Public Lectures at Gresham College
Science Online New York (SoNYC) encourages audience participation in the discussion of how science is carried out and communicated online. To tie in with June’s event which looks at how scientists reach out of the ivory tower, communicating science to the public, we’re hosting a series of guest posts on Nature blogs. We will hear from a range of contributors: scientists, writers, enthusiasts, communicators, events organizers, policy makers and teachers, each sharing details about how they engage and reach out to the public.
James Franklin is Communications Manager at Gresham College, an independent educational institution in Central London which provides over 100 free lectures a year. He has a background in website management and online sub-editing. He is a Master of Philosophy born and raised in the Isle of Man. Continue reading
Reaching Out: Serious entertainment: What scientists can learn from stand-up comics
Science Online New York (SoNYC) encourages audience participation in the discussion of how science is carried out and communicated online. To tie in with June’s event which looks at how scientists reach out of the ivory tower, communicating science to the public, we’re hosting a series of guest posts on Nature blogs. We will hear from a range of contributors: scientists, writers, enthusiasts, communicators, events organizers, policy makers and teachers, each sharing details about how they engage and reach out to the public.
When he’s not studying virus evolution, Tufts Postdoc Ravi Subramanian has another life as a comedy writer. He thinks scientists could learn something from stand-ups about how to engage an audience. A guest post as part of our #reachingoutsci series. Continue reading
Reaching Out: Isotope: a community website developed through engagement
Richard Holliman is a sociologist studying the related areas of science communication and public engagement with the sciences. Trevor Collins is a computing researcher working in technology-enhanced learning and specialising in community informatics. They are based at the Open University, UK. Working with scientists and other stakeholders on the Informing science outreach and public engagement (Isotope) project, they collaboratively developed a community website for science engagement practitioners (https://isotope.open.ac.uk). Here’s why they put public engagement at the centre of their research. Continue reading
Reaching Out: Podcasting – Rallying the Rational
Science Online New York (SoNYC) encourages audience participation in the discussion of how science is carried out and communicated online. To tie in with June’s event which looks at how scientists reach out of the ivory tower, communicating science to the public, we’re hosting a series of guest posts on Nature blogs. We will hear from a range of contributors: scientists, writers, enthusiasts, communicators, events organizers, policy makers and teachers, each sharing details about how they engage and reach out to the public.
James O’Malley is not a scientist! He has a MA in international relations from King’s College, London, but has inexplicably got in with the science crowd. He tries his best. The Pod Delusion’s deputy editor, Liz Lutgendorff, also contributed to this article. She’s also not a scientist but rather currently researching her PhD on the history of the UK secular movement.
Way back in 2009, I started a vaguely science-themed podcast. A few weeks later, I found out that far from this being an original idea, there are hundreds of them. But nearly three years later, The Pod Delusion is still going – thanks to our pool of over one hundred contributors and my girlfriend’s stunning tolerance for spending our evenings pointing microphones at people cleverer than I am.