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Lessons I Have Learned as a Mentor - ECR Community

Communicating your research is always good. it helps the communicator in many ways.
Lessons learnt from Mentoring.
an interesting account.
As a mentor, I am also continually encouraged to explain science to a general audience and to hone my critical thinking skills. I am constantly reminded of the fundamentals and am compelled to explain the motivation or reason why things are the way they are in a digestible format.
Moreover, questions from mentees have caused me to think about my research in different ways; this is like how an “outsider” may have different perspectives that I may not have considered initially. ... See more

I spent my adolescent years immersed in a suburban hometown teeming with engineers. They were all working tirelessly on designing omnipresent mobile… ... See more

SciComm Scholars

Presenting Our New Section "SciComm Scholars"...

Scholar of the Day: Harshada from CSIR-NISCAIR

Head over to NIASComm.in to find out more about her Science Communication Pursuits... ... See more

“Science Communication” is one of the important domains of study to be pursued. Health pandemics like COVID, reiterates the importance of communication and reaching out to the people and society. T… ... See more

Time to revise the Sustainable Development Goals

COVID has thrown another challenge.
Time to achieve SDGs is being stretched.
time to have a relook at SDGs? ... See more

The pandemic has set back efforts to achieve the original 2015 targets. The need for change to make them more attainable is stronger than ever. ... See more

Four ways to build your network without attending a conference

#SciComm #networking

tips to build network.
useful in the times when meeting people in person is not going to happen in the near future. ... See more

AuthorAID, LinkedIn and WeChat can help to plug the connections gap when events get cancelled, says Edmond Sanganyado. ... See more

Why We Don't Trust Science

The challenge in communicating Science.
"We process information based on what we already think and typically we tend to fit that information to where it matches what we are already seeing because that takes a lot less brainpower, takes a lot less effort, and it doesn't make us feel bad for being wrong."
The challenge is to establish mechanisms to overcome this? ... See more

According to a Pew Research Center study , scientist is one of the most trusted professions in the U.S., second only to the military. Trust levels are ... See more

Online Purdue Data Storytelling courses use surprise and contrarian thought to make compelling stories from data

#sotrytelling #SciCom

Purdue’s Data Storytelling program combines elements of rhetoric, data science, visual arts and storytelling. It leverages concepts borrowed from communication, narrative structure, data research, data analysis, data visualization, and data ethics.
Learning to convey the information and insights so that audience will not only remember the message but learn from and apply it.
A novel way of learning. ... See more

Purdue University is throwing a life preserver to people who feel like they’re drowning in a flood of data that they need to explain in ways designed to captivate, rather than overwhelm, an audience. The method is new and aims to reinvent the nature and role of storytelling in data and science com... ... See more