How does science translate, literally and literarily? How is science transformed as it moves out from the lab and the field into the broader scientific and lay communities?
What role does writing play in all of this, in how science is done, in how it becomes part of the official record in a journal or conference presentation? What gets lost in the translation from an article couched in equations and technical terms to an article in the Times or Discover? Who should be writing about science, or perhaps we should ask who's writing we should be reading? Is there a role for "unofficial" channels like blogs and videos (the infamous -- and annual -- dance your Ph.D. thesis contest comes to mind!)?
Follow the course through the blog here.
Introduction
Field notes
Objectivity (more on field notes and observations)
Material Science (the tools of the trade for field notes)
The. Article. (what counts as science writing? only the article?)
What do journal articles and romance novels have in common? (Anatomy of a scientific paper)
The Short and Sweet of It: Writing Titles and Tweets
Itchy writing (Science journalism take one)
Do not use dialect unless your ear is good (slinging scientific jargon)
Gee-whiz, science? (how do good writers draw the reader into the science)
Fact or fiction (can you communicate science through fiction?)
Poetic science (should scientists be taught to write poetry?)
Punch lines (humor in science)
The End
- Home
- Angry by Choice
- Catalogue of Organisms
- Chinleana
- Doc Madhattan
- Games with Words
- Genomics, Medicine, and Pseudoscience
- History of Geology
- Moss Plants and More
- Pleiotropy
- Plektix
- RRResearch
- Skeptic Wonder
- The Culture of Chemistry
- The Curious Wavefunction
- The Phytophactor
- The View from a Microbiologist
- Variety of Life
Field of Science
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Political pollsters are pretending they know what's happening. They don't.1 month ago in Genomics, Medicine, and Pseudoscience
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Course Corrections6 months ago in Angry by Choice
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The Site is Dead, Long Live the Site2 years ago in Catalogue of Organisms
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The Site is Dead, Long Live the Site2 years ago in Variety of Life
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Does mathematics carry human biases?4 years ago in PLEKTIX
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A New Placodont from the Late Triassic of China5 years ago in Chinleana
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Posted: July 22, 2018 at 03:03PM6 years ago in Field Notes
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Bryophyte Herbarium Survey7 years ago in Moss Plants and More
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Harnessing innate immunity to cure HIV8 years ago in Rule of 6ix
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WE MOVED!8 years ago in Games with Words
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post doc job opportunity on ribosome biochemistry!9 years ago in Protein Evolution and Other Musings
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Growing the kidney: re-blogged from Science Bitez9 years ago in The View from a Microbiologist
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Blogging Microbes- Communicating Microbiology to Netizens10 years ago in Memoirs of a Defective Brain
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The Lure of the Obscure? Guest Post by Frank Stahl12 years ago in Sex, Genes & Evolution
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Lab Rat Moving House13 years ago in Life of a Lab Rat
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Goodbye FoS, thanks for all the laughs13 years ago in Disease Prone
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Slideshow of NASA's Stardust-NExT Mission Comet Tempel 1 Flyby13 years ago in The Large Picture Blog
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