MbShea@PWP@English@UMCP

for spring 2017.  Here are the readings for the first week.

John Bohannon (molecular biology)

• Created “Dance Your PhD” contest (exercise in public audience communication). Here is the 2016 winning piece on biomedical invention. He explains more about why dance as a “text” for communicating complexity to lay people in this >

• TED method on a talk using dancers instead of Power Point (Here is the talk, in 11 minutes)

• Blogs at Science Magazine, including this really important fake paper experiment that exposed trouble in peer review/open access publishing.

Katharine Hayhoe  (atmospheric scientist)

• Part of her public communication of science is to reach a resistant audience about climate change. She uses many venues, including Youtube and Vimeo, as well as an excellent

• facebook page. Heyhoe really understands her audience, which is why she is rather successful in keeping this conversation civil and ongoing.

• Her “Global Weirding” YouTube channel is a series worth looking at.   

• Read more about her work at the Slate Bad Astronomer blog by scientist Phil Plait.

Randy Olson (marine biologist and filmmaker)

• Uses narrative structures from filming -- including storyboard analysis from South Park episodes -- to help scientists tell stories.

• Developed the ABT( AND BUT THEREFORE) technique for scientists.  If you check out this twitter feed, you will find that Dave Tilley tweets.  MEES’ Bill Dennison reviews Olson’s latest book: Houston, We have a Narrative