News All MBL News Newsletter Recent Grants Back to main menu Overview Grant Awards 2022-23 MBL Accolades MBL Publications Media Information Social Media Information Science Communication Resources for Scientists Obituaries Home All MBL News Science Communication Resources for Scientists Communicating with the Media AAAS Media Interview Tips Dean, Cornelia. Am I Making Myself Clear? A Scientist’s Guide to Talking to the Public. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2009. Hayes, Richard and Grossman, Daniel. A Scientist’s Guide To Talking With The Media: Practical Advice from the Union of Concerned Scientists. Piscataway, NJ: Rutgers University Press. 2006. Zielinska, E. “Why Trust a Reporter?” The Scientist 24: 40 (1 Sept. 2010). Social Media for Scientists Bik, H.M. and Goldstein, M.C. (2013) An introduction to social media for scientists. PLOS Biology 4: e1001535 Darling, E.S., Shiffman, D., Cote, I.M., and Drew, J.A. (2013) The role of Twitter in the life cycle of a scientific publication. Ideas in Ecol. Evol. 6: 32-43, doi: 10.4033/iee.2013.6.6.f Creating a Compelling Talk Burroughs Wellcome Fund – Communicating Science: Giving Talks Olsen, Randy. Don’t Be Such a Scientist: Talking Substance in An Age of Style. Washington, DC: Island Press, 2009. Schatz, G. (2003) How (Not) to Give a Seminar FEBS Letters 534: 5-6. Science Communication for Scientists: Training and Resources Communicating Science: Tools for Scientists and Engineers - Created by the AAAS Center for Public Engagement with Science and Technology and the National Science Foundation, this website’s resources include webinars, how-to tips for media interviews, strategies for identifying public outreach opportunities, and more. AAAS Force For Science Toolkit Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science Annual workshop at MBL: “Writing About Science for the Public” ComSciCon: Annual communicating science workshop for graduate students (Harvard University) Broader Impacts Group (organized by MIT-WHOI graduate students) Aldo Leopold Leadership Program Science Literacy; Public Perceptions of Science Pew Research Center: Trust in Science The Science of Science Communication: References from Liz Neeley, Executive Director, The Story Collider Appel, Markus, and Tobias Richter. “Transportation and Need for Affect in Narrative Persuasion: A Mediated Moderation Model.” Media Psychology 13, no. 2 (May 28, 2010): 101–35. https://doi.org/10.1080/15213261003799847. Berger, Jonah A., and Katherine L. Milkman. “Social Transmission, Emotion, and the Virality of Online Content.” SSRN ELibrary, December 25, 2009. http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1528077. Dahlstrom, M. 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Shipley, and Basil Tikoff. “Drawing on Experience: How Domain Knowledge Is Reflected in Sketches of Scientific Structures and Processes.” Research in Science Education 44, no. 6 (December 2014): 859–83. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11165-014-9405-2. Kawakami, Naoaki, and Fujio Yoshida. “Perceiving a Story Outside of Conscious Awareness: When We Infer Narrative Attributes from Subliminal Sequential Stimuli.” Consciousness and Cognition 33 (May 2015): 53–66. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2014.12.001. Kinnebrock, Susanne, and Helena Bilandzic. “How to Make a Story Work: Introducing the Concept of Narrativity into Narrative Persuasion.” In American Psychologist. Dresden, 2006. http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/amp/46/3/187/. Moyer-Gusé, Emily, and Katherine Dale. “Narrative Persuasion Theories.” In The International Encyclopedia of Media Effects, edited by Patrick Rössler, Cynthia A. Hoffner, and Liesbet van Zoonen, 1–11. 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