Quotes from Don’t Be Such a Scientist
January 19, 2010 Filed under Blog, Presentations, Writing
On the recommendation of Prof. David Karoly, I bought Randy Olson’s Don’t Be Such a Scientist: Talking Substance in an Age of Style. I highly recommend this book for those who want to make their science more accessible to others (both scientists and nonscientists). Olson breaks down his observations of how best to communicate to […]
Talking Science: The Elusive Art of the Science Talk
January 18, 2010 Filed under Blog, Presentations, Resources
This 18-minute video called “Talking Science: The Elusive Art of the Science Talk” was produced by the USC Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies and the USC Annenberg School for Communication. It was made by Randy Olsen, author of Don’t Be Such a Scientist: Talking Substance in an Age of Style. I was informed of Olsen’s […]
University of Chicago Press blog entry
Eloquent Science was featured on Cryptonym, the University of Chicago Press blog: http://pressblog.uchicago.edu/distributed/2009/12/david_m_schultz_on_climategate.html
New Year’s resolutions to make for 2010
January 5, 2010 Filed under Blog, Presentations, Writing
If you want to make two resolutions for 2010, here’s what I recommend. One for scientific presentations: I will not start my talks with an “Outline” slide. Instead, I will motivate my talk with something to grab the attention of the audience and get them interested in what I am about to say. Read more […]
Eloquent Science activities at the American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting
SORRY. I WILL NOT BE AT THE AMS ANNUAL MEETING. MY APOLOGIES TO ALL. Saturday Jan. 16, 1:30-1:50 p.m.: Panel discussion: “The how-to’s of publishing papers” (Student Conference, B206). Sunday Jan. 17, 2-4 p.m.: Education Forum: “Improving Your Writing Skills for Students and Scientists” (Student Conference, B206) Monday Jan. 18, 5:30-7:30 p.m.: Stop by the […]
Outtake chapter: Incorporating Communication Skills into Teaching
I had written a chapter for Eloquent Science entitled “Incorporating Communication Skills into Teaching.” This chapter was later dropped as too tangential to the topics focused on in the book. Although I never completed writing that chapter, I felt that the draft might be useful to others, so I make it available here. Incorporating Communication […]
A course to improve scientific and communication skills
Here is the abstract of the talk that I will be giving at the AMS Annual Meeting in Atlanta about the 14-week university course that I designed based on the book Eloquent Science. To improve writing skills, a student needs to write more and write more often. Thus, I tried to minimize the lecture material […]
What Climategate means for scientists and their emails
The so-called Climategate scandal in which hacked emails from the University of East Anglia Center for Climate Research were released to the public is a sad day for public confidence in science. (I hesitate to use the term Climategate as the similarity with Watergate is 180 degrees opposite. Whereas the burglars in Watergate were caught […]
Hot under the collar about “hot temperatures”
The December 2009 issue of the journal Weather published by the Royal Meteorological Society has a letter by David Pedgley, referring to a 2005 letter by Malcolm Walker, which refers to an earlier letter by John Cook. At issue? “Hot temperatures.” Read an excerpt from Pedgley’s letter: Temperature is a measure of the heat content […]
“Redefining the peer-review literature”
Amid all the public commentary over the stolen University of East Anglia emails, what hasn’t been as widely discussed is that ever since the internet became a tool for mass communication, scientists have been redefining what the peer-review literature is.
