What type of science communicator are you?

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Corina Newsome

"Every time I am looking closely at anything outside, it’s so that someone else can look closely too. It’s not just for me. My end goal is not to be the most world renowned specialist on nest predation and seaside sparrows — I want to answer that question and I want to do it rigorously and thoroughly so I have the best information as a result, but I’m doing it because other people need to know."

Ana Maria Porras

"At the beginning, I was just vomiting information at people. Then, last year, I took a science communication workshop at Cornell and that really got me thinking about storytelling, being very deliberate with information, making sure the stories are digestible, that I’m communicating one central message and it doesn't get lost in all these other details that as scientists we feel like we have to include."

Sarah Olson

"A science communicator can look like a hundred different people: a natural history museum tour guide, a first grade science teacher, or a public information officer for a research institution, for example. Anyone who brings science to the public is a science communicator, even an undergrad using Twitter to share experiments they try at home. The more loosely we define science communicator, the better — it should be inclusive and accessible."

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