Comments for Postdoc Street https://postdocstreet.wordpress.com The personal writings of one scientist, trying to improve the system. Wed, 04 Jan 2017 11:03:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on Discernment. by razahsan https://postdocstreet.wordpress.com/2017/01/03/discernment/comment-page-1/#comment-2264 Wed, 04 Jan 2017 11:03:55 +0000 http://postdocstreet.wordpress.com/?p=163421#comment-2264 Discernment means looking things with vision other than body eyes

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Comment on Serious in 2016 -> 2017? by razahsan https://postdocstreet.wordpress.com/2016/12/29/serious-in-2016-2017/comment-page-1/#comment-2263 Wed, 04 Jan 2017 10:54:26 +0000 http://postdocstreet.wordpress.com/?p=163328#comment-2263 The thrust to know, assess plan and act on is key to kick start any thing

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Comment on Serious in 2016 -> 2017? by Discernment. – Postdoc Street https://postdocstreet.wordpress.com/2016/12/29/serious-in-2016-2017/comment-page-1/#comment-2261 Tue, 03 Jan 2017 03:35:56 +0000 http://postdocstreet.wordpress.com/?p=163328#comment-2261 […] I am learning to edit better, to know what reads well, at least online. There’s always more to learn, of course, and there is more experience heading my way in 2017. […]

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Comment on The Transition to Sci Comm by Discernment. – Postdoc Street https://postdocstreet.wordpress.com/2016/11/26/the-transition-to-sci-comm/comment-page-1/#comment-2260 Tue, 03 Jan 2017 03:35:53 +0000 http://postdocstreet.wordpress.com/?p=163174#comment-2260 […] is going to be important for me in 2017 as I make at least one big transition: to a new career, one in writing or editing, or perhaps it will be something […]

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Comment on Being serious. by Serious in 2016 -> 2017? – Postdoc Street https://postdocstreet.wordpress.com/2016/08/10/being-serious/comment-page-1/#comment-2255 Thu, 29 Dec 2016 01:38:09 +0000 http://postdocstreet.wordpress.com/?p=162878#comment-2255 […] In short, I’ve been taking myself seriously. (yes, I cited this post by Sarah Cooper before). […]

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Comment on The Transition to Sci Comm by Ian Street https://postdocstreet.wordpress.com/2016/11/26/the-transition-to-sci-comm/comment-page-1/#comment-2238 Wed, 30 Nov 2016 19:08:42 +0000 http://postdocstreet.wordpress.com/?p=163174#comment-2238 Thanks Paige. And yes, I am tending to agree with you. I think telling stories on the blog is useful as an archive too; maybe not appreciated straight away, but much later on down the road. And I read your blog too. Have learned a lot about Scicomm from those that study it, do it, live it, breathe it. On this post I’ve actually gotten a lot of really good responses, so that was unanticipated. Publishing it was hard, and I worried it was too long, too abstract, too much to pack into one place (& it may be all those things as well as good). Thanks again, and I’m not giving up. Just taking a breather to reflect on where my curiosity and ability to spot and pull together stories will improve. An informal rule I try to follow on my blog is never just writing about one study; put it into at least the light of one other bit of work. OK, stopping now. Thanks for your excellent comment!

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Comment on The Transition to Sci Comm by Take Aways From Sci Comm Camp https://postdocstreet.wordpress.com/2016/11/26/the-transition-to-sci-comm/comment-page-1/#comment-2236 Tue, 29 Nov 2016 15:43:56 +0000 http://postdocstreet.wordpress.com/?p=163174#comment-2236 […] As a personal note, I want to thank all the attendees of Sci Comm Camp that I met and even those I didn’t that made it such a great experience. I’ve writren a more personal account on my personal blog.  […]

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Comment on The Transition to Sci Comm by Paige https://postdocstreet.wordpress.com/2016/11/26/the-transition-to-sci-comm/comment-page-1/#comment-2235 Tue, 29 Nov 2016 00:53:40 +0000 http://postdocstreet.wordpress.com/?p=163174#comment-2235 Don’t get down! I for one read your blog and I’m sure many others do as well. Science writing is absolutely a talent – and yet I’m increasingly thinking it’s not so much the writing itself that makes the good science Communicator, but rather the ability to relate to people, to recognize a story, to leave out the boring bits, to understand a science project and see the essence of what makes it interesting, to immediately recognize when a science story has broad appeal, and to be able to tell a killer story. The quality of the writing itself isn’t so important as those things, as long as it’s readable and clear. As far as “making it” as a science writer – it’s partly about knowing people, partly about jumping on opportunities, and a lot about flexibility and an open mind. Not everyone can or should be a science journalist or prolific popsci writer like Ed Yong or other writers at NatGeo and Popular Science. Science communication including university science Comm / PR happens in often more discreet ways but no less impactful. Science communication comes in many modes via many platforms and in many different fields of communication from journalism to PR to education and outreach to policy etc. Take heart that your efforts even maintaining a science blog for an extended period of time, whether your audience grows quickly or much more slowly (like mine) the efforts WILL pay off but potentially not in the ways you would expect.

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Comment on Writing is life. by Journaling and the Morning Pages – Smart Women Write https://postdocstreet.wordpress.com/2015/12/19/writing-is-life/comment-page-1/#comment-2217 Mon, 31 Oct 2016 14:26:55 +0000 http://postdocstreet.wordpress.com/?p=161906#comment-2217 […] was a  a wonderful conversation going on between PhDs and writers Lisa Munro, Jen Polk, and Ian Street on this topic around the time that I started my morning pages that inspired my initial thinking […]

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Comment on Being serious. by Ian Street https://postdocstreet.wordpress.com/2016/08/10/being-serious/comment-page-1/#comment-1542 Thu, 11 Aug 2016 03:42:53 +0000 http://postdocstreet.wordpress.com/?p=162878#comment-1542 I agree with you that Twitter only connections aren’t as good as in-real-life ones. One reason Twitter really shines at conferences is it drives real life meetings and very real friendships and collaborations can build from that.

However, for me, Twitter is better than no social network. And I have made very real connections on Twitter that enriches the discussions that I do have on there.

That said, to each their own- if Twitter isn’t useful, don’t use it. Or use it as a hivemind/information source only…it is worth it for that alone, IME, whether you connect with anyone on there or not.

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