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14 April 2020
Webinar workshop wisdom
Blogging, Communication
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Communication, Writing

With COVID-19 leading to an increased use of webinars in place of face-to-face workshops, we’ve compiled a summary of our findings, recommendations and tips for using this technology. While being less engaging than meeting in person, if run well a webinar

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5 April 2020
10 entertaining science books
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Paul Holper Science and technology lie at the heart of so much that is good about modern life. As researchers rush to create a COVID-19 vaccine, let’s begin with a chillingly prescient extract from Bill Bryson’s entertaining 2019 book The Body:

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8 January 2020
On Writing – Stephen King
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By Paul Holper Despite being written 20 years ago, Stephen King’s book, ‘On writing: A memoir of the craft’, is an entertaining read and a great source of information. Someone who has sold more than 350 million books must know a

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4 March 2018
When in doubt, cut it out: editing tips
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Recently I edited a large, complex scientific report. As an editor, one of the first things you do is remove extraneous words. Why force a reader to read two or more words, when one will do? As I worked through the

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9 November 2017
Writing in Nature, naturally
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Scientell’s new home, the historic Royal Society of Victoria building, houses a stunning library that includes the first edition of the journal Nature. It’s clear that people communicated science in 1869 differently from now. The first research article in that first issue

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15 June 2017
How to write a media release
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Scientell prepared this summary for members of the Ecological Society of Australia, who have employed us to provide communication support and advice. Despite the rise of social media, writing and distributing a media release is still a very effective way of communicating

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24 February 2017
On stones, mathematics and eschewing bad puns
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Excluding patients with multiple titanium joint prostheses, the most common metal in the human body is calcium. This fact will assist in countless pub trivia competitions. Chemist Humphry Davy first isolated pure calcium in 1808 by electrolysis of limestone. He named

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8 November 2016
Book review: ‘Surviving the 21st Century: Humanity’s Ten Great Challenges and How We Can Overcome Them’
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Australia has no better science writer than Julian Cribb. He is knowledgeable, extraordinarily well informed and superbly adept at presenting accurate, fascinating information in a way that just begs to be read. His latest book is Surviving the 21st Century: Humanity’s Ten Great

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6 October 2016
Movin’ on up to cooler climes
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Climate change impacts on the natural world are accelerating rapidly. ‘Many plants and animals are proving to be highly sensitive to the changes in climate we have experienced over the last few decades’ says Professor Lesley Hughes from Macquarie University. Lesley says

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1 June 2016
Imagining the future: a guide to the incredible inventions just over the horizon
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       We are living in a rapidly changing world – when most of today’s primary school students grow up, they’ll have jobs that don’t exist right now, and they’ll be using technologies that haven’t been invented, to solve things we

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17 March 2016
How to create a blog that everyone will truly love
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This blog is competing for your attention with more than 152 million others. Nearly 173,000 blogs are added to the Internet ever day. There are now four more than when you started reading this. That’s according to the Journal of Applied

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23 December 2015
Cli-Fi: cautionary tales to prompt action
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Written by Simon Torok Cli-fi, or climate fiction, also known as Eco-fiction, is a relatively new genre of literature that sets narratives in an often dystopian world affected by climate change. I love it because fiction can be used to convey

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7 December 2015
The psychology of communication: Here and how; not gloom and doom
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Written by Paul Holper Science organisations want to explain their work to increase impact and use of results. Scientists know that science is important and would like others to feel the same. They also realise, that science that no one knows

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1 December 2015
Communicating to a young audience
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Ever since the early 1700s, when the first books for young people were written by authors including John Newbery, Thomas Boreman, and Thomas and Mary Cooper, communicators have endeavoured to target young audiences with specific products.   Non-fiction writing for young people

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2 November 2015
Beginners guide to editing
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For starters, there’s editing and editing. And editing. Three forms really: substantive, copy and proofing. For most clients, ‘editing’ means copy editing. That is, reading through a document and checking that it makes sense and reflects what the writer probably meant. Copy editing

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This is such a great resource for celebrating First Peoples science and inspiring this year's National Science Week event holders. I'm looking forward to attending some Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander led events during #scienceweek in August this year! https://t.co/Ey1f4ukWou

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The Coalition’s climate policy is consistent with a very dangerous 3℃ of global warming. Labor’s target is in line with 2℃ of global warming. Only policies by the Greens and the 'teals' are consistent with keeping global warming at safe levels. https://t.co/j0YiIIWE1G

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