Sanni and Djuddah have a discussion with Piret and Eric about the 3MT competition held annually at the University of Tartu.

In the first Episode of our second season of the communicating science podcast, Sanni and Djuddah have a brief introduction about themselves and talk about things to come.

A conversation with Anastasiya Astapova a research fellow at the Department of Estonian and Comparative Folklore, University of Tartu and an elected member of the Young Estonian Academy of Sciences.

What is Science Writing? In this podcast, Jason has a conversation with Science Writing instructors Anni and Katarina. This episode explores the perspectives of Anni and Katarina about learning the skill of Science Writing and how the course is designed to support doctoral students.

How did you get involved in teaching science writing? How important is it? What are the problems students face? What are the best solutions?

This podcast interviewed Maria Murumaa-Mengel (PhD), a Lecturer of Social Media at the Institute of Social Studies, University of Tartu. Her doctoral thesis focused on imagined online audiences and her research areas of interest are inter-generational relationships in the context of new media, online privacy in the information age and the internet usage practices of the young. In addition to teaching at the university, Maria gives seminars on online risks and opportunities in secondary schools, addressing students, teachers and parents.

In this episode, we engage in a conversation with three PhD students attending a Doctoral Writing Retreat organised by the Doctoral School in Economics and Innovation. During these structured Writing Retreats, students have five days with over 40 hours of writing, short workshops, activities to help clear your mind, as well as the opportunity to discuss with others and with a facilitating consultant. The format is inclusive and collective, is structured, facilitated and supported, with the focus being on writing together to increase motivation and writing productivity.

Rui A. Alves is Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of Porto. His main research interests are the cognitive and affective processes in writing, which he studies using especially on-line methods and logging tools. He is also interested in literacy instruction, literacy development, and learning disorders.

Professor Rowena Murray shares her insights about writing science, strategies, writing retreats, and the science of writing.

What is Science Communication? In this podcast, Katarina has a conversation with Science Communication instructors Djuddah and Jason. This episode explores the perspectives of Djuddah and Jason about the benefits of Science Communication and how doctoral students can development their public speaking skills.

How did you get involved in teaching science communication? How important is it? What are the problems students face? What are the best solutions?

Communicating Science Podcast Ep1 hosted by Jason Dydynski and Katarina Damčević.

Cheryl Geisler is an internationally recognized expert on coding verbal data. Her article on Coding for Language Complexity was the lead article in the April 2018 issue of Written Communication and she edited a special section of the Journal of Writing Research on Current and Emerging Methods in the Rhetorical Analysis of Texts in 2016. With Jason Swarts, she is writing Coding Streams of Language, which will be available for download from the WAC Clearinghouse and through a YouTube channel in the spring of 2019. In this conversation with Katarina Damčević and Jason Mario Dydynski, Cheryl talks about Analyzing Streams of Language and how coding has influenced research and more specifically research on writing. In addition, professor Cheryl Geisler shares her thoughts about the publishing game and gives advice to early career writers and researchers. Cheryl shares her perspectives on women in academia and the work she has done in women and promotion in the STEM field. Finally, she offers her advice to PhD students who are entering the academic world and the process of writing articles.