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REMINDER: We’re running another cohort of SciComm STEP next spring! Applications are live right now on our website (MeteorSciComm.org)! 🥳 In this fast-paced episode (with a few audio flickers, boo Wyoming wind that knocks out the internet), we make this honest podcast about scicomm with impact a bit #overlyhonest. We tackle: Why we think academia still matters Why people “valuing” scicomm ain’t what we need The truth that professional development is too-often worse than no...

First - two big announcements: Our last episode will be a Q&A- send us your questions, ideas, puzzles, and dilemmas by December 1st. We’re running another cohort of SciComm STEP next spring! Applications are live right now on our website (MeteorSciComm.org)! 🥳 Truly, yelling and naming is how we process, cope, and then work toward action and change when we’re facing schtuff that’s inequitable, obstructionist, or devalues work in scicomm. We talk through a lot of layers on t...

First - two big announcements: Our last episode will be a Q&A- send us your questions, ideas, puzzles, and dilemmas by December 1st. We’re running another cohort of SciComm STEP next spring! Applications are live right now on our website (MeteorSciComm.org)! 🥳 Wanting to get paid real money (plenty of it) is OKAY. Full stop. And, we argue it’s also important if we’re all going to do the collective, hard work of making the world better through scicomm. In this episode, we ta...

First - a big announcement: we’re running another cohort of SciComm STEP next spring! Applications are live right now on our website (MeteorSciComm.org)! 🥳 Articulating and providing evidence of success is reliably hard in scicomm. At the systems level, it can feel swampingly abstract. That’s why concrete examples are super useful. So, in this episode, we dissect how we articulated what success would be for the SciComm STEP program (Sparking Transitions for Experienced Professionals). &n...

First - a big announcement: we’re running another cohort of SciComm STEP next spring! Applications are live right now on our website (MeteorSciComm.org)! 🥳 In the mid-to-advanced career stages of scicomm, we’re all routinely making things up. But even if we’re good at that, we can’t accomplish real scicomm systems change solo. So, this week, we get into: the downsides of transactional professional relationships how hard it can be to ask for help how much harder it can be t...

First - a big announcement: we’re running another cohort of SciComm STEP next spring! 🥳 Apply here Dealing thoroughly with a system -- enough to rise to power within it -- can prevent us from changing it. How? The system keeps us too busy. Or, we get recognized for being able to navigate the system, and thus get asked to do the work of navigating it when we’d actually like to be overhauling it. And, when we do get a shot at changing it…of course: the system resists c...

First - two big announcements: In Season 3, we’re digging into systems and what we think about as we consciously try to change them. We’re running another cohort of SciComm STEP next spring! Join our email list for a ping when the application goes live November 1st! 🥳 Today, we’re getting real: Doing big things, like trying to tackle systems-level change in scicomm, is a heavy lift. This week, we discuss: The futility of trying to do this work alone Ways we can b...

First - two big announcements: In Season 3, we’re digging into systems and what we think about as we consciously try to change them. We’re running another cohort of SciComm STEP next spring! Join our email list for a ping when the application goes live! 🥳 Today, we’re reckoning with reality: lots of us have anxiety about our careers. And that’s probably related to anxiety we have about our personal lives. AND there are whole lists of the most common ways that human brains add a...

First - two big announcements: In Season 3, we’re digging into systems and what we think about as we consciously try to change them. We’re running another cohort of SciComm STEP next spring! Join our email list for a ping when the application goes live! 🥳 There’s a lot going on underneath the phrase “scicomm system”. Today, we're taking a look at the state of the field and how that shapes those of us who work in scicomm. For example, we think: the generally used defin...

Per Meteor tradition, our last episode for this season was an open Q&A. This week, we tackled some questions and provocations from y’all! They fit into a loose theme of sustainability, including topics like: Does scicomm have to make money? [Spoiler: we have lotsa thoughts on this!] What scicomm tools are you loving right now? [We talked about time tracking, accountability, and planning.] Recent career realizations that we haven’t talked about on air yet. Keeping ...