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I’ve never been very good at asking for things or telling people to do things. The other kids were better at it. Can I have the big one? Gimme gimme! That was never my style, and I bet it wasn’t...
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I Learned Marketing From My Toddler
I became a father two years ago last month. In those two years I blogged a little less often and gave few workshops than I would have otherwise. But I kept learning valuable lessons about marketing and...
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Bringing the Media to You: A Marketing Tip from the National Speakers...
This week I’m writing to you from the National Speakers Association annual meeting, a great place to learn new marketing tricks. I’m going to share with you a tip I just learned from journalist Geeta...
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Two Books to Help You Stand Out in the Scientific Job Market
This book review was first published in Physics World. The Weeknd at the Grammys. The press coverage of this year’s Grammy awards taught me a new term: “producer inflation”. The term refers to the way...
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Cool Worlds: Birth of a Science Vlog
Just as the pundits predicted, video is taking over the internet. Youtube has now become the second most popular site on the internet, beating out Facebook. And with the rise of video, science video...
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Interview with Professional Speaker Bernadette Vadurro
Being a scientist means giving lots and lots of talks. You have may have heard me mention the National Speakers Association, the society for people who give talks for a living. I’ve been fascinated by...
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The “Last Starfighter” Model for Citizen Science
This article was first published in Scientific American. Alex Rogan masters a video game called “Starfighter” where he defends “the Frontier” from “Xur and the Ko-Dan Armada” in a space battle. Soon...
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Pluto, Planet Nine and Other Backyard Worlds
(This article was first published at Discover, PLOS blogs, and the SciStarter blog,) Eighty-seven years ago, this week, Clyde Tombaugh was poring over a pair of photographic plates, hoping to change...
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How the Word “But” Could Save The World
(The post was first published at Scientific American Blogs.) Candidate Hillary Clinton’s speeches were less compelling than those of now-President Donald Trump. We all understood this. But I, for one,...
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iPosters and Betterposter: How to create a conference poster that people want...
Download free templates, or make the switch to digital-only. This article originally appeared in Nature Index. Researchers meet and share their research in the poster hall at the AGU Fall Meeting....
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