My 2025 wrapped

I talked in yesterday's #SciComm career Q&A about stepping sideways, into impactful positions that develop skills that will let you step back once the job market allows. Example position below Make lists of your "must have"s and "never again"s to know which steps might be most fulfilling for you

Wow I love this one I do lots of social media advising for my job and folks tell me often that it's a real drag to be on social right now. True, because keeping up with the news means keeping up with horrors. But I've built a feed heavy on accounts like this one and it makes me like being here

My response to anything over the next two weeks

I just held my final #SciComm Office Hours session for 2025. The theme was career goal-setting, while acknowledging that STEM careers are under attack. I want to share a few points I made to set the career scene, in case I can validate anyone reading this:

I don’t know about Boulder, where NCAR is, but nearby Denver is having a scheduled 6-hour power blackout today to prevent wildfires in anticipation of a storm that might bring 90 mph winds on a near-record 66 degree day during a dry period So

Announcing our next #NSFfunded workshop on "Telling Stories Through Data", co-lead by myself + @vgwschutte.bsky.social! It’s half bioinformatics data viz & half #SciComm - this year’s focus is host-associated microbiome datasets. Apply here to join us (form closes 1/10) bit.ly/TSTD2026 #symbiosky

“The Storymakers program is a weeklong intensive that trains full-time, established researchers in the art of environmental storytelling” 🧪 #SciComm

I just started a "Running list of press" doc for my startup, because @rejectedbanana.bsky.social and I just had our first appearance in someone else's blog and I'm dreaming big. Look out, world, someday we will have TWO FEATURES 🏆 Read the blog post here: altasea.org/ocean-startu...

My startup's app lets anyone collect 🦑🧪 data with the sensors in their smartwatch (Co-Founder: @rejectedbanana.bsky.social) A UW Tacoma team designed a 3D printed buoy to enclose a watch & measure water velocity. And got 3rd place in @cerfscience.bsky.social's Student Coastal Design Competition! 🎉

My youngest child keeps asking "But if it's illegal, why aren't they in jail?" and it is just WILD trying to raise kids for the society I wish we had

Sign up for a free Science Journalism Master Class any time and get started immediately—there’s no set start date. There are course on finding story angles, centering people in science stories and so much more. 🧪

Good morning, ET USA. Start your day right

I'm posting about AI and/or the holidays rn on TikTok from a parenting perspective, as one does with hot algorithm topics, and I am learning all kinds of WILD things about the world as I go I'll put them in this thread so y'all can be just 🤯 with me

This is paid and Sara is the best- an incredible opportunity for somebody

“Maybe we’re onto something.” “How can we tell? We’ve only done this 187,623 times with the same success every single time. Could be a fluke.”

Lots of great free #SciComm resources on @vgwschutte.bsky.social’s website - she hosts open Zoom office hours too!

Two #SciComm communities I want to highlight: 1. @sciencetalkorg.bsky.social, which is more than a conference. Paid membership gets you access to online forums, digital events, and more 2. SciCommUnity NYC, which is planning some meetups in 2026: www.linkedin.com/company/scic...

Actual lol

This is a toddler and I was a monster when I said "no cookie it's almost dinnertime" and I will correct my mistake immediately 🥺

This is rocking my world #SciComm with a chocolate advent calendar? A space-themed edible art advent calendar?? Congratulations Ariel!! (and congrats to everyone who snagged one of these!)

Most departments don't have crisis plans. Most universities do. Most crisis plans protect the university and not (or at the expense of) employees. This is a MAJOR HOLE in #SciComm advocacy. Data on this are scattered, but here's some to start with: newprairiepress.org/cgi/viewcont...

Top 4 takeaways from a "Careers in #SciComm" panel I just did 🧵 1. Scicomm is a disorganized career path! (evergreen reminder) You can come into it with a variety of degrees and experience. If you're coming from science, know what motivates you and what skills from academia translate to comms

Turkey on Thanksgiving is a mistake Most people and bakeries make bad coffee cake Pumpkin pie should have double the spices Happy Thanksgiving : )

Just read it 🥹

Seen on our research vessel

Almost a year now since I received this absolutely classic burn from the Canadian government.

#SciComm early career folks, this is an excellent opportunity

Can confirm that 12 more years of life does not dim the betrayal

Important context for that piece about🧪 being prohibited, retroactively, from working with folks from other countries

Personally if I ever get in an interview led by an AI agent, I assure you that fear will not be my top emotion and I will need no help in knowing what to say

I feel attacked

I'm on this project! Come work on #SciComm stuff with us!

Happy exploding whale day to all who celebrate.

if you can’t see the aurora borealis tonight, here is a sewer tunnel which is a wonder in itself.

Hi writers! I’m looking to assign a couple of features for Slate before the end of the year. If you have anything in mind that you think would be a fit please send me a pitch! Jenée.Desmond- [email protected] or dm me. RTs are appreciated so this can reach more people. Thanks!

Get offline for a day. Create something. I'm serious. You cannot endure our current reality in ANY timeline if you are constantly scraping your raw nerves across the jagged edges of the evil that people do. You need tangible, embodied reminders that we endure through hope and love, not despair.

Pierrot, by Jean-Antoine Watteau, 1718-19, 📸 by @andyharnik

To my trans and nonbinary friends, I am so sorry that you have to deal with this hate. And I hope to see us reach the other side of it soon. And, we will reach the other side. This is horrifying, but it is ultimately the latest iteration of a time-worn tale. And their time always comes to an end.

It me

Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.

This is SO CUTE

There are more of us than there are of them.

Happy voting day in the US! May your favorite candidate win, may the lines be long enough that you still have hope in democracy but short enough that you can get on with your day, and may your vote count as much as you deserve.

Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

people and other creatures of bluesky: PLEASE use alt-text on your images! ESPECIALLY if you position yourself as some variety of expert on communication and sit in judgment on how other people do it!

SNAP fraud rates are less than 1% and falling every year we have data for HOWEVER: hundreds of millions is stolen *from* SNAP recipients every year! Because the EBT cards they use aren’t modernized and secure! And the program they used to repay recipients their stolen $ lapsed in Dec 2024!

Nerding out over this graphic, which I think is so fantastic. Is clear, simple, quick, and it has a call to action at the bottom. It’s also optimized to go with a post like this one: “help us tell the gov…”, instead of “hey FYI we’re doing something” I’m not surprised, from Oceana 👏

Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.

Well this looks AMAZING