That's me on the left! I have run several Reddit AMAs for science. The biggest one is summarized in the slide below (from when I was working w @lumcon.bsky.social and @drcraigmc.bsky.social) Reddit has changed so much since I did my last AMA. I'm very interested to see how this goes today!

New retort just dropped

Tried the new "contact Congress" page a big science org just made It auto sent an email for me, I guess? I thought it'd be a script, and don't even know what they sent! Congress ignores auto-generated messages bc they're someone else's opinion, not yours Get help making your own, good message ⬇️

A lot of people are talking about this but not nearly enough are emphasizing that it is a PROPOSAL and that we can and should SUBMIT COMMENT by July 13. Chanda shares deets in this thread.

We at @wclivestream.bsky.social made templates so anyone can know what to say to their Rep in support of science: wclivestream.com/act Please use them if they'll help you follow the great suggestions in this great thread ⬇️

I'm insulated from science news-caused despair rn bc I am plugged into ⬇️ & already pushing back You could join what we're doing, but if you don't want to: please consider finding a community (non-science is fine!) that helps you channel feelings into effective action We will make change together

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I wrote a letter template so all you have to do is fill in the blanks and poof! You have a maximally effective letter for your members of Congress! We also got colleagues who routinely work w lawmakers to look it over. V proud of the work we did, actually, to make letter-writing easy + impactful

YESSSSS

I learned from activism spaces that hope is something you have to cultivate and maintain, not just something that spontaneously happens. I find that I most enjoy working with people who actively work at being hopeful, even as they feel ⬇️ (PS: "hopeful young people" grinds my gears - all can hope!)

Good. Gracious.

I'm in this! Explaining... 1. Why I'm an organizer for @wclivestream.bsky.social: we're activating folks to speak out in support of federal funding for science 2. What you can do: - write a letter for us to deliver to Congress - watch the celebration of science on the Livestream - call your Reps

Best reason to go off the record.

This bothers me but I love it immensely

With friends! It *is* a lovely day Thanks to everyone who came to support us in-person this morning as we started our walk from NYC to DC!

The 250-mile @wclivestream.bsky.social walk to deliver letters in support of science directly to Congress doesn't begin until 10am, but I am officially claiming the first miles traveled on behalf of the walking team 🏆 (the others live in NYC but I have to get there!)

I'll be in NYC tomorrow! And then I'll be one half of the content bus making media and supporting our walker as he logs about 20 miles a day. This feels like prepping to do scicomm for an ocean expedition, except my son is going to join us for some of the walk. I'm excited! But weirded out too

Some days you’re the blue sea dragon, some days you’re the Portuguese man of war. But either way you have to deal with an indescribable cosmic horror moving hour around with a stick from the sky.

Sometimes my kids hang out with me in the kitchen so they can "hear the potatoes screaming" when I pull them out of the oven

Yesterday I met someone whose life purpose is to "get the next generation interested in science" ...by "getting teenage boys to watch science shows w their parents" I was *floored*. Next gen = boys. This person just stepped into leadership for a thing I'm volunteering for. Makes me want to quit

I'm an organizer for this! It fulfills my need for "science media, but make it action" and is drawing on my skillsets from storytelling to org-creating 🙂 Please let me know if you're considering participating or watching (and contacting your Congresspeople) and have any questions!

Currently watching this with my kids while we all have dessert Everyone is extremely happy

please appreciate this video of an itty bitty pinky springtail

Recognize this as a conservative talking point: oversight and safety regulations are cumbersome, so money should be funneled to the private sector and workarounds should be allowed. Counterpoint: the company that built the sub that exploded over the Titanic and killed people operated like this.

Free scicomm career coaching- a very last-minute add to my schedule! Subject: Intro to scicomm jobs Date/time: tomorrow, May 15, 10am ET Register: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... Why I do this: www.virginiaschutte.com/scicomm-offi...

I find it *fascinating* how many of the replies name science communicators who aren't academics! I get asked this a lot when I'm doing scicomm mentoring and coaching, so I'm absolutely not criticizing- I came to this thread hoping to send it to some recent askers as a reference

The Balcony, by Édouard Manet, 1868-69, 📸 by Sarah Stier

This looks amazing!

Facebook calls this Walrus "Magnus"

Hello. I am too cowardly to say this directly to your face. But I am not sharing your 🧪 event if you use AI "art" to advertise for it. Even if it's a great event. I feel dirty being associated with such a share.

What is broken and demolished can be remade *even better* if we're strategic about lessons learned. First we fight to stop the dark times. Then we turn our collective power into building and protecting just systems. Like ⬇️, I'm not playing around w my hope. We will win, because we must.

Agree ⬇️ As a comms/engagement designer, it's also unclear why 250 (US bday?). That number feels HUGE, and I'd blow off anything that asked that much of me UNLESS it made sense in context. Meals are high-number! Alt ask: 250 meatless, compost-the-scraps, etc. meals, w org-provided resources to help

My therapist says: 'Don't look away' does not mean 'constantly stare at' Happy Friday. We will win.

"The IT person for this establishment needs to do a better job" I think to myself from my home, where I run my own business (that isn't in IT but requires functioning internet)

Ha! Nope! First line of the abstract: "Research organisations routinely reach out to the media via press releases..." jcom.sissa.it/article/pubi...

Just figured out why this study bothers me so much (open access) The authors analyzed press releases on EurekAlert!, then told #SciComm professionals how to change press releases so they are more effective at influencing public attitudes and behaviors However! 1/4 🧵 jcom.sissa.it/article/pubi...

This is Fitz and June. Fitz just got here and thinks this place is pretty great. June was here first and thinks it's time to return Fitz. 13/10 for both (TT: muester)

Hey 🧪 these people make fantastic stuff! And they could make it about your stuff! But only if they know about your stuff!

I am incandescent. When they were ~3, my kids didn't know any more than we told them about what it meant to be transgender. But they noticed (and told me about it) every time someone asked my son when he'd get a boy haircut, or told him he shouldn't be wearing a skirt

On this day in 2019, I witnessed one of the coolest things ever. A lenticular cloud lit-up by a setting sun over the Perito Morena Glacier in Argentina.

Science is a container ship carrying 200,000 tons of observations. The weight comes from years of hard work mining and refining these observations. The ship can’t turn on a dime, so scientific knowledge often changes slowly. And I think the public’s expectations don’t always match this truth.

For the bird 🧪 people: Viking Cruises is constantly looking for ornithologists to be paid to go on their cruises I've not sailed with them but know someone who has and enjoyed it www.vikingcareers.com/us/en/c/expe...

Been trying to figure out why this gives me so much ick I think it's because the money in making a tool specifically for science can't be as good as making a tool for other sectors. So this is about power, prestige, and control. And motives like that taking that particular name- blargh

It makes my skin crawl that they named it Rosalind Machine learning has been part of advancing science in very powerful ways for years But I don't trust that OAI respects the scientific process at all, and assume that many people will be extremely busy not using this tool

Writing a YouTube script and thankful for everyone fighting for open access to be affordable for scientists 🧪 I have no official institutional affiliation and being able to read these papers fully (not just abstracts) is tangibly enhancing my understanding and, thus, the quality of my pitch/product

"Scotland" by palette knife painter Georgia Hart

Nobody is talking about the $$$ pushing companies away from their OG markets and into (AI) tech: Niantic made Pokemon Go Sold THEN it announced its AI division Allbirds made shoes Sold THEN it announced its AI ... thing The pattern is acquisition, then pivot. I would read so many words about this

From me to you while wearing a dress

This is the third writer friend of mine who has said this year that they write on some kind of device that has only one-way communication with the internet