In science communication/outreach/engagement, I continue to push myself and others to remember we have to value the knowledge in our audiences - they are not blank slates or empty pails waiting for us to fill them up. It's hard, because I grew ... READ MORE
Category:Two of my undergraduate research students, Esther and Meghana, presented a poster of our preliminary research plan for "talk science with me" at the National Marine Educators Association 2016 Conference this week in Orlando. They also took part ... READ MORE
Category:Check out all the progress on a museum data visualization prototype exhibit I am working on with two colleagues in UF's Computer and Information Sciences department. These posts are by Annie Luc, our undergraduate collaborator, in the lab of ... READ MORE
Category:I'm always on the lookout for a few good interns - undergraduate level, generally, but motivated high school students are welcome to contact me as well, or graduate students looking to broaden their experiences. Here are some of my current needs. To ... READ MORE
Category:For a recent round of data collection with a new prototype exhibit at the Florida Museum of Natural History, Lisa Anthony, Annie Luc, and I made our plans. We decided we needed a phillips-head screwdriver to dissassemble the touch-table we needed ... READ MORE
Category:In 2015, Dr. Brantlee Spakes-Richter and I, with members of the American Phytopathological Society, received a USDA Higher Ed Challenge award to study introductory plant pathology (plant disease) curricula across the U.S. We want to know: what ... READ MORE
Category:In 2015, Dr. Brantlee Spakes-Richter and I, with members of the American Phytopathological Society, received a USDA Higher Ed Challenge award to study introductory plant pathology (plant disease) curricula across the U.S. We want to know: what ... READ MORE
Category:A belated link to a panel I was part of for the UF STEM Translational Communication Research program last summer on career opportunities in science/technology/engineering/math communication for broad audiences. I was also a "Member of the Month" ... READ MORE
Category:See http://jcom.sissa.it/archive/15/01/JCOM_1501_2016_A03 For part 1 of a special issue on Citizen Science in the Journal of Science Communication, collaborators in Entomology at UF and beyond had their undergrads participate in citizen science ... READ MORE
Category:The longer story of my visit to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy's recent forum as well as the afternoon planning workshop on citizen science and crowdsourcing is now posted on the Extension Ed Techs blog. READ MORE
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