Last night, we celebrated @edyong209’s #Pulitzer win.

I’d like to say the same thing to you as I did in my speech: for the past year+, we have all struggled to make sense of a global crisis while attempting to survive it. We will continue to cope with it all for years. (1/3) We only survive together. We need each other so incredibly much, in so many ways.

Ed estimates that the work he was honored for had him talking with more than three hundred sources(!)

I’ve been thinking about these connections, these starry webs, these “rete mirabile”

I thought very hard about how to use the precious time and attention a few hundred people gave me in my keynote this morning. I have heard countless #scicomm talks, but relatively little about #sensemaking, and I wanted to unite the two. A thread with highlights of my talk: 🧵

https://twitter.com/primrconnect/status/1382333253282115584

1. Although we have wildly disparate disciplinary perspectives, professional roles, and lived experiences, I know everyone who attends a #scicomm lecture shares one thing: constraints. Limited time, training, resources, or emotional bandwidth for doing the work.

We protect ourselves from #SARSCoV2 with hand-washing & self-isolation. To protect others, we must challenge virulent #misinformation.

“We are all science communicators now: #COVID19 has conscripted us.” My piece today @TheAtlIdeas
theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/… I have no patience with #scicomm advice that says “You’re doing it wrong.” I wrote this piece for friends who feel helpless or overwhelmed.

There is SO MUCH good you can do in fight against #COVID19. It’s part science, part information hygiene, part psychological first aid.

Perhaps more importantly, that we should be as critical & data-driven in our #scicomm as in the science we want to share. (1/n)

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(2/n) In my experience, many natural/"hard" scientists almost completely unaware of the theory & empirical work on #communiction or #scicomm