I'm on a mission to end #DeathByPowerpoint, so talks & lectures are more accessible and inclusive.
Switched from my research career to help academics & researchers create engaging presentations 🦄✨
See my links for info about my professional devel. training + free resources 🤝
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Phew! 😅 My social media hiatus is just about over. I took a break from it so I could focus on a Big Project.
I think it's been over 2 months since I've really hung out on here?
Just popping in to say hi everyone 👋
The Big Project was a whole new online course about how to storyboard talks & lectures to make any "dry" / educational content engaging. And of course, strategies for storytelling with data.
Very excited about it 🙌
Are you interested in #scicomm as a career? Is it your career?
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Ya know, this might be one of my fav takes on what could come next...
Bring back the personal blog 👏
I've neglected my blog (switched to YouTube videos only last year). But I miss writing 🤔
What do you all think? #academia #SciComm #HigherEd
https://www.theverge.com/23513418/bring-back-personal-blogging
For example, in answering "I will say yes when", I came up with criteria. ✅
If a proposal or project doesn't meet 👏 all 4 items 👏, I will not say yes.
That felt more helpful and empowering than setting up concrete yearly goals ever has for me.
I tend to hate New Year's resolutions, planning & reflections.
It often feels like a big list of unmet goals + all the things I probably won't accomplish next year.
But this year I did #YearCompass with friends & it was... awesome?
Didn't set a single goal 👏 (eg I will create 3 new courses), but instead talked about things like "I will say no if" & "I will say yes when"
I encourage my #academia & #SciComm friends to check it out. We tend to be really hard on ourselves over goals.
One thing that Mastodon newcomers may not realize is how easy it is to turn Mastodon for web into essentially a Tweetdeck clone, with columns for search/compose, home, notifications, and any lists you've set up. It takes literally seconds.
Here's what mine looks like right now:
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