#SciCommSunday – Adventures in Oceanography and Teaching

New article out in Frontiers for Young Minds

mglessmer — Sun, 11 Oct 2020 18:40:50 +0000

On Friday, my third article for Frontiers for Young Minds, the journal peer-reviewed by kids, was published (and with an adorable cover pic at that, and the journal was so incredibly kind to change it from a previous version in order to have a female scientist on the research ship!). The article “Are Warm Ocean […]

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Evaluation rubric for Instagram posts (in scicomm and/or science classes!)

mglessmer — Sun, 10 May 2020 12:05:06 +0000

Social media is a great tool in science communication, so learning how to use it well is helpful not only for people who self-identify as science communicators, but also for scientists and scientists-to-be. Teaching social media science communication skills I’ve explained why I think that that is generally a good idea in our recent virtual […]

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Love this #scicomm idea! #MoreThanWeeds

mglessmer — Sun, 03 May 2020 13:49:21 +0000

The hashtag #morethanweeds popped up in my Twitter timeline yesterday (thanks to @aturealexk). I didn’t think about it much because I was participating in #birdrace (shoutout to my awesome virtual team GEO-Tag der Natur where my colleagues and I jointly saw almost 100 different species of birds within a day) and was busy looking for […]

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#SciCommSunday: Tweeting about publications

mglessmer — Sun, 08 Mar 2020 13:05:52 +0000

In case you’ve been wondering why I’ve been tweeting so much about our recent Nature article: Yes, I am really this proud and need to tell the whole world about it! :-) Of course there are more other good reasons to discuss articles on Twitter, to do it yourself, and to publish in journals that […]

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#SciCommSunday: Why talking about myself can be a good thing in #SciComm

mglessmer — Sun, 23 Feb 2020 13:05:05 +0000

A couple of Sundays ago, I wrote about why I chose to post selfies on my scicomm Instagram @fascinocean_kiel, even though my topic is wave watching (check out that blog post here). And then this week I came across a very recently published study on “Constructing and influencing perceived authenticity in science communication: Experimenting with […]

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#SciCommSunday: How your audience changes the more Twitter followers you have

mglessmer — Sun, 16 Feb 2020 13:05:24 +0000

As my Twitter @meermini was quickly approaching 1k followers last week, I’ve been reflecting about who is following me and why. And on whether what I assume about my audience is influencing my tweeting behaviour. And I remembered an article I had read a while back by Coté and Darling (2018): “Scientists on Twitter: Preaching […]

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For #SciCommSunday: On the power of hashtags

mglessmer — Sun, 02 Feb 2020 13:05:06 +0000

Often completely underrated by people who start using twitter: The power of hashtags. In this post: Very brief intro and then the three main purposes for which I personally use hashtags. Hashtags: make your tweets easily findable Marking a keyword in a tweet with the #-sign turns it into a link which, if clicked, takes […]

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What’s in Mirjam’s bag? #SciCommChall

mglessmer — Sun, 26 Jan 2020 13:05:49 +0000

My friend Nena has taken over #SciCommChall and gives us super fun monthly challenges to practice our scicomm muscles and try out new things. I love a good challenge, and for me this is really a great way to expand my scicomm portfolio and skills. Check it out! This month, she’s given us the “what’s […]

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#SciCommSunday: The reason why I choose to post selfies on my #SciComm Social Media

mglessmer — Sun, 19 Jan 2020 13:05:38 +0000

“I don’t want my face on the internet!”, “My science should speak for itself, it shouldn’t matter who I am as a person!”, “I just don’t like what I look like in pictures!”, “People won’t perceive me as professional when I include selfies in my science communication work!”: There are many reasons for not posting […]

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Fastest way to read up on the science of science communication? This book!

mglessmer — Sun, 12 Jan 2020 15:55:18 +0000

(Werbung ohne Auftrag // This blogpost is not sponsored) I strongly believe that all scicomm efforts should be grounded in the science of science communication. That means reading a lot of original literature, or … reading this book that I recently found. It’s a quick and fun overview over the current understanding of what works […]

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