New and old tools of science communications
Sci-comm thrives on social media. "Writing is thinking on paper" is one of the many beautiful phrases by William Zinsser, author of On Writing Well . Only, if Zinsser had put those words down more than three decades later, he might have added that writing is also thinking on blogs, Twitter, Facebook, and Google+. As I prepare to head off to San Diego for Experimental Biology ( #EB2012 )—where I’ll be blogging about The American Society for Nutrition's meeting—I’ve been thinking a good deal about Zinsser’s phrase and about Mary Canady's ( @comprendia ) call for those attending #EB2012Tweetup to share their new media science communications success stories. My own story begins with me simply blogging and tweeting as a way to think and as a way to remember what it was that I thought . I learned early on that I was never very good at thinking about new information clearly or remembering my thoughts later—unless I wrote my thoughts dow...