When it’s time to write a popular article about your research, or to write a popular summary, you could well have the thought that popularizing your science — whether giving a speech or writing an article — is about dumbing-it-down. I think that the way many scientists feel about popularizing their work is captured in the French word for this: vulgariser. In English, to popularize is to make it vulgar. It's repulsive or offensive on some level. It's beneath the self-respecting scientist. But I'm here with a radical idea. I think that scientific popularizing doesn't dumb science down. I think good popularizing smartens-up science.
Jacob Berkowitz

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I'm a writer who enjoys public speaking. Here are a couple of recent speaking gigs:


  • A seminar on the language of science journalism to the Canadian Journalists Association National Writers' Symposium

  • A webinar on science writing to members of the Eastern Canadian Farm Writers

  • An invited speech on the power of turning science into story for U.S. graduate students in Washington D.C.


Here's the link to the D.C. presentation: Starting from the End: The Power of Turning Science into Story (I'd suggest starting at 13:41 minutes to avoid the intro remarks.)