Paleobiology Seminar: Complex topics, explained simply

This week's seminar will be an interactive discussion about science communication called "Complex topics, explained simply" facilitated by Sarah Ivory (who is a self-avowed bad communicator who would like to do better).

Time and place: Monday February 17 at 9:05 AM, 337 Deike

Details:
We will focus on: a) giving everyone some rules of thumb to follow when talking about complex scientific concepts and b) practicing them. 
This was initially put together thinking about climate change communication as the motivation, but these rules apply to all science communication!

Here are the instructions for making the most of out Monday's seminar:

1. Think about a time that you had a challenging conversation about a science topic.

2. Read part of the attached paper (just a few pages and worth it): Read from the beginning up through the section "How to develop simple, clear messages"

3. Pick an example of a complex topic that you would like to figure out ways to explain simply (this could basically be anything, I usually pick the concept of "uncertainty", but other examples are things like carbon cycle, future sea level rise, ocean chemistry, evolution, multivariate statistics, bayesian statistics, any crazy geochemistry thing!)