science communication – Sharp SciComm

Fixed It For You, Edition 2

Let’s do another round of wordsmithing to improve typical scientific writing. This time around, I’m using examples generated by OpenAI’s ChatGPT 3.5.

When putting together videos, websites, and presentations, it’s helpful to have good quality, royalty-free images and other media on-hand.

When you’re dealing with limits, you’ve got to plan for them. Here’s what I do.

In which I take the potentially controversial stand that, actually, constraints are a good thing.

There are a suite of quotations — attributed to Winston Churchill, Mark Twain, Woodrow Wilson and others — that go approximately like […]

When working on a large, long-term project (like the book I’m currently writing), I need a system for storing, organizing, and referencing […]

Landscapers are jackhammering outside my window this morning. My toddler needs me every couple minutes. I have the same 5 songs playing […]

What had I done to so thoroughly please the audience in spite of my shortcomings? Quite simply, I’d listened to what they wanted.

Let’s take a look at some typical scientific writing and how we can improve it.

Storytelling is a powerful tool, though it’s often an unfamiliar one for scientists. Since I just wrapped up my series on the […]