NINDS's Building Up the Nerve
Season 5 of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke’s Building Up the Nerve podcast helps you strengthen your science communication skills with tools and advice to use throughout your career. We know that navigating your career can be daunting, but we're here to help—it's our job!
NINDS's Building Up the Nerve
Season 5 Trailer
Welcome to Season 5 of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke’s Building Up the Nerve podcast, where we help you strengthen your science communication skills with tools and advice to use throughout your career. We know that navigating your career can be daunting, but we're here to help—it's our job!
Transcript available at https://ninds.buzzsprout.com/
On season five of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke's Building Up the Nerve, we are taking a deep dive into scientific communication. Our conversations this season will tackle how to communicate science to different audiences and in different formats. Science communication is a critical skill to master across many situations, whether that's doing research, in scientific venues, or in informal situations.
Marguerite Matthews:As in previous seasons, the goal is to help you learn from peers, colleagues, and experts who can provide you with all the science communication information you need to succeed in your career. I'm Marguerite Matthews, Section Chief for Career Preparation in the Office of Programs to Enhance the Neuroscience Workforce, also known as OPEN, at NINDS.
Lauren Ullrich:And I'm Lauren Ullrich, Section Chief for Career Advancement in OPEN, and we're the hosts of Building Up the Nerve. We know that navigating your career can be daunting, but we're here to help. It's our job. Here's a preview of what you can look forward to this season.
Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa:Putting a presentation together, it's like telling a story. And I love storytelling. For me, the best stories is the one story that gives you a sense as to why you want to learn about something.
Mónica Feliú-Mójer:I think a really, really important part of being an effective communicator of being able to listen, of having that humility is that recognition of I am human, science is done by humans, and therefore who we are, where we come from, our biases, our privileges, they inform what we do, how we interpret science, how we relate to others.
Olajide Williams:Too often it's coming from the scientist's perspective. The scientist drives everything, and the patient isn't being centered beyond the scientific goals and the scientific objectives. And you lose that bidirectionality or you lose that alignment and that makes it difficult to sustain the effort and also breaches trust.
Sonya Dumanis:One thing to just emphasize the point that you have to write to the reviewers is everyone's busy, everyone has something going on in their life, and so when you're writing to the reviewers, just remember that they are not going to be an expert on your proposal, so spell it out.
Sadhana Jackson:And so I know that I have done a good job if I come back down from that stage or have finished giving that presentation. And I recall how many people laughed at my various jokes that that I've made along the way. Oh, I had a good talk today. Yeah, people got my science, but they really got my joke.[Laughter]
Marguerite Matthews:Season 5 debuts on September 27th. Be sure to subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast app so you won't miss an episode.