Why Brilliant Researchers Write Forgettable CVs
PhD or researcher heading to industry? Learn a three-step method to rewrite your CV the way recruiters read it, and turn academic experience into a job offer.
Perspectives
Perspectives, Visuals & Data
Designing a Diagram Is the Easy Part
Most diagrams go wrong before anyone opens a design tool. A look at the three decisions that actually make one work — what to keep, how to group it, and what to show as related — with a small widget to help you find the right diagram for your message.
Careers, Perspectives
The Skills You Forgot to Put on Your CV
You already have the skill. You just never filed it under a heading a hiring manager would recognise. A personal look at the transferable skills hiding in everyday life — and a wheel to help you spot your own.
Audiences, Perspectives
When the Soundtrack Ruins the Science (and the Cappuccino)
Why a bad soundtrack can undo good science: what research on audio quality, voice and immersive sound reveals about trust in documentaries and podcasts.
Careers, Perspectives, Visibility
Branding Is Not a Dirty Word (Especially in Science)
Scientists tend to distrust branding as spin. But branding is what makes reliable information recognisable — and desirable — without ever overpromising.
Perspectives, Visibility
Publish or Perish Had a Sequel Called Be Visible or Vanish. This Is the Reboot
GEO is not new to everyone. Cristina Rigutto, a science communicator who called it Semantic Engine Optimization in 2013, explains what is changed — and what to do about it.
Perspectives, Visibility
The Vanity Metrics Trap: Why Citizen Science Does not Need to Go Viral
Citizen science does not need viral reach. A look at why small, trained Discord and Telegram communities often produce better data than mass social campaigns.
Perspectives, Risk, Trust & Doubt
What Happens When the Science Communicator Becomes the Skeptic
I have always believed in vaccines — until the day I had to actually decide, alone, for someone else entirely.
Perspectives, Trust & Doubt
The Merchants of Doubt Do not Question Science. They Make You Question It.
How the merchants of doubt learned to weaponise scientific language — and what we can do about it.
Perspectives, Risk, Trust & Doubt
The Ghost in the Room: How WHO, CDC, and ECDC Are Talking Around the Pandemic Nobody Wants to Mention
A look at what institutional risk communication looks like five years after the pandemic that nobody wants to name again.