SEMINARS, BOOTCAMPS and WORKSHOPS
Communication
101 communication for scientists, engineers and academics
Storytelling
Message distilling
basic and advanced presentation design for better scientific talks & seminars
Career
Personal Branding, Networking and Marketing in Academia, Industry and their interface
Proposal Writing and fundraising
Building teams through improved communication
2 minute pitches for every occasion
Coaching
job application and interview training for scientists in and outside of academia
media training (e.g. writing for the internet, Camera trainings)
communication trainings for the transition from academia to industry
how to develop and deliver a TED style talk
communication with policy makers and philanthropists
Check out our summary of this years Explainables workshop at the NASA frontier development lab.
At NASA frontier development lab (FDL) Machine learning experts and space scientists will spend the summer in Silicon Valley to work on some of NASA’s most important challenges. Explainable Daniel Angerhausen is an FDL science advisor and mentor for the Exoplanet and Astrobiology challenges. For the last week of the program Explainables Sally Blumenthal, Amran Salleh and Jesse John will join him to prepare the group for their final "TED-style" presentations.
For the second workshop in 5 days and the first one in Germany the Explainables headed out to the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy Heidelberg for a short 'communication and branding for scientists' bootcamp. One group of participants at Heidelberg came up with one of the all time best analogies we had at Explainables workshops: observations of the cosmic microwave background explained with a notebook.
For our first workshop in Switzerland we teamed up with the NCCR PlanetS. About 20 early career scientists from all over Switzerland met at the University in Bern for a one day "Communication, Branding and Proposal writing for Scientists" workshop. For one of our exercises the participants have to quickly improvise marketing pitches for randomly generated "science products". This time one group draw the combination of the words radio and brain and came up with an excellent impromptu sales pitch for their "brain radio".
