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Write a book connecting scientists to research on teaching writingDONE & submitted to publisher!Learn more here about Helping Students Write, the book I co-wrote for the past 2 years with Stephen Heard!
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Write a book about learning to hunt and love nature and learning about social justiceUNDERWAYI have started drafting new essays, to weave into the ~1/3 of a book I developed during my MFA. (TBH, this is still mostly a back-burner project, though.)
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Launch an initiative to transform my field and build a comprehensive leadership program for people who want to use science communication to change the world.UNDERWAY and growing!My co-founder Virginia Schutte & I have launched:
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Meteor: The (Overly) Honest Podcast about Scicomm with Impact
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Scicomm STEP: Sparking Transitions for Experienced Professionals
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and have more in the works!
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Resolve a housing insecurity issue in my familyDONE through collective effort
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Help a loved one retire and take a bucket-list international trip she's dreamt of all her lifeHALFWAYWent on a major trip, still working on retirement
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Get back into drawing more regularlyUNDERWAYI've been drawing a fair bit more, but I wouldn't say it's "regular." The drawing I have done has become lots of wonderful things: gifts, greeting cards for sale in my hometown and current town, and momentos for me.
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Learn to draw people, to draw landscapes and cityscapesUNDERWAYTook a people-sketching workshop last spring, been practicing landscape drawing. Want to study this more actively.
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Organize the piles of books and articles and found objects overtaking all flat surfaces in my officeUNDERWAY... forever 🤣
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Submit a pitch to one of my favorite magazines, one I hoped they'd finally acceptDONESubmitted, accepted, drafted, finalized and PUBLISHED!!
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Get a research grant for scicommDONECollaborators & I (including Virginia) just received a $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation!
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Finish all the half-started research articles lingering in my archivesPENDINGTo be honest, there has been no forward progress on this for years. I'm pondering whether I shelve these or find a way to make them group projects (which I seem to be way better at finishing!).
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Try pottery again (after ~20 years)UNDERWAY, hooray!I went back to pottery classes about two years ago now. My time in the studio recently has been spotty and infrequent, but I am thrilled to have gained enough competency to make things that are functional and satisfying. 2024 is the year of mugs, and I'm still working on getting that skill dialed. It's a meditative and deeply satisfying activity.
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