Worksheet

This free worksheet will guide you through translating technical content into a story!

Webinars

“Science Through Story” (with accompanying worksheet) – This webinar offers a preview of workshop content. Sponsored by The Leakey Foundation. Closed captions available in English. Length: 50 minutes with 30 minutes of Q&A.

“Science Through Visual Stories” – This webinar offers a preview of workshop content. Sponsored by The Leakey Foundation. Closed captions available in English. Length: 30 minutes with 50 minutes of Q&A.

“How to Make Content Memorable and Meaningful” – This webinar offers a preview of Science Through Story workshop content. Sponsored by Bay Area Skeptics. Closed captions available in English. Length: 1 hour with 16 minutes of Q&A.

“Careers in Science Communication” – Panelist with an international group of women in science, academia, social media, and corporate spaces to discuss science communication career paths and strategies that meet today's challenges. Hosted by the Society for Canadian Women in Science and Technology (SCWIST). Length: 1 hour 27 minutes.

“Finding and Applying for Nonacademic Jobs” - This recording includes the presentation portion of a recent workshop on this topic. Length: 45 minutes.

“Open Science: Focus on Transparency” – Panelist with Monica Granados, Open Science and Data Policy Advisor at Environment Canada and Climate Change Canada, and Benjamin Haibe-Kains, Associate Professor of Medical Biophysics at the University of Toronto. Hosted by the University of Toronto Libraries. Closed captions available in English. Length: 1 hour 25 minutes. My presentation runs from 6:10 to 17:30 (9 minutes). More webinars in this “Open Science” series are available here.

“Communicating Tropical Biology and Conservation to Broad Audiences” – Panelist with cartoonist Rohan Chakravarty of Green Humor and documentary filmmaker Neil Losin of Day’s Edge Productions. Hosted by The Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation. Closed captions available in English. Length: 2 hours. My presentation runs from 3:15 to 29:47 (27 minutes).

“How to Share Your Science Story” – Panelist with Aaron Huertas, Founder and Principal at Science Communication Media, and Jenn Maer, Design Director at IDEO. Hosted by Spacetime Labs. (If you have trouble opening the link in Safari, try using Google Chrome or a different browser.) Length: 1 hour 23 minutes.

“Start with a Story” – Guest on the webinar series ‘Science by Design.’ Hosted by SpacetimeLabs Founder Nic DiPalma with Co-Host Kim Arcand, Visualization Scientist and Science Communicator. Length: 1 hour.

“Narrative Tools for Researchers” – Join me and nine other experts in this course from Nature Masterclasses Online. Subscriptions available to institutions, departments, and labs. You can watch a free sample. Course takes 3-4 hours total.

“Exploring Earth's History to Save Its Future: Dr. Sara ElShafie's Story” – A conversation with Dr. Neurosaurus host, Dr. Eugenia Gold. In addition to sharing about my career path and research, I discuss the transferable skills of paleontology and other branches of science. Length: 14 minutes. You can read the accompanying blog post here.

Sketch Notes

These sketch notes are from a workshop on “Visual Storytelling for Science Communication” that I hosted in 2018 at the University of California, Berkeley. I presented this workshop with Character Art Director Matt Nolte and Production Designer Steve Pilcher, with contributions by Animator K.C. Roeyer, of Pixar Animation Studios. This workshop was free and open to the public. The sketch notes are shared here with permission from the artist, Mark Simmons.

Pixar Animation Studios characters are © Disney/Pixar; depictions in these sketches are shown here with permission. Science Through Story, LLC is not affiliated with Pixar Animation Studios.

This event was sponsored by Communication, Literacy & Education for Agricultural Research (CLEAR) and Science Leadership and Management (SLAM) at the University of California, Berkeley.

For more sketch notes, see the “Science Through Narrative: Engaging Broad Audiences” Symposium page!

Podcasts

“Story Telling 101” - Guest interview on the podcast ‘Aquadocs.’ Hosted by Michelle Greenfield. Length: 34 minutes.

“Exploring the Role of Storytelling in Science” - Guest interview on the podcast ‘When Science Speaks.’ Hosted by Bayer Strategic Consulting. Length: 37 minutes.

“The Graduates” - Guest interview on UC Berkeley podcast ‘The Graduates.’ Full transcript available. Hosted by 90.7 FM KALX Berkeley. Length: 33 minutes.