Guides

This collection supports you if you are (1) looking for evidence-based support for integrating drawing into your science field or lab course, (2) aiming to enhance your efforts to share science, (3) hoping to find some tips based in the actual techniques artists use to sketch. You’ll also find a collection of career advice, and more.

If you are looking for customized coaching or training, contact me directly to discuss.

RESOURCE & ADVICE COLLECTIONS

Science communication advice

This collection highlights my advice about science communication, much of which has been published in outlets beyond this blog.

You can also tap into my current scicomm advice through Meteor: The honest podcast about scicomm with impact, which I co-founded in 2021 with Virginia Schutte.

Career advice

This collection of blog posts includes a cover letter template (and pep talk), scicomm life advice, how to be more creative in science and scicomm, and more.

Sketching tips

This collection of blog posts and excerpts from my SciArt newsletter archive provide actionable, hands-on tips and resources for enhancing your approach to observational sketching.

Teaching resources (all age levels)

This collection emphasizes advice, tips, and resources which can be leveraged in classrooms. The collection includes recommendations for science communication good practices, art-science integration, and more.

GUIDES

The following guides are detailed, actionable, evidence-based tools to boost your efficacy and confidence in scicomm and art-science integration.

Integrating drawing into university-level courses

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Read my commentary in Nature for the cliff notes, or dive into the full-length, peer-reviewed guide here.

Using images: A best practices primer

Illustration of a hand lens (hand held magnifying lens) enlarging the view of the ground enough to see that small holes are actually nests inhabited by ground-dwelling bees.

Use this series to enhance your #scicomm and #sciart while avoiding committing #visualplagiarism. This Image Use Primer series lays out tips and best practices for sourcing and using images (which are, by their nature, visual intellectual property protected by copyrights).

Pocket guide to sketching and field journal basics

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Enhance your observation and sketching ability with the pro-level, fun, and whacky techniques in this quick guide.