Meteor

By: Meteor SciComm
  • Summary

  • We crave advanced-user conversations with other mid-career scicomm professionals (like us!) so we can learn and grow together, and check each other when we need it. Let’s dig into branding, projects that matter, privilege, and inclusive science communication, with actionable, tangible steps to level up. Join us!
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Episodes
  • Creating abundance, together
    Oct 31 2024

    First, we have a big announcement!

    We’ve not previously opened the show to guests because we can’t monetarily compensate anyone for being on the podcast (even ourselves). But, we’ve heard from people that y’all would like to join the convo anyway. So, let’s do this! If you want to join the possible guest pool for next season, visit meteorscicomm.org/podcast. And, if anyone listening has funding to help us compensate guests, please let us know!

    Now, on to today’s episode!

    We’re kicking off SEASON 4!! 🥳

    We’ve been hearing from you, listeners, for four years now. Together, we’ve gone from advanced how-to’s to hope is an action to systemic change, and we love feeling like we’re really in this together. So, this season’s theme is “We’re in this together, now what!?”

    Today, we're taking a look at the risk there is, in the scicomm field, to see everything (and everyone) as competition, as a limit on what’s possible. This scarcity mindset dominates when we perceive a scarcity of resources. The tricky thing is, we’re often operating in situations where there are — actually — plenty of resources! It’s just a question of how we (or folks in charge, when it’s not us) choose to allocate those resources.

    All of this leads to some real potential for issues among scicomm professionals and organizations.

    For example, we think:

    • Environments with loads of resources are actually more likely to foster a scarcity mindset.
    • There are individual, institutional, and systemic points of responsibility (and opportunity!) to change these attitudes to be more oriented toward abundance and generosity.

    As always, on this “overly” honest podcast, we talk through several examples in our personal and professional lives.

    Then, we ask you to dig in for yourself:

    • What’s a shift toward abundance that you could make in your mindset or habits around the scicomm community/profession?

    Thanks for listening! We’re hoping for a community potluck 🥗🍛: Connect with us on social media (BlueSky, LinkedIn, Twitter, various Slack communities, etc.) or at www.meteorscicomm.org.

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    21 mins
  • Overly-honest AMA about scicomm stuff that’s gotta change
    Dec 7 2023

    REMINDER: We’re running another cohort of SciComm STEP next spring! Applications are live right now on our website (MeteorSciComm.org)! 🥳 

    In this fast-paced episode (with a few audio flickers, boo Wyoming wind that knocks out the internet), we make this honest podcast about scicomm with impact a bit #overlyhonest. We tackle: 

    • Why we think academia still matters 
    • Why people “valuing” scicomm ain’t what we need 
    • The truth that professional development is too-often worse than no investment/change at all 
    • A tough reality: there’s no one place to go to “level up” your scicomm career if you’re beyond-beginner 
    • How we deal with (the unavoidable, we argue) jealousy of being advanced scicomm'ers 
    • How to stop getting in your own way with your scicomm project/funding pitches 

    Dig in for yourself: 

    • What’s a scicomm change you’re going to make in 2024? 
    • And, what’s one honest thing about scicomm systems that you think needs to be said out loud?! 

    We love you for being part of the Meteor community for another season! 💖 Stay connected with us on BlueSky at @bgmerkle.bsky.social and @vgwschutte.bsky.social.

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    22 mins
  • Don’t tell me not to be angry
    Nov 30 2023

    First - two big announcements: 

    1. Our last episode will be a Q&A- send us your questions, ideas, puzzles, and dilemmas by December 1st. 
    2. We’re running another cohort of SciComm STEP next spring! Applications are live right now on our website (MeteorSciComm.org)! 🥳 

    Truly, yelling and naming is how we process, cope, and then work toward action and change when we’re facing schtuff that’s inequitable, obstructionist, or devalues work in scicomm. We talk through a lot of layers on this one: 

    • Naming what is really going on when people and systems undervalue the vital work that makes communities, systems, and good change happen 
    • Pushing back to make the work more legible or appreciated 
    • Taking a hard look in the mirror: how much of this work do you want to keep doing?  
    • Weighing whether someone even knows or intends the disrespect 
    • Holding an icy grip on rage in order to move through the spaces we need to operate in 

    And all the time, we need community that can validate us when we are angry, and hold space when we are furious. 

    We also talk about a couple of books that have been a valuable frame for us: 

    • The No Club: Putting a Stop to Women’s Dead-End Work 
    • Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women’s Anger 

    Dig in for yourself: 

    • What is a systemic scicomm issue that you just need to name right now? 
    • And, what’s something you need to yell and stomp your feet about? 

    Thanks for listening! Get good and mad! 🤬😤 You can holler at/with us on BlueSky at @bgmerkle.bsky.social and @vgwschutte.bsky.social.

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    24 mins

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