professional development - Talk Science To Me https://www.talksciencetome.com When science has a story Fri, 28 Apr 2023 21:29:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 https://www.talksciencetome.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/cropped-tsm-logo-512-32x32.png professional development - Talk Science To Me https://www.talksciencetome.com 32 32 159279938 Around town: Operation Med School https://www.talksciencetome.com/2017/02/15/around-town-operation-med-school-2/ Wed, 15 Feb 2017 22:21:35 +0000 https://www.tstmarchive.talksciencetome.com/?p=3660 This one’s for you if you have a high school student around the house who is thinking that med school could be a good option for post-secondary. A group of enterprising Grade 11 and 12 students is putting on a one-day pre-medical conference for high school peers. Run as an annual event, Operation Med School… Read More »Around town: Operation Med School

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]]> 3660 Bench to blog: Part 2 https://www.talksciencetome.com/2016/05/06/bench-to-blog-part-2/ Fri, 06 May 2016 22:13:34 +0000 https://www.tstmarchive.talksciencetome.com/?p=3154 At Talk Science to Me, we receive requests throughout the year from people who are right at the beginning of a career shift from science to science writing. Although we don’t have entry-level positions available, we do have experience in making The Switch. In this two-part series (see part 1 here), Amanda, our science writer,… Read More »Bench to blog: Part 2

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]]> 3154 Bench to blog: Part 1 https://www.talksciencetome.com/2016/04/29/p3152/ Fri, 29 Apr 2016 16:52:08 +0000 https://www.tstmarchive.talksciencetome.com/?p=3152 At Talk Science to Me, we often receive requests from people who are right at the beginning of a career shift from science to science writing. Although we don’t have entry-level positions available, we do have experience in making The Switch. In this two-part series, Amanda, our science writer, gives some insight into why and… Read More »Bench to blog: Part 1

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]]> 3152 Peeking in the designer’s toolbox https://www.talksciencetome.com/2014/08/08/peeking-designers-toolbox/ Fri, 08 Aug 2014 15:54:11 +0000 https://www.tstmarchive.talksciencetome.com/?p=1705 I am amazed by what our designers can do. I copy-edit a document and send it to Talk Science to Me designers Mari Chijiiwa or Jeff Werner as a Word file, just blocks of black and white text for pages on end. Then they work their alchemical magic and return it as a beautiful PDF file, with colours,… Read More »Peeking in the designer’s toolbox

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]]> 1705 Forget zombie nouns–watch out for vampire verbs https://www.talksciencetome.com/2014/01/24/forget-zombie-nouns-watch-out-for-vampire-verbs/ Fri, 24 Jan 2014 20:53:18 +0000 https://www.tstmarchive.talksciencetome.com/?p=1109 I don’t often leave a six-hour seminar with more energy than when I came in, but if it’s six hours of language stuff, I’m pumped. This past Saturday the BC branch of the Editors’ Association of Canada hosted a workshop called Eight Step Editing, delivered by veteran editor and writer Jim Taylor, who developed the… Read More »Forget zombie nouns–watch out for vampire verbs

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