Monica Metzler

HAPPY PI DAY!!! 🥧 😋 🍩 You can still join ISC's 3.14-mile "Pi K" fun run tonight (starting at 2pi - 6:28pm) and get the t-shirt. Sign up at PiDayRun.org

March Mammal Madness is the bracket contest you want to be in! Great prize from @IllinoisScience too. @2018MMMletsgo twitter.com/IllinoisScienc…

Excited to top off 4 solid days of intense science immersion with Joe Biden! #AAASmtg

Hah!! twitter.com/cbquist/status…

What are the goals of #scicomm? Inspiring the next generation? Ensuring that science serves communities? Prompting behavior change? Building public support for science? Yes. But the diff goals require diff approaches. Be honest about your goals. #AAASmtg

When #facts are not enough. Love that @KHayhoe emphasizes the importance of hope in advocating for solutions for #climatechange #AAASmtg

At the heart of some of the most pressing issues in the science world, and in the world at large, is a failure to connect to those around us. Open your ears. Listen. Relate. Education, communication, and advocacy will improve. #AAASmtg

Our status as constituents, and knowledgeable ones, is one of the most powerful tools we have. So contact your representatives! #aaasmtg

Constituency matters and we need to use our constituency to our advantage #AAASmtg #scipolicy

It's impossible for the audience to listen to you if they're too busy trying to decipher your slides #AAASmtg

Hear! Hear! twitter.com/thomas_overton…

Ha! twitter.com/myndwalk/statu…

Good point to recognize the distinction. twitter.com/ElyseTheGeek/s…

Food is a huge challenge for world's growing population. Currently >40% of our fruits and vegetables go to waste. Markets need to address this. #AAASmtg

Presenters, your good and brilliant information is being lost on your audience if you use smaller than 20pt fonts. Why even bother to make slides? Just pass out a paper. Have you ever even sat in an audience?? #SciComm Harrumphff! #AAASmtg

John Holdren's strong charge -- Every scientist should tithe 10% of his/her time to doing science outreach to talk about not just what we know, but HOW WE KNOW IT. #AAASmtg

John Holdren is being extraordinarily blunt; not holding anything back in sharing his views on Obama and Trump administration actions regarding STEM. It's encouraging and distressing at the same time. #AAASmtg

"Obama was the most science savvy president since Thomas Jefferson," his former OSTP director John Holdren tells #AAASmtg. "He made it clear right from the beginning that he was going to put science in its "rightful place."