Show your audience the world through the eyes of a scientist.
We’re science communicators—writers, editors, designers, analysts and educators dedicated to showing your audience your world. We believe in the relevance of science, not just as a facet of knowledge, but as a language of reality that permeates just about every aspect of our daily lives.
We ensure your projects, presentations, research papers and campaigns invite rather than intimidate. Your audience will see science as a wondrous and illuminating shared experience.
Writing
We illuminate the vivid nuances of discovery through writing that fuses imaginative expression with practical experience in the field.
Design
We bring your knowledge and your audience into alignment with a modern design philosophy informed by educational methods.
Research
We use scientific databases to source and collect information on scientific topics to give you the lay of the informational land.
Case Studies
International Institute for Sustainable Development
Providing interdisciplinary support working closely with communications and publications staff at the organization to create highly polished, easily accessible documents that accurately reflect IISD’s mission.
Parks Canada
Development of an interpretive map of the shipwrecks in the Fathom Five National Marine Park, with displays highlighting the breadth of history lurking within the park’s waters.
Beaty Biodiversity Museum
Leading the team that transformed a new 20,000 square feet facility into a world class research museum in just nine months, showcasing Vancouver’s vibrant, content-rich natural history.
Royal Alberta Museum
Ongoing redevelopment of the natural and human history galleries, providing copy editing and proofreading services, and restructuring content for 30 interactive exhibits, in both English and French.
News
- Why Don’t Animals Have Wheels?
As children, we learn about the various kinds of simple machines that underly most human constructions. Levers, pulleys and inclined planes all serve to help humans turn force in one direction into motion in another or otherwise make it easier to move objects. The six kinds of simple machines (levers, pulleys, wedges, inclined planes, screws… Read More »Why Don’t Animals Have Wheels? - Why Do Whales Breathe Air?
It’s a fair question. Most multicellular life on Earth requires oxygen to sustain metabolism, and those organisms get it from the fluids around them. (Yes, even plants.) But while organisms that breathe water but live on land are few and far between, aquatic and semiaquatic air-breathers are abundant. Many frogs, salamanders, crocodilians, caiman lizards, sea… Read More »Why Do Whales Breathe Air? - Art and Science: What Is a Tattoo?
Few subjects have their relationships portrayed as wrongly as science and art. Popular culture presents art and science as natural opposites, one the domain of emotion and the other of hard math, with nothing to say to each other. We here at Talk Science to Me disagree completely. Art and science are the most natural… Read More »Art and Science: What Is a Tattoo? - What Gender Is a Coconut?
Sometimes seemingly nonsense questions have interesting answers. Few plants are as emblematic of the tropics as the coconut palm, Cocos nucifera. This tree can be found on just about every postcard depicting a tropical beach, anywhere in the world, and for good reason. Coconuts are improbably suited to human cultivation in places where few other… Read More »What Gender Is a Coconut? - The Candiru: A Six-Inch SciCom Failure
This is one story that should never have been. Science communication is a careful interplay of priorities. Words and approaches must match the knowledge base of the audience, always bringing them to a better-informed place than where they were before, and align with the writer’s goals. Scientific knowledge is our collective best estimate of the… Read More »The Candiru: A Six-Inch SciCom Failure - We Won’t Do Your Homework But We Will Tell You About The Martian Lichens
We at Talk Science to Me receive a fair bit of email through our contact page, most of it inquiring about our services and often leading to fruitful client-provider relationships. Every now and then, though, someone tries to get us to talk science to them a little less honestly. Today, we endeavour to provide an answer.… Read More »We Won’t Do Your Homework But We Will Tell You About The Martian Lichens
Science is beautiful when it makes simple explanations of phenomena or connections between different observations.
— Stephen Hawking
We believe in the relevance of science, not just as a facet of knowledge, but as a language of reality that permeates just about every aspect of our daily lives. We deconstruct and demystify. With our expertise, we ensure your projects, presentations, research papers and campaigns invite rather than intimidate. Your audience will come to see science as a wondrous and illuminating shared experience.
Even if you aren’t writing a paper on the mating habits of the Siberian tiger, your audience will see that science can indeed be sexy. Let us help you craft the story science has to tell. No project is too big or too small! Explore our website to meet our staff, check out our previous clients, and learn more about the skill sets we have to offer you.
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