My Masters students have to produce a portfolio of #scicomm outputs (choice of blog posts, infographics, podcasts, videos, lesson plans, hands-on science proposal, gov briefing notes, news article) which relate to their research projects... 1/n

To get them to stop using all the jargon and other writing habits we've filled their heads with - which are great for communicating with other scientists but bad for communicating with everyone else on the planet - I get them to use xkcd.com/simplewriter/@xkcd.com... 2/n