It is crucial that scientists are able to communicate their science.
At FLEET, we put significant work into helping scientists develop communication skills (see the case study) and over FLEET’s seven year tenure we published many stories written by FLEET researchers.
We also archive here tools and instructions used by FLEET researchers to develop and distribute stories about new papers.
This particular style of article is aimed at a relatively ‘technical audience, such as readers of Phys.org – one valuable subset of all the many audiences scientists should be able to communicate to. An advantage of writing for this particular audience is that you may reach the people who are most likely to actually use your research, and you are almost guaranteed to get the story published.
While these tools are primarily aimed at fields of research encompassed by FLEET (ie, physics, materials science, electronics, nanotechnology), they may be also useful for any scientists, and anyone is very welcome to use them.