The ESA Sci Comm Section is seeking 10 brave ecologists to give Ignite talks about their research using only the 1000 most common words in the English language. We were inspired by the xkcd comic <http://xkcd.com/1133/> and a similar session hosted by the Sharing Science program <https://storify.com/americangeophys/up-goer-five-challenge-agu15-56785d5dbb28f8527da12a9d> at AGU’s Fall 2015 meeting.
Check out this blog <https://advancingecocomm.wordpress.com/2016/01/28/wanted-ecologists-up-for-the-ultimate-plain-language-scicomm-challenge/> post explaining more about the session and our rationale. Please consider signing up today via our Google form ( http://goo.gl/forms/57Vv8orIEK) -- We need to line up speakers (and abstracts) by February 12! Already planning to give a talk or poster? No problem! Ignite sessions are exempt from the one presentation rule at ESA meetings. Anyone who is the presenter in the session may also present in another scientific session (symposium, organized oral, organized poster, contributed talk, contributed poster). Thanks! Holly Menninger Chair, ESA Sci Comm Section hlmen...@ncsu.edu
