SciComm

PalaeoPoems themeselves are a form of science communication (SciComm). Take a look at some of the posters we’ve done about PalaeoPoems for conferences and/or social media! If you want permission to share anything on our site, please contact us.

PalaeoPoems: A digital anthology highlighting a unique form of science communication

A timeline showing the topics of each poem we've featured to date (May 27, 2021) and their year of publication. A squiggly rainbow coloured line goes from 1822 to 2020. Each date is displayed on a silhouette of the animal, plant, or trace fossil that was the topic of the poem from that year. From left to right the timeline features a hyena (1822), feathered dinosaur (1836), trilobite (1840), fern (1841), two Devonian fish (1858 & 1863), whale (1868), two ichthyosaurus (both 1885), burrow trace (1886), feathered dinosaur (1889), Eohippus (1906), fern (1943), fish (1955), bat (1957), fern (2011) feathered dinosaur (2019), mastodon (2019), Loxolophus (2020), and cockroach (2020). The timeline trails off, anticipating future entries.
Timeline of the PalaeoPoems featured on our website so far (May 2021). Graphic by Katrin Emery, as appeared on our poster for CSVP 2021.

This poster was presented at the Canadian Society of Vertebrate Palaeontology conference in 2021. We focused on how poetry can be used as science communication, and talked about the PalaeoPoems.com project.

View the poem here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1c37QbewkRTNqcCZ09jP0kWlCRZByZ2sQ/view?usp=sharing

Read the abstract here: https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/vamp/index.php/VAMP/article/view/29374/21426

Citation: Christison, Brigid E., Michael G. W. Thompson, & Katrin Emery. PalaeoPoems: A digital anthology highlighting a unique form of science communication. Vertebrate Anatomy Morphology Palaeontology 9, (2021).

What are PalaeoPoems, and why do we study them?

This 5-image poster was presented at ConSciCommCan2020 (read the program and abstract here). It was written by Brigid Christison and Mike Thompson, and designed by Katrin Emery. To view these images with explanations and Alt Text, go to our Twitter thread.
Citation: Christison, Brigid E., Michael G. W. Thompson, & Katrin Emery. Why Study PalaeoPoems? Poster presented at ComSciCon; July 25-27 2020 Ottawa, ON.