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About Daniel Shea

I am committed to helping scientists write at their best. To this end, I founded the Graduate Communication Services, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany. Here I work in the unique role of textician. Want to know more? Contact me at daniel.shea@kit.edu
I am committed to helping scientists write at their best. To this end, I founded the Graduate Communication Services, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany. Here I work in the unique role of textician. Want to know more? Contact me at daniel.shea@kit.edu
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NBN Episodes hosted by Daniel:

Scholarly Communication August 6, 2023

Thriving As a Graduate Writer

Principles, Strategies, and Practices for Effective Academic Writing

Rachael Cayley

Hosted by Daniel Shea
Listen to this interview of Rachael Cayley, Associate Professor in the Graduate Centre for Academic Communication at the University of Toronto, Canada. Rachael also blogs. Her Explorations of Style is …
Scholarly Communication July 26, 2023

The Science of Science

A Discussion with Aaron Clauset

Aaron Clauset

Hosted by Daniel Shea
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Listen to this interview of Aaron Clauset, Professor of Computer Science at the University of Colorado at Boulder and in the BioFrontiers Institute. Aaron is also External Faculty at …
Scholarly Communication July 23, 2023

The Role of Luck in Science

A Discussion with Nicolas Christin

Nicolas Christin

Hosted by Daniel Shea
Listen to this interview of Nicolas Christin, Professor at Carnegie Mellon University, jointly appointed in the School of Computer Science and in the department of Engineering and Public Policy. We …
Scholarly Communication July 16, 2023

Writing about Data

A Discussion with Yuval Yarom

Yuval Yarom

Hosted by Daniel Shea
Listen to this interview of Yuval Yarom, Professor of Computer Science at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany. We talk about how authors interpret the data and the facts, and we talk …
Scholarly Communication July 9, 2023

Asking the Right Questions

A Discussion with Daniel Gruss

Daniel Gruss

Hosted by Daniel Shea
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Listen to this interview of Daniel Gruss, Associate Professor in the Secure Systems group at Graz University of Technology, Institute of Applied Information Processing and Communications, Austria. We talk about …
Scholarly Communication July 7, 2023

Mentoring, Collaboration, Writing

A Discussion with Thorsten Holz

Thorsten Holz

Hosted by Daniel Shea
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Listen to this interview of Thorsten Holz, Professor for computer science and faculty at CISPA, the Helmholtz Center for Information Security, in Saarbrücken, Germany. We talk about mentoring, collaboration, writing …
Scholarly Communication July 4, 2023

How to Write as an Author and How to Write as a Reader

A Discussion with Peng Liu

Peng Liu

Hosted by Daniel Shea
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Listen to this interview of Peng Liu, Professor at the College of Information Science and Technology at Pennsylvania State University, and also Director of the Cyber Security Lab. We talk …
Scholarly Communication June 23, 2023

Revision, Revision, Revision

A Discussion with Sascha Fahl of the Helmholtz Center for Information Security

Sascha Fahl

Hosted by Daniel Shea
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Listen to this interview of Sascha Fahl, Professor for Computer Science and Faculty for Usable Security and Privacy at CISPA, the Helmholtz Center for Information Security, in Saarbrücken, Germany. We …
Scholarly Communication June 7, 2023

Reading, Writing, Research

A Discussion with Cybersecurity Scholar Mathias Payer

Mathias Payer

Hosted by Daniel Shea
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Listen to this interview of Mathias Payer, a security researcher and associate professor at the EPFL School of Computer and Communication Science, leading the HexHive group. We talk about research …
Scholarly Communication June 1, 2023

Nick Enfield on Language, Influence, and Science Communications

Nick Enfield

Hosted by Daniel Shea
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Listen to this interview of Nick Enfield, Professor of Linguistics at the University of Sydney for Language Research and the Sydney Initiative for Truth. We talk about communication as you …
Scholarly Communication May 30, 2023

What Is a Human?

Language, Mind, and Culture

James Paul Gee

Hosted by Daniel Shea
Listen to this interview of James Gee, Regents' Professor and Mary Lou Fulton Presidential Professor of Literacy Studies at Arizona State University. We talk about too much communication, about too …
Scholarly Communication May 3, 2023

Writing with Pleasure

Helen Sword

Hosted by Daniel Shea
Listen to this interview of Helen Sword, professor emerita in the School of Humanities and the Centre for Arts and Social Transformation at the University of Auckland, founder of WriteSPACE, an …
Scholarly Communication May 3, 2023

Scientific Research in Information Systems

A Beginner's Guide

Jan Recker

Hosted by Daniel Shea
Listen to this interview of Jan Recker, Professor for Information Systems and Digital Innovation at the University of Hamburg, Germany and author of Scientific Research in Information Systems: A Beginner's Guide …
Scholarly Communication March 27, 2023

The Science of Security

A Discussion with Cormac Herley, Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research

Cormac Herley

Hosted by Daniel Shea
Listen to this interview of Cormac Herley, Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research. We talk about the science of security and as well, about the communication of security science. Cormac Herley …
Scholarly Communication March 7, 2023

How to Reach People with Your Research

A Discussion with Elissa Redmiles

Elissa Redmiles

Hosted by Daniel Shea
Listen to this interview of Elissa Redmiles, Faculty Member and Research Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems; Founder and Managing Researcher of Human Computing Associates; and …
Scholarly Communication January 17, 2023

Improvisation and Communication

A Discussion with Laura Lindenfeld of the Alan Alda Center For Communicating Science

Laura Lindenfeld

Hosted by Daniel Shea
Listen to this interview of Laura Lindenfeld, Executive Director of the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science. We talk about how improvisation helps people communicate for real. Laura Lindenfeld …
Scholarly Communication January 8, 2023

Write it Down: Writing as a Step Toward Better Research

A Discussion with Computer Scientist Gang Wang

Hosted by Daniel Shea
Listen to this interview of Gang Wang, Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. We talk about using writing to research better. Gang Wang …
Scholarly Communication December 7, 2022

Scientific Writing = Thinking in Words

David Lindsay

Hosted by Daniel Shea
Listen to this interview of David Lindsay, emeritus professor of the University of Western Australia. We talk about his book Scientific Writing = Thinking in Words (CSIRO Publishing, 2020) and how your …
Scholarly Communication November 2, 2022

The Writing Workshop

Write More, Write Better, Be Happier in Academia

Barbara W. Sarnecka

Hosted by Daniel Shea
Listen to this interview of Barbara Sarnecka, Professor of Cognitive Sciences and Associate Dean of Research and Graduate Studies for Social Sciences, University of California, Irvine. We talk about putting …
Scholarly Communication September 23, 2022

Preparing to Publish

Sarah Huffman, Elena Cotos, and Kimberly Becker

Hosted by Daniel Shea
Listen to this interview of Sarah Huffman (Assistant Director of the Center for Communication Excellence) and Elena Cotos (Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics in the English Department and Director of …
Scholarly Communication September 5, 2022

How to Publish in Biological Sciences

A Guide for the Uninitiated

John Measey

Hosted by Daniel Shea
Listen to this interview of John Measey, Researcher at the Centre for Invasion Biology, Stellenbosch University, South Africa. We talk about the needs of early-career researchers and also about our …
Scholarly Communication August 9, 2022

Talk about Writing

The Tutoring Strategies of Experienced Writing Center Tutors

Jo Mackiewicz and Isabelle Thompson

Hosted by Daniel Shea
Listen to this interview with Jo Mackiewicz, professor of rhetoric and professional communication at Iowa State University, and with Isabelle Thompson, emerita professor of technical and professional communication and former …
Scholarly Communication August 8, 2022

The Realities of Completing a PhD

How to Plan for Success

Nicholas Rowe

Hosted by Daniel Shea
Listen to this interview of Nicholas Rowe, researcher and educator based in Finland. We talk his book The Realities of Completing a PhD: How to Plan for Success (Routledge, 2021) and about …
Scholarly Communication August 2, 2022

Writing STEAM

Composition, STEM, and a New Humanities

Vivian Kao and Julia Kiernan

Hosted by Daniel Shea
Listen to this interview of Vivian Kao, Associate Professor of Composition and Coordinator of the First-Year Writing Program, and Julia Kiernan, Assistant Professor of Communication and Coordinator of Technical and …