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:

Brandon R. Brown, "Sharing Our Science: How to Write and Speak STEM" (MIT Press, 2023)

March 18, 2024

Sharing Our Science

Brandon R. Brown
Hosted by Daniel Shea

Listen to this interview of Brandon Brown, Professor of Physics at the University of San Francisco. We talk about factoring in both message-sender and…

Once More--What Does It Even Mean for a Machine to be Generative?

March 16, 2024

Once More--What Does It Even Mean for a Machine to be Generative?

Bill Cope, Mary Kalantzis, and James Gee
Hosted by Daniel Shea

Listen to Episode No.9 of All We Mean, a Special Focus of this podcast. All We Mean is an ongoing discussion and debate about how we mean and why. The…

Train like You Play, Because You Will Play like You Train

March 10, 2024

Train like You Play, Because You Will Play like You Train

Emad Shihab
Hosted by Daniel Shea

Listen to this interview of Emad Shihab, Full Professor and Concordia Research Chair in the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering at…

My Leadership Style is 'We-Learn-Together'

March 8, 2024

My Leadership Style is 'We-Learn-Together'

Rebekka Burkholz
Hosted by Daniel Shea

Listen to this interview of Rebekka Burkholz, faculty at the CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security. We talk about the composition of researc…

Complex Work in Simple Text

February 28, 2024

Complex Work in Simple Text

Paris Avgeriou
Hosted by Daniel Shea

Listen to this interview of Paris Avgeriou, Editor in Chief of the Journal of Systems and Software (together with David Shepherd). Paris is Full Profe…

What Does It Even Mean for a Machine to Generate?

February 24, 2024

What Does It Even Mean for a Machine to Generate?

Bill Cope, Mary Kalantzis, and Duane Searsmith
Hosted by Daniel Shea

Listen to Episode No.8 of All We Mean, a Special Focus of this podcast. All We Mean is an ongoing discussion and debate about how we mean and why. The…

All's Well that Reviews Well

February 23, 2024

All's Well that Reviews Well

David Shepherd
Hosted by Daniel Shea

Listen to this interview of David Shepherd, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Systems and Software (together with Paris Avgeriou). David Shepherd is A…

This is What Language Means

February 16, 2024

This is What Language Means

Bill Cope and Mary Kalantzis
Hosted by Daniel Shea

Listen to Episode No.7 of All We Mean, a Special Focus of this podcast. All We Mean is an ongoing discussion and debate about how we mean and why. The…

Christopher Reddy, "Science Communication in a Crisis: An Insider's Guide" (Routledge, 2023)

February 13, 2024

Science Communication in a Crisis

Christopher Reddy
Hosted by Daniel Shea

Listen to this interview of Christopher Reddy, environmental chemist and Senior Scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts…

Ask the Best Questions You Can Ask: A Discussion with Prem Devanbu

February 10, 2024

Ask the Best Questions You Can Ask

Hosted by Daniel Shea

Listen to this interview of Prem Devanbu, Distinguished Research Professor in Computer Science, University of California, Davis. We talk about using c…

Katherine Firth et al., "How to Fix Your Academic Writing Trouble: A Practical Guide" (Open UP, 2018)

February 9, 2024

How to Fix Your Academic Writing Trouble

Inger Mewburn, Katherine Firth, and Shaun Lehmann
Hosted by Daniel Shea

Listen to this interview of Katherine Firth, academic at, Australia. We talk about the necessary trouble that people have when they write new knowledg…

To Read and to Write Science Well, You’ve Got to Think with Purpose

February 7, 2024

To Read and to Write Science Well, You’ve Got to Think with Purpose

Christian Kästner
Hosted by Daniel Shea

Listen to this interview of Christian Kästner, Associate Professor, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University. We talk about reading pape…

How the Hypothesis Means: A Discussion with Bill Cope, Mary Kalantzis, and Bradley Alger

February 4, 2024

How the Hypothesis Means

Bill Cope, Mary Kalantzis, and Bradley Alger
Hosted by Daniel Shea

Listen to Episode No.6 of All We Mean, a Special Focus of this podcast. All We Mean is an ongoing discussion and debate about how we mean and why. The…

Science Is a Creative Human Enterprise: A Discussion with Natalie Aviles

January 31, 2024

Science Is a Creative Human Enterprise

Natalie B. Aviles
Hosted by Daniel Shea

Listen to this interview of Natalie Aviles, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Virginia. We talk about how organizations shape people, an…

The Communication You Need to Research, to Review, and to Publish Work with Societal Impact

January 23, 2024

The Communication You Need to Research, to Review, and to Publish Work with Societal Impact

Wouter Lueks
Hosted by Daniel Shea

Listen to this interview of Wouter Lueks, faculty at the CISPA Helmhotz Center for Information Security. We talk about getting into the reviewer's min…

What Decision Means

January 19, 2024

What Decision Means

Bill Cope, Mary Kalantzis, and Gang Wang
Hosted by Daniel Shea

Listen to Episode No.5 of All We Mean, a Special Focus of this podcast. All We Mean is an ongoing discussion and debate about how we mean and why. The…

Can A.I. Mean?

January 13, 2024

Can A.I. Mean?

Bill Cope and Mary Kalantzis
Hosted by Daniel Shea

Listen to Episode No.4 of All We Mean, a Special Focus of this podcast. All We Mean is an ongoing discussion and debate about how we mean and why. The…

Philosophy for Our Academic Wellbeing

January 7, 2024

Philosophy for Our Academic Wellbeing

Rebecca Roache
Hosted by Daniel Shea

Listen to this interview of Rebecca Roache, coach and podcaster, and also Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Royal Holloway, University of London. We ta…

Really Communicating Real Impact Is Not Quite What You Think It Is

December 18, 2023

Really Communicating Real Impact Is Not Quite What You Think It Is

Cristiano Matricardi
Hosted by Daniel Shea

Listen to this interview of Cristiano Matricardi, Senior Editor at Nature Communications. We talk about just how closely tied are the research and the…

Toward Equity in Science: A Discussion with Cassidy Sugimoto and Vincent Larivière

December 16, 2023

Toward Equity in Science

Cassidy R. Sugimoto and Vincent Larivière
Hosted by Daniel Shea

Listen to this interview of Cassidy Sugimoto and Vincent Larivière, co-authors of Equity for Women in Science: Dismantling Systemic Barriers to Advanc…

Learning Happens Where There's Meaning

December 11, 2023

Learning Happens Where There's Meaning

Bill Cope, Mary Kalantzis, and Kit Nicholls
Hosted by Daniel Shea

Listen to Episode No.3 of All We Mean, a Special Focus of this podcast. All We Mean is an ongoing discussion and debate about how we mean and why. The…

Services and Training for Publishing Scientists: The Current Direction of Travel

December 3, 2023

Services and Training for Publishing Scientists — The Current Direction of Travel

John Bond
Hosted by Daniel Shea

Listen to this interview of John Bond, founder and publishing consultant of Riverwinds Consulting. We talk about the breadth of services and resources…

Too Much Communication?

December 2, 2023

Too Much Communication?

Bill Cope and Mary Kalantzis
Hosted by Daniel Shea

Listen to Episode No.2 of All We Mean, a Special Focus of this podcast. All We Mean is an ongoing discussion and debate about how we mean and why. The…

How to Write Up Research: A Discussion with Yang Zhang

November 23, 2023

How to Write Up Research

Yang Zhang
Hosted by Daniel Shea

Listen to this interview of Yang Zhang, faculty at the CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security. We talk about the centrality of text to the re…