Dr Anna Ploszajski

Challenge to male science writers: can you write a whole book without referencing that American judge who said “I know it when I see it” about porn?

Why Science Needs Global Stories. — Storyology Today, 20th March, is World Storytelling Day. So, today I’m thinking about global stories.

Happy World Storytelling Day!

To celebrate, I've written a blog post on the Storyology Ltd. blog, called 'Why Science Needs Global Stories'

Read here:
www.storyology.co.uk/blog/why-sci...

Three Post-its to Transform Your Storytelling — Storyology When we put together technical stories, there are thousands of big and small decisions that we have to make along the way. Making such decisions can be agonising, and can seriously slow us down. But it doesn’t have to be this way. Allow me to introduce you to: the Three Post-it Exercise.

This week on the Storyology blog, I wrote about my favourite tip for putting together strong technical communication. All you have to do is write on three post-it notes...

Read more here:

www.storyology.co.uk/blog/three-p...

Detail from a map of the A23a iceberg's progress since being calved in 1986; after 30 years stuck on the seafloor it made rapid progress in 2022-2023 but rotated on a water column for 8 months and has now run aground off South Georgia. Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c20d1xp6046o

typical book project timeline

Seven Reasons for Storytelling by Dr Anna Ploszajski — Storyology Seven reasons why storytelling can help scientists, engineers, researchers and techy people communicate who they are and what they do better through the study of story.

Storyology has a blog! I'll be writing weekly content on all things storytelling and how to up your communications game if you work in science, engineering, research or tech.

This first post is 'Seven Reasons for Storytelling'.

www.storyology.co.uk/blog/seven-r...

‘Technofossils’: how humanity’s eternal testament will be plastic bags, cheap clothes and chicken bones Fast fashion and drinks cans among technological-age matter most likely to endure as fossils, say scientists

This headline really pisses me off.

All human made materials, including smelted metals and alloys, fired ceramics, concrete and engineered glass will also endure. The article goes on to list other materials but plastic gets clicks 🙄

www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

So many women, including myself, raised the alarm on the predatory behaviour of PhD students (and staff) at UCL. The only surprising element of this case is that one of them got caught.

All Workshops — Storyology Communications training from Dr Anna Ploszajski on storytelling, presentations and writing skills for university researchers, scientists, engineers and techy people, delivered online or in-person.

I've just added three new workshops to the Storyology website:

- Advanced Storytelling
- Podcasting
- Personal Branding

Read more here:

www.storyology.co.uk/workshops

Everyone, please sign this open letter to the @royalsociety.org calling for Elon Musk’s fellowship to be revoked

Currently over 1200 signatories 👀

occamstypewriter.org/scurry/2025/...

Finally got round to framing this. Feels like a lifetime ago 🏊‍♀️

Storyology Storyology Ltd. delivers training courses to scientists, engineers, researchers and techy people in universities and technical industries across the UK.

I help STEM experts connect technical content with audiences through storytelling.

Are you a business who communicates technical content to customers, clients or funders?

Sounds like you need a storytelling expert who's also a scientist 🤓

Get in touch!
www.storyology.co.uk

Thanks so much for sharing Jamie 🫶

White board reads ‘What's wrong with storytelling? Difficult to validate Introduce bias Top level Dramatic licence Non-academic? Lose impartiality

White board reads What narratives exist in reseech? New=good Changing narrative Progressivism doesn’t look to the past Peer review = correct Hypothesis must be testable P-hacking Discovery Reproducibility Preconceptions Discrediting qualitative methods Bias / Trust

Some snaps from today’s Storytelling for Researchers training at Uni of Reading.

Storytelling is a powerful communication tool, but must be used responsibly!

My feeling is that relying on platforms for followers is too precarious these days - reckon the future will be mailing lists, personal blogs and podcasts.

Reeves’s Heathrow third runway report was commissioned by London airport The chancellor is under fire after a study cited as evidence for expanding the terminal to boost the UK’s economic growth was ordered by Heathrow itself

So now we have it. Rachel Reeves's claim that a third runway at Heathrow Airport would boost economic growth comes from a report commissioned by .... Heathrow Airport. Instead of acting in the national interest, she's channelling corporate lobbyists.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Episode 10: Galvanise - the Media Power of Story YouTube video by Anna Ploszajski

The Storyology Podcast is in double-digits!

Ep 10 is out today and it's a fun one; the role of storytelling in science media coverage. A timely conversation given *gestures towards the world generally*

Listen here, or search The Storyology Podcast in the usuals:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=WX8N...

'Sexual predator' student accused of drugging and raping 10 women 'kept souvenirs’ Zhenhao Zou, who was studying at UCL, allegedly made recordings of himself abusing unconscious women

Surprise, surprise

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...

Image shows woman with headphones standing in front of a stone building

at UCL to coach some quantum physics professors. Did you know I do coaching? I want to do more of it, it’s super rewarding working with senior people on better communication while also desperately trying to remember my undergraduate quantum mechanics lectures from a thousand years ago

Eee thank you lovely Hana 🥰 do share with your Science Write cohorts!

Hello lovely Bluesky 👋 please help me find people who would enjoy my free online course, 'Storytelling Foundations'.

Particularly #STEM #PhD students, but also #research and #marketing teams in #tech, #science and #engineering industries.

It's 25 vids in 30mins and my hair looks great throughout

Woohoo this course is popping off! Get it while it's hot 🔥

Thank you so much for sharing Kat 🥰

"The peer-reviewed paper turned out to have miscalculated the dosage by a factor of 10"

Storytelling Foundations — Storyology A free 30-minute online course for academic and industrial researchers, engineers and techy people. Developed by Dr Anna Ploszajski, Storytelling Foundations is a practical, creative and efficient cou...

Attention scientists, engineers, researchers and techy people 📣

I've just released a FREE online course that will help you write quicker and present better using tools from the world of storytelling.

Get it here:

www.storyology.co.uk/storytelling...

Episode 9: Science media - traitors or faithfuls? The Storyology Podcast · Episode

Episode 9 of the Storyology Podcast is out now!

It's all about the problems with how science gets picked up and reported by the media.

If you're a science researcher or work in science comms, I think you'll love the pod 😁

open.spotify.com/episode/4n87...

The indomitable scientist and illustrator @hanaayoob.co.uk was the perfect person to illustrate my book and I'm so grateful for her style and flair bringing my chapters alive 🥰

Do we know what the @royalsociety.org 's current stance on Elon Musk FRS is?

royalsociety.org/people/elon-...

I feel the same, I just wish there was a nice way that nice people could find other nice people's brilliant work ☹️

I hate that our worth is measured like this :(

Trust in scientists and their role in society across 68 countries - Nature Human Behaviour What is the state of trust in scientists around the world? To answer this question, the authors surveyed 71,922 respondents in 68 countries and found that trust in scientists is moderately high.

Overall people’s trust in science is good however more extreme political bias seems to make people less likely to trust science and there is variation within countries too 🧪