I did the UpGoerFive/Thing Explainer exercise at the start of my scicomm module this semester. I love the curses! Really makes them think about their use of language.
March 25, 2024 at 1:25 PM
I did the UpGoerFive/Thing Explainer exercise at the start of my scicomm module this semester. I love the curses! Really makes them think about their use of language.
Love this #SciComm🧵 - IMO things like “UpGoerFive” are like a beginner improv class - great start that gives you perspective on your skill level, but it’s a long way from 1st improv class to being on Saturday Night Live (good SciComm takes YEARS of deliberate practice!!!)
I stand by those words 13 years later. To scientists, I say: it is NOT hopeless! You can learn to harness the powers that everyday language. But it will take some practice, and it will take more than a thousand words.
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Science Writing: Guidelines and Guidance, Carl Zimmer
These are notes for a class called “Writing about Science, Medicine, and the Environment,” which I have taught for several years at Yale.
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July 15, 2026 at 4:41 PM
Love this #SciComm🧵 - IMO things like “UpGoerFive” are like a beginner improv class - great start that gives you perspective on your skill level, but it’s a long way from 1st improv class to being on Saturday Night Live (good SciComm takes YEARS of deliberate practice!!!)
Look at these abstracts! I'm genuinely so excited to be participating in this challenge for #AAAR2026 #UpGoerFive. This is going to be such a fun, entertaining, and enlightening session!
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June 12, 2026 at 4:41 PM
Look at these abstracts! I'm genuinely so excited to be participating in this challenge for #AAAR2026 #UpGoerFive. This is going to be such a fun, entertaining, and enlightening session!
aaarabstracts.com/2026/view_to...
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What TAIR does #upgoerfive (via facebook <a href="http://www.facebook.com/tairnews)" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://www.facebook.com/tairnews) <a href="http://sco.lt/6YzLeL" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://sco.lt/6YzLeL
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What TAIR does #upgoerfive (via facebook <a href="http://www.facebook.com/tairnews)" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://www.facebook.com/tairnews) <a href="http://sco.lt/6YzLeL" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://sco.lt/6YzLeL
Parents wanted a simple explanation of my research, so I tried #upgoerfive style. Not sure it helped, but it was fun....
November 16, 2024 at 11:29 PM
Parents wanted a simple explanation of my research, so I tried #upgoerfive style. Not sure it helped, but it was fun....
My attempt at explaining my spatial heterogeneity research #upgoerfive style #2015Beacon...
November 16, 2024 at 10:27 PM
My attempt at explaining my spatial heterogeneity research #upgoerfive style #2015Beacon...
"In color changing water animals, small things inside them can know who is a good tiny living thing and bad tiny living thing" #UpGoerFive
Tried #UpGoerFive. "🦑 immune cells can tell the diff. btw beneficial and harmful bacteria", an already simplified statement, got way sillier
December 3, 2024 at 6:45 PM
"In color changing water animals, small things inside them can know who is a good tiny living thing and bad tiny living thing" #UpGoerFive
Tried #UpGoerFive. "🦑 immune cells can tell the diff. btw beneficial and harmful bacteria", an already simplified statement, got way sillier
December 3, 2024 at 6:40 PM
Tried #UpGoerFive. "🦑 immune cells can tell the diff. btw beneficial and harmful bacteria", an already simplified statement, got way sillier
January 27, 2024 at 6:12 PM
I managed to rewrite the intro to my #QuantumComputing article to only use the "ten hundred" (1,000) most used words! #upgoerfive https://bit.ly/2ArnCcs
February 27, 2025 at 3:34 PM
I managed to rewrite the intro to my #QuantumComputing article to only use the "ten hundred" (1,000) most used words! #upgoerfive https://bit.ly/2ArnCcs
'Gravitational waves' becomes 'small wave things coming from heavy things in space' in fun #upgoerfive exercise with @shefw
November 20, 2024 at 11:45 AM
'Gravitational waves' becomes 'small wave things coming from heavy things in space' in fun #upgoerfive exercise with @shefw
A fun must-see from visualizing science session: xkcd's #upgoerfive diagram "Lots of fire comes out here" http://bit.ly/VXeb4F
Up Goer Five
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December 1, 2024 at 2:17 PM
A fun must-see from visualizing science session: xkcd's #upgoerfive diagram "Lots of fire comes out here" http://bit.ly/VXeb4F
The @UW_FOSEP 1000 Word Challenge is going to be great - http://bit.ly/15LgwH6 #UpGoerFive Science #ElevatorSpeech Live Performances. Yes
FOSEP 1000 Word Challenge!!!!
Graduate Student/PostDoc Happy Hour and FOSEP 1000 Word C...
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December 1, 2024 at 11:45 AM
The @UW_FOSEP 1000 Word Challenge is going to be great - http://bit.ly/15LgwH6 #UpGoerFive Science #ElevatorSpeech Live Performances. Yes
This #upgoerfive malarkey is superb. http://bit.ly/YfmnmG
The Up-Goer Five Text Editor
To be or not to be, that is the question:
Whether it is...
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December 4, 2024 at 4:04 PM
This #upgoerfive malarkey is superb. http://bit.ly/YfmnmG
I didn’t do the Hamlet one obviously! Though I am considering doing Ozymandias. #upgoerfive
December 4, 2024 at 4:04 PM
I didn’t do the Hamlet one obviously! Though I am considering doing Ozymandias. #upgoerfive
My work is to put words on a very big computer box place named Big Pretend Long Ago Problem Animal. <a href="http://bookmaniac.org/upgoerfive/" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://bookmaniac.org/upgoerfive/
My job, told with Up-Goer Five text editor – Composite
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January 20, 2013 at 8:57 PM
My work is to put words on a very big computer box place named Big Pretend Long Ago Problem Animal. <a href="http://bookmaniac.org/upgoerfive/" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://bookmaniac.org/upgoerfive/
my research explained in the ten hundred most used words. surprisingly, the word "cell" is included! http://tinyurl.com/zkseka5 #UPGOERFIVE
The Up-Goer Five Text Editor
Sometimes, cells in the brain grow too fast and make too ...
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November 23, 2024 at 5:25 PM
my research explained in the ten hundred most used words. surprisingly, the word "cell" is included! http://tinyurl.com/zkseka5 #UPGOERFIVE
My research in a nutshell, using only the most common #1000words in English: http://bit.ly/SQAWey #upgoerfive via @xkcd
The Up-Goer Five Text Editor
I study how trees and other living things responded durin...
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December 7, 2024 at 6:07 PM
My research in a nutshell, using only the most common #1000words in English: http://bit.ly/SQAWey #upgoerfive via @xkcd
@highlyanne @Allochthonous RT @gimpasaura: I took a spin at #upgoerfive!...
December 7, 2024 at 5:52 PM
@highlyanne @Allochthonous RT @gimpasaura: I took a spin at #upgoerfive!...
If you needed any more proof that plants are under-appreciated, the only plant-related word in UpGoerFive* is “tree.” “Plant” is not included, but “animal” is. “Flower” and “grass” are not included. https://dir.lat/LhQ9Yj
*a list of the thousand most common words in English
*a list of the thousand most common words in English
The Up-Goer Five Text Editor
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November 27, 2024 at 3:51 PM
If you needed any more proof that plants are under-appreciated, the only plant-related word in UpGoerFive* is “tree.” “Plant” is not included, but “animal” is. “Flower” and “grass” are not included. https://dir.lat/LhQ9Yj
*a list of the thousand most common words in English
*a list of the thousand most common words in English
So cool! Take the #UpGoerFive challenge based on @xkcd's comic to describe your #science research <a href="http://splasho.com/upgoer5/" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://splasho.com/upgoer5/ #scicomm
The Up-Goer Five Text Editor
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November 18, 2024 at 7:25 AM
So cool! Take the #UpGoerFive challenge based on @xkcd's comic to describe your #science research <a href="http://splasho.com/upgoer5/" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://splasho.com/upgoer5/ #scicomm
Here is my first #UpGoerFive try to describe my thesis research <a href="http://goo.gl/BeUd7K" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://goo.gl/BeUd7K #science #scicomm
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November 18, 2024 at 7:25 AM
Here is my first #UpGoerFive try to describe my thesis research <a href="http://goo.gl/BeUd7K" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://goo.gl/BeUd7K #science #scicomm
Almost every word in my dissertation proposal's "executive summary" violates the rules of #UpGoerFive .... This is hard.
December 30, 2024 at 10:39 PM
Almost every word in my dissertation proposal's "executive summary" violates the rules of #UpGoerFive .... This is hard.
Today’s #SciComm game gets you to work on your jargon. Explain your science in one tweet using only the ten hundred most common words in the English language (thousand isn’t one). Check using this #UpGoerFive applet https://buff.ly/2IgSAoA , based on this: https://buff.ly/2An8f1s
The Up-Goer Five Text Editor
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December 4, 2024 at 5:16 PM
Today’s #SciComm game gets you to work on your jargon. Explain your science in one tweet using only the ten hundred most common words in the English language (thousand isn’t one). Check using this #UpGoerFive applet https://buff.ly/2IgSAoA , based on this: https://buff.ly/2An8f1s