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"I can explain my work to the cleaner or the president, it's all the same to me.
"People try to explain my work in terms of its sexual nature, but it's more about a failure to connect," Ms. Marder says.
"I want to be able to explain my work to the world without them thinking that scientists are a bunch of weird people," she said.
'So, what do you do for a living?' We all know this standard party question for which a simple answer is generally expected (e.g., I'm an accountant), but I have yet to find an adequate 'sound bite' to explain my work in international science policy.
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As Austen, played by Olivia Williams in a dramatization of the writer's late life ("Miss Austen Regrets," to be shown on Feb. 3), explains, "My work is so small".
I remember a dinner party where I was explaining my work among evangelicals to a colleague, and her face grew longer and longer until she said, "You talk to them?" The in-your-face confrontation makes it that much harder to connect.
The result is that I have to put more efforts into explaining my work, which helps me hone my communication skills.
On the other hand, I am more comfortable explaining my work now, and that will be useful for writing job and grant applications, too".
As a scientist working on stem cells, I like to use sports analogies when explaining my work to non-scientists.
I found it of particular importance that Rabbi Eilberg prefers to use the term "peace-building" over "peacemaking", as I do in explaining my work in this field via the Interreligious Coordinating Council in Israel (which also serves as the Israel chapter of Religions for Peace).
Some work friends knew what I was doing, but I didn't tell my superiors so that I wouldn't have to explain my drinking at work.
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