LIZ NEELEY
Liz began her career in ocean conservation, where she learned the hard way that the data don’t speak for themselves. After a crushing policy loss on the international stage, she was determined to understand how power actually works. She focused first on agenda-setting via press coverage and then within social media, before turning her attention to the undeniable impact of personal stories. She put those experiences to work training thousands of scientists in science communication and storytelling. She has enjoyed meaningful collaborations in fields as disparate as fisheries ecology, cognitive neuroscience, and computer science. More than anything, she focuses on helping scientists find the courage and language they need to create change within themselves, their institutions, and the world.
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Liz Neeley is a founding partner of Liminal, a science communication collective that focuses on sensemaking. She began her career in ocean conservation, where she learned the hard way that the data don’t speak for themselves. Ever since, she has focused on helping scientists find the courage and language they need to create change within themselves, their institutions, and the world. Liz is also a co-founder of SolvingFor.org and an external advisor to the Institute for Diversity Sciences and the Aspen Institute Science & Society Program, among others. She was previously Executive Director of The Story Collider. Find her on Bluesky @LizNeeley and on LinkedIn.
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aMBIKA kAMATH
Ambika worked as a behavioral ecologist and evolutionary biologist for over a decade, studying the social and ecological interactions of lizards, spiders, and more. She ran a lab, and developed a cutting edge cross-disciplinary research program melding feminist science studies with animal behavior science. She has also been a labor organizer, with UAW5810 at the University of California and United Campus Workers at the University of Colorado. But first and foremost, Ambika is a writer. Her essays have appeared at Catapult and BLInk magazine, and her first book (coauthored with Melina Packer) will be published by MIT Press in Spring 2025. All of her work embraces the fact that science is an inescapably human process—she sees this fact as an opportunity rather than a liability, both for how we do science and for how we communicate it.
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Ambika Kamath is a founding partner at Liminal, a science communication collective that focuses on sensemaking. She worked as a behavioral ecologist and evolutionary biologist for over a decade, during which she developed a cutting edge cross-disciplinary research program melding feminist science studies with animal behavior science. Prior to joining Liminal, Ambika was an Assistant Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at University of Colorado Boulder. Her first book, Feminism in the Wild, will be published by MIT Press in Spring 2025. Find her on Bluesky @ambikamath and on LinkedIn.
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The Liminal collective: Our Cloud Members
The founding cloud members of Liminal! From left to right: Neil Lewis Jr., Julie Lowndes, Sara Yeo, and Ed Yong.
Our cloud members are science and science communication professionals whose work we admire tremendously. Cloud members bring their expertise to Liminal via specific project collaborations, as well as in an advisory capacity.
Neil Lewis Jr. is a behavioral scientist and science communicator whose work connects individual psychology, social and community context, and government policy in powerful ways, with the goal of undoing inequality and moving us closer to justice.
Julie Lowndes is a marine ecologist and founding lead of Openscapes, where she works to revolutionize the culture of science from within, starting with our technological workflows. Her work moves us all towards greater openness, efficiency, and kindness to ourselves and each other.
Sara Yeo studies how we communicate about risk and science, and the formation of public opinions on science and technology, with a particular focus on the role of humor (!).
Ed Yong is a science journalist and writer whose work spans complexities of all kinds—from the tiniest microbes living within us to the sensory capacities of all kinds of animals to the multidimensional social, political, and biological systems that made up the COVID-19 pandemic and our response to it.