Kevin R. Sitek, PhD

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Investigating the neural systems underlying human communication

Research interests

Publications

Science communication

About me

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Faculty page · Bluesky · Mastodon · Twitter · GitHub

Science communication

Science requires communication—our work only has an impact when it’s shared with others. Starting in my PhD, I have been involved in science communication focusing on both general and scientific audiences.

Publications

Teaching

Northwestern University CSD 550-3: Communicating Science. Why do we share our research? How do we best communicate research with different audiences? What are best practices in oral, written, visual, and multimedia communication? This course helps Northwestern PhD students craft their own scientific narrative and develop communication skills for sharing their work with diverse audiences.

Harvard MGH LINC Camp: Science Communication. The LINC Camp is an 8-week virtual program that immerses high school students in the fields of neuroscience, neuroimaging, and coding through scientific seminars and hands-on activities, while also offering guidance on college readiness and STEM career opportunities. LINC Camp scholars will take a 6-week introductory coding course, while also participating in neuroscience seminars. They will then spend two weeks applying their coding skills to help map the wiring of the brain. In 2025 and again in 2026, I co-taught a LINC Camp session on Science Communication with Yohan Yee and Anastasia Yendiki where we covered communication within science as well as with the general public and how it’s affected by technology, particularly artificial intelligence (AI).

Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM)

I first attended OHBM in 2025 and have attended almost every meeting since then. I got involved with the Student–Postdoc Special Interest Group in 2019, helping share the cool mentorship and training work being organized by our students and postdocs. Later, I joined the Communications Committee, where I edited (and sometimes appeared in) podcasts and blogs, maintained the burgeoning OHBMonthly member newsletter, and helped kick off a new annual award winner blog series and a quarterly newsletter in collaboration with The Transmitter from the Simons Foundation.

Neurosalience, the OHBM podcast

Podcast Team co-founder and editor, 2021–22

Neurosalience podcast appearances

OHBM Blog author

YouTube appearances

Media appearances

These Scientists Set out to Build a Silent Room, But Discovered Something Way More Terrifying Claire Maldarelli, Popular Mechanics (quotes and background)

Science in the News

In grad school, I got involved in sharing science beyond the lab through Science in the News, a public science outreach program led by Harvard University PhD students. Throughout my time with SITN, I edited blog posts by grad students for the general public and eventually took over the Twitter page, regularly compressing 1000 word blog posts down to 140 (and then 280) characters—while (hopefully) staying interesting!