Just a quick shout-out to The Conversation for being an excellent science communication platform. I hadn't looked at my stats for a while, and it turns out I've had almost 2 MILLION reads of my articles https://theconversation.com/profiles/samantha-lawler-885392/articles . 21 articles over the last 6 years, some translated in to other languages (actually, my highest-read articles are Portuguese and French translations, haha)
That is some excellent reach for me and other scientists to communicate science directly with the public. Cool!