In the era of alternative facts and fake news, scientists of all stripes are stepping out of their labs and off the pages of their specialist journals to communicate their ideas and their methodologies to a broader public.The Royal Society of Victoria's CEO Mike Flattley talks about some of ways the Society facilitates communication between scientists and the wider community. Then Jack Nunn, researcher in the Department of Public Health at La Trobe University, explains how communicating about science is best accomplished, not by talking about it, or reading about it, or seeing it played out in documentaries on television, but by actually doing it.