✍️Science Writing News Roundup #114
Streamline your writing—from pitching to publishing + Using inclusive language in science writing.
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Opportunities
Calls for pitches: Opportunities to write about science in general, mental health, climate change, environment, biodiversity + Funding opportunities for writers 👉Bonus content for monthly supporters.
Caribbean climate justice journalism fellowship now open: With 1-1 access to the experts and mentoring, the fellows will also engage in an array of workshops to build their climate justice knowledge and their journalism skills.
Resources
Take this free crash course and bring better science into your reporting: SciLine’s virtual training aims to train local journalists on covering and incorporating science into their work. 🔭
Maternal mortality: An explainer and research roundup. The rate of maternal deaths in the U.S. has been increasing in recent years. Black people continue to be more than three times as likely as white people to die from pregnancy-related causes.
Articles
Videos/podcasts
Two viral zoonotic diseases journalists should know about: A webinar on Lassa fever and Nipah virus 😷
Environmental Journalism, Part 6: Managing threats to environmental journalists 🌴
Human impacts and human rights on the high seas: A webinar for ocean journalists 🌊
Events
Virtual Fall Career Development Series: Career Insights from AppSciComm’s Science Writers Board Candidate (September 13, 2022)
How To Best Communicate Climate and Inspire Next Generation of Climate Content Creators (September 13, 2022)
Experts on camera: Dr. Kate O’Neill, Plastic recycling (September 13, 2022)
Media Briefing: Youth gender identity and transitioning (September 14, 2022)
Using inclusive language in science writing. Learn how to make your writing bias-free. (September 15, 2022)
Reporting in the Margins of Error (September 16, 2022)
Ensuring America’s Water Security: Designing, Financing & Managing Infrastructure for Climate Adaptation (September 20, 2022)
Live panel debate: Does peer review help or hinder science reporting? (September 21, 2022)
Building Trust in Science Communication: The role of journals and journalists, pre- and post-publication (September 22, 2022)
Infodemic! Is Misinformation Killing Us? (September 22, 2022)
WIT: Words, Ideas, and Thinkers Festival (September 22-25, 2022)
UK Conference of Science Journalists 2022 (September 27, 2022)
Jobs
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Science Writer (London, UK)
Writer (US-based)
Reporter (US-based)
Science Communicator (US-based)
Editor (US-based)
Reporter (Washington, DC)
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