✍️Science Writing News Roundup #126
Journalism skills to learn in your free time + Calls for pitches to write about biology, biodiversity, climate change, food and agriculture, space, and science for kids.
Reporter’s Toolbox: New ‘Climate Trace’ Emissions Database Unveiled at COP27. Sure, there’s a lot of hype at climate change COP meetings. But the new data tool hyped by climate maven Al Gore at the recent COP27 may actually help shed light on the darkening global climate picture. Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech.
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📚Articles
How the Covid-19 pandemic pushed preprint-based journalism into the mainstream. “Verifying preprints appeared to be a real challenge for journalists, even for those with advanced science education.”
Post, the latest Twitter alternative, is betting big on micropayments for news. “What I believe consumers want is to be able to get multiple sources of news in their feed.”
📻Videos/Podcasts
“Knowledge is Power”: the Ins and Outs of Science Journalism. In this episode of Science Journal, Christina Paschyn and Scheherazade Safla-Gaffoor talk about science journalism, the training that goes behind it, and the challenges that science journalists face.
Jim Al-Khalili presents the Royal Society Science Book Prize 2022. This year’s shortlisted authors Henry Gee, Professor Rose Anne Kenny, Peter Stott, Frans de Waal, Nick Davidson, Jeremy Farrar and Anjana Ahuja, join Jim Al-Khalili to discuss the unifying themes explored within their books and the integral role that science plays in society and our everyday lives.
A virtual conversation with Ryan Prior, Author of The Long Haul: Solving the Puzzle of the Pandemic’s Long Haulers and How They Are Changing Healthcare Forever.
How to cover the illegal wildlife trade. This entry in Mongabay's free webinar series for journalists unpacks how to cover the illegal wildlife trade.
📌Tweets
📢Resources
6 prescription digital therapeutics story angles to explore. With digital therapeutics expected to be a $56 billion global opportunity by 2025 (according to Insider Intelligence), there are multiple avenues for stories for journalists to explore.
How to communicate scientific uncertainty: A Lifeology and Cochrane collaboration. Sometimes science communicators avoid talking about uncertainty in scientific findings…but they shouldn't! What are some ways you can approach communicating about scientific uncertainty? Explore this and get an introduction with this free course.
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🌍Opportunities
Calls for pitches to write about biology, biodiversity, climate change, food and agriculture, space, and science for kids + Science journalism fellowships and grants 👉Bonus content for monthly supporters.
📣Events
Covering Maternal Health in Post-Roe America (December 5, 2022)
Science Writers Association of the Rocky Mountains holiday party (December 5, 2022)
Beyond COP27: Who will pay for climate solutions? (December 7, 2022)
Experts on Camera, Dr. Seema Lakdawala: Influenza (December 8, 2022)
Science essentials for news editors (December 13, 2022)
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