✍️Science Writing News Roundup #137
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🪶Resources
The New Notion AI: Notion AI opened to the public to put a digital assistant inside your documents. The AI can offer writing or editing suggestions, summarize notes, or generate idea lists. Read on for how to make the most of Notion AI.
How to find scientists to interview👉Bonus content for monthly supporters.
👩💻Articles
How I wrote a popular science book about consciousness — and why. Neuroscientist Anil Seth draws on his 20-year career to reveal that the mystery of consciousness need not be beyond science.
AHCJ awards 2023 Health Performance Reporting Fellowships. The Association of Health Care Journalists has awarded the 2023 Reporting Fellowships on Health Care Performance to eight mid-career journalists who will pursue five yearlong reporting projects examining health care systems and health equity.
🌍Videos/Podcasts
Telling Science Stories Episode 3: Health Journalism with Naseem Miller. In this episode, Alice Fleerackers and Naseem Miller, a journalist at Journalist's Resource, discuss the components of a good health news story.
Promoting Science through Journalism with Dan Robitzski. Dan is an award-winning journalist with articles published in Scientific American, LiveScience, the World Economic Forum, and more.
Challenging Climate: Andrew Revkin on climate journalism. In this episode, Revkin shares his remarkable journalistic experiences, such as reporting from the Arctic, and how media and the climate discussion have evolved throughout his career.
Dark Side of Science – Misconduct in Biomedical Literature. Science journalists rely on academic research and papers for articles but are they sufficiently scrutinized and what happens when they are retracted?
🌤️ Opportunities
Could you be the next ABSW National Young Science Writer of the year? The Association of British Science Writers invites students from non-selective state funded schools, or those who are home schooled with disabilities and who cannot attend school in person, aged 14-16 years, to submit an 800-word essay on any subject in science, technology, engineering and/or mathematics.
DW Akademie launches science and health journalism course [MENA]. DW Akademie launches the new edition of its Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on science and health journalism in the Arabic language.
Calls for pitches, grants, fellowships, and training opportunities for writers👉Bonus content for monthly supporters.
🎟️Events
If you plan to attend the 2023 AAAS Annual Meeting on March 2-5 at the Washington Convention Center, the AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Awards invite you to attend a screening of their virtual award ceremony for 2022 winners on Friday, March 3 at 11:30 a.m. U.S. Eastern time in Room 156 of the convention center. A celebratory wine-and-cheese reception will follow at 2:30 p.m. in the lounge area of the convention center Expo Hall. If you are not attending the meeting, you can watch a livestream of the 11:30 a.m. ceremony here: https://engage.aaas.org/3WO5pKP
Blazing Temperatures, Broken Records: Responding to the Global Heat Crisis (February 27, 2023)
How to generate trust, insight, and relationships through solutions journalism and community engagement (February 28, 2023)
Author Talk featuring Jamie Zvirzdin, author of "Subatomic Writing." (February 28, 2023)
Collateral Damage: How the Opioid Crisis Devastates Families (February 28, 2023)
Media briefing: Eating disorders in the United States (February 28, 2023)
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Jobs and internships
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