✍️Science Writing News Roundup #145
AAAS Announces 2023 Mass Media Fellows + Ten Journalists Named to 2023-24 KSJ Fellowship Class
AAAS Announces 2023 Mass Media Fellows: Twenty-one scientists will bring their scientific expertise to newsrooms around the United States as they spend their summers reporting, writing and producing the news as the 2023 class of AAAS Mass Media Fellows.
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📻News
Ten Journalists Named to 2023-24 KSJ Fellowship Class. Hailing from seven countries and five continents, the journalists will converge on Cambridge to learn from some of the world’s top scientists and storytellers.
Encouraging a scientific habit of the mind: Abdullahi Tsanni wants to broaden understanding and expand coverage of science research in Africa.
Abdullahi Tsanni. (Photo: Jon Sachs)
🔭Resources
Verifying climate claims: In this course, you'll learn how to verify content and claims about climate change.
Rules for prescribing controlled drugs via telemedicine: A research roundup and explainer.
Disparities in HIV prevalence, prevention and treatment: An explainer and research roundup.
💡Articles
Why AI Writing Tools Are Useless for Science News: Matt Shipman had a lot of discussions with professional colleagues recently about how/whether AI tools can be used to write about health, science, technology or other areas of research. TL;DR: nope.
Writing Opinion Pieces as a Journalist: By centering their identity or relevant expertise, science journalists can use opinion pieces to present viewpoints that are informed and nuanced.
On TV, skepticism about the science of climate change is dying out — but whataboutism is filling the void. For some time now, researchers have suggested that the balance of arguments propagated by climate skeptics or denialists has shifted from denying or undermining climate science to challenging policy solutions designed to reduce emissions.
🗺️Videos
Covering Psychedelics: Tim Ferriss + the UC Berkeley Psychedelic Journalism Fellows
Wastewater Surveillance: A Virtual Conversation with Dr. Sarah Kane of GT Molecular
Climate journalism that works: what newsrooms need to know to have an impact
Climate reporting literacy: what journalists need to learn and communities want to know
🏆Opportunities
World Federation of Science Journalists: Apply to become an officer.
Calls for pitches to write about natural history, innovation, health, and more + Grants and fellowships for writers👉Bonus content for monthly supporters.
🥂Events
Professional Development Day 2023 (In-Person + Virtual) (Washington, DC | May 6 @ 9:00 am - 7:00 pm). Professional Development Day, a career development event for science writers, has been DCSWA’s signature event since 2006. Every year, over 100 science reporters, PIOs, editors, radio and video producers, and freelancers gather for a fun and exciting day of networking and skill-building.
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📒Jobs
Scientific Writer/Communications Manager at The Institute for Protein Innovation (Boston, MA)
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