✍️Science Writing News Roundup #80 (February 15, 2022)
AAAS and Subaru announce 2022 awards honoring outstanding science books for young readers.
AAAS and Subaru announce 2022 awards honoring outstanding science books for young readers. The winners of the 2022 AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize for Excellence in Science Books all explore the wonders of scientific inquiry in different ways. (Image by AAAS)
📣 Opportunities
Apply now: Peggy Girshman Idea Grants due Feb. 21. NASW invites proposals from individuals or groups for grants of up to $15,000 to support projects and programs that will help science writers in their professional lives and/or benefit the field of science writing.
✏️ Articles
1 in 4 journalists surveyed rarely or never seek out peer-reviewed research to learn about beat topics. The results of The Journalist’s Resource 2021 user survey offer insights into how journalists use research, why they don’t do it more often and more.
How different are preprints from their published versions? 2 studies have some answers. Both studies find that most COVID-19 research papers don’t drastically change between the time they are posted on a preprint server and when they're published in an academic journal.
Q&A: Monica Samayoa on climate coverage by and for communities of color. Environment reporter Monica Samayoa shares how she “fell in love” with climate journalism, her tips for finding undercovered stories, and advice on covering climate and environmental impacts on communities of color.
Q&A: Al Jazeera’s Giles Trendle on covering climate across borders and boundaries: Giles Trendle, managing director of Al Jazeera English, talks about what he calls “the tyranny of immediacy,” finding space for climate stories amid otherwise crammed news cycles, and the value of collaboration on the climate story.
Favorite solutions journalism of 2021: 24 standout solutions stories from climate to COVID and beyond.
The Open Notebook and the art of science journalism: The Open Notebook has set itself a critical task: to ensure science, health and environmental journalists have the requisite skills and assistance to convey their message.
How the pandemic remade science journalism: It’s no longer possible to separate science and politics. "Reporting on COVID has fundamentally changed the way I approach science journalism. I have gained a deeper appreciation for scientific knowledge as a process, not merely an end result," writes Tanya Lewis.
💎 News
Here are the first selected titles for the National Book Foundation’s Science + Literature Program. Supported by a three-year $525,000 grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the program recognizes three books each year and aims to foster an engaged understanding of science and technology, with a specific emphasis on the diversity of voices in science writing.
Climate grant illustrates growth in philanthropy-funded news: The Associated Press said Tuesday that it is assigning more than two dozen journalists across the world to cover climate issues, in the news organization’s largest single expansion paid for through philanthropic grants.
The Open Notebook announces three new early-career fellows: With generous support from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund, Celia Ford, Shi En Kim, and Pratik Pawar will each spend ten months working with individual mentors and the TON editorial team to report and write articles on the craft of science journalism for The Open Notebook.
🧭 Resources
Understanding statistical bias when covering the use of genomics in medical studies.
Two writers offer tips for setting up a local writers’ group.
📹 Videos
📅 Events
Debunking conspiracy theories, with Full Fact's Joseph O'Leary (February 16, 2022)
What the Polio Vaccine Can Teach Us About the COVID-19 Vaccine: A Virtual Conversation with Dr. David Oshinsky (February 16, 2022)
Press briefing: The Best Climate Science You’ve Never Heard Of (February 17, 2022)
AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Awards Ceremony (February 18, 2022)
State of Science Writing 2022 (February 22, 2022)
Media briefing: The pandemic’s impacts on children (February 23, 2022)
Inclusive Reporting Masterclass (February 24, 2022)
KSJ@MIT Fact-Checking Workshop (apply by Friday, February 25)
Santa Fe Science Writing Workshop (May 2-7, 2022)
🚀 Jobs and internships
Science Communications Intern, The Faraday Institution, UK
Junior Fellowship: Editorial Content Developer, CERN, Meyrin, Switzerland
Young Graduate Trainee in Science Communication with a Focus on Astrophysics, European Space Agency, Netherlands
Junior Science Communicators, European Science Communication Institute (ESCI) gGmbH, Oldenburg, Germany
Communications Manager, The Chan Zuckerberg Biohub (CZ Biohub), San Francisco, CA
Science Writer/Content Creator, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA
Senior Editor, Quanta Magazine, New York City, NY
Science Writing Intern, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, US-based
Research Writer, University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Education, Madison, WI
Freelance Writer, Advanced Science News
Senior Science Writer & Communications Officer, Scripps Research, US-based
Climate & Environment Editor, The Washington Post, Washington, DC
Physical Science Education Editor, Visionlearning
Science Education Authors, Visionlearning
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