💡 Opportunities
The Council for the Advancement of Science Writing is offering fellowships of $5,000 to working journalists and students who have been accepted for enrollment in graduate-level programs in science writing.
Summer fellowship for science journalists [Worldwide]. The National Association of Science Writers (NASW) is offering the 2022 NASW Diversity Summer Fellowship.
📜 Articles
Q&A: John Mecklin on climate change and other existential threats. "I honestly believe that people can manage the things they create," said John Mecklin, editor-in-chief of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.
Doctor turned science journalist launches first newspaper of its kind. Meet Syriacus Buguzi – a pioneering medical doctor turned science journalist from Tanzania. He is making the headlines after spawning the first Swahili language science and technology newspaper, MwanaSayansi.
Interview: Mahdi Garba and Modupe Abidakun on the tragic origins of vaccine hesitancy in Nigeria. Abdullahi Tsanni spoke with Garba and Abidakun about how they pitched, developed, and reported the feature “Vaccine Hesitancy—the Pfizer Kano Case,” and why the story was important to tell.
🗺️ News
Amber Dance to direct CASW New Horizons in Science program. CASW is pleased to welcome science journalist Amber Dance as director of New Horizons in Science, CASW’s annual program of science briefings for science writers.
📲 Resources
Nuclear weapons: Why reducing the risk of nuclear war should be a key concern of our generation. The consequences of nuclear war would be devastating. Much more should – and can – be done to reduce the risk that humanity will ever fight such a war.
🎨 Videos
📣 Events
The Power of Narrative conference (March 18-19, 2022)
Kavli Conversations on Science Communication | Animating Science: Design and Motion in STEM Storytelling (March 21, 2022)
Connections, Conversations and Science Communication – The future of public trust in times of uncertainty (March 21-28, 2022)
Telling everyday people's science stories (March 22, 2022)
Finding and working with agents...or not (March 23, 2022)
SCIENCE TALK '22 (March 23-25, 2022)
How to Break Into Content Strategy (March 29, 2022)
The Society of Environmental Journalists Annual Conference (March 30-April 3, Houston, Texas)
Who Gets to Speak in News Coverage? Solidarity Reporting on Trans Issues (March 31, 2022)
📜 Jobs and internships
SciLine Intern, SciLine, Remote, US
Experts On Camera Intern, SciLine, Remote, US
Communications Manager, The Roslin Institute | The University of Edinburgh, UK
Staff Writer/Editor, Quanta Magazine, New York City, NY
Science Writer Intern, Johns Hopkins Health System, Baltimore, MD
Spanish-speaking summer reporting intern, Environmental Health News
Newsperson, Health and Science, The Associated Press, US-based
Research Highlights Editors, The Plant Journal, Remote
Communications Coordinator, Complexly, Missoula, MT
Script Editor, Complexly, US-based
Freelance Fact Checker, Complexly, US-based
Climate Change Intern, IAEA, Vienna, Austria
Science Communications Officer, The London Institute of Medical Sciences, London, UK
Communications and Engagement Officer, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, London, UK
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