“Researchers write journal articles to share information about what they’ve learned and how they’ve learned it. But those articles are only able to impart that information if people read them.
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This guide, written by science journalism and communication trainer Mohamed Elsonbaty Ramadan, explains science journalism basics for Arabic-langauge speakers. (The resource is written in Arabic.)
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“Communicating about science allows researchers to step away from the minutiae of a subdiscipline and to once again explore the breadth of science more fully through an ever-evolving array of
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“Here is the essential how-to guide for communicating scientific research and discoveries online, ideal for journalists, researchers, and public information officers looking to reach a wide lay audience. Drawing on
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“Many science students find themselves in the midst of graduate school or sitting at a lab bench, and realize that they hate lab work! Even worse is realizing that they
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“In this book, Sheeva Azma, a freelance science writer since 2013, shares her best advice for how to transition from science to science writing. If you’re interested in freelance science
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The Fancy Comma blog includes insights on all things science writing: science communication, science writing, science journalism, science copywriting, and more, updated weekly. It accepts pitches; see https://fancycomma.com/write-for-us/. Fancy Comma
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The author writes: “I am a postdoctoral fellow and freelance science writer and editor. Here, I describe 10 simple rules for planning, developing, and evaluating science communication activities. Though I
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SciShortform published quarterly roundups of exemplary shortform science writing from 2016 through 2020. The volunteer judges highlighted stories in the categories: Short-Shorts, News/Data/Investigative, Single-Study Deep Dives, Essays/Op-eds/Blog posts, Institutional, among
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This visual story, published by the Spanish-language newspaper El País, provides an overview of COVID-19 risk in indoor spaces and how different safety measures may help, based on an estimation
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This story, which drew attention across social media for its catchy headline and meme-worthy subject, was one of four articles that led Sabrina Imbler to win CASW’s Evert Clark/Seth Payne
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Jane Qiu is an independent science writer based in Beijing. She won a AAAS Kavli award in 2016 for this story about environmental issues in Tibet. This annotation was done
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“SciCommBites is a research summary blog site dedicated to digesting and translating the latest science on science communication. It aims to bridge science communication students, researchers, practitioners, and trainers who
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The COVID-19 Data Dispatch is a weekly newsletter and blog focused on tracking the COVID-19 pandemic, written by Betsy Ladyzhets. It includes news updates, data sources, best practices, and more.
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Science writer Marianna Limas rounds up the latest news, opportunities, resources, videos, and events related to science writing and science journalism in this free weekly newsletter. A paid subscriber option
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Get weekly news, events, jobs and more about science communication, writing, and journalism from UK-based science communication professional Heather Doran.
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This story about North Atlantic right whales and the horrible violence they face, written by science writer Ed Yong, appeared in The Atlantic on June 27, 2019. Science writer Nadia
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We all know—or need to know—that race intersects with every facet of American life, from the mundane to the momentous. Where you sleep at night, what you eat, where you
View from Storygram: Annie Waldman’s “How hospitals are failing Black mothers”
Andrew Grant is the online editor at Physics Today. His story won the American Geophysical Union’s 2014 David Perlman Award for Excellence in Science Journalism. This annotation was done by
View from Storygram: Andrew Grant’s “At last, Voyager 1 slips into interstellar space”
Charles Piller is STAT’s West Coast editor and Natalia Bronshtein is STAT’s interactives editor. Together, they won a AAAS Kavli award in 2016 for this story about prestigious medical research
View from Storygram: Charles Piller’s “Failure to Report”
Azeen Ghorayshi, science reporter at BuzzFeed News, won a AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Award in 2013 for this tale of a potential early warning earthquake system. This annotation was done
View from Storygram: Azeen Ghorayshi’s “Sounding the Alarm”
Amanda Gefter is a physics writer and won a AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Award in 2015 for this story, which profiles Walter Pitts, a central figure of early cybernetics research.
View from Storygram: Amanda Gefter’s “The man who tried to redeem the world with logic”
Eric Boodman is a reporter at STAT. He won the Evert Clark/Seth Payne award for young science journalists in 2017 for this story, about delusional parasitosis, “a false belief of
View from Storygram: Eric Boodman’s “Accidental Therapists”
Nicola Twilley is a frequent contributor to The New Yorker magazine and a co-host of Gastropod, an award-winning podcast about the science and history of food. This story covers the
View from Storygram: Nicola Twilley’s “How the first gravitational waves were found”