#science writer

[cozycononline]

We have been uploading more panels from 2024's Dinosaur themed convention event, including the panel "How to Survive an Extinction" by Riley Black / restingdinoface.bsky.social at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMDWhrmZArk

[pirateluthier]

news from the publishing world

News this week is that Springer Nature is selling off both Scientific American and Spektrum der Wissenschaft - and to different buyers as w

[atlinmerrick]

"'Teach the controversy' is a technique beloved of cranks, from American creationists to anti-vaccination campaigners… They know that in our modern media, truth is triangulated, halfway between the two most extreme views: doubt alone gets you close to winning." — Ben Goldacre, I Think You'll Find it's a Bit More Complicated Than That

[thoughtportal]

Always Take Notes – Rebecca Giggs, author – 59:04

Simon and Rachel talk with the nature writer Rebecca Giggs. Rebecca, who is from Perth, Australia, writes about how people feel towards animals in a time of technological and ecological change. Her work has appeared in the Atlantic, the New York Times Magazine, Granta, and in anthologies including Best Australian Essays and Best Australian Science Writing. We spoke with Rebecca about “Fathoms: the World in the Whale”, her debut non-fiction book, her exhaustive research process and about the Australian literary scene.

You can find us online at alwaystakenotes.com, on Twitter @takenotesalways, and on Facebook at facebook.com/alwaystakenotes. Our crowdfunding page is patreon.com/alwaystakenotes. Always Take Notes is presented by Simon Akam and Rachel Lloyd, and produced by Artemis Irvine. Our music is by Jessica Dannheisser and our logo was designed by James Edgar.

[quotesfromall]

if you don't make other interested people aware of what you have learned, you haven't learned anything

Mikaela Huntzinger, How to do Ecology

[tinkerready]

Writing about ovarian cancer and missing a friend -- and science writer --who died from it.

Writing about ovarian cancer and missing a friend — and science writer –who died from it.

Could not help thinking about my friend Caroline Dopyera when I was working on this story. She died in 1997 from ovarian cancer, not long after this picture was taken.  She was an energetic science writer who came to The News & Observer on a AAAS fellowship and stayed on. This picture was taken when we met up in Malaysia. She had been in Indonesia reporting on orangutans and I was in Cambodia on…

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[disposableunderground]

The Affordable Rock 'n' Roll act playing at a DCSWA party in Washington DC. The act featured the director of the NIH and other NIH workers.