On science blogs this week: Depressed
Depression, bad and/or good. Plus environmental blog mortality, health care debate morality, research paper absurdity, fetal cosmetology
On science blogs this week: Summits
Health careless still, Olympic science, how to convert: The Obama administration's health care summit of yesterday (Thursday) is history, although the analysis will doubtless go on and on and on.
2010 Travel fellows at AAAS
NASW awarded travel grants to 10 undergraduates interested in science writing to attend the AAAS meeting in San Diego Feb. 18-22. The fellows reported on some of the scientific sessions that they find most interesting and newsworthy. You can read their reports here.
February 24, 2010 6:37 AMOn science blogs this week: Tut-tut & Tutu
Medical marijuana, Olympic physics with Apolo Ohno, genes in Africa, AAAS in San Diego, geophysics in Haiti
From ScienceWriters: Why Futurity fails
Born as the idea of a handful of senior university PR officials and billed as an alternative source for science news in a world supposedly hemorrhaging science writers, the Futurity website offers up four or five new research stories daily, fresh from the country's major research universities.
On science blogs this week: Darwin & evolution ...
... & conservation biology & human evolution & language & diplomacy. How not to write about observational/association studies. Deric Bownds' Mindblog & oxytocin & vasopressin & love's distresses.
February 12, 2010 6:42 AM - Continue readingReminder of NASW special meeting
Join us Saturday, Feb. 20, 2010, at 4 p.m. in Room 8 of the San Diego Convention Center (San Diego, CA) to vote on proposed bylaw changes. Please note two changes from what appears in ScienceWriters: The room has changed, and the resolution has changed. See the details here. All members are welcome, but students may not vote. If you cannot attend in person, issue your proxy online here by Monday, Feb. 15.
February 11, 2010 5:12 PM