Questions? A new page has been posted to update attendees traveling to ScienceWriters2012. Please click here for travel, event, and shuttle details. If you missed out on registration for this year's meeting, stay tuned to sciencewriters2012.org or follow #sciwri12 for updates during the meeting.
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Is this your first ScienceWriters meeting? Do you have experiences to share from previous meetings? NASW Member Michael Newman is once again organizing a chance for first-time meeting attendees to get together and have their questions answered by veterans. Read on to learn more about how you can get your questions answered and meet new colleagues in an informal setting.
Registration for ScienceWriters2012 is open now at sciencewriters2012.org. An early-bird discount is available until September 14. Registration closes on October 10.
Help steer the direction and content of the NASW Workshops, part of ScienceWriters2012 by joining NASW's Annual Meeting Committee. Read on for more info. It's a fun way to get involved and have an impact on NASW's offerings.
It's been two weeks since ScienceWriters2011 and you can see reports, photos, and (soon) videos on our site. Other conferencegoers have posted their reviews as well. Michelle Nijhuis reflects on her journalistic specialization panel. Cristine Russell discusses managing your social media time. Also: Denise Graveline and Christie Aschwanden.
From New Horizons Program Director Paul Raeburn: ScienceWriters 2011, including the 49th annual New Horizons in Science, is now written in the dust of the Arizona desert.
Reports are coming in quickly from the ScienceWriters2011 conference in Flagstaff, Ariz. You can read the first seven reports on our conference reports page. They include "Crossing over to non-science publications," "You're not going to print that, are you? Handling difficult interviewees," and "Exploring longform narrative story structure." More reports will be posted on Monday. Also, it's time to start thinking about ScienceWriters2012.
Field trips on forest and range science management near our Flagstaff, Ariz., meeting site, workshops on audio and video production, and a welcome reception are among today's highlights at "a meeting for science writers, by science writers." If you are unable to attend, you can follow the Twitter hashtag #sciwri11 or just check this page, where Purdue University is aggregating tweets. Watch this space over the weekend for further reports.
Attendees at last year's ScienceWriters meeting mingled in the shadow of perhaps the most famous of all dinosaur fossils, the Peabody Museum's 67-foot brontosaurus (or apatosaurus, if you prefer). The man who brought it to Yale, O.C. Marsh, was among the nation's earliest celebrity scientists, largely because of his rivalry with fellow paleontologist E.D. Cope. In this post from Wired.com, Brian Switek discusses Marsh's life before the Cope feud hit the newspapers.
We were delighted to receive an outpouring of response from members interested in assisting with choosing content and structuring the flow of the 2011 workshops, part of ScienceWriters2011. While unable to accept all of these offers of assistance, we are pleased to have an excellent group.