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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.

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.