Retiring Council for the Advancement of Science Writing Executive Director Ben Patrusky was honored during a surprise event during ScienceWriters2013. Patrusky was hailed during a celebration at the Harn Museum of Art, at the University of Florida, and presented with a citation that acknowledged his “decades of brilliant contributions to the council, to science writing, and to the public understanding of science and technology.”

Compound Interest, a blog by a British graduate chemist and teacher, has a poster with everything you need to know about evaluating stories on scientific research. "The vast majority of people will get their science news from online news site articles, and rarely delve into the research that the article is based on," its anonymous author writes. Red flags listed in the poster include "sensational headlines," "misinterpreted results," and "speculative language."

Maria Popova quotes Mary Gaitskill on the sources of the writer's muse, including this vivid passage: "It's why children like to draw pictures of houses, animals, and Mom; it's an affirmation of their presence in the corporeal world … For years, everything just pours into you, and all you can do is gurgle or scream until finally one day you can sit up and hold your crayon and draw your picture and thus shout back, Yes! I hear! I see! I feel! This is what it's like!"

Maybe not, Kent Anderson writes writes on the Scholarly Kitchen. Anderson argues that Creative Commons licenses, at least as currently used, are just a confusing and ineffective layer on top of existing copyright law: "Unfortunately, Creative Commons licenses are relatively opaque and difficult to differentiate for the average user. Ask a researcher their initial reaction to a CC BY vs. a CC BY-SA vs. a CC BY-NC-SA license, and you're going to be met with blank stares."