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NASW student programs during virtual AAAS 2021 annual meeting

The National Association of Science Writers (NASW) is sponsoring virtual student programming to coincide with the AAAS 2021 annual meeting.

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$15,000 in Idea Grant Funding Awarded

Five projects aimed at fostering diversity in science writing and helping science writers navigate complex data on the pandemic were selected to receive Peggy Girshman Idea Grants.

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Using data to drive stories

At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, a small team sought to track the virus’ spread across the United States by documenting testing rates. Since April, The COVID Tracking Project has grown to hundreds of volunteers that compile state-level COVID-19 data trends each day.

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Tinsley Davis named 2020 AAAS Fellow

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Science writers urged to tell stories that include Indigenous perspectives

Science, much like history, is rooted in colonialism. To reckon with this, Indigenous scientists and science writers are calling on non-native science writers to amplify Indigenous voices and decolonize science.

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The delicate art of covering sexual harassment in academia

A ScienceWriters2020 session titled “Investigating sexual harassment in science," probed the responsibilities of journalists in exposing such cases to the public eye.

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Investigating and covering emerging, controversial and contested disease stories

“How do you report on [diseases] where a lot of the tools that are often available to us as science writers, like the published scientific literature, are just not there?” asked Ed Yong, a science journalist for The Atlantic. Yong posed the question at the start of the ScienceWriters2020 session "Covering Emerging, Controversial, and Contested Disease."

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