Meet new member Greg Cima
Greg Cima, senior news reporter for the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association and a new member of the NASW community, shares #WhySciWri in this short Q&A.
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Matthew Bettelheim: Wildlife Confessional
In The Wildlife Confessional—Kick It in the Ice Hole and Other Stories, NASW member and wildlife biologist Matthew Bettelheim and the late writer/wildlife biologist Thomas Roberts offer a multi-authored collection of tales and reflections on encounters with birds, bears, and more in diverse locales. Funds from book sales will help support student scholarships, grants, and training opportunities.
John Galbraith Simmons, translator, Aline and Valcour
Science writer John Galbraith Simmons and his wife Jocelyne Geneviève Barque provide the first English translation of a 900-page epistolary novel by the French author Marquis de Sade, written while Sade was imprisoned in the 1580s. Aline and Valcour combines picaresque adventures, satire, and black humor to illuminate societal injustices that persist today, including exploitation of women.
Sidney Perkowitz: Real Scientists Don’t Wear Ties
Physicist Sidney Perkowitz began writing about science for non-scientists in 1989, the year he celebrated his 50th birthday and published his 100th academic paper. In "Real Scientists Don’t Wear Ties," he includes 50 of his favorite pop-sci reports on topics such as illuminating light, brain injuries in soccer, Frankenstein turns 200, Hollywood science, and, yes, how scientists dress for success.
Desk Notes Newsletter, November 20, 2019
Featured in the November issue: #SciWri19 meeting coverage by our NASW Travel Fellows, McGurgan Award winners, our newest board member, and more.
Gene Levinson: Rethinking Evolution
The classical concept of Darwinian natural selection does not encompass the varieties of new structures and functions that arise when separate entities interact in useful ways, Gene Levinson asserts in "Rethinking Evolution: The Revolution That’s Hiding in Plain Sight." His updated evolutionary theory, he says, reflects recent discoveries in molecular, cellular, and developmental biology.
Meet new member Scott Michaux
Scott Michaux, a research writer at Georgia State University and a new member of the NASW community, shares #WhySciWri in this short Q&A.
Meet Jennifer Cox, NASW’s newest board member
Jennifer Cox, who recently retired as a science writer and communications director at North Carolina State University, has been elected to the NASW Board as a board-member-at-large.
