President Nancy Shute called the meeting to order at 8:15 AM.
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It's all brain all the time at the Society for Neuroscience. Celebrities and the brain. Female orgasm and What Women Want: The truth about premature ejaculation. Plus oxytocin, grad students, optogenetics, jet lag, and improving memory.
Free online: Wise advice from your science-writing peers, direct from ScienceWriters2010, the NASW annual meeting, Plus waiting for ScienceOnline2011. Plus the truth about Daylight Saving Time: If you spring forward, you might fall back.
It was not Cathy Farrar's goal to transform her high school physics students into science journalists — at least not at first. She just wanted to encourage them to enter a writing contest.
Saturday I attended a couple of workshops about "New Media" ("Experiments in new media: Beautiful failures and startling successes" before lunch and "Rebooting science journalism: Adapting to the new media landscape" afterwards.) Together they convinced me that neither revolution nor evolution are the right metaphors for the impact of digital media.
Here are a few links to resources that were mentioned during "Get the Numbers Right."
What does a tweeter like me add to a meeting like ScienceWriters2010? As promised, you can compare the twitter vs. blog coverage.
Three new online ventures in publishing have two things in common: top editors with old-school, self-described dead-tree credentials, and decent traffic — 150,000 or more unique views per month — for even long-form narratives. And all are managing to avoid or not rely on advertising to pay the bills.
Long time medical reporters shared savvy tips on how to make the most of a medical conference this afternoon at Science Writers 2010 in New Haven, CT, while a scientific press room manager revealed tips for public information officers on how to garner attention for their stories.