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Virtual Networking Social: Freelance Science Writers Meetup

This latest NASW Virtual Networking Social is brought to you by the NASW Freelance Committee.

#SciWri23 conference attendance grants available from NASW and CASW

For ScienceWriters2023 this year, NASW is providing Community Support Grants for both virtual and in-person attendees. In addition, our colleagues at the Council for Advancement of Science Writing are once again offering travel grants. Applications due Aug. 10.

“We’re glad to have you!” Our new Welcome Coordinators consider conference vibe for SciWri23

Thanks to the enthusiasm of NASW member volunteers, the ScienceWriters2023 national meeting in Colorado and online will see several new efforts welcoming first-time attendees and other newcomers to our professional community.

Emily Monosson—Blight: Fungi and the Coming Pandemic

“Infectious fungi and fungus-like pathogens are the most devastating disease agents known on the planet,” Emily Monosson asserts. While most of the six million different species of fungi are harmless, some kill their host plants and animals, including humans. In Blight: Fungi and the Coming Pandemic, Monosson offers examples of fungal spread & details scientists’ efforts to stop fungal invasions.

Greg Skomal with Ret Talbot (NASW Member)—Chasing Shadows: My Life Tracking the Great White Shark

The resurgence of white sharks along the northeastern US seacoast, a conservation success story, has sparked worries about public safety. Fatal attacks, while rare, have occurred. In Chasing Shadows: My Life Tracking the Great White Shark, Greg Skomal, Massachusetts Shark Research Program director, and science writer Ret Talbot, provide perspective on advances in understanding shark biology.

Ilana Yurkiewicz, MD—Fragmented: A Doctor’s Quest to Piece Together American Health Care

Uncertainties in medicine arise from both what is unknowable and what is missing, Ilana Yurkiewicz, MD, asserts in Fragmented: A Doctor’s Quest to Piece Together American Health Care. Seemingly mundane clinical decisions may have profound effects later on, Yurkiewicz says. She offers vignettes that include care her father received after a cardiac arrest & proposes ways to improve medical culture.

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Marie Zhuikov—Meander North

Lifelong Minnesota science writer Marie Zhuikov takes readers along as she explores her state’s peatland bogs on snowshoes, hikes to ice-filled sea caves on the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore, and paddles a canoe around remote lakes. In Meander North, a book of collected blog posts, she also reports on dog-walking despite 30-below windchills, wildlife encounters, and community life.

Sneed B. Collard III—Border Crossings

Two endangered ocelots seeking food and mates attempt a journey between the US and Mexico. The border wall blocks one while the other crosses freely where wall construction is incomplete. In Border Crossings, Sneed B. Collard III explores the border wall’s threat to the survival of native animals and plants, many found nowhere else on Earth. Collard is the author of 85+ children’s science books.

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