ScienceWriters Magazine, Summer/Fall 2022
Read select features and departments from the Summer/Fall 2022 issue of ScienceWriters magazine.
Featured news
#SciWri22 conference grants available: Apply by August 30
Each year NASW offers a number of travel grants to help colleagues in need attend our ScienceWriters conference and other professional development opportunities. This year we are supporting needs for both virtual and in-person attendees. In addition, our colleagues and friends at the Council for Advancement of Science Writing are offering travel grants.
COVID-19 policy for ScienceWriters2022 annual meeting announced
Vaccination and masking requirements for attending the Memphis portion of ScienceWriters2022 are now available online.
Sheeva Azma—Amplifying Science Communication with Public Relations
More frequent use of podcasts, social media, and other public relations tactics could help science writers gain sources and clients and broaden their audience, Sheeva Azma asserts in Amplifying Science Communication with Public Relations. Scientists can benefit from using PR tactics, too, she says, to improve public understanding of science and foster collaborations to advance research.
2022 Freelance Science Writer Compensation Survey
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Rebecca E. Hirsch—Sensational Senses: Amazing Ways Animals Perceive the World
Rattlesnakes use heat sensors to locate warm-blooded prey. African elephants have powerful odor detectors that enable them to find foods they like in a maze. Electric eels stun their quarry with high-voltage blasts. Some animals owe their survival to senses humans lack, Rebecca E. Hirsch reports in Sensational Senses: Amazing Ways Animals Perceive the World, her book for readers in Grades 3-8.
Sneed B. Collard III—Little Killers: The Ferocious Lives of Puny Predators
Ladybird beetles, aka ladybugs, with their bright colors and polka dots, may be “the world’s cutest killers,” Sneed B. Collard III writes in his amply illustrated Little Killers: The Ferocious Lives of Puny Predators. These and other tiny predators, some microscopic in size, use poisons, teeth, hooks, and other weapons to hunt, says new NASW member Collard, author of 85+ children’s science books.
NASW urging government action on missing British journalist Dominic Phillips
National Association of Science Writers (NASW) submits letter urging government action on missing British journalist Dominic Phillips.
Mid-career mentoring seminar 6: From writer to editor. May 26, 2022. Featuring Siri Carpenter and Rachel Zamzow. Organized and moderated by Bethany Brookshire and Rodrigo Pérez Ortega on behalf of NASW's Journalism Committee. This video was produced for NASW members and should not be distributed or screened elsewhere.