Desk Notes Newsletter, May 19, 2021
Inside the May 2021 edition: Desk Notes: Join us for events and networking, sign up as a student or volunteer for our Perlman Virtual Mentoring Program, meet a new member, & more.
Featured news
Adam Rogers—Full Spectrum: How the Science of Color Made Us Modern
Millions of people saw a dress in a 2015 internet photo as blue, millions more as white. “The way people see color, with their eyes and with their mind, was the biggest news story of the day,” Adam Rogers says. We all process the physics of light and chemistry of pigments differently to create billions of individual palettes, he reports in Full Spectrum: How the Science of Color Made Us Modern.
Meet new member Vanessa Wamsley
Vanessa Wamsley, a Nebraska-based science writer and editor, shares #WhySciWri in this short Q&A.
Sign up for the David Perlman Virtual Mentoring Program
This summer, NASW's Education Committee is once again offering an online virtual summer mentoring program for graduate and undergraduate students. We invite students and volunteer mentors to sign up by June 1.
Zoom happy hour with Latin American science communicators
Please join us on Wednesday, May 26 at 6 p.m. Eastern Time for a Zoom happy hour event to get to know some of our Latin American science communication colleagues.
The Golden Age of Science Video
Join the Video Consortium and the National Association of Science Writers as we explore an exciting new chapter in science, media, and video innovation. Our event will explore the evolution of science video, from NOVA to YouTube to TikTok, and how three expert creators are thriving in a competitive world of facts, narrative innovation and visual creativity.
Liz Heinecke: The Kitchen Pantry Scientist—Biology for Kids
Kids can gain insight into neurons & neural networks by making pipe cleaner models. They can swab doorknobs & grow bacteria and fungi on agar plates. In The Kitchen Pantry Scientist: Biology for Kids, Liz Heinecke introduces young readers to 25 biologists & provides step-by-step photo-illustrated guides to home experiments based on each biologist’s work plus facts on the biology behind the fun.