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Carl Zimmer: Life's Edge—The Search for What It Means to Be Alive
The SARS-CoV-2 virus has used humans to make quadrillions of copies of itself. It also mutates. But is it alive? Many virologists say no: viruses get their sustenance only inside their host species’ cells. What is life anyway? In Life’s Edge: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive, Carl Zimmer explores efforts by physicians, scientists, philosophers, & historians to answer this timeless question.
Olivia Campbell: Women in White Coats-How the First Women Doctors Changed the World of Medicine
“You cannot expect us to furnish you with a stick to break our heads with,” one of 29 medical school deans wrote Elizabeth Blackwell, refusing to admit her. But she persisted. Blackwell graduated from Geneva Medical College in 1849 at age 28, the nation’s 1st woman M.D. Others followed, as Olivia Campbell reports in Women in White Coats: How the First Women Doctors Changed the World of Medicine.
Desk Notes Newsletter, February 17, 2021
Inside the February 2021 edition: Read NASW’s first Diversity Report, apply for a Diversity Summer Fellowship, join us for #SciWriCoffee, & more
Joshua Hatch, Nicholas Jackson: KSJ Science Editing Handbook
Journalists and editors: How can you avoid false balance and false equivalency, identify a potential source’s lack of expertise or conflict of interest, improve source diversity, help your audience understand statistics, and use social media effectively? The KSJ Science Editing Handbook, co-edited by Joshua Hatch and Nicholas Jackson, addresses these and many other everyday challenges.
Applications open for 2021 Diversity Summer Fellowship
The National Association of Science Writers is pleased to offer a fellowship for talented students and early-career science communicators undertaking summer internships.
Meet new member Diedtra Henderson
Diedtra (Dee) Henderson, science and communications manager at the Developing Brain Institute at Children’s National Hospital and a new addition to the NASW community, shares #WhySciWri in this short Q&A.
Member Updates
The NASW community celebrates the career milestones and continuing adventures of its professional and student members. Each issue, we share a roundup of awards, promotions, new jobs, travels, retirements, and other transitions of science writers in our community.
Regional Groups
ScienceWriters conferences may only happen once a year, but NASW members can find community in a regional science writers group all year round. These local professional networks—organized independently of NASW but often led by NASW members—provide exciting opportunities for bonding, learning, and sharing our common love for science writing.