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It’s been a busy fall for NASW: the new website is live, we had over 600 of you attend an energetic ScienceWriters2010 in New Haven. Thank you to everyone who helped out with these projects, attended the meeting, and has volunteered their time. In this season of thanks, we are very grateful for our members.
The Yale Forum on Climate Change & The Media has a two-part series on leading climate scientists’ and science journalists’ “Lessons Learned” from the climate change controversies of the past 12 months.
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.
Can a scientific organization demand coverage in return for admitting writers to its meetings without charge? That was the issue for a freelancer who wanted to attend the American Cetacean Society's annual meeting in Monterey, Calif. Curtis Brainard of the Columbia Journalism Review writes this about the controversy.
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.
Slidecasts and videos of six ScienceWriters2010 sessions Saturday in suddenly snowy New Haven, Conn., have now been posted on the ScienceWriters2010 site. You can also read about the weekend's events on Twitter, Facebook, and the fellows' blog.
The National Association of Science Writers is meeting at Yale, and you can be there even if you're not there. Plus post-election postmortem.
The newly redesigned National Association of Science Writers web site has some major new features as well as refined versions of tried-and-true features from our previous site. Here's a brief guide to what's new, what's moved, and what's changed on our site. If you have any questions that aren't answered here, send them to cybrarian@nasw.org and we'll get them answered.
The ScienceBlogs blowup, profiles of the Science in Society Journalism Award winners, and a print journalist's adventures in video, and reviews of books available for sale in the NASW bookstore.