Please reshare! Here's the first in a series of #sciencewriting resources I'm posting to my website: A list of science writing/communication internships and fellowships.
https://brittanytrang.com/science-journalism-fellowships-and-internships/
#sciencejournalism #scicomm #scicommjobs #journalismjobs #journojobs #sciencecommunication #sciwri #stem
The (slow) thread collecting all my features published in #CurrentBiology in 2026 starts here. #ProseAndPassion #Science #ScienceWriter #ScienceJournalism #biology #ecology The old thread for 2025 is here: https://mastodon.social/@proseandpassion/113782468349225978
Author Sophie McBain wasn't on my radar screen, though it turns out I had read some of her pieces before.
Good journalists / longform writers are scarce. We want to recognise them.
Here's her website:
https://sophiemcbain.com/319-2/
#GoodJournalists #ScienceJournalism #longform #LongReads #SophieMcBain
A new technique for detecting unknown and unlooked-for chemicals is revealing dozens of contaminants in alligators, sea lions and condors
Open Letter to Anti-Trans Science Journalists
Posted by Matthew R. Francis over on Bluesky. I searched for a Mastodon account for him, but no luck.
https://galileospendulum.org/2025/06/05/open-letter-to-anti-trans-science-journalists/
"While the tone and style of ChatGPT summaries were often a good match for human-authored content, "concerns about the factual accuracy in LLM-authored content" were prevalent, the journalists wrote. Even using ChatGPT summaries as a "starting point" for human editing "would require just as much, if not more, effort as drafting summaries themselves from scratch" due to the need for "extensive fact-checking," they added.
These results might not be too surprising given previous studies that have shown AI search engines citing incorrect news sources a full 60 percent of the time. Still, the specific weaknesses are all the more glaring when discussing scientific papers, where accuracy and clarity of communication are paramount.
In the end, the AAAS journalists concluded that ChatGPT "does not meet the style and standards for briefs in the SciPak press package." But the white paper did allow that it might be worth running the experiment again if ChatGPT "experiences a major update." For what it's worth, GPT-5 was introduced to the public in August."
#AI #GenerativeAI #Science #ChatGPT #LLMs #Chatbots #Journalism #Media #News #ScienceJournalism
the one in which I observe myself #writing about #science:
https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2025/09/in-statu-nascendi.html #sciencejournalism #communication
The types of programs mandated for domestic abusers need an overhaul, many experts think.
https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/the-mind/2025/new-strategies-to-reduce-intimate-partner-violence
#knowablemagazine
#sciencejournalism
Some nice news: We are FOLIO: 2025 Awards finalists!
Please join us in congratulating the recognized writers and artists, and be sure to explore their excellent work.
I thought this #Guardian / #WaPo piece by some Peter Brennan might be worth a glance, though expecting only 60% stuff everyone knows (or should know), and 40% tedious irrelevant human interest guff. Which just proves that you can never set one's expectations low enough.
Well, I made it as far as the fourth sentence before deciding I'd be better off slamming my genitals in the fridge door.
"Seeing as it’s all carbon-based life here on Earth, these extreme disruptions to the carbon cycle express themselves as, and are better known as, “mass extinctions”.
/o\
*thud, *thud, *thud goes head on desk.
I fucking despair sometimes, I really do. How is it that clueless fuckwits get paid good money to generate such atrocious rubbish?
Widely panned arsenic life paper gets retracted—15 years after brouhaha https://arstechni.ca/KWH5 #sciencejournalism #Science #arsenic #journal #Health
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✅ Covering Climate Now partners can find us in the Sharing Library
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I've had another article published in @IEEESpectrum (pinch me - I have loved this magazine for two decades). This one is on a very cool #NZ company turning olivine into multiple valuable materials, while producing no waste
Latest blog post--science, this time:
last year's feature about ancient #Australia is now in the #OpenArchives:
https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2024/06/ancient-australia.html #science #CurrentBiology #ScienceJournalism #ScienceWriter #ancientDNA #anthropology #humans #migration
David M. Ewalt named new Editor-in-Chief of Scientific American, bringing extensive media experience and passion for science communication to the historic publication #ScienceJournalism #ScientificAmerican
It has gotten to the point that even good science reporting sucks. It’s simplified down to the usual 8th grade vocab & comprehension, so I’m left wondering thru all the oversimplification what exactly was discovered?! Sure in this wondrous Information Age I could look up the paper, but, like, not while driving & listening to the radio where I heard the science report. #dumbingdown #sciencejournalism #moreinfoplease
👀 On our radar: Beware pre-shredded lettuce
💬 “Perhaps ironically, the bags of shredded lettuce that promise to be pre-washed and ready to eat are riskier than whole heads of romaine.”
✍️ Nicholas Florko, @TheAtlantic
🔗 https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2025/05/bagged-romaine-lettuce-food-safety/682734/
#PublicHealth #ScienceJournalism #ScienceMastodon #TheAtlantic
A nice shoutout from the Association of Health Care Journalists in their recent tip sheet, “Covering the ongoing bird flu story as it unfolds.” Thanks for including us!
Explore more:
👉 Read the tip sheet:
https://healthjournalism.org/blog/2025/05/covering-the-ongoing-bird-flu-story-as-it-unfolds/
👉 Check out our explainer:
https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/health-disease/2025/scientific-facts-about-h5n1-bird-flu
#AHCJ #PulicHealth #ScienceJournalism #H5N1 #BirdFlu #KnowableMagazine
