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Their So-Called Journalism, or What I Saw at the Women’s Mags
I’ve been needing to get this out in the open since the excellent Science Online 2012 session that Maryn McKenna and Elizabeth Devita-Raeburn organized, on writing about science for women’s magazines....
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OMG, This Blog Post Is WAAAY 2 Long 4 My Girl Brain 2 Follow
I’m weighing in late, I realize, on the brouhaha over this year’s ASME awards, but since the actual awards haven’t taken place yet, I figure there’s still time to say a thing or two. (If you don’t...
View ArticleA Few More Thoughts on the “Byline Gap”
Prompted by an interesting email exchange, I thought I’d wade back into this whole “byline gap” issue once more. In my previous post, I wrote that the absence of women among this year’s nominees for...
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What’s in a (Gene) Name?
Back in February of last year when I started this blog, I wrote about how important stories are to communicating science. I told of a Harvard professor who tried to make Drosophila genetics resonate...
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To Sum Up: We Are Screwed. Questions?
I love ecology. I can geek out all day on patterns in nature: ecosystem services, food webs, eco-evolutionary dynamics, nutrient cycles, range shifts. But I’ve spent all week at the Ecological Society...
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Farish Jenkins Was Truly Sui Generis
Sometimes you can know someone only barely, and still feel the weight of loss when they die. I only met Farish Jenkins three times, but I’m heavyhearted after learning that he passed away this...
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A Tiny Icon of the Conservation Movement
In the December issue of Wired magazine, I’ve got a story about saving species in the DNA era, a time when longstanding ideas about conservation–what we’re trying to protect, how to protect it–may no...
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How much “I” is TMI? That’s the question Jacquelyn Gill and I are posing at our ScienceOnline2013 session this Saturday. When Jacquelyn first posted the idea on the conference planning wiki sometime...
View ArticleCountdown to The Science Writers’ Handbook
Late next month, The Science Writers’ Handbook will finally hit stores. It’s a labor of love by a group of freelance science journalists, and a pretty amazing treatise on, as the book’s subtitle says,...
View ArticleFarewell and Thanks for Reading
This will be my final post here at PLOS Blogs. It’s been a great couple of years, but sadly PLOS has decided to change the licensing rules that govern its blogs, and the new arrangement just doesn’t...
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