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science journalist is a person who writes about scientific topics for the general public. They explain complex scientific ideas in a way that is easy to understand, so that everyone can learn and stay informed about the latest discoveries and advancements in the field of science.
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The main duties include preparing press releases and other materials explaining research at their institutions and aiding
science journalists in preparing stories on that research.
As science journalists look back on the top stories of the year, scientists push on, asking the next questions and chasing fresh data.
As I sit down to type this article, one of my first as a
freelance science journalist, it's interesting to reflect on the road I've travelled.
Gradually scientists, aided
by science journalists, informed the minority of educated people that modern civilization might cause global warming, sometime far in the future.
Yet, even as the importance of science and technology to people's lives has increased, newspapers, magazines, and broadcast media have been laying off
science journalists at an alarming rate.
«We are probably moving in the direction of training the next generation of science writers,
not science journalists,» he says.
To explore this in - depth, this Symposium brought together an international body of
science journalists with experts who can help identify the promises, problems and opportunities of data mining.
In this style of «networked» knowledge journalism, Revkin combines his experience and authority as a
veteran science journalist with the interactive tools of blogging, providing a «crosscutting discussion of science, policy and politics that challenges assumptions among partisans on all sides and widens the menu of options available to policymakers rather than narrowing them to just a few,» notes Nisbet.
Not a doctor himself, Ananthaswamy is nevertheless an award -
winning science journalist who's at home in the world of medical jargon, and who (mostly) translates the complex lingua franca of neurology into readable prose.
It will be a while before we'll be able to purchase or download a hand - held truth - o - meter and use it on a would - be lover,
says science journalist Judith Horstman, author of the newly published The Scientific American Book of Love, Sex and the Brain: The Neuroscience of How, When, Why and Who We Love.
Thea Singer is a Boston - based
science journalist whose work has appeared in the Washington Post, MIT Technology Review and Psychology Today, among others.
In 2008, he launched The Observatory, Columbia Journalism Review's first fulltime department dedicated to critically analyzing science coverage in the media as well as the opportunities and challenges
facing science journalists.
There, the journalists who write for prominent magazines, newspapers and wire services, will have access to hundreds of scientists at the forefront of science and their latest research as well as the opportunity to network with the
many science journalists who attend the annual gathering of the world's largest general scientific organization.
In addition to our team of
science journalists attending the yearly meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, which publishes this blog, we're opening up our site this year to guest bloggers — the scientists and public attending the event.
The Logan Science Journalism Program at the MBL, founded in 1986, offers
professional science journalists, writers, editors, and broadcast journalists a chance to forget about story deadlines and immerse themselves in the process of basic biomedical and environmental research.
Science journalist John Horgan thought Hawking might have been playing a joke (or perhaps gunning for publicity and sales).
A
longtime science journalist who was moved to write a book about Lyme disease based on her own family's struggles with the illness will be a guest speaker at The Miriam Hospital on Tuesday, May 1, 2018.
One of the issues that emerged from the 1st Kavli Symposium on science journalism is the need for
science journalists worldwide to have powerful and cutting edge data mining and mapping tools.
On another note, veteran German
science journalist Michael Miersch explains in an interview conducted by Dr. Benny Peiser of the Global Warming Policy Foundation the sheer absurdity and widespread damage German renewable energies are having on the environment.
In this special series funded by a Tyee Fellowship for Investigative Reporting, veteran
science journalist Chris Wood reports on how global warming threatens to harm British Columbia's environment, economy and way of life — and what can be done to minimize the damage.
There's no way the relatively small corps of
American science journalists could adequately track goings - on in the much larger research community without input from those of us who can more closely monitor individual studies at individual institutions.
In 1995,
science journalist Daniel Goleman published a book introducing most of the world to the nascent concept of emotional intelligence: the ability to identify emotions (in both yourself and others), to recognize the powerful effects of those emotions, and to use that information to inform and guide behavior.
Editor's Note: Veteran
science journalist Philip Hilts is working with a team of archeologists, engineers and divers off the shore of Antikythera, a remote Greek island, where a treasure ship by the same name sank in 70 B.C.
The failed replication attempt, which was published in PLOS One in 2012, was picked up by
science journalist Ed Yong at his Not Exactly Rocket Science blog and attracted a lot of attention.
The inclusion of U.S. - Israeli journalist Anna Wexler on a panel caused divisions within the
Arab Science Journalists Association (ASJA), a co-sponsor of the conference.
Science journalist Shah reaches beyond biology to examine how malaria has shaped human history and how cultural biases have impeded its eradication.
This November 2nd, a panel discussion about the play and the issues it raises featured crystallography expert Helen Berman; biologist and Franklin scholar Lynne Osman Elkin;
science journalist Nicholas Wade; playwright Anna Ziegler; and moderator Stuart Firestein
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