Science journalists often learn the tricks of the trade by trial and error. But we firmly believe the basics of covering science, and covering it well, can also be taught. So, we’ve rounded up years of insights from The Open Notebook into an easy-to-reference sample course syllabus. And it’s free! 🧪
Join our online workshop, 'A creative approach to science communication' presented by Anatolii Kozlov @anatoliikozlov.bsky.social.
🗓️Wednesday 10 September, 14:00-15:30 BST (UTC+1)
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"These findings are particularly timely as humans tend to reproduce later in life." Arbeithuber et al., Science Advances
New #ScienceAdvances research finds that mitochondrial DNA in human oocytes do not accumulate age-related mutations.
Learn more: https://scim.ag/3HswrWL
🍼 Breast milk trains baby immunity
In mice, antibodies in milk during the first week of life taught the gut’s immune system to stay calm with food and microbes, lowering later disease risk.
🔗 doi.org/10.1126/scie...
#SciComm #Immunity 🧪
Science Advances’ special issue on women’s health highlights a growing wave of research focusing on women’s unique biological and psychological experiences. Articles cover a range of studies from the interplay between menopause and Alzheimer’s risk to the menstrual cycle’s influence on the brain-heart connection. It also describes the opportunities pregnancy provides to research aspects of both physical and mental health. By prioritizing women’s unique physiological and psychological experiences, research can expand the frontiers of knowledge in ways that benefit everyone.
A special issue on #WomensHealth in #ScienceAdvances highlights a growing wave of research focusing on women’s unique biological and psychological experiences.
Learn more: scim.ag/3R59fPe (THREAD 🧵)
“Why do I have to put my face in my TikTok/Instagram videos?”
Here’s why 👇
Major research funding cuts in the US are also affecting popular science YouTube channels, which relied on the small segment of funding budgets that were set aside for outreach. (Well, "small" for the funders, but a big part of income for YouTube channels) #scicomm www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQjF...
🧬 In-womb cure for genetic disease
A baby treated before birth for severe spinal muscular atrophy shows no symptoms at nearly 3 years old.
This is a huge milestone for genetic medicine.
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
#GeneTherapy #MedicalBreakthrough #SciComm 🧪
Scientists + science journalists 🧪📝📰
Live Science's health desk is always open to pitches! We publish news and evergreen stories for the lay public that unpack the latest medical breakthroughs and mysteries of how the human body works.
Have a story idea? Email:
nlanese (at) livescience (dot) com
I've just added three new workshops to the Storyology website:
- Advanced Storytelling
- Podcasting
- Personal Branding
Read more here:
www.storyology.co.uk/workshops
Join RDRN so you’ll also have the opportunity to include patient groups into your research, building impactful studies enriched with insights from lived experience, ensuring your work is more ethical, responsive, and grounded in real-world needs
#RareDisease #RareDiseaseResearch
Attention scientists, engineers, researchers and techy people 📣
I've just released a FREE online course that will help you write quicker and present better using tools from the world of storytelling.
Get it here:
www.storyology.co.uk/storytelling...
Scientists often ask me how you can get into science writing. This is the kind of thing you should be doing. Take advantage of opportunities like the one below (thread has more info) that ask for your specific scientist POV to get popular science writing experience as an academic. #scicomm
Hello lovely Bluesky 👋 please help me find people who would enjoy my free online course, 'Storytelling Foundations'.
Particularly #STEM #PhD students, but also #research and #marketing teams in #tech, #science and #engineering industries.
It's 25 vids in 30mins and my hair looks great throughout
Interesting in Science Communication?
Don’t miss this on 6th of March.
I’m teaming up with @newscientist.bsky.social to explore effective #SciComm & share how you can be part of the HUGE New Scientist event in Oct which last year attracted over 26k people www.newscientist.com/science-even...
“What can I do to break into science communications?”
I get asked this question almost weekly by PhDs who reach out for career chats about #AltAc jobs. They want to know, “What can I do to stand out? What do you look for?” 🧵
This is well worth checking out for academic researchers who want to get better at communicating their science 👇
Personally, I love it here 🦋 - and for science 🧪 its wonderful!
And its also increasingly getting better & better for other diverse and interesting random posts (non-science) as more and more join - lets hope the overall engagement and positivity remains!
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Scientists at the University of Miami are carrying out a research study on how scientists use online platforms like Twitter/X and Bluesky. If you are 18 years of age or older and are a scientist who uses these platforms for professional purposes, please click the link below to complete a short survey. If you are interested in learning more about this research study, please e-mail us at Julia.wester @ miami.edu. In the body of your email please provide your full name, and if you would prefer to be contacted by phone, your phone number and the best time to reach you. Contacting us for more information does not commit you to participating, and should you decide to participate you may terminate your participation at any time.
If you are a scientist (including graduate students) or professional science communicator who is at least 18 years old and are using Bluesky for any kind of professional purposes, please consider taking our survey.
Link:
umiami.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
Please help share. 🧪🌎 #SciComm
🩸 World's First Blood Test for Endometriosis? 🌸
Researchers have validated 10 plasma protein biomarkers for diagnosing endometriosis, paving the way for a non-invasive blood test
This is a potential game-changer for early detection
🔗 academic.oup.com/humrep/advan...
#SciComm #Endometriosis 🧪
It was so fun to work with Claudia and my research colleagues to bring some of their research to life with these comics! Hopefully many more to follow ✨️🤞🏻
Having a color-blind colleague is a good reminder that we need to be more careful when designing figures for scientific publication 🧪
My lab has found this page especially useful for selecting color palettes, used in combination with different symbols: thenode.biologists.com/data-visuali...
Scientists, academics, researchers: We’re excited to share that @altmetric.com is now tracking mentions of your research on Bluesky! 🧪
"Dark blue promotional image for the Brilliant Poetry Inaugural Reading event titled 'Science in Stanzas.' Top-left: 'Brilliant Poetry - Science in Stanzas' logo in white, orange, and red. Top-right: Event details: 'Inaugural Reading, 30 January 2025, 2–2:45 PM GMT.' Centre: List of shortlisted poets with countries: Sangeetha Balakrishnan (India) Fanni Barocsi (Canada) Aileen Cassinetto (USA) Joseph Conlon (UK) Caitlin Kotula (Australia) Thomas Halliday (UK) Luca Fois (UK) Micaela Martínez (Argentina) Aditi Mishra (India) Kathryn Spratt (USA) Below poets: Hosted by co-founders of Brilliant Poetry: Prof. Sam Illingworth, Kylie Ahern, and Brian Brophy. Sponsored by The Brilliant and the Scottish Poetry Library. Bottom-left: Logos of The Brilliant and the Scottish Poetry Library. Bottom-right: Red arrow pointing to the text: 'Link to register: bit.ly/brilliantpoetry.'"
📣 Calling all poets and scientists! 🧪✍️
Brilliant Poetry – Inaugural Reading: experience how poetry brings science to life, uniting creativity and discovery across borders.
📅 Thursday, 30 January 2025
⏰ 2:00–2:45 PM GMT
📍 Online
💲 Free
🔗 bit.ly/brilliantpoe...
#Poetry 🧪 #SciComm #AcademicSky 🍎
A collage of book covers of new nature & science books. Featured here are Atlas Obscura Wild Life, Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party, Every Living Thing, Alien Earths, Becoming Earth, and Deep Water
A collage of book covers of new nature & science books. Featured here are Frostbite, The Inner Clock, How to Kill an Asteroid, The Great River, The Last Fire Season, and Hoof Beats
A collage of book covers of new nature & science books. Featured here are The Serviceberry, Not the End of the World, Nature's Ghosts, Meet the Neighbors, The Light Eaters, and Our Moon
A collage of book covers of new nature & science books. Featured here are Turning to Stone, The Weight of Nature, What If We Get It Right?, Waves in An Impossible Sea, The Tree Collectors, and Why We Remember
I was deeply disappointed by the lack of nature/science/climate/enviro on many major end-of-year book lists—so I decided to make my own!
Introducing: ✨🎁📚 The 2024 Holiday Gift Guide to Nature & Science Books ✨🎁📚
Please share: Let's make this go viral in time for Black Friday / holiday shopping!
What’s the greatest travesty in lab work right now? Hardworking, pregnant women in STEM are quite literally stitching together lab coats of different sizes just to have something that allows them to work in the lab into their 3rd trimesters. Why…? Because there’s not a single maternity lab coat available right now. But we can fix that. When we say science is for everyone, we mean it. It’s a small market, but we just can’t force women to choose between a family and a STEM career. Just like the original Lab Coat Project, we’re starting with a survey. The survey is for:
* Women who wear lab coats and may start a family soon * Women who wear lab coats and went through a pregnancy while working in a lab * Anyone who has witnessed a woman struggling with lab coats during a pregnancy and would like to share their feedback secondhand Take the 8-minute Google Forms survey now. And most importantly - share this with a friend! We’ll need at least 100 responses and interested women to launch this. Forward this email or repost/retweet our recent announcements on social media: Twitter/X Instagram LinkedIn
Lab scientists! Anyone who is, or might become, pregnant – take a look at this 👇
The lovely people at Genius Lab Gear are investigating maternity coats. Not being able to close your lab coat over a bump is a genuine health and safety issue. Please share or/and fill in the survey (link below)
Hello, science journalists of BlueSky! Would you like to write for New Scientist? I'm looking for people who can write 300-700 word news pieces about stories readers won't find anywhere else. Our rates start at 55p per word. More info here or DM/email me www.newscientist.com/freelancers/
ScienceWrite, a UK scheme for aspiring STEM writers from minoritised backgrounds, is open for 2025 applications!
The 3rd year @romatheengineer.bsky.social & I are running this, with support from @royalsociety.bsky.social & I am SO EXCITED
Deadline 3rd Jan #SciComm 🧪
www.sciencewrite.co.uk
