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A one-year journalism masters program that trains students how to interpret, explain, and contextualize science for the wider public: Sciwrite.mit.edu
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@geodesaurus.bsky.social, creator of the Spooky Lake Month series on TikTok and Instagram, gave us a guided tour of some of the world's most mysterious lakes.
🎧 Listen—if you're feeling brave: buff.ly/SyRWeKb
🎧 Listen—if you're feeling brave: buff.ly/SyRWeKb
November 9, 2025 at 1:12 PM
@geodesaurus.bsky.social, creator of the Spooky Lake Month series on TikTok and Instagram, gave us a guided tour of some of the world's most mysterious lakes.
🎧 Listen—if you're feeling brave: buff.ly/SyRWeKb
🎧 Listen—if you're feeling brave: buff.ly/SyRWeKb
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Last month's delightful conversation with Mary Roach is online now! youtu.be/6FUVkG8kieI?... @harvardbookstore.bsky.social 🧪
Mary Roach, in conversation with Elizabeth Preston, "Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy"
YouTube video by Harvard Science Book Talks and Research Lectures
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November 5, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Last month's delightful conversation with Mary Roach is online now! youtu.be/6FUVkG8kieI?... @harvardbookstore.bsky.social 🧪
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Our Publisher and Editor @alexip718.com will moderate a conversation and Q&A with experts @joshettinger.bsky.social @finejulia6.bsky.social at @mason4c.bsky.social about advancing and integrating climate and health policy:
Our Publisher and Editor @alexip718.com will moderate a conversation and Q&A with experts @joshettinger.bsky.social @finejulia6.bsky.social at @mason4c.bsky.social about advancing and integrating climate and health policy:
The Fifth Vital Sign: Advancing and integrating climate and health policy
We discuss new research by the George Mason Center for Climate Change Communication and the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication
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November 4, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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Our Publisher and Editor @alexip718.com will moderate a conversation and Q&A with experts @joshettinger.bsky.social @finejulia6.bsky.social at @mason4c.bsky.social about advancing and integrating climate and health policy:
Our Publisher and Editor @alexip718.com will moderate a conversation and Q&A with experts @joshettinger.bsky.social @finejulia6.bsky.social at @mason4c.bsky.social about advancing and integrating climate and health policy:
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Climate change fuels more destructive and rapidly intensifying tropical cyclones, as a Category 5 hurricane makes landfall in Jamaica insideclimatenews.org/news/2810202...
‘Catastrophic’ Hurricane Hits Jamaica as Risk of Climate Change-Fueled Tropical Storms Rises - Inside Climate News
Environmental advocates call for fossil fuel companies to pay for damages as climate change fuels more destructive hurricanes.
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October 29, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Climate change fuels more destructive and rapidly intensifying tropical cyclones, as a Category 5 hurricane makes landfall in Jamaica insideclimatenews.org/news/2810202...
Want to know more about the MIT Graduate Program in Science Writing? Join us for our fall admissions information webinar on Friday, November 21 at 3pm. Registration is here: mit.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: GPSW 2025 Admissions Information Session . After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
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October 28, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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After a quiet summer, the bird flu virus H5N1 is hitting poultry flocks hard in the run-up to the holidays — and in the midst of a federal government shutdown.
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Bird Flu Is Back
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October 22, 2025 at 5:06 PM
After a quiet summer, the bird flu virus H5N1 is hitting poultry flocks hard in the run-up to the holidays — and in the midst of a federal government shutdown.
w/ @emilyanthes.bsky.social
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#SciWri25 online events begin today! Not able to join us in Chicago? Want to add to your in-person conference experience? Join us online October 22-24 for a bespoke slate of professional development sessions covering entrepreneurial science writing, AI and more.
Welcome - ScienceWriters2025
ScienceWriters is an annual conference for professionals and students who produce material about science, health, engineering, and technology for the public.
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October 22, 2025 at 4:48 PM
#SciWri25 online events begin today! Not able to join us in Chicago? Want to add to your in-person conference experience? Join us online October 22-24 for a bespoke slate of professional development sessions covering entrepreneurial science writing, AI and more.
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90% of the world's niobium comes from a single operation in Brazil 🪨 ⛏️ . More might be hiding in the scars left by an ancient supercontinent breakup.
Read my first story for @eos.org: eos.org/articles/to-... #criticalminerals #mining
Read my first story for @eos.org: eos.org/articles/to-... #criticalminerals #mining
To Find Critical Minerals, Look to Plate Tectonics - Eos
A study of “weird” Australian rocks suggests stores of niobium rose to the surface during the breakup of the supercontinent Rodinia.
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October 21, 2025 at 2:03 PM
90% of the world's niobium comes from a single operation in Brazil 🪨 ⛏️ . More might be hiding in the scars left by an ancient supercontinent breakup.
Read my first story for @eos.org: eos.org/articles/to-... #criticalminerals #mining
Read my first story for @eos.org: eos.org/articles/to-... #criticalminerals #mining
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I will say I have a voice for print, but I spoke to @ABCaustralia’s Radio National Breakfast about the majority of the Pentagon press corps turning in our badges yesterday. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
Pentagon's press pool walks out - ABC listen
Journalists covering the Pentagon have turned in their press badges and emptied their offices over drastic new restrictions on their reporting.
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October 17, 2025 at 6:16 AM
I will say I have a voice for print, but I spoke to @ABCaustralia’s Radio National Breakfast about the majority of the Pentagon press corps turning in our badges yesterday. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
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👏 Huge shoutout to Nathan Sanders, @laurengh.bsky.social and @mackenziewhite.bsky.social from #ComSciCon!
We’re so proud to see our community empowering researchers to share their voices! 💬
#SciComm #ScienceCommunication #PublicEngagement #OpEdWriting
We’re so proud to see our community empowering researchers to share their voices! 💬
#SciComm #ScienceCommunication #PublicEngagement #OpEdWriting
October 16, 2025 at 2:41 PM
👏 Huge shoutout to Nathan Sanders, @laurengh.bsky.social and @mackenziewhite.bsky.social from #ComSciCon!
We’re so proud to see our community empowering researchers to share their voices! 💬
#SciComm #ScienceCommunication #PublicEngagement #OpEdWriting
We’re so proud to see our community empowering researchers to share their voices! 💬
#SciComm #ScienceCommunication #PublicEngagement #OpEdWriting
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Read my latest for @thetransmitter.bsky.social 👇
A large study of developing brains reveals genetic and molecular differences between males and females. The findings may help explain why neurodevelopmental conditions, including autism, occur at different rates in boys and girls.
By @giorgiag-sciwriter.bsky.social
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By @giorgiag-sciwriter.bsky.social
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Gene-activity map of developing brain reveals new clues about autism’s sex bias
Boys and girls may be vulnerable to different genetic changes, which could help explain why the condition is more common in boys despite linked variants appearing more often in girls.
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October 16, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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My latest: A fantasy-themed corporate headquarters uses thousands of boreholes to heat and cool its buildings with high-efficiency geothermal energy that uses a fraction of the energy of other buildings insideclimatenews.org/news/1110202...
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One of the World’s Largest Geothermal Networks Is Buried Beneath a Corporate Campus in Rural Wisconsin - Inside Climate News
Tech company Epic Systems uses thousands of boreholes to help heat and cool its office buildings, a “marquee” clean energy project that gas utilities may try to replicate.
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October 14, 2025 at 1:40 PM
My latest: A fantasy-themed corporate headquarters uses thousands of boreholes to heat and cool its buildings with high-efficiency geothermal energy that uses a fraction of the energy of other buildings insideclimatenews.org/news/1110202...
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@insideclimatenews.org
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This is going to be fantastic
NEWS: I'm writing a book about Earth's interior, from innermost inner core to the deep biosphere. Can't wait to share all I've learned about what's happening inside this planet and how it shapes the surface world we care about. 🌏 Subscribe here to follow along: northeastsouthwest.substack.com
October 7, 2025 at 4:50 PM
This is going to be fantastic
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3/ We still have several months of work to do on the main feature, which means we have several months to develop extra elements for the package. So here is where I'm reaching out to you, dear readers:
What do you want to know? What questions do you have? What can I pay someone to find out for you?
What do you want to know? What questions do you have? What can I pay someone to find out for you?
October 6, 2025 at 5:18 PM
3/ We still have several months of work to do on the main feature, which means we have several months to develop extra elements for the package. So here is where I'm reaching out to you, dear readers:
What do you want to know? What questions do you have? What can I pay someone to find out for you?
What do you want to know? What questions do you have? What can I pay someone to find out for you?
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🚨 Maternal mortality in the U.S. remains one of the most urgent health crises. At the AHCJ Fall Summit, explore how research funding (or lack of it) shapes what we know — and what we don’t.
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Research reset: Covering promising paths to better health
AHCJ’s 2025 fall summit, “Research reset: Covering promising paths to better health,” will take place from Nov. 13-14 in NYC.
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October 3, 2025 at 4:08 PM
🚨 Maternal mortality in the U.S. remains one of the most urgent health crises. At the AHCJ Fall Summit, explore how research funding (or lack of it) shapes what we know — and what we don’t.
Join us: healthjournalism.org/training-eve...
Join us: healthjournalism.org/training-eve...
Congratulations to @jamesdinneen.bsky.social, '22, for winning a 2025 NASW Science in Society Journalism Award in the Science Reporting category! You can read the award-winning story here: www.newscientist.com/article/2416...
Drought has hit the Panama Canal hard – can it survive climate change?
A severe drought exacerbated by climate change and a lack of updated infrastructure have led to some ships waiting more than a month to cross one of the world's most important waterways
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October 1, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Congratulations to @jamesdinneen.bsky.social, '22, for winning a 2025 NASW Science in Society Journalism Award in the Science Reporting category! You can read the award-winning story here: www.newscientist.com/article/2416...
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Congratulations to @hartleys.bsky.social, '24, for winning the John M. Collier Award for Forest History Journalism from @foresthistory.bsky.social. Read more about Sophie's win on our website: sciwrite.mit.edu/news-events/
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September 29, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Congratulations to @hartleys.bsky.social, '24, for winning the John M. Collier Award for Forest History Journalism from @foresthistory.bsky.social. Read more about Sophie's win on our website: sciwrite.mit.edu/news-events/
@alexip718.com created the most comprehensive map of H-1B workers at research institutions for @thexylom.com. This is an impressive and vital resource:
Here we go!
Over 13,000 H-1B workers have joined 200+ land-grant, sea-grant, and R1 research institutions so far this fiscal year.
I also found that public institutions in large, Republican states are disproportionately affected by Trump's $100,000 H1-B fee.
Find your state or your school:
Over 13,000 H-1B workers have joined 200+ land-grant, sea-grant, and R1 research institutions so far this fiscal year.
I also found that public institutions in large, Republican states are disproportionately affected by Trump's $100,000 H1-B fee.
Find your state or your school:
EXCLUSIVE: A new analysis by The Xylom's @alexip718.com shows for the first time just how much America’s top research institutions have grown to depend on H-1B skilled workers — and how this delicate balance might be disrupted by U.S. President Donald Trump’s crackdown on legal immigration.
September 26, 2025 at 1:52 PM
@alexip718.com created the most comprehensive map of H-1B workers at research institutions for @thexylom.com. This is an impressive and vital resource:
On the GPSW website today: @pratik-p.bsky.social's story for @vox.com on a historic flip in child malnutrition: www.vox.com/future-perfe...
For the first time, more kids are obese than underweight
The year child malnutrition flipped, in one chart.
www.vox.com
September 24, 2025 at 3:38 PM
On the GPSW website today: @pratik-p.bsky.social's story for @vox.com on a historic flip in child malnutrition: www.vox.com/future-perfe...
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Special thanks to The Commonwealth Fund for supporting AHCJ’s career-changing reporting fellowships. 🙌
Applications are open now through Oct. 10.
📅 Info webinar: Sept. 24
Details + apply: healthjournalism.org/event/2025-h...
Applications are open now through Oct. 10.
📅 Info webinar: Sept. 24
Details + apply: healthjournalism.org/event/2025-h...
September 23, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Special thanks to The Commonwealth Fund for supporting AHCJ’s career-changing reporting fellowships. 🙌
Applications are open now through Oct. 10.
📅 Info webinar: Sept. 24
Details + apply: healthjournalism.org/event/2025-h...
Applications are open now through Oct. 10.
📅 Info webinar: Sept. 24
Details + apply: healthjournalism.org/event/2025-h...
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Reminder that there are giant bears eating salmon right now and you can watch them fur free explore.org/livecams/bro...
September 22, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Reminder that there are giant bears eating salmon right now and you can watch them fur free explore.org/livecams/bro...
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INBOX: For the first time in world history, children worldwide are now more likely to be obese than underweight, according to @unicef.org’s new Child Nutrition Report.
Read the full story by fellow @mitsciwrite.bsky.social graduate @pratik-p.bsky.social:
Read the full story by fellow @mitsciwrite.bsky.social graduate @pratik-p.bsky.social:
For the first time, more kids are obese than underweight
The year child malnutrition flipped, in one chart.
www.vox.com
September 16, 2025 at 8:33 PM
INBOX: For the first time in world history, children worldwide are now more likely to be obese than underweight, according to @unicef.org’s new Child Nutrition Report.
Read the full story by fellow @mitsciwrite.bsky.social graduate @pratik-p.bsky.social:
Read the full story by fellow @mitsciwrite.bsky.social graduate @pratik-p.bsky.social:
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Fellow members of @dcswa.bsky.social @sejorg.bsky.social @sciencewriters.org @jhuaap.bsky.social and my friends who write and report on the environment and #nature, check out this FREE opportunity from @factcoalition.bsky.social and UNICRI:
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Exposing Environmental Crimes: Online Training for Journalists and Communication Professionals | UNICRI :: United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute
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September 16, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Fellow members of @dcswa.bsky.social @sejorg.bsky.social @sciencewriters.org @jhuaap.bsky.social and my friends who write and report on the environment and #nature, check out this FREE opportunity from @factcoalition.bsky.social and UNICRI:
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