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Siri Carpenter
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Co-founder, executive director, & EIC of
@theopennotebook.bsky.social, journalist & editor, @Sciencewriters.org past president. siricarpenter@theopennotebook.com. She/her.
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Thank you all of you who made @theopennotebook.bsky.social’s 15th birthday party at #SciWri25 so special! That was a night I’ll never forget. ❤️
An event space full of wonderful people.
November 9, 2025 at 5:19 AM
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I'm excited to join @laurenfeldman.bsky.social, @tracybaim.bsky.social, @timafranklin.bsky.social, & @columbiajournalism.bsky.social's Duy Linh Nguyen Tu for a @nationalacademies.org session on strategies for advancing high-quality science journalism. Thurs, 11/13 (1 PM ET). Register: bit.ly/3WJZGYW
Advancing High-Quality Science Journalism: Challenges and Pathways Forward (November 13, 1-2:30 ET)
November 8, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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You people! Thank you VERY much for the generosity you are showing to @theopennotebook.bsky.social on our 15th birthday! We're already 80% of the way to our Day of Giving goal. It feels so good to know our community has our back. ❤️ www.theopennotebook.com/15thannivers...
Progress Toward Our Birthday Goal: $8,000 raised. Goal: $10,000.
October 24, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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Amazing! We're more than halfway to our goal of raising $10,000 by midnight! #TON15
Donation meter showing that TON has raised $5,266, 53% of the way toward a goal of $10,000.
October 24, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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Journalists on any beat: Do you want to confidently incorporate scientific evidence, perspectives, or context into your reporting? Join @theopennotebook.bsky.social and @rjionline.bsky.social for a webinar introducing the Science Reporting Navigator Thurs, Oct 23 at 2pm CT! bit.ly/NavigatorLaunch.
Join us for the launch of the Science Reporting Navigator: October 23, 2 p.m. CT. Confidently incorporate scientific evidence, perspectives, or context into your reporting--no matter your beat or deadline. Link: bit.ly/NavigatorLaunch
October 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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I'm excited to share tools and challenges in science journalism training at #WCSJ2025 in Pretoria, South Africa. Our panel is organized by @mmeagnes.bsky.social & Magali Reinert and also includes speakers @kossibalao.bsky.social & Lesley Cowling. Join us! www.wcsj2025.org/programme/se...
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October 19, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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🧪 Hello everyone! Please join me and others from @theopennotebook.bsky.social team TOMORROW, Aug. 26 at 2 pm ET for a Town Hall event on Zoom, where we’ll kick off our 15th-birthday celebration! BRING YOUR OWN CAKE! 🎂 This event will be recorded. Registration link: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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August 25, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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"Siloing science journalism is dangerous because it leaves the public vulnerable to misinformation. It undermines journalism’s ability to put global crises into context and make them meaningful at the local level." 🧪https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/science-journalism-becomes-plain-old-journalism/
Photo of Siri Carpenter and a pull quote saying: "For too long, science journalism has been treated as something distinct, something extra — the domain of specialists writing for audiences who are already deeply interested in and informed about science. This is bad."
December 11, 2024 at 10:03 PM
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Happy Publication Day to my dear friend Kelly Tyrrell @kellyperil.bsky.social! "Chasing the Stars: How the Astronomers of Observatory Hill Transformed Our Understanding of the Universe," which Kelly wrote with @UWMadison historian of science James Lattis, is in the world today!
A smiling Kelly Tyrrell, standing in a beautiful marbled hall, holds a copy of CHASING THE STARS.
May 7, 2024 at 1:36 PM
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Anticipating totality in the company of @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com
A young woman holds a green colander to shine eclipsed light onto a white book cover. Eclipsed light shining on the cover of Neil Gaiman’s “Neverwhere”
April 8, 2024 at 8:02 PM
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I had sooo much fun this week as science writer in residence at the SHERP journalism program at NYU. These students are wickedly talented and thoughtful—can't wait to see their next moves! Thank you @danfagin.bsky.social for inviting me! Here's a pic that I took w/ a handful of the students.
7 smiling science journalists in front of 20 Cooper Square in New York City. 6 of them are on the job market and you should hire them.
November 4, 2023 at 8:25 PM
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I'm thrilled to be speaking at #SJF23 next Tuesday, Oct 24 at 3:45 p.m. GMT/11:45 a.m. ET. Join our conversation about getting started editing science stories. Use @theopennotebook.bsky.social's promo code TON50 for a 50% discount on tickets. sciencejf.com
Session description: Tips for New Science Editors, with speakers Lynne Smit (Nature Africa), Siri Carpenter (The Open Notebook), Rachel Courtland (MIT Technology Review), and Sahana Ghosh (Nature India)
October 20, 2023 at 7:14 PM