By Anna Funk Well, hello there! I see you’ve come seeking answers to a question, like the many before you who have…
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post So You Want to Be a Science Writer (For Science Grad Students)
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post Dissecting the Popular Science Book: What Do Fans Want?
Bill Sullivan (@wjsullivan) Communicating science has always been a challenge. Scientific discovery is built upon generations of accumulated knowledge that takes years…
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post preLights – Highlighting Preprints from and for the Biological Community
By Helen Robertson, João Mello-Vieira, and Mariana De Niz Publishing in the life sciences is changing. Over the past eight years, the…
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post Turning Terror into a Scientific Memoir
Interview with Steffanie Strathdee, author of The Perfect Predator: A Scientist’s Race to Save Her Husband from a Deadly Superbug Bill Sullivan In…
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Education A Thriller Author Talks about How to Sell Science
By Brad Parks A few years back, while driving to my favorite daily writing haunt, the local radio station spit out one…
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Public Science Communication Want to Write a Popular Science Book? Here’s What You Need to Know.
Whether you’re a scientist who wants to communicate their findings to a broader audience or a science enthusiast who is eager…
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Public Science Communication Yes, I’m A Scientist on Twitter. Stop Judging Me.
By Bill Sullivan Scientists have been surprisingly slow to embrace Twitter and other forms of social media. Even today, a certain…
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Mentorship Predatory Publishers Want to Write Your Autobiography!
Yes, you read that title correctly. Oasis Publishing Group Ltd. recently sent me an email that offered to write my autobiography. The…
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Mentorship Is It Time for Pre-Publication Peer Review to Die?
Pre-publication peer review seems to be as old as science communication itself. The idea is simple: qualified experts will examine your…
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Collaboration between scientists How To Get The Most Out Of A Scientific Conference
On July 21, 2018, Joshua Hall (@jdhallphd), Director of @UNCPREP @UNC School of Medicine and creator and host of the @hellophd…
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Mentorship If the Script for “Avengers: Infinity War” Was Peer-Reviewed
Warning: this article contains spoilers for the movie. What if movie scripts were subjected to the same peer-review process as…
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Mentorship If the Script for “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” Was Peer-Reviewed
In celebration of the home release of Star Wars: The Last Jedi, I thought it would be interesting to portray how…