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Please share widely. We are in search of new hosts and a venue for NASW’s annual conference. These sessions and events are invaluable for the science writing community. #SciWri25 #SciWriAwards @sciencewriters.org

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Pitt and CMU have pulled out of previous commitments to host #sciwri25, citing federal funding cuts. Just another example of the ripple effects of recent cuts to research institutions: www.post-gazette.com/news/health/...

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Halp, do you have access to an accessible, affordable venue where science writers can gather to commiserate, meet scientists, drink too much coffee, and try to save U.S. Science? Please contact [email protected] 🧪🩺 #MedSky #ScienceSky.

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If you have connections with universities, foundations, or other groups that might be interested in partnering reach out to @sciencewriters.org and @sciencewriting.bsky.social. We are committed to making this conference happen!

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3 months after agreeing to host #ScienceWriters2025 conference in Pittsburgh, Univ. of Pittsburgh and partners at @carnegiemellon.bsky.social have pulled support. Now @sciencewriters.org and @sciencewriting.bsky.social need new supporters. You can help! Find out how: www.nasw.org/article/scie...

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We so appreciate our community's support as we search for a new venue for #SciWri25. Please send any leads to [email protected]. In the meantime, we ARE taking proposals for Science+Science Writing Sessions! The deadline is 3/24. casw.submittable.com/submit/32057...

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So excited to see @sciencewriting.bsky.social launch this climate journalism task force with an excellent line up of outlets— @canarymedia.com, @motherjones.com, @gristnews.bsky.social, @highcountrynews.bsky.social and more.

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Excited about this new collaboration, supported by @sciencewriting.bsky.social. Eleven climate newsrooms are joining forces to form the Climate News Task Force to increase and improve climate journalism. casw.org/news/casw-la...

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CASW is excited to announce the new Climate News Task Force! Along with @floodlightnews.org and the Reynolds Journalism Institute, we're bringing together 11 climate newsrooms to expand and improve coverage of climate change. More: casw.org/news/casw-la...

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Going to J-school in the fall? Want to cover physics, astronomy or another physical science? Apply for CASW's Taylor/Blakeslee fellowship, which comes with a mentor—last year's was @nattyover.bsky.social—travel funding and $6,000 to support your studies. Apply by 3/17: casw.org/awards-fello...

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The Uproot Project, along with @sciencewriting.bsky.social, @healthjournalism.org, @sciencewriters.org, and @sejorg.bsky.social, objects to the removal of public data and information from more than a dozen federal U.S. websites. Read our full letter: casw.org/news/journal...

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NASW joined @healthjournalism.org @sciencewriting.bsky.social @uprootproject.bsky.social @sejorg.bsky.social in objection to data removal: "This newly censored information has been used every day by journalists and communicators to inform the U.S. public." SHARE THE LETTER: www.nasw.org/article...

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AHCJ, along with: @sciencewriting.bsky.social, @sciencewriters.org, @sejorg.bsky.social, and @uprootproject.bsky.social have called for immediate restoration of public data & information on federal websites Check out the letter and other work in this area here: healthjournalism.org/resources/he...

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"The accurate, timely and transparent communication of scientific, health and environmental information is essential to creating a just, healthy, safe, and prosperous society." 👏👏

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CASW, along with @healthjournalism.org, @sciencewriters.org, @sejorg.bsky.social, and @uprootproject.bsky.social, objects to the removal of public data and information from more than a dozen federal U.S. websites. Read our full letter: casw.org/news/journal...

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5 science, health and environmental journalism organizations, @sciencewriting.bsky.social @sciencewriters.org @sejorg.bsky.social @healthjournalism.org @uprootproject.bsky.social, called today for immediate restoration of public data and information on federal websites: casw.org/news/journal...

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SEJ joins @healthjournalism.org, @sciencewriters.org, @sciencewriting.bsky.social and @uprootproject.bsky.social, representing science, health and environmental journalists, in opposing the removal of public data from more than a dozen U.S. federal websites. www.sej.org/protecting-p...

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Removing public data about science, health, and the environment creates dire consequences. Science journalism outlets wrote to govt agencies, urging them to restore tax payer-funded information. Read here: casw.org/news/journal...

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Submissions are now being accepted for CASW's 2025 awards! Deadlines: Graduate fellowships: 3/17 Sharon Begley Science Reporting Award: 4/30 Cohn Prize for Excellence in Medical Science Reporting: 6/30 Clark/Payne Award for a young science journalist: 6/30 To apply: casw.org/news/submiss...

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Entries open for prizes from @sciencewriting.bsky.social Deadlines & application info here: casw.org/news/submiss... DM me w/questions! Please share.

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Congratulations to Annie Bennett for being selected as a 2025 Taylor/Blakeslee Fellow for the spring semester! She is attending New York University's Podcasting and Audio Reportage program, with plans to become an audio reporter covering climate policy.

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Want to catch up on #SciWri25? We've got you covered! CASW travel fellows and ComSciCon-SciWri participants wrote more than 10 stories on New Horizons science sessions and the Patrusky Lecture given by Joseph L. Graves Jr. Read them here: casw.org/news/casw-fe...

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Awards lunch celebrates prize winners at ScienceWriters2024: sciencewriting.substack.com/p/science-wr... 👏 @sciencewriters.org @sciencewriting.bsky.social #sciwri24 #science #scicomm @sconc.bsky.social #NASW90th

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Turns out that gathering a few hundred science writers in NC right after this particular election was a Very Good Idea. Adding my huge thanks to all the smart, hard-working volunteers and staff who made it an eye-opening, soul-satisfying, energizing gathering.

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Thank you to all of our attendees, fellows, partners, speakers, sponsors, and more for an amazing #SciWri24. We'll see you next fall at University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon!

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grateful to #sciwri24 for teaching me mollusks reproduce by (essentially) vomiting their offspring onto fish gills thank you @sciencewriting.bsky.social for supporting me to access this and other transformative opportunities 🙏

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Back home after a fantastic weekend at #SciWri24. I’m both exhausted + energized — one could say exhaustigized?! 😆 Thanks to @sciencewriters.org @sciencewriting.bsky.social @sconc.bsky.social for bringing us together! Thanks to new + old friends for nerding out w/me! See ya next year in Pittsburgh!

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I had such a great time at #sciwri24 in North Carolina this weekend. Thanks so much for the travel fellowship @sciencewriting.bsky.social !!

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Congratulations to #TONenEspañol editor @rpocisv.bsky.social for winning the @sciencewriters.org Science in Society Award in the Science Reporting category. #SciWri24 #SciWriAward #scicomm 🧪 www.nasw.org/article/nasw...

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#SciWri24 Attendees: As a reminder, many communities in western North Carolina are still heavily impacted by the aftermath of Hurricane Helene. Donate to Blue Ridge Public Radio (go.ncsu.edu/donate-bpr) or the N.C. Disaster Relief Fund (go.ncsu.edu/donate-n...) to show your support. 💚🧪📝🦨

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#SciWri24 Attendees: Feeling the shutterbug spirit? Want to donate your slick snaps to our NASW Media Archives? Upload your photos to our Google Drive here—and you just might see them appear in a future NASW web article! Log in to Google: bit.ly/naswpicsubmit 💚🧪📝🦨

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It's Sunday at #SciWri24! Thank you to NC State College of Engineering for providing coffee and breakfast this morning. CASW has a packed New Horizons agenda today, with sessions on physics, audience engagement, health disparities, and more. 🧵

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Providing basic info on drinking water, open roads, churches with oxygen and insulin has been the key role of journalists covering Hurricane Helene aftermath, say Helen Chickering and Katie Myers of Blue Ridge Public Radio. #sciwri24 #helene

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great Patrusky Lecture today at #sciwri24 by evolutionary biologist Joseph Graves Jr. of NC A&T State U. included history and current systemic funding biases affecting HBCUs v. HWUs.

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#SciWri24 Attendees: Feeling the shutterbug spirit? Want to donate your slick snaps to our NASW Media Archives? Upload your photos to our Google Drive here—and you just might see them appear in a future NASW web article! Log in to Google: bit.ly/naswpicsubmit 💚🧪📝🦨

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Endless thanks to Joseph L Graves Jr for his powerful and inspiring #SciWri24 talk on the disparities facing—and unreached potential of—HBCUs. "We are competing but we are competing with one hand tied behind our backs and shackles to our ankles." (photo by Megan Mendenhall)

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Today at #SciWri24 we're fortunate to welcome Helen Chickering and Katie Myers of Blue Ridge Public Radio— speaking at our special plenary "Living Through Catastrophe as Local Journalists" on their experience reporting on Hurricane Helene's aftermath. NASW board member Marla Broadfoot moderates. 💚🧪📝

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Welcome to Saturday at #SciWri24! Thank you to Duke University for providing this morning's wonderful coffee service. Today's New Horizons sessions: polarization in America with Sunshine Hillygus of Duke's Polarization Lab and Ashley Ward's Masterclass on climate’s impacts on human health.

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Here we go!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #SciWri24 💚

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It's time: #SciWri24 is here! Our New Horizons programming starts at 9 am tomorrow with the 12th Patrusky Lecture. Biologist Joseph L Graves Jr will weave together personal experience, the writings of W. E. B. Du Bois, and the scientific evidence that undergirds the fight for a just society.

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It's that most wonderful time of year for science journalists, comms officers, writers, editors, authors, and other communicators: our national conference begins Friday! Follow #SciWri24 on Bluesky + LinkedIn for chatter. (Extra thanks to @sconc.bsky.social friends for their warm welcome!!) 🧡🧪

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