I have seen on Twitter the heart-ache for people in science communication who can't find full-time jobs with benefits. Well, I found two of them. So let me tell you how I did that. First, how did I search for job openings? I'm not very good at that, but one thing I did was to… Continue reading How I got two science communication jobs
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So you got a AAAS fellowship. What’s next?
A follow-up to: My best tips for your AAAS Mass Media Fellowship application. If you got it, congratulations! If you didn't, you know what? Screw everything. Life sucks. I've definitely been in the same boat with other fellowships. But any case! Here's my top ten list of things you should know as you prepare for… Continue reading So you got a AAAS fellowship. What’s next?
Scicomm tips: making maps
I had to make a map of Brazil -- of a specific province in Brazil called Paraná. The map was for this story, that I also wrote. The map is the second image. I know it looks small and insignificant, but my, that map took me a long time to make. It first takes a… Continue reading Scicomm tips: making maps
Feeling special
One of my articles from WIRED was chosen for recognition!! I feel so special. It was my favorite article, too, so it looks like me and the people running this "Highly Subjective Round-up of Outstanding Science News" have the same taste. I can't believe I got nominated and picked and everything. Wow!! Here's the website… Continue reading Feeling special
How the WIRED summer went
After our fellowship was done, we were all flown back to D.C., and we had a "poster fair". All of us fellows who had been placed at newsrooms pasted and arranged our articles on posters, and then we had some very nice and supportive guests tell us what a good job we had all done.… Continue reading How the WIRED summer went
Making maps
I had to verify a fact for my article I'm working on now. It's about a bunch of polluting power plants being built in a neighborhood in Maryland where mostly Black people live. Having lived in Maryland, I can tell you that this is exactly the sort of thing that Maryland would do. What the… Continue reading Making maps
Third article for WIRED
This article was going to be a triumph for me, for many different reasons. First, because it was about Sweden, pretty much. Second, because all the instagram/twitter/blog/facebook stalking I've done over the years came into handy. No one can say all of that was a waste of time any more. I went from a random… Continue reading Third article for WIRED
Smarmy in the interview
I was interviewing these people. I should have known they would turn out to be annoying because they were the only ones who had a secretary set the call up. And they're honestly not such important people anyways. Now you know where administrator fees go at a public university! They had an edge in their… Continue reading Smarmy in the interview
My first article
I feel a little unreasonably proud at the moment. I really wasn't expecting to, because this is simply not a story I think I would click on and bother to read even though I'm the one who wrote it: I was assigned to write this story. When stories like this pop up, I just think:… Continue reading My first article
Working on my first article
My inbox was not empty ... I had almost everyone respond to my requests for interviews. So I spoke with five people on the phone yesterday, sometimes back to back. The longest interview was 50 minutes. Since I am writing about a journal paper, that like I said seems quite easy to sensationalize, I can't… Continue reading Working on my first article
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