In 2005 Kendall Powell founded SciLance, an online community of 35 science writers, as a way to keep in touch with the colleagues she had met at conferences. The initial invitation to the group described it as “A network to discuss, ask advice, gripe, gossip, or otherwise virtually socialize about the business, ethics, logistics, struggles and [...]
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Words with Friends: The story behind the Scilance book
Posted by Kendall Powell on May 1st, 2013
Posted in Behind-the-Story Interviews 
Tags: Guest Contributor, Hayden, Nijhuis, Ornes, Powell, Rosner, Science Writers' Handbook, SciLance 
2 Comments »Florence Williams takes the measure of modern breasts
Posted by Michelle Nijhuis on September 26th, 2012
“For such an enormously popular feature of the human race,” writes Florence Williams in Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History, “it’s remarkable how little we know about their basic biology.” Breasts make us mammals, says Williams, but they also seem to make us confused: Our theories about their enduring appeal are muddled, and our understanding [...]
Posted in Behind-the-Story Interviews Tags: Books, Guest Contributor, Humor, Nijhuis, Williams, Writer Interview 6 Comments »Ask TON: Embedded with scientists
Posted by Jeanne Erdmann and Siri Carpenter on November 9th, 2011
Today’s installment of Ask TON kicks off a series of posts, each of which in its own way addresses ethical issues that can arise when writers shadow scientists long enough to cross the line from journalist to buddy. To get things started, here’s today’s Ask TON: I will be embedded with a scientist whom I [...]
Posted in Ask TON Tags: Ask TON, Ethics, Field Reporting, Harmon, Henig, Nijhuis, Rogers, Vastag 3 Comments »Michelle Nijhuis searches for hopeful signs amid a bat plague
Posted by Siri Carpenter on September 6th, 2011
You never know when a story idea will land on your doorstep—or in your mailbox. When award-winning journalist Michelle Nijhuis learned about caver and microbiologist Hazel Barton from a friend, she had no idea Barton would be her ticket into a science story she had been itching to tell, about a fungus that is ravaging [...]
Posted in Behind-the-Story Interviews Tags: Carpenter, Drafts, Edits, Environment, Field Reporting, Microbiology, Narrative, Nijhuis, Pitches, Smithsonian, Writer Interview 3 Comments »