Gregor Mendel’s pea plant experiments, which investigated how traits are inherited, is the stuff (fluff?) of science legend. But what about his lesser-known experiments with sugar-coated marshmallow chicks? A diorama of the 19th century Augustinian monk’s work with Peep plants has won the Golden Peep in the third annual World’s Finest Science-Themed Peeps Diorama Contest.
We’re delighted to announce the first of our Science Journalism Master Classes, a series of online courses that will be delivered by email. Our hands-on classes are designed to help science writers wherever they are in their careers—novice, developing, or established—sharpen the core skills this business requires. And thanks to a generous grant from The Kavli Foundation, our courses are free to anyone, anywhere in the world.
We’re thrilled to introduce our newest early-career fellows, Pedro Márquez-Zacarías, María Paula Rubiano A., Abdullahi Tsanni, and Carolyn Wilke. Supported by a generous grant from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund, Pedro, María Paula, Abdullahi, and Carolyn will each spend eight months working with individual mentors and the TON editorial team to report and write articles on the craft of science journalism for The Open Notebook.
Thanks to a pool of 25 matching donors, gifts to The Open Notebook made from now through December 31 will be doubled, up to a total of $7,500. At least half of the funds we raise between now and the end of the year will be earmarked for our Spanish translations program, TON en Español.
We’re excited to announce that the Science Literacy Foundation has awarded The Open Notebook a $15,000 grant to develop a peer-mentoring network that will connect experienced science journalists with non-specialist reporters and editors who work for local and other general-interest media outlets.
We are now accepting applications for the next two rounds of The Open Notebook/Burroughs Wellcome Fund fellowship for early-career science writers. The application deadline is October 25, 2020.
We’re delighted to announce that The Kavli Foundation has awarded The Open Notebook a $48,000 grant to expand and deepen the craft resources we offer to the science writing community. With Kavli’s support, we’ll develop, over the next year, a series of several email mini-courses that cover various aspects of the craft of science writing.
The Open Notebook is an essential resource for science journalists and aspiring science writers. We are committed to continuing to support the science journalism community. If TON is a meaningful resource for you, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution today.
We could spend days extolling the peeptacular virtues of the marshmallow confections submitted to the second-annual World’s Finest Science-Themed Peeps Diorama Contest. Without further ado, we present the winners of #PeepYourScience 2020.
The Craft of Science Writing comes out today! It’s available in paperback, hardcover, and ebook forms wherever you like to buy books.
Please join us as we celebrate the publication of The Craft of Science Writing! This free event, held at the Elliott Bay Book Company in Seattle and co-sponsored by the Northwest Science Writers Association, will include a lively discussion with several contributors to this indispensable guide for media professionals, scientists, science educators, and anyone interested in communicating with the public about science.
The Open Notebook is excited to introduce the latest recipients of our fellowship for early-career science journalists, Shira Feder and Katherine Wu. Made possible by a generous grant from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund, the fellowship involves working with a mentor for eight months to report and write stories for TON. We’re delighted to have Shira and Katherine—and their mentors, Cynthia Graber and Torie Bosch—as part of the TON fellowship community!
To make our work possible, The Open Notebook depends on donations from our community. Thanks to a pool of generous matching donors, gifts made to TON from now through December 31 will be doubled, up to a total of $5,000. If TON is a meaningful resource for you, please consider making a tax-deductible donation.
We are now accepting applications for the next two rounds of The Open Notebook fellowship for early-career science writers, made possible by a grant from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund. This 8-month mentored fellowship is remote and part-time, with a stipend of $4,200. The application deadline is October 20.
Dear Friends of TON, In the past year, The Open Notebook has published dozens of feature-length articles examining many aspects of the craft of science journalism and examining outstanding works up close through writer […]
The Open Notebook is seeking pitches for our Diverse Voices series. This series, a partnership with the National Association of Science Writers Diversity Committee, examines the experiences, expertise, and perspectives of science journalists from communities that are underrepresented in science journalism. Deadline: May 10.
All 30 students in Natalie Tamblyn’s 5th/6th grade class at David Lubin Elementary School in Sacramento, California made Peeps dioramas, and 14 students entered theirs into The World’s Finest Science-Themed Peeps Diorama Contest. 6th grader Lucy Higgenbotham won a Silver Peep (Kids) Award for “Pure Wild Peep,” honoring the work of ethologist Jane Goodall; another student, EJ, received an honorable mention for best social action theme for “The Pluto Protest.” The Open Notebook spoke with Mrs. Tamblyn to learn how the project went.
The Open Notebook asked Sally Mitchell, chemistry teacher at Rye High School in Rye, New York, to tell us the story behind her students’ impressive rendering of the entire periodic table of elements—in Peeps. Her 74 students’ project, the Peepiodic Table of the Elements, won both the Silver Peep (Teens) award and the Peeple’s Choice Award in The World’s Finest Science-Themed Peeps Diorama Contest in April 2019.
The winners of The World’s Finest (and Only … As Far as We Know) Science-Themed Peeps Diorama Contest have been chosen, and we’re happy to announce the crème(-filled eggs) de la crème(-filled eggs)!
Hoy estamos encantados de lanzar TON en Español, una colección de artículos populares de TON traducidos al español (Today we’re thrilled to launch TON en Español, a collection of popular TON articles translated into Spanish.)
Schrodinger’s Peep. Rice CRISPR/Peep9. The first “Peep”eration with ether. All monumental advances in science—with a marshmallow twist. These are just three of the 50 dioramas created by science-minded crafters and entered in the first-ever World’s Finest (and Only…As Far as We Know) Science-Themed Peeps Diorama Contest. Our gallery of the sweet tableaux is now open, and anyone can vote (through April 14) for their favorite to win the highly coveted Peeple’s Choice Award.
We are thrilled to announce two exciting sources of financial support in 2019, from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. This new support will help us expand The Open Notebook‘s reach and impact and to build new resources for the science journalism community.
What happens if you ask a child, “Hey, do you want to talk to a scientist?” That question drove science writer Jenny Cutraro to develop Science Storytellers, a public engagement program that aims to sit children down to interview scientists, just like professional journalists do—and then to share their science stories. The Science Storytellers booth will be at AAAS’s Family Science Days in Washington, DC on February 16 and 17. Join us!
Welcome, ladies and gentlepeeps, to The World’s Finest (and Only … As Far as We Know) Science-Themed Peeps Diorama Contest! It’s time for science communication to meet sugary confection, for innovators in medicine to […]
Close-ups from a few entries in the 2021 #PeepYourScience contest.
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