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 […]
The Open Notebook is excited to introduce the latest recipients of our fellowship for early-career science journalists, made possible by a generous grant from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund. Welcome to the TON community, Knvul Sheikh and Jennifer Lu, and to Knvul and Jen’s mentors, Roxanne Khamsi and Maya L. Kapoor.
Thanks to a pool of generous matching donors, from now through December 31, gifts to The Open Notebook 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 or—even better—a recurring contribution.
A science media landscape that lacks diversity is missing opportunities to engage communities of readers who could shape tomorrow’s science and science policy. By calling attention to some of the problems, giving visibility to minority journalists’ work, and undertaking nuanced examinations of issues that minority journalists often encounter, we hope to strengthen the profession of science journalism. We hope you’ll join us.
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 11.
TON readers, we’d like to ask for your help. Keeping The Open Notebook running costs more than $2,500 per week. If 400 people—just 1 percent of all the people who’ve visited TON so far this year—contribute $10/month, we will meet our mid-year fundraising goal. Please consider making a monthly contribution to support our work.
Including diverse voices in science stories ensures more accurate and complete stories that more fully reflect and inform readers, and is the equitable thing to do. On this page, we compile detailed and specific resources and strategies for making that goal a reality.
The articles in this collection from The Open Notebook—on topics such as covering preprint manuscripts, interviewing people who have experienced trauma, spotting shady statistics, avoiding spreading misinformation, and more—are especially relevant for anyone covering the coronavirus pandemic.
Good Transitions: A Guide to Cementing Stories Together
A Day in the Life of Sabrina Imbler
Journalists as Characters: Using First-Person Narration to Drive Stories
COVID-19 Reporting Diaries: March 25–31, 2020
How to Read a Scientific Paper
Reporting on Health: What 18 Journalists Wish They’d Known from the Start
Interrogating Data: A Science Writer’s Guide to Data Journalism
Making Your Writing and Reporting Transgender-Inclusive
How to Talk to Your Facebook Friends about Fake News
Data Journalists’ Roundtable: Visualizing the Pandemic
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