TON Fellowship Stories

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Choosing Unconventional Main Characters

Shi En Kim

A man with windblown hair standing in front of a rugged stone wall with elaborate carvings in the stones.

Joshua Sokol Explores the Night Sky and Our Relationship with It

Pratik Pawar

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Picking a Publication to Pitch

Celia Ford

A bunch of crumpled paper balls sit on a desk in the foreground. In the background, a writer sits at the desk with pencil and paper, trying again.

Don’t Despair: How to Handle Writer’s Block

Pedro Márquez-Zacarías

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How to Report on Animal Research Fairly and Transparently

Celia Ford

Yao-Hua Law Reports on the Nuances of Rainforest Loss in Peninsular Malaysia

Shi En Kim

A man crossing a narrow log bridge in a forest.

How to Find and Publish Stories about Global Disease Outbreaks for an International Audience

Pratik Pawar

A child wearing cardboard airplane wings and a cloth helmet and goggles stands in a field with one arm thrust upward, as if preparing for flight.

Speculative Journalism Blends Fact and Fiction to Get to the Truth

Shi En Kim

Jamie Lauren Keiles Follows the Surgical and Philosophical Journey of Phalloplasty

Celia Ford

A Lego graduate student sits at a desk behind a black laptop computer. His advisor watches him from the opposite side of the desk.

Demystifying Academic Hierarchies: Who’s Who on a Paper, and Whom Should You Interview?

Celia Ford

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How to Report International Stories Ethically

Shi En Kim

Ankur Paliwal Tells the Tale of a Rare Genetic Disorder and People Who Live with It

Pratik Pawar

A sunflower seedling in a yellow pot with the shadow of a full-grown sunflower projected on a while wall behind it.

The Pitch as Hypothesis: How Stories Evolve through Reporting

Pedro Márquez-Zacarías

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Reporting on Retractions

Pratik Pawar

Composite image of the cover of the book Life on the Rocks and author Juli Berwald.

Juli Berwald’s Life on the Rocks Meditates on Coral Reefs, Motherhood, and Battling the Unknown

Celia Ford

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Serving Up Snippets of Science in Short Videos

Carolyn Wilke

Mahdi and Modupe

Mahdi Garba and Modupe Abidakun on the Tragic Origins of Vaccine Hesitancy in Nigeria

Abdullahi Tsanni

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Dibbler Dingles, Worm Blobs, and Fossilized Poop: Finding Humor in Science

Carolyn Wilke