Trent: PFAS Risks and Communication

Trent: PFAS Risks and Communication

For High Country News, Sarah Trent focuses on the way that Vancouver, Wash., city officials communicated with the public about the results of their tests on the city’s water for the “forever chemicals” known as PFAS and the risks they pose, especially to young kids....
Hu, Nijhuis, Rosen, Yan: First Craft

Hu, Nijhuis, Rosen, Yan: First Craft

The Craft of Science Writing is the first book from The Open Notebook (@Open_Notebook), an online community of science journalists and writers who freely share their experience and resources. NSWA is proud to have several members who contributed to the book. Wudan...

Nijhuis: Secret of Michelle’s Success

Michelle Nijhuis (@nijhuism) knows how to write a great science article. In her new Kindle book, The Science Writers’ Essay Handbook: How to Craft Compelling True Stories in Any Medium, she tells us how it’s done. (A big thanks to the National Association...

Lang: Guiding Writers of Stats

If you’ve stumbled over stats, Tom Lang can help. His new paper for the Equator Network (Enhancing the QUAlity and Transparency Of health Research) is a set of straightforward guidelines about reporting statistics for common analyses in biomedicine. For more, check...

Ostrander: Tips for Science Writers

Madeline Ostrander @madelinevo also earned a 2014 NSWA Career Development Award (see Lynne Peeples, above). Madeline went to freelance writer summer camp and returned with . Send her blogpost and at ibiology.org to anyone who asks, “How do I get started in...