#NSWASCIWIRE
Recent work by our members#nswasciwire highlights the published writing of NSWA members each month. Would you like to see your writing featured? Please suggest an item online or send a link or PDF file to Susan Keown at sciencewire@nwscience.org. The NSWA Board of Directors determines what material to present. We look forward to highlighting your work.
Emery: State of the Field
Carry on, explorers! Virginia Emery reports that true field biologists still exist. They’re out in the forests and deserts and plains with their binoculars and nets and magnifying glasses. Writing for Berkeley Science Review, Virginia talks with biologists who step...
Dolan: Local and Practical Health
Maria Dolan (@mariaidolan) has had a busy spring with the relaunch of Northwest Health, a quarterly magazine from Group Health, out this month in digital and print editions. In the inaugural new issue, Maria doles out practical information such as rating home fitness...
Long: From Personal Experience
Priscilla Long shares the story of her late sister while explaining the science of schizophrenia in The American Scholar. Genetics, inflammation, and infectious disease provide partial answers to Priscilla’s questions about the disease. Priscilla also shares a...
Main: All About OT
A woman of many talents, Mali Main is, by day, Development & PR Coordinator for St. James Immigrant Assistance in Seattle. She also aggregates tempting science tidbits @malkamain. PLUS, she writes the newsletter for the UW Department of Rehabilitation Medicine...
McCarthy: Not a Mystery Novel
Simple tips from Michael McCarthy (@HealthGuide) can improve your scientific presentations. In NewsBeat for UW Health Sciences, Michael talks with communications expert Matt McGarrity, who says, get to the point! Science is not a mystery novel. More on local science...