#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.
Hu: Open Up
In The Atlantic, NSWA Vice President Jane C. Hu writes about a burgeoning populist uprising. Or at least, a group of scientists who are pushing academic publisher Elsevier to lower fees for open access—making journal articles freely available online. Many researchers...
Long: LUCA to Lucas
Priscilla Long is tracing the line from LUCA, the Last Universal Common Ancestor, to Lucas, her five-year-old grandnephew. In “How Chemistry Became Biology” for American Scholar (subscription required), Priscilla @PriscillaLong explores the genetic connectedness of...
Peeples: Climate Change Deal
What's the deal? Lynne Peeples explains the Paris COP21 agreement in her story for the Huffington Post, including a quote from climate change expert Bill McKibben that "it's possible that it saves the chance of saving the planet." Not a ringing endorsement, but Lynne...
Watts: What About the Pines?
Speaking of the climate, Andrea Watts looks into how changes will affect trees in the Pacific Northwest. In a piece for the United States Forest Service, Andrea finds that scientists and forest managers are planning ahead. They’re researching which types of...
DeWeerdt: And the Tadpoles?
Toads have it rough, writes Sarah DeWeerdt. They are threatened by climate change, habitat destruction, and the fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis. But Sarah @DeWeerdt_Sarah reports in Conservation This Week about a successful multipronged antifungal treatment for...