Automating Science Journalism Tasks: Emerging Opportunities

Invasion Science: A Horizon Scan of Emerging Challenges and Opportunities.

We identified emerging scientific, technological, and sociopolitical issues likely to affect how biological invasions are studied and managed over the next two decades. Issues were ranked according to their probability of emergence, pervasiveness, potential impact, and novelty. Top-ranked issues include the application of genomic modification tools to control invasions, effects of Arctic global...

AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Award winners named.

362 27 JANUARY 2017 • VOL 355 ISSUE 6323 sciencemag.org SCIENCE Consequential stories on important issues in medical research are among the winners of the 2016 AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Awards, including a Swedish documentary that raised disturbing questions about the research conduct of a surgeon at the famed Karolinska Institute, a series in a small weekly newspaper that challenged claims...

Careers in Virology: Science Writing and Journalism.

This article condenses some highlights from a presentation that I have now given at several universities about the bench-to-newsroom career path. For readers who simply want a short explanation of how to parlay their hard-earned critical-thinking skills from graduate school into a lucrative job in a growing industry, go to law school.

How the Internet changed science journalism

Commentary: Roles, opportunities, and challenges—science museums engaging the public in emerging science and technology

Even a cursory reading of the public engagement in science (PES) literature over the past decade reveals that public engagement is becoming part of the ‘‘orthodoxy of 21st century science policy’’ (Stilgoe, Nanodialogues: experiments in public engagement with science, 2007, p 16), Moving forward, there appears to be strong consensus that (1) public engagement is an essential component for shapi...