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michaelreally enjoyed <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WritersInOxford" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WritersInOxford</a> alternative <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LiteraryFestival" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LiteraryFestival</a> yesterday - there were 9 of us very briefly presenting our new books published within the last 12 months. I was the only <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ScienceWriter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ScienceWriter</a>, although there are of course quite a few in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Oxford" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Oxford</a>

Dave MuthHere's a very cool <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Science</a> article! Octopuses change genes in strange ways.It's explained by <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Scientist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Scientist</a> and <a href="https://mas.to/tags/ScienceWriter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ScienceWriter</a> Meg Mindlin at the <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Octopus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Octopus</a> web site OctoNation <a href="https://octonation.com/octopus-can-edit-their-rna-heres-how/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://octonation.com/octopus-can-edit-their-rna-heres-how/</a><a href="https://mas.to/tags/Octopus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Octopus</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Genetics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Genetics</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/DNA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DNA</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/RNA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RNA</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Mollusc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mollusc</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Octopoda" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Octopoda</a>

michaelnew <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Introduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Introduction</a> for the bsky bridge : I’m a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BioChemist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BioChemist</a> turned <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ScienceWriter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ScienceWriter</a>, write a feature for every issue of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CurrentBiology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CurrentBiology</a>, 2/month, mostly about <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ecology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ecology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/evolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#evolution</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#environment</a> also <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/human" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#human</a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cultural" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cultural</a> things seen thru <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/biology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#biology</a> prism. Plus <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ScienceBooks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ScienceBooks</a>, most recently: <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Intertwined" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Intertwined</a>: From insects to icebergs Also writing a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/musical" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#musical</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FamilyHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FamilyHistory</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/memoir" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#memoir</a> around <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/biography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#biography</a> of our old <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cello" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cello</a>. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PirateLuthier" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PirateLuthier</a> fixing unloved <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/violins" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#violins</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NoCars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NoCars</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cycling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cycling</a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/trains" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#trains</a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/liveable" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#liveable</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cities</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/townmouse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#townmouse</a>

michaeloh. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RIP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RIP</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TimRadford" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TimRadford</a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ScienceWriter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ScienceWriter</a> extraordinaire. He actually gave me a brief introduction to the job many years ago. I remember I couldn't get a word in edgewise. and he commissioned/edited a few stories I wrote for the grauniad. Back in the days of the ever-changing pullout sections dedicated to science / <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#technology</a>. <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/feb/13/tim-radford-obituary" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/feb/13/tim-radford-obituary</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#science</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PublicUnderstanding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PublicUnderstanding</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/scienceJournalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#scienceJournalism</a>

AskPippa🇨🇦Here is the cover for *From Typewriters to Twitter:Celebrating 50 Years of Science Writing* -- my pet project during the pandemic. (Pretty excited about this)This might be the only book that chronicles science writing/ <a href="https://c.im/tags/scicomm" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#scicomm</a> in <a href="https://c.im/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Canada</a> A digital version is available for free to members of the SWCC (after you log onto the website a link should appear under About). Non-members should contact the association directly and ask (not sure if there's a small fee or if it's free too?). 92 pages, lots of historical photos, short bios of some extraordinary and often eccentric and high-profile writers who helped shaped Canada's science writing landscape. Controversies! Romance! Serious stuff! Fun stuff! The impactful awards program! This book had input from over 20 people who played various roles in the association. This isn't an in-depth analysis, but chronicles important events and an evolving media association. There are no plans at this point for a print copy, but if interested send a note to the SWCC office expressing interest.Members, log in at: <a href="https://sciencewriters.ca/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no">https://sciencewriters.ca/</a>Non-members, contact (it may take a couple of days for a response): office@sciencewriters.ca <a href="https://c.im/tags/journalists" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#journalists</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/journalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#journalism</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#history</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/scienceliteracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#scienceliteracy</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/sciencewriter" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#sciencewriter</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/ScienceUpFirst" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#ScienceUpFirst</a> @press <a href="https://c.im/tags/press" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#press</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/media" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#media</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Quebec" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Quebec</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Authors" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Authors</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/smallpress" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#smallpress</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/publishing" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#publishing</a>No alt text provided for this image

Rachel Lense (she/her)Heyyy, new people! Welcome to <a href="https://c.im/tags/Mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Mastodon</a> - the one place in social media space you're not terrified to enter every time!I've already done an <a href="https://c.im/tags/introduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#introduction</a> when I first arrived way back at the beginning of the month, but I'll do another quick one here for the newbies in case they want to connect, too.Hello, I'm Rachel, I'm a <a href="https://c.im/tags/Freelance" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Freelance</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/ScienceWriter" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#ScienceWriter</a> and I love writing about the intersections of <a href="https://c.im/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#science</a> and <a href="https://c.im/tags/culture" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#culture</a> - whether that's using <a href="https://c.im/tags/technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#technology</a> to ask for help from the masses to capture images of and identify <a href="https://c.im/tags/space" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#space</a> / <a href="https://c.im/tags/weather" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#weather</a> events in <a href="https://c.im/tags/CitizenScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#CitizenScience</a> projects or talking about the <a href="https://c.im/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#history</a> of <a href="https://c.im/tags/SeaMonsters" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#SeaMonsters</a> and why so many of us believe in <a href="https://c.im/tags/aliens" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#aliens</a> now. I also thoroughly love <a href="https://c.im/tags/folklore" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#folklore</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#poetry</a> and <a href="https://c.im/tags/essay" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#essay</a> I'm helping out with a <a href="https://social.beachcom.org/@nasa" class="u-url mention">@nasa</a> project called Spritacular (<a href="https://www.spritacular.org" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no">https://www.spritacular.org</a>) right now and will be graduating from <a href="https://c.im/tags/JohnsHopkins" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#JohnsHopkins</a> with an MA in Science Writing in December. Oh, and I love anything and everything to do with <a href="https://c.im/tags/animals" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#animals</a>. 😊

Rachel Lense (she/her)Although I'm a <a href="https://c.im/tags/ScienceWriter" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#ScienceWriter</a> now and thoroughly enjoy <a href="https://c.im/tags/nonfiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#nonfiction</a> of all kinds, I grew up reading fiction almost exclusively (especially fantasy). Because of this, the ins-and-outs of <a href="https://c.im/tags/storytelling" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#storytelling</a> is one of my most-favoritest subjects. I also know it's an aspect many people struggle with, so last week, courtesy of the DC Science Writers Association ( <a href="https://c.im/tags/DCSWA" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#DCSWA</a> ), I spoke with a magazine editor, two authors, and a podcaster about some of their storytelling techniques and ideas. The Zoom recording was just uploaded today, so now you, too, can learn how to tell the best stories in science! Or, at the very least, enjoy listening to some relatively smart people talk about interesting things like where you can drop off John Waters fan mail or what dramatic genius Matt Stone and Trey Parker have. Either way, it'll be entertaining.I know it's long, but if you end up watching, I'd be delighted to know what you think! This is my first professional panel, so feedback is important. Thanks! (P.S. I'm working on the transcription tonight, so hopefully there will be more accurate captions uploaded tomorrow.)<a href="https://c.im/tags/SciComm" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#SciComm</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCc7DZwuEIk" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCc7DZwuEIk</a>

Rachel Lense (she/her)One thing I stupidly forgot to mention in my <a href="https://c.im/tags/introduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#introduction</a> is that I'm a <a href="https://c.im/tags/technophile" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#technophile</a>. (I knew the command prompts for changing the font and background colors in DOS by the time I was in kindergarten.) But I *did* mention I'm a <a href="https://c.im/tags/writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#writer</a>, and writers also typically enjoy <a href="https://c.im/tags/reading" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#reading</a>. And while I'm now a <a href="https://c.im/tags/ScienceWriter" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#ScienceWriter</a>, I grew up reading <a href="https://c.im/tags/fiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#fiction</a> (especially <a href="https://c.im/tags/fantasy" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#fantasy</a>) almost exclusively. If you know me at all, you know I'm a little obsessed with <a href="https://c.im/tags/monsters" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#monsters</a>, so whenever I start exploring a new <a href="https://c.im/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#AI</a> art bot, the first thing I do is test its imagination by asking it to make me a <a href="https://c.im/tags/Jabberwocky" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Jabberwocky</a>, For the unfamiliar, a Jabberwocky (or, technically, a Jabberwock) is a horrifying creature of limited but wild description from a nonsense poem of the same name by Lewis Carroll.So far, my experiments with AI art bots rendering Jabberwocks have been disappointing, but this time, things seem to be different. After a very brief introduction between me and this AI art bot and a very simple text request, I think <a href="https://c.im/tags/MidJourney" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#MidJourney</a> may have actually visited <a href="https://c.im/tags/Wonderland" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Wonderland</a>.<a href="https://c.im/tags/introductions" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#introductions</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/AIArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#AIArt</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#technology</a>

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