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CASW launches 2023 giving season challenge Today the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing is launching its year-end giving campaign. All donations made through December 31 will be fully matched by gifts from CASW ...

CASW’s first Connector Chat generates fellowship resources Resources from CASW’s first Connector Chat, which offered tips for finding and securing science journalism fellowships, are now available online. Connector is CASW’s library ...

Patient advocates urge science journalists to present more diverse perspectives on Long COVID “It’s time to turn the page on Long COVID,” said patient advocate and storyteller Chimére L. Sweeney, speaking to science writers in Aurora, Colo. Oct. 8 during the Council ...

Researcher encourages journalists to understand varied risks posed by uses of AI Amid the growing enthusiasm for artificial intelligence (AI), journalists must go beyond superficial reporting and ask probing questions that challenge assumptions about AI, an AI ...

Long COVID, AI, UFOs and more: Reporters cover ScienceWriters2023 As experts spoke on topics ranging from environmental disaster response and quantum computers to long COVID, 14 intrepid reporters fanned out across the ScienceWriters2023 conferen...

How much safer is abortion than staying pregnant in the post-Dobbs era? Thanks to a lack of health information related to abortion in the United States, scientists are uncertain just how much safer it is to carry a pregnancy to term versus having an ab...

Combat medicine breakthroughs are reshaping civilian trauma care On Oct. 17, 2005, during the Iraq War, a U.S. Bradley Fighting Vehicle was struck by an improvised explosive device. With their vehicle disabled and engulfed in flames, the soldier...

Insufficient abortion data fails to fully assess the post-Dobbs landscape We may never know the full impact on reproductive health and pregnant people resulting from last year’s Supreme Court decision, Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health, which returned ...

Taking on trash: How one scientist is addressing the complexity of the plastics problem Gregg Beckham’s interest in his eventual research topic showed up early in life. But while his future scientific peers spent time digging for dinosaurs or soaked in seawater, Bec...

Leaders describe public health trust-building among Colorado Indigenous communities In 2021, as new vaccines were spreading unevenly across the United States, the fastest and broadest uptake came in a population that had been especially hard hit during the first y...

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