Science Writing & Editing
Two items in the September AAAS Member Update, including updates from the AAAS Government Relations team who are busy building a new local science engagement network, highlighting how you just […]
Can a favor be life-changing? For environmental scientist and 2019 AAAS Fellow Marie Lynn Miranda, it certainly was. Miranda almost didn’t become a professor, let alone a dean or provost. […]
It’s one thing to have a mission to bring the best available science into policy discussions. Delivering tangible results, now that’s the real challenge. Yet hardly one year since its […]
Theoretical physicist Sean Carroll is willing to accept that Hollywood is not always going to be scientifically precise. But there is one thing he wants film and TV makers to […]
When AAAS Fellow Judith McDowell applied for college in the 1960s, women were typically advised to pick one of two career options: teaching or nursing. McDowell was set on scientific […]
Loree Griffin Burns starts most mornings with a haiku. Reading or crafting the three-line poems with just 17 syllables verges on spiritual practice for the biochemist-turned-author. “It forces me to […]
While many scientists spend entire careers on one subject or even a single question, not every scientist has the countenance to develop an experiment for two decades before it officially […]
Long before there were workshops and conferences about science communication, there was Julia Moore. The AAAS Fellow and communication expert has spent a long and distinguished career in Washington, D.C., […]
If there is one thing Stanford University professor Patricia Burchat loves more than physics, it’s teaching physics. In high school, the subject came naturally and she often found herself imagining how she […]
There are trillions of tiny, single-celled organisms in the ocean that biologists know virtually nothing about. It drives AAAS member Alexandra Worden crazy. The marine microbiologist is particularly intrigued by picoeukaryotes—supersmall […]