#MedicalResearchers, #MedicalEditors, and #MedicalWriters: Check out MoRE Consensus Definitions, a #glossary of new #terminology used in #clinical #studies. Published here: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2835400. My info source: issue 192 of newsletter from https://www.theaccidentalmedicalwriter.com/about/.
#medicalwriters — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #medicalwriters, aggregated by home.social.
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#MedicalEditors and #MedicalWriters), if you're a member of the American Medical Writers Association, please take the organization's #survey on how #generative #ArtificialIntelligence is changing how you work, wherever you are on the spectrum of #GenAI usage. AMWA will send you a link to by email.
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#MedicalEditors and #MedicalWriters: A July 18 post on the website of the American Medical Writers Association provides alternative resources to counter the disappearance of #DEI #health #data. You don't have to be an AMWA member to access the site's post. https://blog.amwa.org/navigating-the-disappearance-of-dei-in-health-data #AMWA
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#MedicalEditors, #MedicalWriters, and #scientists: Website maintenance on the US National Library of Medicine data center is coming up July 25 and may last 24-plus hours. https://ncbiinsights.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2025/07/08/ncbi-website-maintenance-july-26th/
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Optimizing the Medical Writing Process for Faster, Flawless Results
Let's explore how to streamline your medical writing workflow for speedy and compliant submissions.#MedicalWriting #RegulatoryWriting #ClinicalResearch #FasterSubmissions #MedicalWriters #ScientificWriting #MedComms #HealthcareProfessionals #PharmaLife #LifeSciences #MedicalContent #WritingTips
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#MedicalEditors, #MedicalWriters, and #scientists: You may want to know about a possible alternative to #PubMed as a backup when you're creating or #editing #ReferenceLists. https://www.medpagetoday.com/special-reports/features/115790
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#MedicalEditors, #MedicalWriters, & the general public: Go to the bottom of the page at www.kff.org/about-us/ to sign up for #news updates on US #healthcare topics & US #HealthPolicy. Its major program areas are policy #analysis, #polling, #journalism, #PublicHealth information campaigns, and #health #misinformation & #trust. #AmEditing
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Attention all #freelance #medical #communicators (#MedicalEditors and #MedicalWriters): Monica Nicosia, PhD (owner, Nicosia Medical Writer LLC) wants you to take the 2024 Freelance Medical Communicator Tools of the Trade Survey: https://s.surveyplanet.com/7r30rh40 . #SelfEmployment #survey
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For new #freelance #editors, here's an article from #amWriting with tips on #tracking your working #time. It was written for #MedicalWriters and #MedicalEditors, but the information can help you if you #edit in other arenas. https://blog.amwa.org/tips-from-the-experts-on-freelance-time-tracking
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Tips on writing an introductory paragraph
#sciencewriters #medicalwriters #STEM[NOTE, this is as seen on Twitter, and was developed by Dr Asad Naveed]
Are you stuck in your research paper's introduction paragraph again?
Here is a 3-step framework on how to write a compelling introduction section of your paper (see diagram):
1. Attention (labelled orange):Write about what is known.
Define the problem and grab your reader's attention with a quote, or a statistic.
2. Connection (labelled light blue):Write about what is unknown.
What is yet to be found?
3. Thesis (labelled dark blue & purple):Write about how you will fill the gap and your rationale, purpose and hypothesis.
A well-written introduction can set the stage for your research and establish context and relevance.
This approach allows you to start broadly and narrow down as you progress.
Eventually, this framework will keep your reader engaged from the very beginning.
It'll also act as a roadmap guiding the reader through your argument.
If you want to see more tips like this and you have a blue bird account, look for: @dr_asadnaveed
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You can't stop evolution
#evolution #sciencejournalists #medicalwriters #stemA paper published in Nature yesterday reports on how an engineered minimal cell contends with the forces of evolution.
Open access paper available here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06288-x
Dr Veera M. Rajagopal on Twitter has a good summary on the development of the minimal genome (the barest minimum of a bacterial genome required for life), which led to the engineering of the minimal cell.
If you're on Twitter, it's available here: https://twitter.com/doctorveera/status/1676734754995961858
According to the Nature paper: even when you reduce a bacterial genome to its absolute minimum where every nucleotide matters, the genome undergoes mutational events generation after generation as much as the non-minimal genome. One simply cannot stop the evolution.
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As posted on the Nobel Prize profile on Twitter.
#sciencejournalists #medicalwriters #womeninstemToday we remember one of the world's greatest scientists: Marie Skłodowska Curie, who died #OTD in 1934.
Curie was the first person to be awarded the #NobelPrize twice and is still the only person to receive the prize in two different scientific fields.
The link below gives a short overview of her achievements, as posted by the Nobel Prize on Twitter.
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The myth that vaccines cause autism
#sciencejournalists #medicalwriters #womeninstem #vaccines #autismDemystified by Dr Susan Oliver on Twitter. I am tooting her tweet here.
Thanks to Robert F. Kennedy Jr, the myth that vaccines cause autism is doing the rounds again. [Dr Susan Oliver says] Cindy and I explain why it is bollocks.
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Five women scientists at the White House
#WomenInSTEM #womeninmedicine
#medicalwriters #sciencejournalists #medicaljournalistsAn astronaut, an aquanaut, two astrophysicists and a molecular biologist.
Dr Sian Proctor, Sydney Hamilton, Dr Raven Baxter, Dr Jordan Foreman, and Amethyst Barnes.
@DrSianProctor
@SeeSydSoar
@ravenscimaven
@itsspacejordan
@AmethistaaaThis appeared to be an event to celebrate Blackspaceweek and the NASA Artemis Generation Roundtable (apologies if the information is incorrect)
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New Nature article looks at how to end misogyny and inequalities in science
#WomenInSTEM #womeninmedicine
#medicalwriters #sciencejournalists #medicaljournalistsDon’t get mad, get equal: putting an end to misogyny in science
Subtle forms of misogyny attack female leadership and coerce women to conform to conventional gender norms. It’s time to call out these behaviours, say Alison Bentley and Rachael Garrett.
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Meet 10 Women in Science Who Changed the World
#WomenInSTEM #womeninmedicine
#medicalwriters #sciencejournalists #medicaljournalistsGreat article in the March Discover magazine. The 10 women mentioned in the article are:
1. Ada Lovelace, Mathematician
2. Marie Curie, Physicist and Chemist
3. Janaki Ammal, Botanist
4. Chien-Shiung Wu, Physicist
5. Katherine Johnson, Mathematician
6. Rosalind Franklin, Chemist
7. Vera Rubin, Astronomer
8. Gladys West, Mathematician
9. Flossie Wong-Staal, Virologist and Molecular Biologist
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The prognosis for women with early invasive breast cancer has improved substantially since the 1990s
#breastcancer #medicaljournalists #womeninstem #medicalwriters[Retooted with hashtags and error amended]
The earlier we detect and treat breast cancer, the better the outcome.
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FREE Science journalism masterclasses
#sciencejournalists #free #medicalwriters #womeninstemThe Open Notebook’s Science Journalism Master Classes will help you sharpen your ability to find and vet story ideas, craft effective pitches, report and write impactful stories, spot scientific hype, collaborate with editors, and more. Find out more about the classes below.
https://www.theopennotebook.com/science-journalism-master-classes/
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Women diagnosed today are 66% less likely to die from breast cancer than 20 years ago
#breastcancer #medicaljournalists #womeninstem #medicalwritersIn a study looking at half a million women in England with early breast cancer, those diagnosed between 1993-1999 had a 5-year breast cancer mortality risk of 14.4%, but those diagnosed 2010-2015 had a 5-year mortality risk of 4.9%.
Read the full paper by Professor Carolyn Taylor and her team here: https://www.bmj.com/content/381/bmj-2022-074684
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It's the 21st century and women are still under-recognised in science
I think it is worth putting this out in the mastodon sphere [as seen on blue bird thing]
Women are less likely to be credited for their scientific contributions than men. It’s true across multiple fields & at all stages, with important repercussions for career progress.
#WomenInSTEM #womeninmedicine
#medicalwriters #sciencejournalists #medicaljournalistsRoss MB et al. Nature 2022;608(7921):135-145.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9352587/pdf/41586_2022_Article_4966.pdf
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MEDICAL JOURNALISTS and STUDENT JOURNALISTS - Time is running out to apply for the Medical Journalists' Association awards
#sciencejournalists #medicaljournalists #Africa #medicalwriters #STEM #stemwomen
Entry closes at midnight on Wednesday May 31, 2023.See the MJA website for more information:
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Calling African science/health journalists and potential journalists!
#sciencejournalists #medicaljournalists #Africa #medicalwriters #STEM #stemwomen
GRANT OPPORTUNITY
[As seen on the blue bird app]
The African Investigative Journalism Conference has launched a grant program to enable journalists to investigate health issues in seven African countries: Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibia, Tanzania, Lesotho, Swaziland and South Africa
Any journalist or team of journalists may apply, and the work may be done in any medium/media.
See the link for more information
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdgyOCETJm-CIwQB6YwjTW4DnDhniS8CslM2zUXRSBK1YxZhA/viewform
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Not just for the boys
#womeninstem
#medicalwritersA new book is about to hit the shelves: "Not just for the boys. Why we need more women in science" by Athene Donald @AtheneDonald on the blue bird
The author will be talking at the Cambridge Literature Festival (online festival) and copies of the books should be available then. @camlitfest
https://www.cambridgeliteraryfestival.com/whats-on/spring-festival-2023-online/The author is Professor Athene Donald, who is Master of Churchill College, Cambridge and a professor emeritus of physics in the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge; her research was on soft matter and biological physics. Her interests include: policy for science, education, equality, interdisciplinary science.
[Tooting this as seen on Twitter]
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MORE ON THE ROSALIND FRANKLIN DNA STORY
#medicalwriters #sciencejournalists #womenscientists #stemJust published
@NatureNew evidence from 70 years ago: Rosalind Franklin was a co-discoverer of DNA's double-helix structure
by
@matthewcobb
@nccomfort
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The JOHN MADDOX PRIZE for courageously advancing public discourse with sound science
#womenscientists #medicalwriters #sciencejournalists #prizes #awards
https://senseaboutscience.org/john-maddox-prize/
Nominate your candidate for the prize at the link above. Be quick, nominations close on 1 May!
The John Maddox prize is a joint initiative of the charity Sense about Science and the leading international scientific journal Nature. The prize has been awarded annually since 2012 to individuals who have shown courage and integrity in standing up for sound science and evidence. In addition to the main award, there is an additional prize for an individual considered to be at an early career stage.
The prize brings into the spotlight the underappreciated efforts of people the world over who try to bring research and evidence to public debate even when it is challenging, and inspires and encourages others to do the same. The prize has a global focus and received hundreds of nominations from dozens of countries.
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CALLING WOMEN AND GIRLS IN SCIENCE!
#womenscientists #medicalwriters #sciencejournalistsThe world needs Science,
and Science needs Womenhttps://www.forwomeninscience.com/
Visit the website to learn more about the L'Oréal-UNESCO International Awards and programmes for women and girls.
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TIPS FROM SCIENCE JOURNALISTS
Learn what top science reporters and editors have to say about the relationship between science and journalism
[As seen on Twitter]
#medicalwriters #journalists #sciencejournalistshttps://www.aaas.org/programs/public-engagement/tips-science-journalists
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The landscape of biomedical research
#STEM #medicalwriters@emollick on the bird app has posted a link to an interactive 'map' of biomedical research.
Each dot is one of 21 million papers, based on connections between their abstracts identified by AI. Scroll for the tour, which is both beautiful & shows the method's ability to answer important questions about science. https://static.nomic.ai/pubmed.html
You can scroll the narration in the left part of the screen, and interact with the visualization in the right part of the screen. Zooming in loads additional papers. Information about each individual paper appears on mouse-over, and clicking on a paper opens its PubMed page in a separate window. Search over titles is available in the upper-right corner.
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Is the tide turning on predatory academic publishers?
#medicalwriters #stem #predatorypublishingWeb of Science have just removed the MDPI flagship journal IJERPH from their lists. This means IJERPH has no more an Impact Factor.
This is significant because IJERPH is one of the largest open-access mega-journals in the world
~50 other journals are also affected.
See the Twitter thread on this here: https://twitter.com/PaoloCrosetto/status/1638526088908353537
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Inspirational women
#stemwomen #medicalwritersTo mark International Women's Day, The Nobel Prize are celebrating women who have changed the world. Visit their website to see all of the amazing women who have received the #NobelPrize and their remarkable achievements at the time of the award.
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Was Rosalind Franklin a victim of sexism in research?
28 February – 70th anniversary of the day Francis Crick walked into the Eagle pub in Bene’t St, Cambridge, and announced: “We have found the secret of life!” Had he and James Watson discovered the chemical structure of DNA by nicking Rosalind Franklin’s data, though?
#Stem #medicalwriters #stemwomen
See the whole of the tweet thread here:
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What ChatGPT and generative AI mean for science
#AI #ChatGPT #STEM #medicalwriters
A new article from @Nature.
Many scientists are using ChatGPT to increase productivity, but others remain wary. “If you believe that this technology has the potential to be transformative, then I think you have to be nervous about it,” says computational biologist
https://genomic.social/@greenescientist[Reproduced from Nature twitter account, as I can't see it here on Mastodon yet. Apologies to @greenescientist if he got there first]
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More on ChatGPT
#medicalwriting #medicalwriters #ChatGPT #llm #aiEditor of Science also says no to ChatGTP authorship (following on from Nature's recent ground rules stating no LLM tool will be accepted as a credited author on a research paper)
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If you weren't able to attend the 2022 Medical Writing & Communications Conference of the American Medical Writers Association, you can now get access to select sessions with On-Demand AMWA2022: A Digital Conference Digest, at http://amwa.mycrowdwisdom.com/diweb/catalog/item/id/11082319 . You'll be able to explore 13 educational sessions and 2 award addresses. This package offers on-demand access to the selected conference sessions between the purchase date and March 31, 2023.
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3000 Free medical images to illustrate your publications and powerpoint presentations!
https://smart.servier.com/#PhD #Bioinformatics #datascience #Biology #neuroscience #phdchat #postdoc #methodology #Journals #OpenAccess #science #phdlife #research
Please check the licence if you are using them for commercial purposes. #medicalwriters #medicalcommunication
Thank you to @Verukita1 for the original post on the bird app