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  1. Our national bloody broadcaster, the supposed gold standard news for the country of Ireland, doesn’t know the difference between an asteroid and a comet. #rte #idiots #comet #asteroid #sciencejournalism
    rte.ie/news/2026/0624/1580135-

  2. Our national bloody broadcaster, the supposed gold standard news for the country of Ireland, doesn’t know the difference between an asteroid and a comet. #rte #idiots #comet #asteroid #sciencejournalism
    rte.ie/news/2026/0624/1580135-

  3. My latest @forbes article has just gone live. It is a deep dive on extreme heat in cities. Five brand-new papers (each from a different discipline) together paint a worrying picture of the scale of the problem.

    #science #ScienceJournalism #climatechange #cities #heatwave

    forbes.com/sites/lauriewinkles

  4. My latest @forbes article has just gone live. It is a deep dive on extreme heat in cities. Five brand-new papers (each from a different discipline) together paint a worrying picture of the scale of the problem.

    #science #ScienceJournalism #climatechange #cities #heatwave

    forbes.com/sites/lauriewinkles

  5. INDIA'S SCIENCE NEWSROOMS GRAPPLE WITH SHRINKING SPACES, RISING DEMAND

    Indian science journalists have more work and less support. Training helps reporters but newsrooms need more resources.

    #ScienceJournalism, #IndiaNews, #MediaChallenges, #Journalism, #ScienceCommunication

    newsletter.tf/india-science-jo

  6. Author Sophie McBain wasn't on my radar screen, though it turns out I had read some of her pieces before.

    Good journalists / longform writers are scarce. We want to recognise them.

    Here's her website:
    sophiemcbain.com/319-2/

    #GoodJournalists #ScienceJournalism #longform #LongReads #SophieMcBain

  7. Author Sophie McBain wasn't on my radar screen, though it turns out I had read some of her pieces before.

    Good journalists / longform writers are scarce. We want to recognise them.

    Here's her website:
    sophiemcbain.com/319-2/

    #GoodJournalists #ScienceJournalism #longform #LongReads #SophieMcBain

  8. Open Letter to Anti-Trans Science Journalists

    Posted by Matthew R. Francis over on Bluesky. I searched for a Mastodon account for him, but no luck.

    galileospendulum.org/2025/06/0

  9. Open Letter to Anti-Trans Science Journalists

    Posted by Matthew R. Francis over on Bluesky. I searched for a Mastodon account for him, but no luck.

    #ScienceJournalism

    galileospendulum.org/2025/06/0

  10. "While the tone and style of ChatGPT summaries were often a good match for human-authored content, "concerns about the factual accuracy in LLM-authored content" were prevalent, the journalists wrote. Even using ChatGPT summaries as a "starting point" for human editing "would require just as much, if not more, effort as drafting summaries themselves from scratch" due to the need for "extensive fact-checking," they added.

    These results might not be too surprising given previous studies that have shown AI search engines citing incorrect news sources a full 60 percent of the time. Still, the specific weaknesses are all the more glaring when discussing scientific papers, where accuracy and clarity of communication are paramount.

    In the end, the AAAS journalists concluded that ChatGPT "does not meet the style and standards for briefs in the SciPak press package." But the white paper did allow that it might be worth running the experiment again if ChatGPT "experiences a major update." For what it's worth, GPT-5 was introduced to the public in August."

    arstechnica.com/ai/2025/09/sci

    #AI #GenerativeAI #Science #ChatGPT #LLMs #Chatbots #Journalism #Media #News #ScienceJournalism

  11. "While the tone and style of ChatGPT summaries were often a good match for human-authored content, "concerns about the factual accuracy in LLM-authored content" were prevalent, the journalists wrote. Even using ChatGPT summaries as a "starting point" for human editing "would require just as much, if not more, effort as drafting summaries themselves from scratch" due to the need for "extensive fact-checking," they added.

    These results might not be too surprising given previous studies that have shown AI search engines citing incorrect news sources a full 60 percent of the time. Still, the specific weaknesses are all the more glaring when discussing scientific papers, where accuracy and clarity of communication are paramount.

    In the end, the AAAS journalists concluded that ChatGPT "does not meet the style and standards for briefs in the SciPak press package." But the white paper did allow that it might be worth running the experiment again if ChatGPT "experiences a major update." For what it's worth, GPT-5 was introduced to the public in August."

    arstechnica.com/ai/2025/09/sci

    #AI #GenerativeAI #Science #ChatGPT #LLMs #Chatbots #Journalism #Media #News #ScienceJournalism

  12. Some nice news: We are FOLIO: 2025 Awards finalists!

    Please join us in congratulating the recognized writers and artists, and be sure to explore their excellent work.

    #FolioAwards
    #ScienceJournalism
    #KnowableMagazine

  13. Some nice news: We are FOLIO: 2025 Awards finalists!

    Please join us in congratulating the recognized writers and artists, and be sure to explore their excellent work.

    #FolioAwards
    #ScienceJournalism
    #KnowableMagazine

  14. PS: Our article is freely available to republish.

    ✅ Covering Climate Now partners can find us in the Sharing Library
    ✅ Anyone who wants to bring our fact-checked science journalism to their audience can learn more here: knowablemagazine.org/republish

    Reach out with any and all questions!

    #CoveringClimateNow #ClimateChange #ScienceJournalism

  15. PS: Our article is freely available to republish.

    ✅ Covering Climate Now partners can find us in the Sharing Library
    ✅ Anyone who wants to bring our fact-checked science journalism to their audience can learn more here: knowablemagazine.org/republish

    Reach out with any and all questions!

    #CoveringClimateNow #ClimateChange #ScienceJournalism

  16. I've had another article published in @IEEESpectrum (pinch me - I have loved this magazine for two decades). This one is on a very cool #NZ company turning olivine into multiple valuable materials, while producing no waste

    spectrum.ieee.org/nmc-battery-

    #science #scicomm #sciencejournalism

  17. I've had another article published in @IEEESpectrum (pinch me - I have loved this magazine for two decades). This one is on a very cool #NZ company turning olivine into multiple valuable materials, while producing no waste

    spectrum.ieee.org/nmc-battery-

    #science #scicomm #sciencejournalism

  18. David M. Ewalt named new Editor-in-Chief of Scientific American, bringing extensive media experience and passion for science communication to the historic publication #ScienceJournalism #ScientificAmerican

  19. It has gotten to the point that even good science reporting sucks. It’s simplified down to the usual 8th grade vocab & comprehension, so I’m left wondering thru all the oversimplification what exactly was discovered?! Sure in this wondrous Information Age I could look up the paper, but, like, not while driving & listening to the radio where I heard the science report. #dumbingdown #sciencejournalism #moreinfoplease

  20. 👀 On our radar: Beware pre-shredded lettuce

    💬 “Perhaps ironically, the bags of shredded lettuce that promise to be pre-washed and ready to eat are riskier than whole heads of romaine.”

    ✍️ Nicholas Florko, @TheAtlantic

    🔗 theatlantic.com/health/archive

    #PublicHealth #ScienceJournalism #ScienceMastodon #TheAtlantic

  21. 👀 On our radar: Beware pre-shredded lettuce

    💬 “Perhaps ironically, the bags of shredded lettuce that promise to be pre-washed and ready to eat are riskier than whole heads of romaine.”

    ✍️ Nicholas Florko, @TheAtlantic

    🔗 theatlantic.com/health/archive

    #PublicHealth #ScienceJournalism #ScienceMastodon #TheAtlantic

  22. A nice shoutout from the Association of Health Care Journalists in their recent tip sheet, “Covering the ongoing bird flu story as it unfolds.” Thanks for including us!

    Explore more:

    👉 Read the tip sheet:
    healthjournalism.org/blog/2025
    👉 Check out our explainer:
    knowablemagazine.org/content/a

    #AHCJ #PulicHealth #ScienceJournalism #H5N1 #BirdFlu #KnowableMagazine

  23. A nice shoutout from the Association of Health Care Journalists in their recent tip sheet, “Covering the ongoing bird flu story as it unfolds.” Thanks for including us!

    Explore more:

    👉 Read the tip sheet:
    healthjournalism.org/blog/2025
    👉 Check out our explainer:
    knowablemagazine.org/content/a

    #AHCJ #PulicHealth #ScienceJournalism #H5N1 #BirdFlu #KnowableMagazine

  24. BREAKING NEWS: "Scientists have found trillions of molecules of Hydrogen Dioxide in our rivers, under the influence of the Earth's gravitational field, moving at a rapid rate towards any Ocean they can find, and violently colliding with each other and the river bed, billions and billions of times every second, in what they are now calling Bernoulli Turbulent Flow.

    1/n

    #Joke #News #FakeNews #PseudoScience #MediaLies #ScienceJournalism #ScinceJokes #Humor #Humour #Science #BreakingNews

  25. What does it feel like to be a science journalist — or any kind of journalist — in the USA right now? Talia Lavin talked to Deborah Blum, director of the Knight Science Journalism Center at MIT, a specialist in toxicology, and the woman who literally wrote the book on the history of U.S. food regulations. "As a country, we tend to suffer from what I think of as regulatory memory failure. We don't have a sense of what things were like before regulations went into play. Most Americans don't really have a sense of what the environmental landscape of the United States looked like before the EPA, for instance," says Blum. "Instead, we demonize regulation, when often we're really talking about consumer protection. And when we're talking consumer protection, we're talking about protection for every American citizen. But until you have those kinds of universal standards in place, the people who suffer the most are going to be the people who can't afford the good stuff."

    flip.it/EEAN0S

    #Journalism #ScienceJournalism #Media #FoodSafety #RFK #EPA #Regulation #USA #USPolitics #TrumpAdministration #Food

  26. What does it feel like to be a science journalist — or any kind of journalist — in the USA right now? Talia Lavin talked to Deborah Blum, director of the Knight Science Journalism Center at MIT, a specialist in toxicology, and the woman who literally wrote the book on the history of U.S. food regulations. "As a country, we tend to suffer from what I think of as regulatory memory failure. We don't have a sense of what things were like before regulations went into play. Most Americans don't really have a sense of what the environmental landscape of the United States looked like before the EPA, for instance," says Blum. "Instead, we demonize regulation, when often we're really talking about consumer protection. And when we're talking consumer protection, we're talking about protection for every American citizen. But until you have those kinds of universal standards in place, the people who suffer the most are going to be the people who can't afford the good stuff."

    flip.it/EEAN0S

    #Journalism #ScienceJournalism #Media #FoodSafety #RFK #EPA #Regulation #USA #USPolitics #TrumpAdministration #Food

  27. Short but sweet bit of #ScienceJournalism.

    Magical thinking: it's either all-in or... Poof! The magic vanishes. This is why #MagicalThinking can turn violent, I suppose. All -must- believe lest cognitive dissonance becomes painful.

    "In a 2013 paper, Fulcheri suggested some saints, interred in many-layered arrangements (a coffin inside a sarcophagus inside a cold stone tomb), might have been “confined in a particular microclimate” hostile to putrefying microbes."

    seattletimes.com/pacific-nw-ma

  28. Short but sweet bit of #ScienceJournalism.

    Magical thinking: it's either all-in or... Poof! The magic vanishes. This is why #MagicalThinking can turn violent, I suppose. All -must- believe lest cognitive dissonance becomes painful.

    "In a 2013 paper, Fulcheri suggested some saints, interred in many-layered arrangements (a coffin inside a sarcophagus inside a cold stone tomb), might have been “confined in a particular microclimate” hostile to putrefying microbes."

    seattletimes.com/pacific-nw-ma

  29. Interested in pursuing #SciComm as a profession? Then this new Master's program in Germany might be for you: tuition-free (also for international students), entirely taught in English, covering everything from #ScienceCommunication to #ScienceJournalism, #SciArt, public engagement and more.

    👉 hs-ansbach.de/en/master/scienc

    Application period starts on May 1st.

    #ScienceMastodon #journalism #AcademicMastodon #studying

  30. Ah yes, the riveting tale of dioxygen difluoride: a compound so unholy even Satan himself would swipe left 💀✨. But first, let's solve the internet's greatest mystery—how to enable #JavaScript and #cookies 🙄🔍. Truly, science journalism at its finest! 🍪🔒
    science.org/content/blog-post/ #dioxygendifluoride #sciencejournalism #internetmystery #HackerNews #ngated

  31. Ah yes, the riveting tale of dioxygen difluoride: a compound so unholy even Satan himself would swipe left 💀✨. But first, let's solve the internet's greatest mystery—how to enable #JavaScript and #cookies 🙄🔍. Truly, science journalism at its finest! 🍪🔒
    science.org/content/blog-post/ #dioxygendifluoride #sciencejournalism #internetmystery #HackerNews #ngated

  32. You feel you're doing a great job at #SciComm? Apply for the National Academies Eric and Wendy Schmidt #Awards for Excellence in Science Communications!

    Submissions are accepted by independent/organizational communicators, researchers, or journalists.

    👉 nationalacademies.org/awards/e

    #ScienceCommunication #Wisskomm #ScienceJournalism #media #ScienceMastodon #AcademicMastodon #science

  33. oh. #RIP #TimRadford, #ScienceWriter 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 / #technology.
    theguardian.com/science/2025/f #science #PublicUnderstanding #scienceJournalism