#sciencewriting — Public Fediverse posts

Have you ever employed #storytelling when writing your scientific paper? Sounds a bit fishy, but makes a lot of sense from a communications perspective.

There are plenty of storytelling methods. Here, Richard Brutchey explains the "Story Spine" framework and applies it to #chemistry:

👉 https://pubs.acs.org/inocaj/article/65/29/16625/5234276/The-Art-of-Storytelling-in-Scientific-Writing?

#ScienceMastodon #AcademicMastodon #ScienceWriting #publishing #communication #scicomm #wisskomm

I recently read two wonderful science autobiographies that I would highly recommend.

Breaking Through by Katalin Kariko and the Gene Machine Venki Ramakrishnan. Both provide great personal narratives of their paths in science, and the many obstacles they faced. Very humbling stories.

#science #ScienceWriting

Informal connections outweigh coauthorship ties in academic impact | PNAS

Mentoring and support networks, as evidenced from article acknowledgements, are a strong predictor of impact.

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2511050123

#science #sciencewriting #impact #manuscript

What if the universe doesn’t lose energy…
but records it?
In this article I explore the Void Ledger — a mechanical idea where universes leak energy over time, and the surrounding void keeps the account.
No exotic physics.
No singularities.
Just pressure, drift, and conservation.
Read here 👉
https://bubbleverse.medium.com/the-void-ledger-why-the-universe-may-keep-an-energy-account-c51a4bcbe01f
#Cosmology #Physics #Bubbleverse #VoidLedger #ScienceWriting #Fediverse

Please reshare! Here's the first in a series of #sciencewriting resources I'm posting to my website: A list of science writing/communication internships and fellowships.

https://brittanytrang.com/science-journalism-fellowships-and-internships/

#sciencejournalism #scicomm #scicommjobs #journalismjobs #journojobs #sciencecommunication #sciwri #stem

Why More Scientists Should Have a Personal Blog A reflection on why scientists should write publicly, in their own voices, to build trust, counter misinformation, and make science feel more human. rohitfarmer.com/posts/2026/w... #writing #blogging #sciencewriting #personalBlog

Why More Scientists Should Hav...

Why More Scientists Should Have a Personal Blog

A reflection on why scientists should write publicly, in their own voices, to build trust, counter misinformation, and make science feel more human.

https://rohitfarmer.com/posts/2026/why-more-scientists-should-have-a-personal-blog/

#writing #blogging #sciencewriting #personalBlog

Vegetable colors tell quiet stories. 🌱

Purple deepens with stress 🟣
Orange gathers sunlight 🧡
Red deepens as ripening synthesizes pigments 🍅

Explore anthocyanins, carotenoids, and betalains, nature's chemical alphabet.
✍️ https://TPC8.short.gy/dncuXIJI

These hues reflect chemistry, history, and the ways plants endure their environments. Color becomes a record of life adapting in plain sight. 🧪

#FoodScience #Botany #PlantScience #ScienceWriting #Nature #Pigments #Gardening #Vegetable #Nutrition #TPC8

Excited for this workshop! Neuromatch's Konrad Kording will be proving abstract-writing help!

➡️Learn more and RSVP today: https://www.c4r.io/blogs-news/rigorous-and-glamorous-in-100-words-or-less-2-0

#AbstractWriting #ScienceWriting #GradSchool #PhDLife #ResearchSkills

At its 63rd birthday Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring" is going as strong as ever. Here a little celebration. #RachelCarson #SilentSpring #ecology #toxicology #scienceWriting https://manywordsandnumbers.org/2025/09/12/in-praise-of-rachel-carsons-silent-spring/

Novelist Cormac McCarthy's tips on how to write a great science paper [pdf]

https://gwern.net/doc/science/2019-savage.pdf

#HackerNews #Novelist #Cormac #tips #on #how #to #write #a #great #science #paper #[pdf] #sciencewriting #CormacMcCarthy #writingtips #academicwriting #researchpublication

New in the Medium Handbook, Zulie interviews Science Spectrum editors Cole Frederick and Harlan Brothers (@harlan), who grew their Medium publication to over 8700 followers in under a year:

https://medium.com/medium-handbook/how-science-spectrum-editors-grew-their-medium-publication-to-9k-followers-acdd8ae98e6f

A video version is also available:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sB_ZXvOd8RA

#Medium #writers #writing #science #ScienceWriting

I'm seeing fungus/mycelium-based materials in the news again as potentially green alternatives and it's time to remind people that "mushrooms build large underground networks of mycelium" is wrong. Correct* is "the large underground networks of mycelium occasionally grow some mushrooms". Writing the first is like if we couldn't usually see apple trees and wrote that "apples grow large wooden support structures".

#fungus #scienceWriting #mushrooms #pedantry

*I'm being hyperbolic here

ENTERTAINING, IMPRESSIVELY COMPREHENSIVE history of humanity’s long and confused journey to the discovery of germ theory is a work of popular science with all the propulsive energy of a mystery novel, even though we know the ending. A MINUS

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/so-very-small-thomas-levenson/1146072181?ean=9780593242735

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HOW MEMORY WORKS—and how it goes wrong—explored clearly and beautifully by two distinguished researchers. The implications for misinformation, disinformation, and subconscious bias are discussed along with relevant experiments. Great stuff! A MINUS

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/memory-lane-ciara-greene/1145650349?ean=9780691257099

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THE INCREDIBLE POWER OF MUSCLES: physiologically, in the world around us, and in our personal and cultural imaginations, explored beautifully by Bonnie Tsui with her trademark mix of deep research, lively interviews, and thoughtful reflection. B PLUS

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/on-muscle-bonnie-tsui/1146129816?ean=9781643753089

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#book #Books #bookreview #bookreviews #bookstodon #nonfiction #sciencewriting #sports #sportswriting #anatomy #physiology

I'm an extrovert, and I can be a bit too loud, and yet either in spite of that or because of it... I love to write and to read. So I've been doing these Snippets at Life Science Editors (https://www.lifescienceeditors.com/snippets), shooting for 1-2 a week, where we enthuse about a recent paper.

The goals: to point to some cool new science, to call out the authors as best we can, to comment on the writing in some way, and (for me) to feed my love of biology and of writing. We aim for diversity in topics, authors, and continents and we love nominations!

The newest Snippet went up today. I unwisely muse about my vicarious "experience" of #pregnancy to introduce a paper about how mammals manage body temperature during pregnancy. Have a look. I'd love feedback of every kind, and suggestions for the next one!

https://www.lifescienceeditors.com/2025/05/01/prolactin-modulation-of-thermoregulatory-circuits-provides-resilience-to-thermal-challenge-of-pregnancy/

#scientificwriting
#sciencewriting

ELEGANT, ELEGAIC, VIVID and thoughtful book intertwines the author’s mourning for her complicated, beloved family with hard truths about the ecological crises facing our earth and its oceans. Beautiful, sobering writing, grounded in love. B PLUS

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-mourners-bestiary-eiren-caffall/1144991418?ean=9781955905589

@bookstodon

#book #Books #bookreview #bookreviews #bookstodon #nonfiction #memoir #memoirs #naturewriting #sciencewriting #nature #environment

Thanks, Carl, for the FREE article! @Carl_Zimmer
What a great writer! What a great article! I'll get the new book, too! https://mastodon.social/@Carl_Zimmer/113913168542439024

#ScienceReporting #ScienceWriting #AstroBiology #Asteroid

Hi all, an #introduction post! I’m in #Germany, from the US, studying #PublicPolicy and interested in #RenewableEnergy and the #EnergyTransition (esp. #CriticalMinerals). Hoping to meet interesting people here…und mein Deutsch zu verbessern (ich habe fast B2).
I am a #writer (esp. #ScienceWriting but also a #novelist) and do #photography and #archery. #Harvard class of something (I am not old but…let’s not say how long ago this was). Big fan of coffee.

I registered with NZ's Public Lending Rights Scheme a few years ago. This gives authors a small payment based on the number of copies of their books held in libraries across NZ. In 2022 & 2023, I was below the minimum threshold. BUT, today, I received my first ever NZ PLR payment! So if you're here in Aotearoa and you requested that your local library get a copy of Sticky (or Science and the City), YOU helped to make that happen. Thank you very much ❤️ #writer #scicomm #sciencewriting