How to become a medical writer

Posted in Science at 10:38 am by David Bradley -- 2 Comments; add yours  

I get a lot of emails from people hoping to break into the field of science writing (and medical and technical writing in general), whether as a journalist or in science communication. Often they’re fresh from university, or just writing up, and like me, didn’t fancy staying in the lab. Often they have a clear idea of what they want to do and have specific questions about breaking into the field. I can usually give …

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How to read and interpret a science news story

Posted in Science at 5:29 pm by David Bradley -- Click to comment  

double x science news check listScientist Emily Willingham blogs about science at Double X Science. BoingBoing just alerted me to the existence of her site and the fact that she has come up with a handy, six-step guide for reading and interpreting science news stories (it applies equally well to press releases).

The six rules are useful for lifting the veil on the science being touted or reported and should …

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Crowdsourcing science definitions

Posted in Science at 1:36 pm by David Bradley -- Click to comment  

Forget long-winded, long-form, textbooks, essays and all that overblown background reading stuff! Science 140 is a new crowdsourcing social media project that hopes to collate science definitions andexplanations. As the name would suggest, each has to be 140 characters or fewer, tweet length, in other words.

“As well as definitions we also want people to explain how something works, why things are the way they are or what happens if …

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Twitter Top 10 of science by The Independent

Posted in Science at 9:58 am by David Bradley -- 7 Comments; add yours  

1. Brian Cox
2. Ben Goldacre
3. Richard Dawkins
4. Neil DeGrasse Tyson
5. David Bradley
6. Robin Ince
7=. Andy Lewis
7=. Mo Costandi
9. Roger Highfield
10. Tim Berners-Lee

You can subscribe to them via my Twitter list.

via The Twitter 100: Top 10 science – News – People – The Independent. Nice to have beaten Robin Ince, maybe he’ll respond to my tweets now! I made it to joint #73 in the Top …

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