Science Communication

Science journalism

A scammer impersonated a science journalist. It worked.

AI fraud is going to make it harder for new voices to break into science journalism

Science journalism

This is how a science paper becomes science news

Also: Journals milking open access fees, AI interest stories, and a big win for local journalism in California

Science Communication

"It's honestly a miracle that we're still around" — the Xylom's Alex Ip on indie newsroom realities

Also: Controversial changes to NIH peer review, 90% of biomedical papers show signs of AI use, and Harvard shuts down its writing center

Science Communication

Some things are beyond words (and pictures, and video)

Sometimes you just have to be there

Monday Edition

It is not science journalism's job to improve trust in science

Also: The "Science: A New Golden Age" report, layoffs at National Geographic, and studies on the consequences of AI adoption in research

Monday Edition

In the last 2 weeks, 4 science magazines shut down, sold, or lost funding

Also: Avi Loeb to head White House UFO committee, overworked ERC peer reviewers, Anthropic's push for AI in science, and more from last week

Rant

Pluto is MAGA's favorite "planet" for a reason

Jared Isaacman's Pluto push is a master class in science populism

Science Communication

About "to" and "around" the Moon

Technically correct is not, in fact, the best kind of correct in scicomm

Science Communication

Pop science doesn't reach a "general audience"

Pop sci readers are wealthy, educated, and left-leaning

Opinion

True fictions

The storytelling instinct conjures illusions of consensus in science

Satire

The Loeb Scale for science PR disasters

The Loeb Scale measures the severity of science PR disasters from typos to fraud