Do you love to write or edit and love biology? There are a number of career options that allow you to combine these two passions. First, ask yourself whether you love scientific writing or love ...

If you prefer discussing and explaining science to others more than performing it, technical communication may be the career path for you. While both science journalists and technical writers both ...

At a virtual Alumni Impacts talk on May 12, three NASA colleagues with degrees from Johns Hopkins University's science ...

[Portion of cover art of Zombie Tits, Astronaut Fish and Other Weird Animals by Becky Crew. Please click image to see full cover art.] What I'm going to talk about here are the things that I've found ...

This handout is available for download in DOCX format and PDF format. While there is significant continuity across academic writing in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, there are also ...

Writing a popular science book has simultaneously been the most challenging and rewarding experience of my writing career so far. It was not so much something that I wanted to do as a task that I ...

Writing in environmental science isn’t just about data—it’s about clarity, structure, and purpose. From defining your research question to presenting findings with precision, the process shapes how ...

Science writing comes in many varieties. When writing for a blog, you usually have freedom to go as deep into a topic as you feel necessary. There are hardly ever word count limits. On top of that, ...

A University of Wyoming faculty member wants to help college students become better writers of science by giving academics the tools necessary to do so. Bethann Garramon Merkle, a professor of ...

Despite being one of the most important stories of the year–and, perhaps, the decade–climate change is a difficult one to tell. It’s slow-moving, amorphous, bureaucratic, and based in science that ...

Cheers 2023 with a roundup of the year’s best science and nature essays. Read this collection with us this December. The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2023 brings together a range of topics ...