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Workshop commentary: Creative Science Writing

Posted by , on 29 September 2022

In June 2022 The Company of Biologists organised an unusual Workshop for creative science writing. For the first time, scientists interested in communication were gathered together to experiment fiction and ...

Science through the looking glass

Posted by , on 17 August 2022

The method was straightforward: take a bunch of writers, novelists, a playwright, science communicators and scientists from all over the world, from fields as diverse as astrophysics and climate science ...

Workshop my creative science writing with a bunch of fellow scientists and/or writers? Talk about high risk-high reward!

Posted by , on 5 July 2022

Kristin Sherrard, Staff Scientist at the University of Chicago, shares her experiences of The Company of Biologists Workshop on 'Creative Science Writing'.

Writing ideas newsletter

Posted by , on 24 March 2022

Welcome to the spring edition of our 'Occasional writing ideas' newsletter.

Tricks for concise scientific writing #wordcountchop

Posted by , on 18 March 2022

Often in scientific writing, we are up against strict limits, whether it be the number of words for a conference abstract, the number of pages for a grant proposal or ...

From the archives: Writing

Posted by , on 1 September 2021

With a new academic year upon us, we thought it would be an excellent opportunity to highlight some older content on the Node that, we hope, will help make your ...

Bent into shape: The rules of tree form

Posted by , on 17 February 2020

From Knowable Magazine’s Special Report: Building Bodies. For an introduction to the series see Eva Emerson and Rosie Mestel’s Node post. How do trees find their sense of direction as ...

Building Bodies

Posted by , on 13 February 2020

Dear developmental biologists, As editor-in-chief and executive editor of Knowable Magazine from Annual Reviews, we’re grateful for the invitation to write a post here at The Node about a special ...

Introducing blogging to future scientists

Posted by , on 23 March 2014

Science communication using social media is becoming a very popular way of making science more accessible to the public, as well as a way to get your research noticed.  This ...

My journey to scientific editing

Posted by , on 24 May 2011

Although I’m no longer working at the bench, I still think of myself as a scientist. During grad school and much of my post-doc, I assumed that I would follow ...

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