YES YES YES! Alex started this project as his thesis for our program. We're so thrilled to see how it's developed and the impact it's made

Shoutout to authors @jamieyyjiang.bsky.social and Julia Vaz, MIT GPSW Class of 2026, and to Stephanie Scarbrough from the Associated Press. Stories from the collaboration will be published every week.

How a retired cranberry bog helped change the game for wetland restoration The largest restored wetlands in Massachusetts now cover hundreds of acres of what used to be cranberry farms.

We're thrilled to showcase our collaboration with the Associated Press! Students pitched local climate stories, then worked with AP visual journalists from across the US to report and produce their pieces. You can read the first story from the collaboration here:

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Apply by April 15 for the 2026 NASW Diversity Summer Fellowship The National Association of Science Writers is pleased to once again offer the **NASW Diversity Summer Fellowship** for talented students and early-career science communicators undertaking summer internships.

FELLOWSHIP DEADLINE TOMORROW: If you're a science writing trainee looking for financial support for your internship experience this coming summer, then apply for our NASW Summer Diversity Fellowship. $3,000 in funding to supplement your internship pay. Due Wed, April 15:

My latest @bloomberg.com, with a gift link: Lee Zeldin Touts EPA Rollbacks at Climate Denial Conference

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

ONE WEEK LEFT TO APPLY: If you're a science writing trainee looking for financial support for your internship experience this coming summer, then apply for our NASW Summer Diversity Fellowship. $3,000 in funding to supplement your internship pay. Due Wednesday, April 15: www.nasw.org/article...

Tomorrow is your last day to enter the IIJ Pitch Fest! Don't miss this chance to hit a home run with an all-star panel of editors!

Celebrate the Best of Environmental Journalism | SEJ Awards Presentation Returns to SEJ2026 — SEJ2026 Environmental Journalism Conference Discover top environmental journalism and support impactful stories at SEJ2026, celebrating excellence in reporting on pressing environmental issues.

You can read all of the @sejorg.bsky.social award-winning entries below. Congratulations to all of the winners.

www.sej2026.org/awards

The Delusion of “Advanced” Plastic Recycling The plastics industry has heralded a type of chemical recycling it claims could replace new shopping bags and candy wrappers with old ones — but not much is being recycled at all, and this method won’...

And Lisa's here:

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Californians to face steep fines for violating water orders under new legislation Ranchers who defied a CA water order were only fined $50 each. Some fines can increase 20-fold under legislation headed to the governor.

You can read Rachel's award-winning series here:

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Congratulations to Rachel Becker, '15, for scooping up a second place prize in the Beat Reporting category from @sejorg.bsky.social and to @lisalsong.bsky.social, '09, for landing an honorable mention in the Explanatory Reporting Category!

A Pox on Fools by Thomas Levenson: 9798217155002 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books An urgent and profound history of vaccine skepticism, seeking to understand how our three most common fears about vaccines hardened into a lethal ideology—from a leading science writer “Brimming...

Self promotion alert! My polemical history of anti-vax ideas, A Pox on Fools, is coming soon.

ISTM it's my most important work, at once a history of vax opposition, a warning, & a tool w. wh. to push back on the stupids. I'd be honored if you check it out.

One more thing: preorders matter. A lot.

Need financial assistance to attend #HJ26? Apply for an AHCJ conference fellowship — the deadline is tomorrow, Friday, March 27. Fellowships include registration, membership, hotel support and travel assistance. Explore all available conference fellowships here: healthjournalism.org/fellowships/...

Our Ocean Conference 2026 Fellowships Internews' Earth Journalism Network (EJN) is pleased to announce an in-person Fellowship program that will support selected journalists to attend and report from the Our Ocean Conference scheduled for

Earth Journalism Network (@earthjournalism.bsky.social) is accepting applications for an in-person Fellowship program that will support selected journalists to attend and report from the Our Ocean Conference scheduled for June 16-18, 2026, in Mombasa, Kenya. Deadline: April 7th tinyurl.com/dttb4ced

FEMA to Offer $1 Billion Through Embattled Disaster Mitigation Fund The move comes after a judge ordered the agency to restore the program, which it had cancelled last year.

FEMA said Wednesday it will fund up to $1 billion in disaster-resilient infrastructure under a grant program it had previously canceled and criticized as being wasteful.

"Mitigation is back," said former FEMA National Advisory Council member Carrie Speranza.

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Climate Economics Journalism Fellowship - NYU Stern Climate Economics for Journalists: An NYU Stern Fellowship

NYU Stern is accepting applications for the NYU Stern Climate Economics Journalism Fellowship. Selected fellows will travel to NYU Stern's Greenwich campus to learn from globally recognized experts in the emerging field of climate economics. Deadline: April 20th www.stern.nyu.edu/experience-s...

#writingopportunity | Rachel Courtland Freelance #WritingOpportunity: MIT Technology Review is seeking pitches for an upcoming print issue. The theme is Kids. We're looking for pitches for longer pieces: narrative features, compelling inv...

Freelance journalists and writers: @technologyreview.com has a new call for pitches, for its Kids issue. Pitches due Friday April 3. Please share! More details here: www.linkedin.com/posts/rcourt...

New feature digs into the age check tech that Discord endorsed following widespread backlash.

Bottom line: On-device checks—if they work as they claim—are more privacy-preserving, but privacy advocates still don't think age verification laws are effective enough to justify any of it:

Reporter, Nature Job Title: Reporter, Nature Location: Washington DC or New York (Hybrid Working Model) Application Deadline: March 27, 2026 About Springer Nature Springer Nature is one of the leading publishers of…

🚨📢JOB ALERT📢🚨 @nature.com is hiring a Reporter to pitch and write news articles about science and the research community each week for publication in print and online. NY or DC-based hybrid role. Deadline: March 27th tinyurl.com/47a7vmhn

edit: this forest project was in Oregon, but it was the largest in California's carbon market!

What Earth’s longest-lived animals can teach us about aging better Inside the growing scientific quest to understand what creatures with the extraordinary ability to defy the ravages of time can teach us about making human aging better.

What exceptionally long-lived animal can teach us about how to age better - but this story could also just be called

Nature is bonkers! (especially rockfish?) wapo.st/4lvPy1x

Iris Crawford-Maskell, GPSW Class of '22, and Angely Mercado give a crash course on how to cover food sovereignty stories:

Publishing a Book Takes Much Longer Than I Thought For some reason, it will take at least 22 months to publish mine

Here's the latest installment in my story of what it takes to drag a science book kicking and screaming across the publishing finish line. theartfulamoeba.substack.com/p/publishing...

America’s vaccine skepticism is starting to show up in health data RKF Jr. wanted parents to question the science. A study of 12 million newborns shows they listened.

New piece from @pratik-p.bsky.social on the frightening increase in parents now declining the Hep B vaccine for their newborns. www.vox.com/health/48175...

Chimpanzees Are Really Into Crystals

wrote about something very important www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/s...

Submit a session proposal for ScienceWriters2026 Propose your great ideas for NASW sessions and plenaries and for CASW’s “Science + Science Writing” panel discussions at ScienceWriters2026. Help make our program relevant and timely, designed by science writers, for science writers.

DUE IN ONE WEEK: ScienceWriters2026 is a meeting for science writers, by science writers, and we need your help!

Submit your idea by March 10: www.nasw.org/article...

Learn what makes a great session: www.nasw.org/page/ho...

This is a great awards program for science communication. Enter now (before April 3) and/or please encourage others to do so. Categories include researchers (early, mid- & late career), journalists, independent & institutional. From @nationalacademies.org & @schmidtsciences.bsky.social

Thread: imagine you're a historian surveying 16th century copies of the world's most famous ancient astronomy book, and you see one where somebody with handwriting VERY similar to GALILEO (!?) has transcribed... a psalm.

"Galileo, a prayer? That's something that doesn't work," Ivan Malara thought.

Love to see it!

Cleaning Up Potomac River Sewer Spill Could Take Months The federal government is now playing a bigger role in river restoration after Trump criticized the local response.

While emergency repairs to DC Water's broken sewer line could be completed by mid-March, there’s *no timeline* for how long it will take to clean up the environmental damage caused by the spill.

My latest @bloomberg.com (gift link): www.bloomberg.com/news/article...