Interviewing experts is the most interesting part of writing the kinds of nature/science books I write. I enjoy learning about their field work on a particular animal or plant. I like getting the science directly.
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When preparing to interview someone, do your homework. Prepare questions that show you’ve read some of your subject’s work and understand their position in their field. It’s always a privilege to interview your heroes.
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Tropical forests, the most diverse environments on land, offer a stunning example of how complex interrelationships at every level —from roots to canopy—make a stable ecosystem. Politicians, take note from nature.
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Turn your children’s questions into adventures in finding answers together. I love when my grandson asks, “How do you know that?” He wants evidence-based answers. Pity no one in the current administration wants evidence for anything.
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Anybody who writes children’s books knows you don’t write down to kids. You write up to
them. Children’s questions are profound. I learned this years ago when my 4-year-old daughter asked me, “Mom, does the universe have an edge?”
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Intrinsic but contributory
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No.
Just because I don't spend my time on SM, my website (or in real life), shouting, complaining, arguing, protesting & swearing (I don't swear anyway), doesn't mean I don't know what's going on in the news & world.
I'd rather be a thinker, #theoriser & #sciencewriter like it says in my profile.
Excerpt from a review article. Circled in red is the sentence " Had we realized that NF-κB would have a wide role in inflammation and other natural and pathological processes, we might have found a simpler designation for ease of typing."
I'm doing a bit of research for something I'm writing on NF-κB and came across this gem of a paper. I am having this struggle right now. 😂
(Excerpt from: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...)
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The lowest temperature recorded on Earth, -128.6F (-89.2C) was measured at Russia’s Vostok Station on July 21, 1983.
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The South Korean icebreaker carrying 40 scientists from around the world has reached the Thwaites glacier. Follow the expedition with The NY Times. Learn about Antarctica from my book.
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The circumpolar current that flows clockwise around Antarctica is the largest current on Earth. It affects climate around the world.
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Ice.
As far as the eye can see,
blanketing the continent on the bottom of the world.
Antarctica.
The coldest, windiest, driest place on Earth.
From my book
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The (slow) thread collecting all my features published in #CurrentBiology in 2026 starts here. #ProseAndPassion #Science #ScienceWriter #ScienceJournalism #biology #ecology The old thread for 2025 is here: mastodon.social/@proseandpassion/1137824...
Millions of years before humans began farming, leafcutter ants were farming fungus in vast underground nests. They “deserve recognition as Earth’s ultimate superorganisms,” said experts Bert Holdobler & E.O. Wilson.
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We are hiring a science writer to produce and edit content communicating research, education and other activities originating from our university. Deadline January 16 #ScienceWriter #ScienceCommunication #ScienceWriter #SciComm #AcademicJobs #WritingJobs #JapanJobs bit.ly/4aVJADN
Post-Thanksgiving thoughts. I am thankful for my life, for loving parents who birthed and raised me, for my children and grandchildren, for the opportunity to help make a positive difference in this wondrous world.
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Anemones look like plants but they’re really animals. They catch prey with harpoon-like tentacles that sting and paralyze small fish that get too close. But damselfish seem immune and live among the tentacles
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A poop snack doesn’t sound appetizing but in the crowded tropical forest ecosystem, anything can be food for somebody. Bird poop is perfect food for butterflies that follow birds that follow army ants.
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Orchids that don’t produce nectar attract their bee pollinators with perfume. Male bees collect the perfumes, store them in their hind legs, and use them to attract mates.
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To keep from being eaten alive, plants produced thousands of chemical defenses, including caffeine, nicotine, cyanide, opium. Many of our medicines are derived from plant chemicals. Others we use to wake up.
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If you'd like to see my books and blog and everything else I work on, head to jendiagammon.com!
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Filmed this a few months ago! Now my audiobook ‘Why are we like this?’ is out wherever you get your audiobooks… As well as my regular book 😉 #kean4sci #whyarewelikethis? #audiobook #evolution #sciencewriter
Years ago on a film assignment in Panama, I met American scientist Neal Griffith Smith. He had published a controversial paper on the advantage of being parasitized. Imagine!The story is in my book.
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Some slave-making ants use chemical warfare to subdue their victims. Edward O. Wilson called these chemicals “propaganda substances” that put the victims in panic and confusion. Sounds like politics today!
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If you think plants can’t do
anything because they’re rooted in one place, you’d be wrong. Plants defend themselves from being eaten alive by producing natural insecticides like caffeine and nicotine.
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Among ants, you’ll find some of the most spectacular symbiotic partnerships in all of nature. Slave-makers, farmers, herders, soldiers.
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I interviewed a professor at the University of British Columbia about her recent work showing that inflammation during early life can lead to disruptions in the endocrine system and the microbiota.
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