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If you are an #ABSWmember or attended the ABSW Science & Technology Journalism Summer School 2025, you can watch the recordings of the sessions.
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How the ABSW Summer School has set me up for success By Stephanie Meadows, Diversity Scholarship grantee at ABSW Summer School 2025.

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"For me, the ABSW Summer School was that pistol shot, signalling the start of what I hope will be a very long, very rewarding race."

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Tackling misinformation is a long game: here’s how science journalists can help A panel of writers, researchers, and industry experts shared their insights on how to spot and counter misinformation at #abswss25. By Jasmeen Kanwal.

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🛑Tackling misinformation is a long game: here’s how science journalists can help🛑
Five standout tips by Jasmeen Kanwal
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ABSW Summer School - Through a student's eyes ABSW Science and Technology Summer School is “perfect for a student looking for some insight into the world of science writing”. By Jessica Lewis.

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"Throughout the day, I collected some fantastic advice from the panels, workshops and individuals I spoke with," Jessica Lewis wrote in an ABSW article about her experience - Through a student's eyes 👉zurl.co/awbgk

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Engaging general audiences may involve letting go Speakers at the ABSW Summer School 2025 shared insights for engaging general audiences, including knowing when to let go. By Derya Cavga.

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Derya Cavga is a beginner science writer with a specialist background. What she learnt at ABSW Summer School 2025 can be reviewed in 4 stages of writing (and a conclusion).

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✏️Turning your topic into a story ✏️
Delve into what makes a great story, and hone the skills needed to find story ideas within your topic.
📆17:00-18:30
📍 Lecture Theatre 2

@claireainsworth.bsky.social @Aisling_Irwin

Key takeaways👇

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📰The art of pitching 📰
Learn the basics and build a strong foundation to write (and evaluate) pitches for a variety of outlets.
📆17:00-18:30
📍 Lecture Theatre 1

@munkeatlooi.bsky.social

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1. Setup hook. 2. Sound 3. Always shoot more 4. Storyboard 5. Framing: rule of thirds, vertical/horizontal, eye level. 6. Scripts (write but don’t have to use). 7. Interviewer behind camera. 8. Editing: video first, then sound

These are @tomrocksmaths.bsky.social ‘s top tips for filming. #abswss25 #scicomm #youtube #edutube

. @dalmeet.bsky.social doesn't read press releases. He advices to set up alarms on topics of interest or social media, look for review and meta-analysis papers, negative findings, or debunking information.
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Great insights today from Mevan Babakar from Google, Jon Roozenbeek at KCL and Freya Robb from Science Media Centre at the ABSW Summer School session on misinformation.

A take-away for science journalists was the need to show the provenance of what they write.

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Ask researchers that work in your topic to advice you other people to talk to, what are the major journals in their field, what’s the most important conferences (if you can't go, check the programme and conference documents).
@sarahemilywild.bsky.social
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Great tips from @sarahemilywild.bsky.social 👇
It's all about building relationships, 1st with the comms officers at universities, then with experts.
Grab ☕️ with the comms person, even a virtual one; talk to researchers once in a while to see when are they publishing something.
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I'm handling the online participant chat for this session so I'm bad at updating Bluesky as well! #abswss25 But the discussion is about (for example) how to be professional/personal on social media.

We’ve been doing some maths in this session and talking about how to present complex ideas, tied to Tom’s experience calculating river flow to the ocean and the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. #abswss25

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📰Journalism from scientific papers: Finding the most valuable stories
📆 15:00-16:30
📍Lecture Theatre 1

📢Workshop leaders:
@andyextance.bsky.social
@dalmeet.bsky.social
@emmastoye.bsky.social
@sarahemilywild.bsky.social

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Tom showing a clip of him doing the calculations on the British game show Countdown

Countdown fans might recognize @tomrocksmaths.bsky.social from a brief stint on that show #abswss25

Tom Crawford standing in front of a projected picture of himself in a lecture theatre

Next #abswss25 session in room 2 is @tomrocksmaths.bsky.social talking about Becoming a Science Youtuber #scicomm

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🎥Becoming a science YouTuber🎥
Ins and outs of how to make a video and upload it, with a focus on what it's like to be a YouTuber.
📆15:00-16:30
📍 Lecture Theatre 2

🎯Producer @benjplackett.bsky.social

📢Workshop leader @tomrocksmaths.bsky.social

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4️⃣ Write for the readers and not for the interviewees
5️⃣ Editors sometimes get it wrong, don't be affraid to push back

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Things you should know:
1️⃣ Focus in one idea; readers cannot take so much information
2️⃣ Make editorial choices at early stage; don't put all that you have research into a feature
3️⃣ Start writing your 1st draft, doesn't need to be perfect, and don't start editing immediatly
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Olivia points out cultural differences in the podcast landscape: In the UK, people tend to listen to informational podcasts, while in the US the podcasts that do well are tied to personalities. #abswss25

And Olivia gave this list of useful newsletters/sites for journalists: Press Gazette, Nieman Lab, Axios, Digiday, Poynter #abswss25

Prompt Engineering 101 for Journalists

Some recommendations from this #abswss25 session:

Mun-Keat just mentioned this course on AI prompt writing for journalists : journalismcourses.org/product/prom...

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💻Your digital future 💻
The evolving digital landscape of media and a review of the digital tools key to your job as a journalist
📆14:00-15:00
📍 Lecture Theatre 2

📢Speakers:
@munkeatlooi.bsky.social
Olivia Hains @aeonmag

Your key takeaways👇

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💻5 things we wish we'd known when we began our feature-writing careers
📆14:00-15:00
📍 Lecture Theatre 1

🎯Producer: @Aisling_Irwin

📢Speakers:
Rachel Brazil @rachelbrazil.bsky.social
@liamdrew.bsky.social
@ClareWilsonMed @theipaper.com

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Bluesky and other decentralized social media got a mention in the #abswss25 session!

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Olivia says that one of the main changes is that publishers now are fighting to be prioritised by Google. Often sites like reddit come up very high in search results. #abswss25

Panel about the digital landscape in science journalism with Olivia Hains of @aeon.co and @munkeatlooi.bsky.social #abswss25 #scicomm