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Mashup Score: 8One Size Does Not Fit All: How to Make Sense of Different Kinds of Scientific Studies - The Open Notebook - 2 year(s) ago
Just as journalism contains different kinds of stories, from profiles to editorials, scientific studies also come in several different flavors. And not all should be considered equal. When writing about science, journalists have a responsibility to help contextualize studies and make sense of findings. What follows is a non-exhaustive primer on the most common kinds of research studies science…
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Mashup Score: 11Stephanie Lee Unravels the Conflicts of Interest Behind a Controversial COVID-19 Study - The Open Notebook - 2 year(s) ago
In May, BuzzFeed News reporter Stephanie Lee broke a massive story based on a whistleblower complaint, filed with Stanford University, criticizing the researchers behind a controversial study on COVID-19 antibody testing. The lengthy document revealed that JetBlue’s founder, a known critic of ongoing economic shutdowns, had financially backed the research. It also noted that the scientists who…
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Important background about the Ioannidis Santa Clara study: there was wonderful reporting on the study's huge problems by @stephaniemlee https://t.co/jKaG5RAhqu
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Mashup Score: 4Reporting on Retractions - The Open Notebook - 2 year(s) ago
The scientific endeavor is often portrayed as an impersonal and unbiased search for truth, but it is sometimes plagued by all-too-human failings. In the past year alone, more than 3,500 papers were retracted either because of sincere mistakes, at best, or outright misconduct, at worst. When scientists or institutes go astray, journalists can step in and hold them accountable, in the hopes of…
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Reporting on Retractions https://t.co/r8QAw8XOQ4 by @pratikmpawar via @Open_Notebook #scicomm @cpiller: “When the scientific community is engaging in work that is fraudulent or improper... it’s up to us as journalists to take on some of the responsibility to police the field.”
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Mashup Score: 2A Day in the Life of Emiliano Rodríguez Mega - The Open Notebook - 2 year(s) ago
Emiliano Rodríguez Mega is a science journalist and audio producer based in Mexico City. He has a healthy obsession with Latin America, and that’s the region he’s focused most of his reporting on. He has written for Nature, Science, Scientific American, The Associated Press, and other outlets. His audio stories have appeared on podcasts such as El Hilo and Las Raras, where he works as a story…
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Hey, it's @emiliano_mega in @Open_Notebook! https://t.co/gMXA3IQJ6M
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Mashup Score: 0Reporting on Health Disparities - The Open Notebook - 2 year(s) ago
Reporting on health disparities offers rich narrative potential and can provide a revealing lens into broader sociocultural issues. Journalists who cover the topic must be nimble enough to bridge disciplines—examining social inequities and discrimination as rigorously as they do scientific research studies. As storytellers, they must navigate cultural differences and portray sources not merely as…
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Reporting on Health Disparities https://t.co/nLSISOnoU8 via @smjyoti
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A few years ago, I adopted a puppy. I’d picked the runt of the litter and in the weeks that I waited for him to wean, I made a list of a […]
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Naming the Dog: The Art of Narrative Structure https://t.co/kiNgPTPFvD via @cragcrest
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Mashup Score: 5Science Journalism Master Classes - The Open Notebook - 3 year(s) ago
Master your craft with our free Science Journalism Master Classes. These short courses, delivered by email, are made possible by a grant from The Kavli Foundation.
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Science journalists: A great opportunity from @Open_Notebook, featuring @elaberwarren. Master Classes on "How to Find an Angle for Any Science Story" and "How to Pitch Science Stories That Sell." https://t.co/drwBhrx9xk
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Mashup Score: 12Fat Chance: Writing about Probability - The Open Notebook - 3 year(s) ago
The human brain isn’t great at understanding probability. But as science writers, we must often communicate probability accurately and vividly to our readers. Fortunately, science writers can use a number of reliable strategies to convey just what a 15 percent chance of an extreme weather event, or an 80 percent chance of recovering from a disease, really means.
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"Writing about Probability" https://t.co/Vb5SCTSonE by @grace_huckins via @Open_Notebook @ReginaNuzzo: “Human brains hate probability" Great tips to help: - Acknowledge uncertainty - Turn probabilities into concrete numbers - Watch imprecise language - Visuals! - Comparisons!
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Mashup Score: 20Fat Chance: Writing about Probability - The Open Notebook - 3 year(s) ago
The human brain isn’t great at understanding probability. But as science writers, we must often communicate probability accurately and vividly to our readers. Fortunately, science writers can use a number of reliable strategies to convey just what a 15 percent chance of an extreme weather event, or an 80 percent chance of recovering from a disease, really means.
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"People, by and large, are bad at probability." An instructive deep dive on how to write about risk and odds, by @grace_huckins feat. @tarahaelle @ReginaNuzzo @cragcrest and others. https://t.co/cnTzk8D8zC
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How to Make Sense of Different Kinds of Scientific Studies https://t.co/x4plGodf5S by @kellyperil via @Open_Notebook Important to be clear about methods! Nice breakdown of different observational & experimental studies! #ScienceUpFirst