Online social media tools can be some of the most rewarding and informative resources for scientists—IF you know how to use them.PLOS.
See also Bora Zivkovic’s Blogpost How to break into science writing using your blog and social media.
Access to Understanding is a new science-writing competition for PhD students and early career researchers with an interest in communicating science to the public.
Check it out.
Brisk debate last week, prompted by these SciLogs posts from Akshat Rathi and Jalees Rehman and this reply from SciCurious. Writes the latter: “It’s true that science writing isn’t the most lucrative way to pay the bills. But getting a PhD to go INTO science writing is hardly better … You’d be better off building your portfolio as a full time science writer, supplementing with other types of writing or other work.”
In my many travels as a science blogger, I have run across many young scientists who are in the position I was in when I started my blog: unsure, wanting to get writing experience and try something new, but not having any idea how to begin.
Well, you can start by practicing!
Scientific American Blogs.