A University of Wyoming faculty member wants to help college students become better writers of science by giving academics the tools necessary to do so. Bethann Garramon Merkle, a professor of ...

Stereotypical academic writing is rigid, dry, and mechanical, delivering prose that evokes memories of high school and undergraduate laboratory reports. The hallmark of this stereotype is passive ...

“Your chance of becoming a professor is 0.45%.” That’s the type of statistic that stops even the most stats-inclined PhD in her tracks. For early-career researchers and doctoral graduates, the truth ...

Before pivoting her career into science journalism, Tjandra was a postdoctoral scholar in the emergency medicine department at Stanford. She holds a doctorate in chemistry and a bachelor’s degree in ...

The debut of artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT has set the world abuzz with its ability to churn out human-like text and conversations. Still, many telltale signs can help us distinguish AI ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American The professional track master’s program at ...

What can scientists learn from science writers about storytelling and writing? Science writers and scientists share some core goals in common. The aim of any storytelling or writing, no matter who you ...

“For too long, science journalism has been treated as something distinct, something extra — the domain of specialists writing for audiences who are already deeply interested in and informed about ...

Kristel Tjandra is a chemist-turned-journalist based in the U.S. She graduated from the science communication master’s program at the University of California, Santa Cruz, in 2024, and writes broadly ...