Tickets now available for the 2024 Mary Mulvihill Association Award and Science@Culture Talk. Tickets are free but limited. With Kevin Mitchell (Dr. Kevin Mitchell) speaking on 'Communicating Complexity' its sure to be a fantastic evening. Thurs 23rd May, 18:30 eventbrite.ie/e/mary-mulvihi…

Member spotlight: Meet Conor Purcell PhD - an experienced journalist who has written for publications including Nature, Science, Scientific American, and the Irish Times. He is currently Ireland correspondent with Research Professional, working on issues in research policy & funding

THE HIGH SEAS is a must-read book that will speak to everyone…. … Even as scientists who work on high-seas issues, we encountered mind-blowing facts and anecdotes in nearly every chapter” Thank you @NATURE for an amazing review of THE HIGH SEAS, out now in the UK and

Delighted to contribute my first article SciDev.Net -bringing science & development together through news & analysis - who I have admired for years scidev.net/global/news/ba… ISTJA Ruth Douglas

#ABSWmembers #MentoringScheme 🤝 Are you an early career science writer looking for a mentor? Next round will be matched in Aug2024 to start in Sep2024. Mentoring is not teaching! Apply here 👉 zurl.co/sWyr More 👉 zurl.co/JsDF ISTJA World Federation of Science Journalists EFSJ - Euro Sci Jour

Great review of THE HIGH SEAS in The Economist: 'Heffernan crossed the globe and plumbed the depths to write her book... her book is admirably clear eyed' economist.com/culture/2024/0…… PEW Literary Profile Books Greystone Books ISTJA #highseas2024 #thehighseas

#Podcast #Training 📆 Thursday, September 5, 2024 ⏰ 10:00 to 18:00 📍 Science and Technology Facilities Council, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Campus, Oxford 🎧 Trainers: Martin Redfern & Emma Brisdion Book your ticket now 👉 zurl.co/uKsL ISTJA

I joined the exuberant Paul Ross of talkSPORT on his show EXTRA TIME last week to talk about the high seas - we talked swashbuckling pirates, camping on Antarctica's Elephant Island and more! They chose THE HIGH SEAS as their book of the week. So chuffed! You can listen back to

I'm excited to be starting a new role as Science and Health Editor Newsweek starting 9th September. #NewBeginnings #Science #Health #SciComm

Next up on our member spotlight is Sabine Louët, founder of SciencePOD, a global community of science and medical writers and editors, who create bite-size research and innovation stories. Find out more below and check out their website at the link: sciencepod.net

Today's The Irish Times features an interview with me about the threat to the deep ocean from mining. It's part two of a chat about my book, THE HIGH SEAS, with science journalist Conor Purcell. It will be interesting to see how plans to mine the deep sea shape up over the coming

2nd of a two-part series with author Olive Heffernan - this time taking a look at issues around #DeepSeaMining (DSM) which is now set to seriously threaten ocean life across the globe Kevin O'Sullivan Marine Institute ISTJA irishtimes.com/environment/20…

SPACENEWS: Good morning from #epsc2024 planetary science congress for Europlanet 🇪🇺 members from Berlin, Germany. I’m delighted to share my #scicomm paper on capturing the human experience of a Mars science analogue team which I joined last July at the Makgadikgadi Salt pan

Without your support & investment in investigative journalism, none of our work would have been possible at Noteworthy over the past five years. It's really exciting to lead this new chapter and I hope you will continue to support our team uncover how Ireland really works!