Marisa Wikramanayake

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  • Journalism,  Real Scientists,  Science journalism

    53 free ways for science journalists to brush up on their science… and counting

    November 25, 2013 / No Comments

    This is a list of FREELY AVAILABLE basic science primers, courses and videos that science journalists can take to brush up on their beats/niches/topics of interest. NOTE 1: MOOCS = Massive open online courses = free, short, online, provided by universities to give you a primer in the basics of a scientific topic of study. Both MOOCs and the Coursera courses will use Youtube videos so don’t eliminate them on that basis. NOTE 2: Coursera courses vary in length and whether you get a certificate at the end and are offered at different times so some of the ones listed below may drop off and on again depending on when…

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    How you can help regional papers from closing even if you live in the city.

    June 15, 2020
  • Projects,  Real Scientists

    @RealScientists Day 2: Ethics, numbers and why science journos find it hard

    October 8, 2013 / No Comments

    [<a href=”//storify.com/571811/day-2-ethics-numbers-and-why-science-journos-find” target=”_blank”>View the story “Day 2: Ethics, numbers & why science journos find it hard” on Storify</a>]

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    March 9, 2011

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    March 16, 2011

    New project: Guys Read Gals

    February 18, 2013
  • Projects,  Real Scientists

    Day 1: Explosions, books & how to keep kids keen

    October 7, 2013 / No Comments

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    March 9, 2011

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    April 6, 2011
  • Projects,  Real Scientists

    Curation of @realscientists starts tonight!

    October 6, 2013 / No Comments

    Colour me terrified. @realscientists is the brainchild of a few people, namely @scienceupulie and @DrYobbo both scientists in their own right and also science communicators. Which means they blog and tweet and podcast about science all the time.  @realscientists is a rotation curation Twitter account which means one scientist takes over each week and tweets about his/her work, whatever field of science it may be. The curators are introduced and farewelled each weekend on the Real Scientists blog and their tweets are usually storifyed for posterity as well. Last week it was sharks with @WhySharksMatter taking over for the week. From next Sunday it will be a virologist who likes to…

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