This group, all members of @uprootproject.bsky.social, gathered to immerse themselves in Great Lakes environmental research, ponder journalism craft, and build community.
It’s been such a delight to join the @ijnr.bsky.social inaugural class of Community Reporting Fellows this week at the OSU Stone Laboratory on tiny Gibraltar Island in Lake Erie!
I was here to offer a training workshop on bringing science into environmental stories (TLDR: You’ve got this!) but along the way I got to …
🍾🎉🥰 Many thanks to our generous board members at @theopennotebook.bsky.social for creating this additional matching pool for the final hours of 2025. Donations made today will be matched by our board members!
Exchanging insights and ideas with this talented group of early-career journalists was so energizing and inspiring. Thanks to IJNR’s Adam Hinterthuer and Dave Spratt for inviting @theopennotebook.bsky.social to partner on training…
… take a tour on a research cruise, learn about harmful algal blooms and snake mats, encounter the word “nanobubbles,” and anticipate the annual mayfly hatch/apocalypse.
It’s been many months since I filed the final draft of The Best Science Stories and How They Work to my editor at @uchicagopress.bsky.social. What a pleasure to be reunited with it in ✨physical form✨ with the arrival of an advance copy, and to spend an evening revisiting these stories in my hammock!
I had so darn much fun editing this volume! What could be better than immersing yourself in brilliant writers’ dissections of other brilliant writers’ work? So excited to be able to share this book with the world very soon! www.theopennotebook.com/the-best-sci...
(P.S., you can pre-order here! www.theopennotebook.com/the-best-sci...)
…and thanks to the brilliant, creative fellows for the fun and stimulating conversations, which I’ll be thinking about for a long time.
