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I've got your missing links right here (22nd January 2011)

Explore how science writing standards evolve and why they're vital for the future of science writing.

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ScienceOnline 2011

Christine Russell wrote a good piece that captures the flavour of the conference well. Robin Lloyd has two great write-ups, about the conference itself and the sessions on journalistic standards and bullshit filters. Paul Raeburn covers it for the Knight Science Journalism Tracker. “They don’t crow about discovering the future of science writing–they are creating it,” says he.

Maryn McKenna wrote up the session on journalism standards that she ran, Dave Mosher considers how disclosures and standards could be applied to online writing, I questioned a case study of how such standards might be applied.

Chris Rowan deals with the elephants in the room, and the idea that not all bloggers want to be journalists, Bora Zivkovic talks about the benefits of multiple levels of explanation, John Hawks says “More than most will admit, scientists today depend on good science writing,” Maria Wolters talks about the intersecting spheres ...

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