It’s been another busy week on my British Science Association Media Fellowship. I can’t believe I’m halfway through now, it’s going so quickly. I’ve spoken to lots of different scientists and specialists to get the inside story and at one point I was working on three stories almost simultaneously, which was rather taxing on the brain. However, I’m really enjoying the challenge of getting my head around so many new topics and then having to write an article in a really short timescale that’s (hopefully) interesting. This is certainly a different pace to academic writing. If only I could pump out scientific papers at this rate.
Here are my articles from this week:
Tax savings for energy-efficient homes
Pine Island Glacier calving huge iceberg
Reversing Global Warming with Carbon Capture and Storage
Earthquakes triggered by water injection
Apple using tin from Bangka mines, Indonesia
I also learnt about The Guardian’s ‘style’ this week in relation to the use of acronyms in one of my articles. For The Guardian, apparently if you can say the acronym as a word then they do not capitalise it (e.g. BECCS becomes Beccs in my article about reversing global warming (see above) but CCS remains as CCS). Here’s the rest of their extensive guide. I wouldn’t read it all at once but it’s a useful reference.