How Do You Transition From The Bench Towards Scientific Writing?

"I was reading a lot of National Geographic during my summer job. There was an article about paleontologists on a dig in Mongolia, and I realized, 'Hey, wait, that journalist got to go hunt for fossils - without being a paleontologist!' That's when I discovered there was a job that would let you do a lot of fascinating stuff around science without actually being a scientist," explains Abby Tabor enthusiastically.

Abby Tabor and Tiago Faial came to speak to members of AIMS, answering postdocs' questions about working in science writing and the publishing world.

Tiago Faial is an associate science editor at Nature Publshing Group. Abby Tabor is a science writer with MyScienceWork. They both transitioned from academia to science writing for multiple reasons that they presented at the last AIMS event.

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