Lord of the Tax Files 🐷 (It's tax season...)
Jobs 👉Quanta, Miami Herald, SLAC👈
I'm running out of books to make puns out of. I went through NPR's 100 Sci-Fi and Fantasy books to read, and boy, were there some Choices® made. (The Time Traveler's Wife and the Vorkosigan Saga?? girl what)
Housekeeping
✅ Have you gotten all your 1099s????
✅ You should already be applying to internships if you're in school!
✅ And if you're trying to be in school, now's the time to start picking out your top programs! Over the summer, reach out to professors there and ask if your research interest would align with theirs. Treat grad school applications like a story -- apply shoe leather!
Gigs and Internships
Do you read Heated and think: That's just so f'ckin' cool, -- apply for this gig with the Center for Climate Integrity. Remote.
Quanta is hiring a web manager to wrangle art and make sure brand synergy is synergizing.
A related property from the Simons Foundation, The Transmitter, is hiring an art intern for the summer! (Paid! But still in NYC, for God-knows what reason!)
Climate reporter gig with the Miami Herald (also requires some teaching at U of Florida).
If public health comms is more your speed - check out this gig from the University of Maryland. Go Terps!
SLAC (at Stanford) is hiring a comms person to write and edit stuff.
Association of Health Care Journalists are looking for a Civic Science Fellow.
Hu$tle Tips
Complexly is hiring a SciShow Freelancer to help write scripts. Deadline to apply is 3/3
C&EN Mag is also soliciting pitches.
Ambrook Research is soliciting Ag stories that are little more policy-related.
What Got Me Through Last Week
I recently started volunteering at my local library as a dungeon master for the Dungeons & Dragons club. Last week I ran a wedding one-shot (for level 1-3 players) you can read-up on and adapt here.