The Lord of the Pings: The Two Follow-Ups 🌋
Jobs 👉WashPo, Harvard, U of Pennsylvania👈
Jobs & Internships
Have some JavaScript and mapping skills? The Washington Post is hiring for a graphics reporter on its climate desk.
Harvard is looking for a comms manager to work on gene science. Remote available!
The University of Pennsylvania is looking for a news officer with strategy and multimedia experience to coordinate coverage of their applied sciences.
The Desert Research Institute is looking for a science writer that would, ideally, be producing multiplatform content and strategy. Sounds like a lot of meetings to me, but hey, interesting subject matter!
The American Geophysical Union is looking for a graphic design intern.
👀 Weird Cool Job
Ever wanted to work for both NASA and NPS? Well have I got the weird cool gig for you.
Hu$tle Tips
Yes! Magazine has put out a call for pitches for its “Bodies” issue.
Got a transit/green infrastructure pitch? Next City is looking for stories about accessible and sustainable cities.
Podcast people, I hope you like birds! Bird Note is looking for a part-time managing editor.
UNC-Chapel Hill is looking for a part-time communicator to do social, write newsletters, and generally externally promote their new applied sciences department. Remote!
Aeons is looking for science pitches - send your idea to pamela.weintraub@aeon.co.
Work Smarter (Chrome Extension Edition)
The Hemingway Editor can give you a guesstimation on how advanced your language is, as well as help you cut down on unnecessary words. I love it for writing video scripts.
OneTab is absolutely necessary if, like me, you’ll be twelve tabs deep into a tangent and need to save them for later.
The Pomodoro Method is a way to get ish done when you’re having one of those days. Now, in a browser extension.
I always recommend this workflow for reporters wrangling academic research or government data reports: Get yourself a Mendeley account, and then use the Mendeley Web Importer to import and store your PDFs in specific folders, which you can then annotate and export.
What Got Me Through Last Week
The boyfriend and I have been watching the Lord of the Rings Extended Edition over the past few weekends. I always get emotional at Samwise’s speech in Two Towers. But I also found this happy little mixtape on YouTube and it’s a favorite of mine for animating to.