NEUWRITE NORDIC

Bringing together scientists and writers

NeuWrite Nordic is a regional branch of the international collaborative science-writing workshop NeuWrite. Once a month, NeuWrite Nordic provides a comfortable room with dinner and drink, and a videoconference link, to bring together scientists and writers. Using a creative-writing workshop model inspired by the Nordic folkbildning tradition of collaborative learning, we discuss drafts of each other's science writing, and sometimes study the work of other science writers, too. Learn more ...

Latest news

April workshop coming up

14 Mar 2025
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Save the date for our next dinner salon and workshop meeting on the evening of Thursday, 10 April. We’ll continue to develop our opinion-essay projects, but other types of draft…

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Storytelling or spinning narratives—what’s the difference?

13 Dec 2024
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On 28 March 2025, NeuWrite Nordic will meet with the University of Helsinki branch of the international ReproducibiliTea journal club to discuss the downside of narratives in science. Bias and…

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Brain, mind, and science communication—panel discussion

26 Oct 2024
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NeuWrite Nordic director Trevor Corson discussed journalism, storytelling, and creative writing about science as part of a panel discussion on science communication, during the concluding event of the Brain &…

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Latest workshops

Can extremophiles save the cat? Using “story grid”

09 Jan 2025
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Structuring stories Telling science stories can take the basic form of a “why / how / what” presentation, or the more ambitious form of a “story grid“, like the kind…

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Scientific genius—or not?

12 Dec 2024
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How do we as a society figure out if scientific genius is the real thing? What role should science writers play in celebrating or critiquing apparent scientific brilliance? What happens…

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Bioracism reborn?

14 Nov 2024
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Many science bloggers and writers put their thoughts into the form of essays that discuss a new book, or several new books where the writer sees a theme. We studied…

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The intersection of science and literature

10 Oct 2024
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We had a special treat at our dinner salon and workshop meeting this month: Iida Turpeinen, one of Finland’s leading thinkers and practitioners in the transdisciplinary space between science and…

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The bioethics of the brain-machine interface

12 Sep 2024
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Direct electrical/digital interfaces between human brains and machines are advancing rapidly while AI is suddenly infiltrating the process of human thinking at mass scale. Where are we headed? At our…

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What are zoos? Do we live in one?

08 Aug 2024
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Does visiting a zoo ever give you a strange feeling-not just about our relationship with nature, but maybe even about your own life? What kind of science and ideas lie…

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Convention says science and literature are separate, and that the public must be told the correct facts of objective science. But as scientists, writers, and audiences, we are communally navigating mixed-together scientific and humanistic narratives going all directions. Thus science writing can, and perhaps should, also embrace uncertainty, vulnerability, subjectivity, emotion, metaphor, and imagination if the goal is to create lasting insight and impact.

Trevor Corson
Director, NeuWrite Nordic

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