NEUWRITE NORDIC
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 dine and discuss drafts of each other's science writing, often while studying work by other science writers, too. Learn more ...
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Can extremophiles save the cat?
Our next dinner salon and creative science-writing workshop is coming up on Thursday, 9 January-with biotechnology filmmaker and novelist Nina Pulkkis. Telling science stories can take the basic form of…
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Storytelling or spinning narratives—what’s the difference?
Coming up in 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…
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Brain, mind, and science communication—panel discussion
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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Scientific genius—or not?
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?
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
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
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?
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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Rethinking the secret life of plants
With the long-awaited greenery of the Nordic summer finally upon us, it was the perfect time to consider the secret life of plants. They’re not what we think they are:…
Read MoreConvention 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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