NEUWRITE NORDIC
NeuWrite Nordic is a regional branch of the international science-writing group NeuWrite, a unique collaboration that puts scientists and creative writers together in the same room to workshop each other's texts.
Once a month NeuWrite Nordic provides a comfortable room with dinner and drink, and a videoconference link, to host a creative-writing workshop 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 ...
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June workshop coming up
At our dinner & workshop on 12 June, we’ll read and discuss a draft script for an upcoming series of guided yoga sessions designed to teach the science of migraine…
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Medicine meets literature
A talk organized by NeuWrite Nordic board member Jussi Valtonen: Time: 7 May (Wednesday), 16:00 / 4pm Place: Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies Common Room 3rd floor Fabianinkatu 24a Description:…
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Storytelling or spinning narratives—what’s the difference?
On 28 March 2025, NeuWrite Nordic director Trevor Corson met with the University of Helsinki branch of the international ReproducibiliTea journal club to discuss the downside of narratives in science.…
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Can extremophiles save the cat? Using “story grid”
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?
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…
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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NeuWrite Nordic ry | 2024