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Joined September 2009
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🎉 30 YEARS OF EVIDENCE THAT SCIENCE MATTERS! 🧪✨ For three decades, EurekAlert! has been the “news hub that shapes the science you read.” * 🔬🌍 Celebrating 30 years means celebrating YOU-- journalists and PIOs who have been part our community over the years. 🤝 1/3
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Come help co-design the future of science communication in the SADC region and connect with peers. We hope to see you there! 🌟 📍 Pretoria, South Africa (CSIR International Convention Center) 📅 December 3 Learn more: sfsa.co.za/programme/#toggle… 3/3
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Panelists, including our own @brianlinworks, will lead breakout groups to tackle key aspects of creating such a network: membership, governance, mission, and funding. 2/3
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📢 Hey science communicators in South Africa! Join us next month at Science Forum South Africa for a FREE interactive session: "If we build it, will they come? Envisioning a community of practice for science communicators in southern Africa." 🌍🔬 #SFSA2026 1/3
A promotional image for an event titled "Join Us!" featuring a colorful molecular pattern. The text reads: "If we build it, will they come? Envisioning a community of practice for science communicators in southern Africa." The event is in Pretoria, South Africa, on December 3. Logos for Science Forum South Africa, EurekAlert!, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science are included.

ALT A promotional image for an event titled "Join Us!" featuring a colorful molecular pattern. The text reads: "If we build it, will they come? Envisioning a community of practice for science communicators in southern Africa." The event is in Pretoria, South Africa, on December 3. Logos for Science Forum South Africa, EurekAlert!, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science are included.

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Chimpanzees may learn how to use some of their calls from the adults around them, in a surprising parallel with how human children learn words, finds a study from the CNRS Institute of Cognitive Sciences, @uniofwarwick & Taï Chimpanzee Project. Read more: eurekalert.org/news-releases…
Chimpanzees blowing raspberries offers first evidence of learned vocal conventions in great ape...

Chimpanzees blowing raspberries offers first evidence of learned vocal conventions in great ape...

Chimpanzees may learn how to use some of their calls from the adults around them, in a surprising parallel with how human children learn words, finds a study from the CNRS Institute of Cognitive...

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#EurekAlertInTheSpotlight: @FloridaAtlantic researchers explore quantum computing to predict lung cancer with limited data. #LungCancerAwarenessMonth Read more: eurekalert.org/news-releases…
FAU researchers explore quantum computing to predict lung cancer with limited data

FAU researchers explore quantum computing to predict lung cancer with limited data

Researchers investigated how quantum computing could improve machine learning when healthcare data are limited. Testing five computing frameworks, the team found that a quantum support vector machine...

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🎉 30 YEARS OF EVIDENCE THAT SCIENCE MATTERS! 🧪✨ Celebrating 30 years of EurekAlert! means celebrating YOU-- journalists and PIOs who have been part our community over the years. 🤝 👉 Add your message to our 30th Anniversary Guestbook here: s.alchemer.com/s3/27bc9b0432…
This image is a promotional graphic for "EurekAlert!" featuring a collage of scientific images: a scientist in a lab, a jellyfish, a planet, a person observing the sky, and a neural network illustration. There is text highlighting "30 years" and "half a million stories of science making an impact." It invites individuals to share their own stories, celebrating three decades of EurekaAlert! There is a red button labeled "Share Your Story.

ALT This image is a promotional graphic for "EurekAlert!" featuring a collage of scientific images: a scientist in a lab, a jellyfish, a planet, a person observing the sky, and a neural network illustration. There is text highlighting "30 years" and "half a million stories of science making an impact." It invites individuals to share their own stories, celebrating three decades of EurekaAlert! There is a red button labeled "Share Your Story.

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Genomic data reveal hidden diversity and ancient evolutionary spread of algae related to first plants. 🔬 News via The University of Göttingen Read more: eurekalert.org/news-releases…
Deep evolutionary history of land plants’ closest algal relatives

Deep evolutionary history of land plants’ closest algal relatives

What did the algae that gave rise to the first land plants look like? A research team led by the University of Göttingen and including the universities of Maastricht, Innsbruck and Museo Nacional de...

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📢Hey PIOs! Join our upcoming webinar to discover key journalist survey findings, SEO and multimedia tips, the latest AI policies, and member-only features like saved searches and sponsored content. Don't miss out-- REGISTER NOW: aaas.zoom.us/webinar/registe…
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This November, #EurekAlertInTheSpotlight is shining a light on lung cancer in honor of #LungCancerAwarenessMonth. 🫁 🔗 Explore the latest research news on lung cancer prevention, detection and treatment: engage.aaas.org/3IGTUU4.
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Researchers engineer an ultra-hard diamond composite, then blast it with hypersonic projectiles, triggering a rapid transformation that could power future defense, aerospace and protective materials. @TAMU Read more: eurekalert.org/news-releases…
Forging diamonds, firing hypersonic projectiles, forming graphite

Forging diamonds, firing hypersonic projectiles, forming graphite

Texas A&M University and Rice University researchers forged an ultra-hard diamond composite, then put it to the ultimate test, blasting it with aluminum projectiles traveling more than eight times...

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Whether you're new to the platform or a longtime member, join our webinar on Monday, November 9 at 9:00 a.m. ET for a deep dive into EurekAlert! features that support your science news gathering! 📰✨ 👉 Secure your spot today: aaas.zoom.us/webinar/registe…
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This month, #EurekAlertInTheSpotlight is shining a light on #Arthropods, from insects and spiders to scorpions, centipedes and more! 🔗 Explore the latest research on the creatures that crawl, creep and fly all around us: engage.aaas.org/3IGTUU4 🎃🔬 2/2
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#EurekAlertInTheSpotlight: A @UCDavisNews study finds a trapdoor spider named after comedian Stephen Colbert has a genome 50% larger than a human's genome. #Arthropods Learn more: eurekalert.org/news-releases… 1/2
Scientists sequence genome of spider named for Stephen Colbert

Scientists sequence genome of spider named for Stephen Colbert

A UC Davis study finds a trapdoor spider named after comedian Stephen Colbert has a genome 50% larger than a human's genome.

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Check out our journalist resources page for helpful #ScienceJournalism guides published by Balkan Network of Science Journalists and European Federation for Science Journalism: eurekalert.org/newsportal/eu… And stay connected: eurekalert.org/ 3/3
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We were excited to keep these conversations going earlier this month at the European Conference of Science Journalism in Hanover and connect with even more members of the science journalism community! 🌍🔬 #ECSJ2026 2/3
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#FlashbackFriday: We’re so proud to have supported the @Balkan_Science seminar hosted by @kosovo2point0 last month. Our director, @brianlinworks, connected with reporters from across the region as they tackled the latest trends in science reporting. bit.ly/4iamooM 1/3
Seminar in Kosovo puts science journalism in focus

Seminar in Kosovo puts science journalism in focus

A one-day seminar in Kosovo’s capital of Pristina saw reporters and writers from the country and the region discuss latest challenges and trends in covering science. The focus was on science media …

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🎉 30 YEARS OF EVIDENCE THAT SCIENCE MATTERS! 🧪✨ Celebrating 30 years of EurekAlert! means celebrating YOU-- journalists and PIOs who have been part our community over the years. 🤝 👉 Add your message to our 30th Anniversary Guestbook here: s.alchemer.com/s3/27bc9b0432…
This image is a promotional graphic for "EurekAlert!" featuring a collage of scientific images: a scientist in a lab, a jellyfish, a planet, a person observing the sky, and a neural network illustration. There is text highlighting "30 years" and "half a million stories of science making an impact." It invites individuals to share their own stories, celebrating three decades of EurekaAlert! There is a red button labeled "Share Your Story.

ALT This image is a promotional graphic for "EurekAlert!" featuring a collage of scientific images: a scientist in a lab, a jellyfish, a planet, a person observing the sky, and a neural network illustration. There is text highlighting "30 years" and "half a million stories of science making an impact." It invites individuals to share their own stories, celebrating three decades of EurekaAlert! There is a red button labeled "Share Your Story.

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🔗 Explore the latest research on the creatures that crawl, creep and fly all around us: engage.aaas.org/3IGTUU4 🎃🔬
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#EurekAlertInTheSpotlight: Humans and vertebrates go through various stages of sleep, including REM sleep characterized by rapid eye movements and muscle twitches. Can a similar sleep state be observed in spiders? #Arthropods @UniBonn Learn more: eurekalert.org/news-releases…
How deeply do spiders sleep?

How deeply do spiders sleep?

Humans and vertebrates go through various stages of sleep, including REM (rapid eye movement) sleep characterized by rapid eye movements and muscle twitches. Can a similar sleep state be observed in...

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New research suggests that the autonomy, purpose and personal control associated with entrepreneurship may outweigh its well-known stress and pressures. @FollowStevens Read more: eurekalert.org/news-releases…
Stevens study points to the longevity advantage of entrepreneurship

Stevens study points to the longevity advantage of entrepreneurship

A new study by Stevens Institute of Technology researchers finds that people who have engaged in entrepreneurship have an approximately 10 percent lower risk of death than non-entrepreneurs, based on...

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