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Thank you to the folks at the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing for including us in their Connector database (https://connector.casw.org/)! This is how we grow science with words.

Check out our archive of essays, resources, and more for early-career science writers, from early-career science writers: https://www.thexylom.com/read/categories/science-writing

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Happy #Newstodon Friday, a day when we highlight great publications on the #Fediverse and some of our most important stories.

This week, Sneha Khedkar looks at why India is uniquely bad at treating women's health issues such as endometriosis, despite existing gender healthcare gaps in other countries like the U.S.:

https://www.thexylom.com/post/pain-no-gain-healthcare-gender-gaps-still-remain-especially-in-india

#india #gender #equality #healthcare #medicine #journalism #xforxylom

NEW: India ranked dead last in the Health and Survival subindex for the 2022 World Economic Forum Global Gender Gap Report. Nobody feels this contrast more than Indian female expats.

Sneha Khedkar talks to one of them to understand how so:
https://www.thexylom.com/post/pain-no-gain-healthcare-gender-gaps-still-remain-especially-in-india

#india #gender #equality #healthcare #medicine #journalism #xforxylom

I was asked by
the Serve-Learn-Sustain Center at Georgia Tech to briefly make a case for why my reporting for
@thexylom on "Cop City" matters. I gained a lot of my science writing skills through my involvement with the Center, and it's interesting to see how higher ed is responding:

#atlanta #environment #education #police #justice #xforxylom

https://serve-learn-sustain.gatech.edu/fact-checking-city-atlantas-claims-cop-city

Congrats to TWO of our very own Gina Errico and Rose Schnabel for being named AAAS Mass Media Fellows! This is the FOURTH straight year one or more of our writers have been selected. (We think it might be a record ✌)

Last year, Rose (right) wrote an analysis piece for us about how the rhetoric used by newsrooms surrounding #COVID19 has evolved as the pandemic progressed. Being fluent in Spanish, we are not surprised that Rose landed at El Nuevo Día.

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BREAKING: Today (April 6th), the Dekalb County Department has issued an indefinite stop work order for the "Cop City" site.

Previously, Editor-in-Chief @alexip718 fact-checked the City of Atlanta's January 31st claim that "the plans and development of the Public Safety Training Center strictly adhere to all federal, state, and local environmental standards" as FALSE. The City of Atlanta has since deleted the press release in early March.

#atlanta #environment #criminaljustice #news #xforxylom

Her family is not alone. In Costa Rica, there are around 50,000 individually owned coffee farms, 90% of which are on less than five hectares (13 acres) of land. Each farm is being faced with multiple crises at once, including rapid changes in temperature and rainfall, an increase in fungal and insect pests, coupled with a rise in the cost of pesticides/fertilizers. (/4)

https://thexylom.com/post/it-breaks-my-heart-costa-rica-s-coffee-communities-challenged-by-climate-change

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But today, Diana’s family is facing a crisis. “Now I hear my parents discussing the decrease in [coffee] yields and issues with fungal pathogens that may force them to give up on the farm and it breaks my heart.” (/3)

thexylom.com/post/it-breaks-my-heart-costa-rica-s-coffee-communities-challenged-by-climate-change

#costarica #coffee #science #ecology #agriculture #climatechange #journalism #xforxylom

Her family is not alone. In Costa Rica, there are around 50,000 individually owned coffee farms, 90% of which are on less than five hectares (13 acres) of land. Each farm is being faced with multiple crises at once, including rapid changes in temperature and rainfall, an increase in fungal and insect pests, coupled with a rise in the cost of pesticides/fertilizers." (/3)

#costarica #coffee #science #ecology #agriculture #climatechange #journalism #xforxylom

https://www.thexylom.com/post/it-breaks-my-heart-costa-rica-s-coffee-communities-challenged-by-climate-change

NEW: While working on her master’s thesis in forests by coffee plantations in Costa Rica, Gina Errico took the opportunity to talk to local farmers and foresters about the issues they are facing and learn how they are trying to combat these problems.

https://www.thexylom.com/post/it-breaks-my-heart-costa-rica-s-coffee-communities-challenged-by-climate-change

#costarica #coffee #science #ecology #agriculture #climatechange #xforxylom

NEW: Last August, Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens told The New Yorker's Charles Bethea that "It's just not a forest where ['Cop City'] is right now."

Alex Edwards (@nonmodernist) knows that the Mayor is wrong. She's just walked Weelaunee Forest.

#stopcopcity #atlanta #nature #environment #xforxylom

https://www.thexylom.com/post/perspective-a-walk-through-weelaunee-forest

Today, the F.D.A. made Narcan, an overdose-reversing nasal spray, an over-the-counter drug.

We've been covering the development since last year when Jennifer Clare Ball reported from Chicago. @alexip718 made an interactive map of Narcan dispensaries in IL:

https://www.thexylom.com/post/in-chicago-health-advocates-flood-the-streets-with-opioid-antidotes

#chicago #health #news #xforxylom

Heading to Houston now to rep @thexylom at ComSciCon, hosted by Rice University! Will speak about how science writing can bring communities together

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Last year, our alum Hanna Webster wrote for us about "Heat Waves, Wildfires, and Downpours: San Diego is Changing and Climate Change is One Culprit".

This week, she is writing above-the-fold stories about the East Palestine, Ohio Train Derailment for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, the largest newspaper in the region.

This is how we grow science with words.

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Today, two F.D.A. committees unanimously voted to recommend that Narcan, an overdose-reversing nasal spray, be made an over-the-counter drug.

Last year, we reported on the life-changing effects this has had in Chicago:

#chicago #health #news #xforxylom

https://www.thexylom.com/post/in-chicago-health-advocates-flood-the-streets-with-opioid-antidotes

Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science!

In 2022, over 70% of our contributors are women. Thank you to those who commit to growing science with words through us. Our newsroom is proud of our diverse, in-depth, nuanced coverage of science and society.

#womeninscience #science #environment #health #storytelling #journalism #xforxylom

The impact of climate change is uneven along the lines of class, caste, gender, and ethnicity. Read more by Kushal Pokharel about the growing impact of climate change and increasing livelihood challenges in the Himalayas and its disproportionate harm to women. (/3)

#nepal #himalayas #climate #news #journalism #women #equity #xforxylom

https://www.thexylom.com/post/in-the-high-himalayas-sherpa-women-bear-the-disproportionate-effects-of-climate-change

Thanks to readers like you, we did it! We raised $12,891 during this year’s #NewsMatch. Thank you for your investment in The Xylom and for believing in the power of independent journalism.

We have a lot planned for 2023, and, with your help, we’re just getting started. We are excited to begin the year with the ability to dig deeper, go further, and broaden our reporting collaborations.

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Happy New Year from all of us at The Xylom!

As we step into 2023, we are delighted to share with you our finalized 2022 Impact Report.

Some key numbers compared to 2021:
• Our readership increased by almost 50%
• Our newsletter subscribers increased by 90% (!)
• Thanks to 14 new small-amount donors, our honoraria for contributors has more than tripled

Check it out: https://www.canva.com/design/DAFVr2TZwDI/P1vSoQ5U7-QcMv_cVqJGYA/view?utm_content=DAFVr2TZwDI&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link2&utm_source=sharebutton

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