{"id":35280,"date":"2011-05-15T15:43:31","date_gmt":"2011-05-15T15:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/why-you-should-enter-science-writing-competitions-not-exactly-rocket-science\/"},"modified":"2011-05-15T15:43:31","modified_gmt":"2011-05-15T15:43:31","slug":"why-you-should-enter-science-writing-competitions-not-exactly-rocket-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/why-you-should-enter-science-writing-competitions-not-exactly-rocket-science.php","title":{"rendered":"Why you should enter science writing competitions | Not Exactly Rocket Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/53a8c_Winners.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4545\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/53a8c_Winners.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"420\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a>British readers might have caught wind of a <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wellcome.ac.uk\/Funding\/Public-engagement\/Science-Writing-Prize\/index.htm\">new Guardian\/Wellcome Trust Science Writing prize<\/a>, aimed at finding the &ldquo;next generation of undiscovered science writing talent.&rdquo; Since the announcement, the Guardian have been pumping out a series of pieces on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/science\/series\/secrets-science-writing\">tips and tricks for good science writing, penned by established writers<\/a>.<\/p><p>Alok asked me for something different &ndash; he wanted a reflection on the importance of entering and winning competitions. I won the Daily Telegraph&rsquo;s young science writer prize in 2007, which in many ways was the spiritual predecessor of the new Guardian\/Wellcome Trust one. My thoughts on that win, and its importance in my career, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/science\/2011\/may\/13\/wellcome-trust-science-writing-prize\">is now up at the Grauniad<\/a>.<\/p><p>It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good science background must be in want of a PhD. So it was that I found myself re-enacting a bad 80s sitcom in a biochemistry lab, full of exaggerated characters and slapstick mishaps, but with fewer happy resolutions and more radioactive clothes. Somewhere, a laughter track was playing.<\/p><p>During this time, I realised that I wanted to swap pipettes for pens. ...<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/53a8c_2L0NrMFrQYw\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/53a8c_AxSKLXVClD8\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British readers might have caught wind of a new Guardian\/Wellcome Trust Science Writing prize, aimed at finding the &ldquo;next generation of undiscovered science writing talent.&rdquo; Since the announcement, the Guardian have been pumping out a series of pieces on tips &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/why-you-should-enter-science-writing-competitions-not-exactly-rocket-science.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35280"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}