ABSW
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Association of British Science Writers advocates and provides professional training, development and networking for journalists and writers covering STEM.
#ABSWawards We want to praise all 2025 winners 🎉, ask for a round of applause for our finalists👏, and send a huge "thank you" to our judges.💪 Thanks to our partners, too: @ABPI_UK @royalsociety Dr Katharine Giles Fund @alphagalileo zurl.co/xBqNU
🏆#ABSWawards 2025 👉Opinion Piece or Editorial of the Year 🎉Oliver Morton @Eaterofsun @TheEconomist 👏👏👏Congratulations!!!
#MediaFellows
Delighted to share that @UCL Academic Clinical Lecturer & GP Dr @cinibhanu has been awarded for this year’s @absw Media Fellow! 🎉 Supported by @UCL_Global, she’ll join the @BBCScienceNews to champion research on healthy ageing. Read more⬇️ bit.ly/4memfjp
#Benefits Why join ABSW? The UK's leading network for science journalists and writers offers: 🧠 Professional development 📢 Publishing opportunities 🤝 Networking & mentoring 🎓 Support for students & early-career writers Join now! zurl.co/Pqtbj #ABSWmembers
Tackling misinformation is a long game: journalists can help absw.org.uk/resources/tack… @absw 1) Publish on a topic widely & repeatedly 2) Prebunk—inoculate your audience against common misinformation tactics 3) Report on science with extreme care 4) Choose your experts carefully
#ABSWawards made possible thanks to our partners. 👍
Huge congratulations to @maeve_cullinan, winner of the Newcomer of the Year award at the @absw awards yesterday! 🏆 👏 ⭐ Jack Neill-Hall, Director of Media and Communications at the ABPI presented the award. We're proud to support high-quality science journalism.
#ABSWawards Great job! 👍
Our little team won an @absw award for our doc on Churchill, Manitoba. Chuffed & proud - of our film & fab colleagues Thank you @PolarBears & to the amazing people in Churchill who were so warm, generous & kind. (You can watch *Where the Polar Bears Wait* on @BBCiPlayer now)
A million thanks ABSW. Too emotional to say much more now than ‘what an honour’
🏆#ABSWawards 2025 🎉Lifetime Achievement Award🎉 Clive Cookson, Financial Times @clivecookson @FT 👏👏👏Congratulations!!! Clive Cookson became FT senior science writer in October 2023, after more than 30 years as science editor.
🏆#ABSWawards 2025 🎉Lifetime Achievement Award🎉 Clive Cookson, Financial Times @clivecookson @FT 👏👏👏Congratulations!!! Clive Cookson became FT senior science writer in October 2023, after more than 30 years as science editor.
🏆#ABSWawards 2025 👉Feature of the Year – general audience 🎉Tess McClure @tessairin @guardian 👏👏👏Congratulations!!!
🏆#ABSWawards 2025 👉Feature of the Year - specialist audience 🎉Nisha Gaind @Nature 👏👏👏Congratulations!!!
🏆#ABSWawards 2025 👉News Analysis of the Year 🎉Slavea Chankova @TheEconomist 👏👏👏Congratulations!!!
🏆#ABSWawards 2025 👉News Item of the Year 🎉Robin Andrews @squigglyvolcano.bsky.social @QuantaMagazine 👏👏👏Congratulations!!!
🏆#ABSWawards 2025 👉The Royal Society Audio Award Thanks to @royalsociety 🎉Sandra Kanthal & Natasha Loder, BBC Radio 4 @SandraKanthal @natashaloder 👏👏👏Congratulations!!!
🏆#ABSWawards 2025 👉Video of the Year 🎉Victoria Gill, Kevin Church & Kate Stephens, BBC News channel, BBC iPlayer and BBC 2 @Vic_Gill #BBC 👏👏👏Congratulations!!!
🏆#ABSWawards 2025 👉Steve Connor Award for investigative science journalism - in memory of science journalist Steve Connor 🎉Sophie Borland @bmj_latest 👏👏👏Congratulations!!!
🏆#ABSWawards 2025 👉Research Policy or Funding Story of the Year 🎉Elizabeth Gibney @LizzieGibney @Nature 👏👏👏Congratulations!!!
🏆#ABSWawards 2025 👉Dr Katharine Giles Award for best popular article written by a scientist, technologist or engineer Thanks to the Dr Katharine Giles Fund 🎉Jack Goulder, Medical Doctor, NHS 👏👏👏Congratulations!!!
🏆#ABSWawards 2025 👉Newcomer of the Year Thanks to @ABPI_UK 🎉Maeve Cullinan, Global Health Security reporter, The Daily Telegraph @CullinaMaeve @Telegraph 👏👏👏Congratulations!!!
🏆#ABSWawards 2025 📢In around 24 hours, the winners of the ABSW Awards will be announced. Be the first to know by following us here @absw 📆9 July 2025 ⌚19:00 - 20:00 📍The Royal Institution Make your bets and tag your favourite writer below. 👇 🔗 zurl.co/IJO9I