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Ashley Smart

@ashleythesmart

Associate Director @KSJatMIT & senior editor @undarkmag | Proud @PhysicsToday alum | 2015-16 @KSJatMIT fellow | Opinions are my own, facts belong to us all

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Every year, the Knight Science Journalism Program at MIT offers academic-year fellowships to 10 science journalists from around the globe. Applications are now open, get yours started today! ksj.mit.edu/fello…

Every year, the Knight Science Journalism Program at MIT offers academic-year fellowships to 10 science journalists from around the globe. Applications are now open, get yours started today! ksj.mit.edu/fello…
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In Undark Magazine, I wrote about how polygenic scores are changing consumer genetic testing, and why experts see it as both promising and worrisome:
'From a Fledgling Genetic Science, A Murky Market for Prediction' undark.org/2023/10/27/con…

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We are living in troubled times and the competition for attention and emotional space is stiff. Still, I'd like to invite you to visit a truly masterful piece of journalism of a different sort, with some thoughts on why I think it's important. 1/14 🧵

undark.org/2023/10/09/rsv…

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If you only read one thing today. 👉🏿 undark.org/2023/10/09/rsv…
'For a Pivotal Vaccine: Trial, Error, and Two Young Lives'

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Meet this year’s Sharon Begley fellow! Deborah J. Balthazar will spend the year reporting for STAT and training alongside KSJ fellows. More about Deborah: ksj.mit.edu/fellowship/cur…

Meet this year’s Sharon Begley fellow! @djbulbaczar will spend the year reporting for @statnews and training alongside KSJ fellows. More about Deborah: ksj.mit.edu/fellowship/cur…
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Can't say enough about how much this site has meant to the science writing community. A worthy cause for sure.

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So proud to partner with National Association of Science Writers (NASW) on the Diverse Voices in Science Journalism series since 2018, and grateful for support from Science, Society & Culture @ SF! Find all our Diverse Voices stories and other DEI resources here theopennotebook.com/diversity-equi…

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? This weekend at , Siri Carpenter won the Online News Association Community Award for creating “a comprehensive set of resources to empower science journalists at all experience levels” for her work here at TON. 👏 👏 👏

#MedalMonday? This weekend at #ONA23, @SiriCarpenter won the @ONA Community Award for creating “a comprehensive set of resources to empower science journalists at all experience levels” for her work here at TON. 👏 👏 👏
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I'm just so proud of Undark Magazine and Ashley Smart. Thanks to Online News Association for recognizing this work, and congrats to all of the nominees and winners.

If you haven't explored race.undark.org, you're missing out on some powerful .

I'm just so proud of @undarkmag and @ashleythesmart. Thanks to @ONA for recognizing this work, and congrats to all of the #ONA23 nominees and winners. If you haven't explored race.undark.org, you're missing out on some powerful #journalism.
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The 2023 ONA Community Award recognizes Siri Carpenter for her work leading The Open Notebook, a nonprofit organization on a mission to help journalists improve their skills in covering science, health, technology and the environment. awards.journalists.org/entries/siri-c…

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Deeply proud to see Undark Magazine win a 2023 #NABJ Headquarters ✊🏾🖊️🎙️💻 📷 🎥 📝 🔈 Award for our Long Division series on race science (race.undark.org). Ashley Smart (pictured), steered this masterful series — a finalist for a National Magazine Award, and now up for two Online News Association awards as well. 🙌 🎉

Deeply proud to see @undarkmag win a 2023 @NABJ Award for our Long Division series on race science (race.undark.org). @ashleythesmart (pictured), steered this masterful series — a finalist for a National Magazine Award, and now up for two @ONA awards as well. 🙌 🎉
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🗣️ TODAY IS THE DAY!!!!

Me Ashley Smart Jacqueline Howard Nsenga Burton, Ph.D. and Nicholas St. Fleur gathering for panel on how to get into Science Journalism.

If you’re in Birmingham for join us in South A this afternoon.

🗣️ TODAY IS THE DAY!!!! Me @ashleythesmart @JacqEHoward @Ntellectual and @SciFleur gathering for panel on how to get into Science Journalism. If you’re in Birmingham for #nabj23 join us in South A this afternoon.
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I am so excited to talk this week about misuse of genomic research at in an incredible panel with Daphne Martschenko, PhD Ashley Smart and Kushan Dasgupta, moderated by the fantastic Dave Kaufman from National Human Genome Research Institute - what an amazing lineup and conference! meetings.cshl.edu/meetings.aspx?…

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