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Welcome to this week’s edition of The Science Freelancer.

31 gigs and jobs await you in this newsletter.

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Now onto the gigs!

I include many full-time gigs and some roles that are not directly related to writing because these are opportunities for growth.

You may not be able to apply to these opportunities today but look for skills that are in demand and what you can learn to get there.

I am sure you’d learn something new if the job paid $150k-$250k a year.

Type of Gigs this week

• Freelance

• Internship / Entry Gigs/ Volunteer

• Full-Time / Part-Time

• Hybrid/ Remote

• Resources

Freelance

• Writer’s Bloc EU is looking for writer to turn in synthaesia story by December 1st week

• Ewriters’s Desk is looking for a scientific writer with a PhD in Biological Sciences

• Maine Monitor is looking for contributors for its climate newsletter

• Erika Moggio is looking for an editor with pharma experience

Internship / Entry Gigs/ Volunteer

• Rehan Shaikh is offering a paid internship to freshers for scientific content writer roles

• Beautiful You, a mental health organization, is looking for volunteers for their social media creative and content writing teams 

Pitch call

• David Walsh at EuroNews is looking for science-backed pitches in nutrition and well-being.

• If you missed pitching a story previously or have some fresh ideas, STAT is looking for pitches again (Pitch Guidelines) [$1 per word]

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Full-Time / Part-Time

• Amazon Health is looking for a UX writer with healthcare experience (Full Time) [$127k-$211k]

• The Oskar Klien Center at Stockholm University is looking for a science communicator (Part-time) The

• University of Kyoto is looking for an English science writer/ communicator (Full Time)

• Palomar Observatory at Caltech is hiring an outreach and events coordinator. Must have astronomy background (Full Time) [$69k-$88k per year]

• Science Gallery, Bengaluru is looking for mediators for a project that starts in January (Part-time) [INR 1,000 per day worked]

Hybrid/ Remote

• Holly Thornton at Hungry Tomato in the UK looking for a writer for a children’s science series (9-12 years old). Details with Millie Burdett (Email for details)  (Remote)

• Hendre Moolman is looking for a medical writer in European time zone for writing and editing clinical regulatory documents (Remote) [upto 90 euros an hour]

• Harvard University is looking for a scientific writer who can navigate both technical and popular writing styles at its Global Health Institute in Massachusetts (Hybrid)

• Terumo Group is looking for a medical writer in Belgium who is passionate about oncology (Hybrid)

• Evidencia Scientific is looking for a literature reviewer in health economics and outcome research (HEOR) space in the UK (Remote)

• Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre is looking for a medical writer to secure funding for its research in Canada (Hybrid) [$54k-$100k]

• Spring Health, a mental healthcare startup, is looking to hire a UX writer in the US (Remote) [$194k-$212k]

• Open Health is looking for a medical writer in the US (Remote)

• Virta Health, a company looking for reverse diabetes in 100 million people, is looking for a proposal writer (Remote) [$93k-$115k] 

• Duke-NUS Medical School is looking for a science communicator who can demonstrate impact of its research to the general public (Hybrid)The

• University of Idaho is looking for a Communications Strategiest for its College of Natural Resources (Hybrid) [$63k and higher]

• Science Friday is urgently looking for a Program Associate for its Audience Experiences (Remote) [$60k + benefits]

• Agilent is hiring a science writer for its India and Singapore offices (Remote is an option)

• A consumer protection company in the UK is looking for an investigative researcher/ writer with experience in health [36k-44k pounds per year] (Hybrid)

• BluShark Digital is looking for a medical writer in the US (Remote)

• Local Storytelling Exchange is looking for storytellers to tell stories about green transition in the UK (Remote) [up to 300 pounds per day])

Resources

• ScienceWrite has a mentorship program open for writers based in the UK

• The AAAS Mass Media Science & Engineering Fellowship for students is now accepting applications. Stipend $8,000 plus travel support

• Missing the scientists on X, they are probably hanging out on Bluesky Know more

• For those looking for additional gigs, The Study Hall Sampler shares opportunities every week*.

• Find out how you can earn more than a full-time salary every month through Lex Roman’s Journalists Pay Themselves newsletter*

  *- This is not a paid recommendation but this newsletter may earn a small fee if you sign up. 

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That’s it for this week.

New week, new opportunities!

Keep applying. We’ve got this!

Ameya