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

36 gigs and jobs await you in this newsletter.

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Since freelancers do not have the same needs and are at different career levels, we have a mixed bag of opportunities here.

(There is a fellowship with a $15k grant in the Resources section and the Hybrid/Remote list is huge this time)

Type of Gigs this week

• Freelance

• Pitch call

• Full-Time / Part-Time

• Hybrid/ Remote

• Resources

Freelance

• Ellen Kuwana is looking for journalists to mentor a college student to publish their first piece (5 weeks, paid)

• Scientific Group is looking for senior medical writer (URGENT)

• A global independent medical communications agency is looking for a Senior Medical Writer in London on a 3-month contract

• Sarah Steimel is looking for medical writers for Sleep Wake Advisor

• Kiran Roest needs a scientific writer who can turn a very long research report into succinct articles

• Topaz Hooper is looking for health writers who have worked with AI

• Ruth Douglas at SciDev.net is looking for a science journalist based in London

• Katya Moorman is looking for a writer who can regularly contribute stories about new material innovations in fashion at No Kill Magazine

• Eleanor Whitehouse is looking for a bid writer in the healthcare industry 

• Andrew James is looking for a writer for technical healthcare content 

• Charlie Denton is looking for a medical writer with oncology experience

• Circa Healthcare needs a senior copywriter with animal healthcare experience

Pitch call

• Tessa McLean at SFGate is open to pitches about California climate ($300 a story)

• STAT is looking for pitches about Health, Medicine, and Scientific Discovery ($1 / word)

• Freethink is open to pitches on a range of topics (Pitch Form)

  The pitch call at Freethink was shared with me by Sachin Rawat, a contributor at Freethink.

If you’d like to contribute opportunities to this newsletter, you can send them to me via LinkedIn.

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Full-Time / Part-Time

• The Jackson Laboratory (JAX) is looking for a scientific writer (Full Time)

• Frank DeVita is looking for highly skilled scientific writers with healthcare experience (Full Time)

• Nupur Banerjee is looking for a medical writer in Kolkata, India (Full Time)

• Parexel is looking for a Principal Medical Writer in Bengaluru, India (Full Time)

• US-based med comms agency is looking for a senior medical writer (Full Time)

• Docplexus is looking for a senior medical writer in Pune, India (Full Time) (Email)

• A Self-Care Medical Devices company in Amsterdam needs a medical/ regulatory writer 

Hybrid/ Remote

• New York Hall of Science needs a Senior Grant Writer (Hybrid)

• Envision Pharma Group is looking for a medical writer (US, Remote)

• Cactus Life Science is hiring a scientific writer (India, Remote)

• Horiana, an epidemiology and biostatistics, consulting company is looking for a medical writer (Open to Remote candidates)

• QbD Group is looking for a Senior Medical Writer (Remote)

• Costello Medical is looking for a medical writer in the UK (Multiple Locations, Hybrid)

• Costello Medical is looking for a medical writer for its Boston office (US, Hybrid) ($ 70k-73k)

• Indica Labs is looking for a medical writer with experience in Anatomic Pathology (US/ Europe, Remote)

• EPM Scientific is looking for a medical writer in Spain (Remote)

• Trilogy Writing and Consulting is looking for medical writers based in the UK, Italy and Spain (Remote)

• Syneos Health is looking for a principal medical writer (Remote)

• Rohit Bhandari at Indegene is urgently looking for expert scientific writers (Remote)

• Research Matters is looking for science writers who can contribute up to 4 articles a month (India, Remote) - The ability to write in regional languages is a plus. 

Resources

• Tarbell Fellowship offers up to $15,000 in grants to report on AI and its impacts

• For those looking for additional gigs, there are some opportunities shared in The Study Hall Sampler every week*.

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A friendly reminder.

Each freelancer is unique and works differently. Some opportunities in this edition may not work for you, but they could be a perfect fit for another freelancer.

So, if you see a gig that is right up someone else’s alley, send this newsletter to your freelancer friend and earn some brownie points.

That’s it for this week.

New week, new opportunities!

Keep applying. We’ve got this!

Ameya