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38 Science Writing Opportunities

38 Science Writing Opportunities

Illumina, CDC, Front Line Genomics, bioGraphic and $10,000 fellowships.

Ameya Paleja
December 07, 2024

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

38 gigs and jobs await you in this newsletter.

Many thanks to M Keller for buying me that 1 coffee last week.

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If you were thinking of buying me a coffee as well, here’s your chance to do it.

I attended a science writers/ journalists conference last week and some people walked up to tell me how they find this newsletter helpful.

I can’t wait for that chance occurrence where we cross paths and you tell me how you found a gig through this newsletter.

Please fill in this 3-question survey, if you have.

There is some good news as well.

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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.

Freelance

Westchester Education Services is looking for a copyeditor with child psychology experience for K-12 education material
S Srinivasan is looking for a writer for publication and research communication (Pitch your rates)
Liz Crawford is looking for a grant writer with experience in women’s health
Ethan Lowder, an MD student at Harvard is looking for writers with an interest in healthcare and fora project at the intersection of healthcare and AI
Beth Heinrich is looking for communicators for stories about health, wellness, and fitness and to build a brand journalism hub
Carrie Sloan is looking for healthcare journalists and visual designers (tell your artist friend) for ongoing work
The Health Translators is looking for writers with experience in the health, wellness and medical industries.

Internship / Entry Gigs/ Volunteer

The deadline for iGEM Community’s call for volunteers for its free science communication learning course is fast approaching
Kavya Suresh is looking for junior/ intern medical writers (Freshers can apply)

Pitch call

SciRio is seeking pitches from science communicators/ writers and content creators on how they communicate science to people
Colin Schultz, soon-to-be news editor at bioGraphic/ Hakai is open to story pitches
Emma Barker Bonomo at TIME is seeking pitches in niche areas, so get in touch. Email

This newsletter intends to be a large, free-to-all community, with gigs going out once every weekend. But it needs a bit of support to get there.

Last month, I shared my target for 2024 in this post.

Here’s the split up of revenue so far

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Sponsorship: $28

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Full-Time / Part-Time

Kelly Science is hiring two writers for customer-facing documents for their IVD tests and instrument systems in CA(FT) [up to $55 an hour]
Connecticut Science Center is looking for a grants writer (FT) [$65k]
UWE Bristol is looking for an Assistant Editor and Network Developer for an EU-funded Science for Environment Policy project (Part-Time) [up to £33k pro rata].

Just to give you an idea of how badly they need an editor, they wrote this in their job description.
Kalpana Charles is hiring a medical writer in Hong Kong (FT)
Tanvi Acharya is hiring a writer with medical/academic writing experience to work from an office in Udaipur, India (FT)
Hummingbird Scientific, a microscopy company, is looking to hire a science writer in Hyderabad, India (FT)
EBM Health Consultants are looking for a medical writer with over 5+ years of experience in Delhi, India (FT)
Pushpa Gupta is looking for a copywriter with health/ wellness background based in Bengaluru(FT)
US CDC is hiring a health communications specialist in Atlanta, GA (Open to telework) [$92k-$142k]

Hybrid/ Remote

Front Line Genomics is urgently looking for a science writer based in the UK (Hybrid with one day in London every week) [up to 35k pounds]
Mayuri Roy is looking for an experienced medical writer to work as a part-time faculty for next-generation of writers in Bengaluru, India (Hybrid)
Illumina is looking for a senior science writer to create top and mid-funnel content for potential customers (US, Remote) [$96k- $144k]
Outlier is looking for writers with STEM experience to train their LLM. (Remote in some countries) [$30-$50 an hour]
Ayushi Suryawanshi is looking for a medical content editor/ proofreader for a US-based healthcare agency
Lucy Eyre is looking for a medical writer for a healthcare advertising client in the UK (Hybrid) [£40k]
Kaitlyn Murphy is hiring an experienced market access writer for a healthcare client in MA
Ramarketing is looking to hire a scientific content writer based in the UK/ North America (Hybrid/ Remote) [£31k -£47k]
ThermoFisher Scientific needs a Senior Science writer based in the US (Remote)
Gainwell Technologies, a healthcare company, in Talahasse, Florida, is looking for a technical writer to transfer technical information in a less technical way (Hybrid) [$39k-$56k]
US CDC is hiring a technical writer-editor based in the US (Remote) [$72k-$113k]
Trillium Health Partners Foundation, the fundraising arm for a Canadian hospital network is looking for a copywriter with healthcare experience (Hybrid)
Maximus, a consumer health company for men needs a content writer based in the US (Remote) [$20-$50/ hour]
Sierra Club is looking for an editorial fellow for a six months (Remote) [$20/ hour]
Klick Health is looking for a senior copywriter with healthcare experience in the UK (Remote)

Resources

The National Association of Science Writers (NASW) is offering a five-week paid virtual mentorship program to connect early career journalists with next-gen undergraduate writers. Apply Here
UC Berkeley Center for Science of Psychedelics has ten $10,000 grants for print and audio stories about the science, policy, business, and culture of psychedelics.
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*
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