Fwd: Science Journalism Improvement Program

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From: <ETerwiligr@aol.com>
Date: Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 11:11 AM
Subject: Re: Science Journalism Improvement Program
To: barriticus@gmail.com

Hello Barrett -
Thanks for your reply and followup clarification, and for directing me to the IRC channel.
I will try to check it out.
Im trained as a virologist, including past work on HIV. Most of our more recent work has been in gene therapy. Much of it with clinical scientists. Including delivery of silencing RNA as well as protein coding sequences into specific animal tissues.
One of my long time collaborators is Larry Young, whose great work with the 'love voles' gets renewed attention every Valentine's Day.
My scientific track record is pretty easy to trace on the web.
Best Regards,
Ernie Terwilliger
Boston

In a message dated 10/14/10 5:44:41 PM, barriticus@gmail.com writes:

Ernest-

Also, disregard the part in the last e-mail about you being a science writer; I pasted in the second paragraph about the process involved without removing an addition I had made for the previous correspondent. Anyway, let me know what particular branches of science you're involved in, and consider checking in on the IRC channel if you have any interest in learning about Project PM in general.

On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 5:40 PM, Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com> wrote:

Ernest-

Thanks for writing. It sounds like you could indeed be of assistance to Project PM in the context of our science journalism program and perhaps other efforts as well. We actually didn't end up doing a questionnaire; just tell me what areas of expertise you have and I'll put you down on our list.

At some point in the near future we'll introduce you to one of our freelancer participants and the two of you can decide what subject matter would work as an article, and then you'll help the writer find good sources for quotes and ensure that the finished product is accurate and otherwise helpful to layman readers. If we decide to have you serve as a writer as well, we'll hook you up with a scientist specializing in some random field, as your combined background of writer and science grad student should make you a pretty versatile science writer.

I'll have my associate Clark Robinson send you some additional information about Project PM and our fundamental goals, which involve the development and promotion of improved methods of collaboration and information flow. We have a number of documents you might find interesting, and our more active participants tend to congregate in our new IRC channel which itself may be accessed at irc.freenode.net, #projectpm (I recommend Xchat if you're new to IRC, but Clark will send along a short guide including other methods of getting on).

Let me know if you have any questions, and thanks again for participating in this program.

On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 3:55 PM, <ETerwiligr@aol.com> wrote:

Hello -