My 1st news release of 2021 for Hopkins Med News. Johns Hopkins Children's Center Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers learn why a terrible intestinal disease plaguing premature infants also may lead to severe brain injury. hopkinsmedicine.org/news/newsroom/…

Can't believe I haven't posted to Twitter since January! To start catching up, here's my most recent Hopkins Med News release on remarkable work by Johns Hopkins Medicine organ transplant team: hopkinsmedicine.org/news/newsroom/…

And here's an Hopkins Med News story from earlier in June related to #Alzheimers: hopkinsmedicine.org/news/newsroom/…

Remember how Fleming discovered #penicillin by accident when mold spoiled his #bacteria culture? Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers recently had similar eureka moment when #enzyme inhibitor stopped #MRSA cold. From my recent Hopkins Med News release: hopkinsmedicine.org/news/newsroom/…

My nominee for "Headline of the Year" so far in 2021! Way to go, Live Science editors! Michelangelo's fingerprint possibly found on butt of wax statue livescience.com/michelangelo-f…

#KetogenicTherapyDiet turned 100 today! Learn how Johns Hopkins Medicine contributed to its successful use treating #epilepsy & other diseases. Follow link to timeline I authored. Thanks JH Medicine's #SeanMorris & #LenaMeadowcroft for giving it life visually! hopkinsmedicine.org/news/newsroom/…

Can't believe my last tweet here was one year ago today! Time to start tweeting on a regular basis again.

If attending #SciWri22 virtually, you can still be part of the annual 1st time attendees meet&greet! Join us tomorrow, 10/13, at noon ET, 11 CT for a special virtual get-together. SciWri mtg veterans are urged to be at this welcoming event. Details: whova.com/portal/webapp/…

Here’s a scoop for all science writers… Or, rather, scoops On April 29, DCSWA 🐥 🐥is screaming ice cream 🍦 as in a big social at IceCreamJubilee The 1st 30 students gets some frozen assets for free! Details here & below: dcswa.org/event/dcswa-ic… Enjoy a sundae on a Saturday

Science writers in the Wash-Balt area: Happy Hour on 9/27 with GW Anthropology at Tonic @ Quigley's. Geeking and drinking starts at 5:30 PM!

Calling all science writers in the greater Balt-Wash DC area! The entry period for DCSWA's Newsbrief Award is underway and we need you to enter your best shortform writing from calendar year 2023. Deadline is February 1, so don't delay!

Science writers in the Balt-Wash DC area: another great DCSWA science writers happy hour is upon us! Come join us at Calico DC this Wednesday, January 17th, starting at 6 p.m. ET. Food, drinks, trivia and comradery for all. See you there!

Mark your calendars! The DC Science Writers Association (DCSWA) annual Professional Development Day will be on Saturday, May 4, 2024, at George Washington University in Washington, DC. More details and registration to come in March at dcswa.org.

Except for DCSWA 🐥 posts, I've been mostly AWOL from X (nee Twitter). Time to reduce the backlog & share some recent news stories I've done for Hopkins Med News. First up, reporting on a 12/27/23 JAMA Surgery article w/ an important finding about #GenderAffirmingSurgery.

2nd catch-up post of my recent Hopkins Med News stories. From 11/7/23, this one details Annals of Plastic Surgery study (bit.ly/3QVjLcZ) suggesting #BMI shouldn’t define eligibility for #GenderAffirmingSurgery. News release at bit.ly/471esOF

3rd catch-up post of my recent Hopkins Med News stories. From 9/19/23, a study in mBio (bit.ly/45RakQt) suggests early use of #COVIDConvalescentPlasma may lower risk of patients w/ #COVID19 developing #LongCOVID symptoms. News release at bit.ly/3HpQ3qA.

My latest news release (bit.ly/48U0bU0) for Hopkins Med News describes novel fluid biomarker under development by Johns Hopkins Medicine Johns Hopkins Pathology that may one day predict the risk of degenerative diseases #ALS and #FTD - even before symptoms appear.

Come one, come all to DCSWA's holiday bash in DC on Saturday, December 14th! Registration open and tickets on sale. Get yours today!

Registration's now open for the DCSWA 🐥 premier annual event, Professional Development Day! Join us for workshops, panels, skills building, an editor meet-and-greet, and lots of networking. It happens May 3 at the GWU Student Center in DC. Register at dcswa.org.

Are you a science geek with nada to do this Sat. night, Apr. 19th? DCSWA 🐥 is having a happy hour & science trivia night at Right Proper Brewing, 624 T St NW in DC (near from Green Line’s Shaw-Howard University Metro station). Come join us from 6-9 pm ET. Trivia starts at 7!