Katie Langin
@k_langin
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journalist covering the scientific community and the environment for @ScienceMagazine / Ph.D. in ecology / 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 / [email protected]
Fort Collins, CO
Joined June 2014
I wanted to be a journalist. Then I wanted to be a scientist. I became a scientist. Then I became a science journalist.
Question: What did you want to be when you were a kid? And what are you now? I’ll start. I wanted to be a professional rugby player or boxer. I’m now an antibody selections scientist 🤷🏾‍♀️
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RT @NewsfromScience: A member of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry shares her perspective on how she and others are trying to expand the no…
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RT @zhigangsuo: A graduate student learns to love writing: just like doing research, writing a paper takes some trial and error. https://t…
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"Postdoc positions can be exploitative." My latest story—about a study showing that international postdocs in the U.S. are paid less and received less careeer support and guidance than U.S. citizens. #AcademicChatter #postdocs @ScienceCareers
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As more and more #PhDs head to industry, is a #postdoc worth it? I asked former postdocs that question—and the reactions were mixed. Here's what they said: #ScienceTwitter #AcademicChatter
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RT @NerdyChristie: Talk about commitment: João Miguel Alves-Nunes stepped on deadly jararacas more than 40,000 times to figure out when the…
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“Very long overdue.” My latest story—about the long-running effort to add questions about sexual orientation and gender identity to NSF's workforce surveys. #LGBTQinSTEM @ScienceCareers
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@davetoews @UBC @nicoleacrowley @PSUScience Congrats! I just realized the other day that it's been 10 years since I graduated too. Time flies.
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RT @NewsfromScience: Postdocs at the National Institutes of Health will now be paid at least $61,008, an increase of $4500 over their curre…
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After call for raises, NIH boosts pay for early career scientists—but falls short of advisory group's recommended $70,000 postdoc salary. My latest for @ScienceInsider.
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“Innovation in caregiving support is desperately needed.” The National Academies released a report yesterday calling for universities to do more to help caregivers in STEMM. #AcademicChatter #ScienceTwitter #womeninSTEM
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New study sheds light on bias in news coverage of scientific papers. My latest for @ScienceCareers
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The number of U.S. citizens and permanent residents working as #postdocs in the U.S. fell sharply in 2022. The new data underscore concerns that an increasing number of early career scientists are flocking to industry. My latest for @ScienceCareers.
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"The capacity to purchase citations in bulk is a new and worrying development." My latest story—about a research team that went "undercover" to buy citations for a fictional scientist. @ScienceMagazine #AcademicChatter
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@maddiehray I'm a reporter at Science and I'm potentially interested in speaking to you for a story. Could you email me at klangin@aaas.org and I can tell you more? Thanks!
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RT @ScienceMagazine: "Research is messy. … Trying to protect students from that reality does them a disservice."
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RT @ScienceMagazine: "I know I’m not alone in my struggle with mental health in academia." #ScienceWorkingLife
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RT @ScienceMagazine: "I encourage scientists … to reduce the environmental impact of their own research." In this week's #ScienceWorkingLi…
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@ann_fornof I'm a reporter at Science. I'm interested in speaking with you for a story about career paths in STEM. Could you email me at klangin@aaas.org?
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