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  • Peggy Peck

    Position/Organization: executive editor, MedPage Today

    Peggy Peck began her career in journalism at The Record, a New Jersey daily newspaper. In 1980, she started writing for the medical trade press with a column in Physician's Management. Since then, her byline has been ubiquitous, appearing in Modern Medicine, Medical Tribune, Medical World News, Physician's Weekly, Internal Medicine News, Family Practice News, Pediatric News, Clinical Psychiatry News, Skin and Allergy News and ObGyn News. As a freelancer, she has contributed to WebMD, Medscape, Reuters Health, UPI, Oncology Times, Neurology Today, Neurology Now, and AMNews.

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  • Jeffrey Perkel

    Position/Organization: freelance writer, www.jeffreyperkel.com

    Jeffrey Perkel has been a scientific writer and editor since 2000, when he left academia to join the staff of The Scientist magazine as Senior Editor for Technology. He holds a PhD in cell and molecular biology from the University of Pennsylvania and did postdoctoral work at the University of Pennsylvania and at Harvard Medical School. Focusing on laboratory tools and technologies, Jeffrey's work has appeared in such outlets as The Scientist, Science, Nature, Scientific American online, and BioTechniques. He currently resides in Pocatello, Idaho.

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  • Mathilde Piard

    Position/Organization: social media manager, Cox Media Group Digital

    Mathilde Piard is the social media manager at CMGdigital, which supports Cox Media Group's 11 broadcast television stations, 86 radio stations, four metro newspapers, more than dozen non-daily publications and 130 websites with digital tools, technology and strategy. In her role, she consults with the publications and stations on the best ways to leverage social media to engage communities and is responsible for the development of social features and functionality on all Cox Media Group websites.

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  • Tabitha M. Powledge

    Position/Organization: freelance science writer

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  • Richard O. Prum

    Position/Organization: William Robertson Coe Professor of Ornithology, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the Peabody Museum of Natural History,Yale University

    Prum is an evolutionary ornithologist with interests in phylogenetics, behavior, feathers, structural color, evolution and development, sexual selection, and historical biogeography. He has focused recently on theoretical and molecular studies of the development and evolution of feathers, on developing and applying new tools for the study of the physics and evolution of structural coloration, and on continued efforts in the phylogenetic ethology of polygynous birds. He has done field work throughout the Neotropics and in Madagascar, and have studied fossil theropods in China.

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  • Czerne Reid

    Position/Organization: science writer, University of Florida

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  • Adam Rogers

    Position/Organization: senior editor, Wired

    How to Get into Wired

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  • Joshua J. Romero

    Position/Organization: associate editor, IEEE Spectrum

    I've been at IEEE Spectrum for over three years as an associate editor, and I work primarily on the website. I produce or manage all our multimedia content, which includes videos, podcasts, and audio slideshows. I also manage and coordinate our network of bloggers. Our content is written for a general audience to understand while still being rigorous enough for our readers who are professional engineers. I would say we aim for a balance similar to what you'll find in Scientific American. We focus more on original stories or novel tech angles than rehashing stories that are widely covered.

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  • Eric T. Rosenthal

    Eric T. Rosenthal, an independent medical journalist, is Oncology Times’ special correspondent. He writes “Eric Rosenthal Reports,” which focuses on providing insight, perspective and transparency into various issues, trends and controversies in the world of cancer, and has won several national journalism awards for investigative reporting, as well as both news and feature writing.

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  • Cristine Russell

    Position/Organization: president, CASW; senior fellow, Harvard University Kennedy School of Government Harvard University

    Cristine Russell has gone from hot type to Twitter in more than 35 years covering science, health, and the environment. Russell is president of the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing and an NASW past president. She is a freelance writer and senior fellow at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. Russell is a contributing editor to Columbia Journalism Review's magazine and online 'The Observatory' (CJR.org) and a correspondent for TheAtlantic.com.

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