News of the Superfabulous Sort

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The winners of this year’s AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Award have just been announced. I’m honored to be the winner for large newspapers. (I submitted some of my articles over the past year in The New York Times.)

The whole enterprise of handing out awards for science journalism is fraught with gloomy undertones these days, of course. Last year’s newspaper winners actually lost their jobs by the time the awards were announced. But even as we struggle on, it’s reassuring that there are chances to get some recognition for striving to do our best, to make as much sense of the world as we can manage in plain English. And I’m particularly grateful that the folks at the New York Times indulges me in my curiosity about basic questions about the nature of life–like why fireflies flash.

November 10th, 2009 10:00 AM by Carl Zimmer in General | 15 comments | RSS feed | Trackback >

15 Responses to “News of the Superfabulous Sort”

  1. 1.   Oroboros Says:

    Congratulations, you definitely deserve it!

  2. 2.   Michael Tobis Says:

    Congratulations!

    For what it is worth I agree with the award. You are indeed among the best at this difficult and important work. Many thanks for your efforts!

  3. 3.   Joerg Heber Says:

    Congratulations Carl, this is well deserved! Keep up the good, high-quality work in a difficult publishing environment

    Joerg

  4. 4.   teacherninja Says:

    Yes, yes! Well deserved indeed!

  5. 5.   Oliver Says:

    Well done Carl! You’re my favourite science journalist, and richly deserve this honour.

  6. 6.   The Science Pundit Says:

    Congratulations!

  7. 7.   Mark Says:

    Congratulations!!!!!

  8. 8.   Romeo Vitelli Says:

    Congratulations and then some.

  9. 9.   David Fishman Says:

    Great news Carl, congrats. On to the Pulitzer’s….

  10. 10.   minusRusty Says:

    Congratulations, Carl! You’ve earned it!

    -Rusty

  11. 11.   Jim Hathaway Says:

    Congratulations & well, well-deserved!

  12. 12.   Ezzthetic Says:

    Just finished “Soul Made Flesh”. An utterly brilliant read.

  13. 13.   The Ridger Says:

    I wish there was an original way to say “Congratulations!” and “Well deserved!” But there isn’t, so I’ll just say them plain.

  14. 14.   Carl gets an award! « A Man With A Ph.D. Says:

    [...] — Richard Congrats to Carl Zimmer!: [Via Bad Astronomy] My fellow Hive Overmind blogger Carl Zimmer just won the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s Kavli Science Journalism Award [...]

  15. 15.   Charlie Says:

    Fantastic, Carl!

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