News of the Superfabulous Sort

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. Oroboros Says:
November 10th, 2009 at 12:21 pm

Congratulations, you definitely deserve it!
2. Michael Tobis Says:
November 10th, 2009 at 12:21 pm

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. Joerg Heber Says:
November 10th, 2009 at 12:34 pm

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

Joerg
4. teacherninja Says:
November 10th, 2009 at 12:45 pm

Yes, yes! Well deserved indeed!
5. Oliver Says:
November 10th, 2009 at 12:46 pm

Well done Carl! You’re my favourite science journalist, and richly deserve this honour.
6. The Science Pundit Says:
November 10th, 2009 at 3:09 pm

Congratulations!
7. Mark Says:
November 10th, 2009 at 3:11 pm

Congratulations!!!!!
8. Romeo Vitelli Says:
November 10th, 2009 at 3:44 pm

Congratulations and then some.
9. David Fishman Says:
November 10th, 2009 at 4:13 pm

Great news Carl, congrats. On to the Pulitzer’s….
10. minusRusty Says:
November 10th, 2009 at 4:27 pm

Congratulations, Carl! You’ve earned it!

-Rusty
11. Jim Hathaway Says:
November 10th, 2009 at 6:43 pm

Congratulations & well, well-deserved!
12. Ezzthetic Says:
November 10th, 2009 at 8:57 pm

Just finished “Soul Made Flesh”. An utterly brilliant read.
13. The Ridger Says:
November 10th, 2009 at 10:21 pm

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. Carl gets an award! « A Man With A Ph.D. Says:
November 11th, 2009 at 7:43 pm

[...] — 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. Charlie Says:
November 12th, 2009 at 2:18 pm

Fantastic, Carl!

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