Siri Carpenter

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Siri Jane Carpenter
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Portrait of Carpenter, 2019
taken in Switzerland
by Christie Aschwanden
Born1971 (age 52–53)
OccupationFreelance science journalist
Education University of Wisconsin–Madison (BA)
Yale University (MS, PhD)
GenreJournalism
Website
siricarpenter.com

Siri Carpenter (born 1971) is an American freelance science journalist and editor living in Madison, Wisconsin. The author of multiple articles in Scientific American , Science, APA Monitor , and other publications, she is a co-founder and the editor-in-chief of The Open Notebook . In 2018 Carpenter was elected to a two-year term as president of the National Association of Science Writers.

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Early life and education

Carpenter grew up in La Crescent, Minnesota. She is married, with two daughters, and lives in Madison, Wisconsin. She completed her undergraduate education at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, earning a B.A. in psychology in 1995. [1] She earned an M.S. in 1997, and Ph.D. in 2000, both in social psychology at Yale University. [2] Her dissertation, Implicit gender attitudes, was directed by Mahzarin R. Banaji. [3]

Career

Early career

In 1998 Carpenter was a Science and Engineering Mass Media Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, at the Richmond Times-Dispatch in Richmond, Virginia. [4] The following year she was a science writer intern at Science News in Washington, D.C. [5] After completing her Ph.D., Carpenter was hired as a senior science writer for the APA Monitor on Psychology in Washington, D.C., from 2000 to 2002. [6]

Science journalist, editor

Carpenter's career as a freelance science journalist began in 2002. From 2012 to 2014, she was a senior editor and then a features editor at Discover Magazine in Waukesha, Wisconsin. [7] [8] Since 2014 Carpenter has also worked as a freelance editor for several publications, including bioGraphic, [9] and Science News for Students. [10]

The Open Notebook

When it comes to freelance writing, some things are curiously taboo. Many of the most important aspects of freelancing, like pay rates and contract negotiation, are often shrouded in secrecy. Luckily there’s The Open Notebook, which was founded to shed light on these important topics.

—Spencer Davis, The Freelancer [11]

In 2010 Carpenter co-founded The Open Notebook (TON), a science journalism non-profit organization, magazine and publisher, with Jeanne Erdmann, a health science journalist. [11] Carpenter is president and editor-in-chief; Erdmann is vice president, secretary, and editor-at-large. Gary Price of Library Journal said The Open Notebook "provides unique tools and resources to help science journalists at all experience levels hone their craft". [12]

National Association of Science Writers

Carpenter was vice president of the National Association of Science Writers (NASW), 2016–2018, [13] and was elected to a two-year term as president in 2018. [14] NASW is "...a community of journalists, authors, editors, producers, public information officers, students and people who write and produce material intended to inform the public about science, health, engineering, and technology". [15]

Publications

Books

In 2007, Carpenter and Karen Huffman wrote the textbook, Visualizing Psychology. A second edition was published 2010, and Wiley published the third edition in 2012. [16]

In 2020, TON published The Craft of Science Writing: Selections from The Open Notebook, edited by Carpenter. [4] Jonathan Wai wrote in Psychology Today , "...a new book edited by distinguished science writer Siri Carpenter seeks to illuminate The Craft of Science Writing by collecting numerous perspectives from science writers themselves about how to improve their own craft of science writing." [17]

Selected articles

Awards and honors

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  1. ↑ Sakai, Jill (November 7, 2013). "Science writer in residence visiting campus week of Nov. 11". news.wisc.edu. Archived from the original on December 16, 2015. Retrieved September 11, 2020.
  2. ↑ "Psychology Dept. Ph.D. Graduates | Department of Psychology". psychology.yale.edu. 2020. Archived from the original on December 5, 2014. Retrieved September 10, 2020.
  3. ↑ Carpenter, Siri Jane (2000). Implicit gender attitudes. Yale University. ISBN   978-0-599-98169-0. Archived from the original on September 16, 2020. Retrieved September 15, 2020.
  4. 1 2 "Writers and Editors - Science and medical writing". writersandeditors.com. June 17, 2020. Retrieved September 12, 2020. The setting: The newsroom of the Richmond Times-Dispatch. A young Siri Carpenter, a bright-eyed graduate student trying her hands at journalism as a AAAS Mass Media Fellow, gets paired with editor A.J.Hostetler.
    ...Carpenter, Siri. The Craft of Science Writing: Selections from The Open Notebook.
  5. ↑ Wood, Clark (August 26, 1999). "Cleanliness is not necessarily key to healthiness". The Bangor Daily News. p. 22. Retrieved September 17, 2020. Indeed if a recent article by Siri Carpenter in Science News is any indication the character Pigpen in the popular Charlie Brown cartoon strip may be the epitome of childhood good health.
  6. ↑ Carpenter, Siri (Fall 2002). "Becoming a Science Writer". Psychological Science Agenda. Archived from the original on September 17, 2020. Retrieved September 16, 2020.
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  10. ↑ "Revisit 2017's most important stories". Science News for Students. December 22, 2017. Retrieved September 11, 2020. Even though we're often not aware of these implicit biases, they can lead us to treat other people unfairly," says SNS contributing editor Siri Carpenter.
  11. 1 2 Davis, Spencer (May 5, 2016). "The Open Notebook's Siri Carpenter Reveals What She Looks for in a Pitch". The Freelancer. Archived from the original on July 16, 2020. Retrieved September 11, 2020.
  12. ↑ Price, Gary (October 20, 2011). "Journalism: Reference Tools: The TON Pitch Database". Library Journal infoDOCKET. Archived from the original on June 7, 2017. Retrieved July 15, 2020.
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  19. ↑ Carpenter, Siri (May 1, 2008). "Buried Prejudice". Scientific American Mind. 19 (2): 32–39. doi:10.1038/scientificamericanmind0408-32. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 13, 2014.
  20. ↑ The Best American Magazine Writing 2009. Editors, American Society of Magazine Editors. New York: Columbia University Press. 2010. p. 416. ISBN   978-0-231-14796-5. Archived from the original on September 17, 2020. Retrieved October 4, 2020.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
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