‘Prize Light Over Heat’ and Other Essential Advice for Science Writers

4 Tips From Ed Yong on the Craft of Science Writing and Communication

Gavin Lamb, PhD
The Startup
Published in
6 min readOct 28, 2020

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There are few writers as skilled at their craft as Ed Yong. He’s something of a science writing prodigy. His writing spans topics ranging from orca conservation and language genes to the microbes that inhabit our bodies and most…

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Gavin Lamb, PhD
The Startup

I’m a researcher and writer in ecolinguistics and environmental communication. Get my weekly digest of ecowriting tools: https://wildones.substack.com/