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2023 (8)

09/05 - October 4: The Rise in Childhood Suicide
04/17 - April 26: A Virtual Conversation with Deirdre Barrett, Author of Pandemic Dreams
03/23 - April 12: Wastewater Surveillance: An Important Tool in Detecting COVID-19 and Other Pathogens
03/14 - March 22: A Virtual Conversation with Dan Levitt, Author of What’s Gotten Into You
03/07 - March 14: Was COVID-19 Caused by a Lab Leak in China?
02/27 - March 8: The Battle for Your Brain: A Virtual Conversation with Nita A. Farahany
01/27 - Feb. 8: A Virtual Conversation with Amy Dockser Marcus, Author of We the Scientists: How a Daring Team of Parents and Doctors Forged a New Path for Medicine
01/05 - Jan. 19: The Opioid Crisis in America: A Virtual Conversation with Gerald Posner

2022 (29)

12/07 - Jan. 3: Secrets Of Publishing: A Zoom Talk With Editors, Agents & Authors
11/30 - Dec. 6: Is Lithium A Better Treatment for Depression Than SSRIs—And Can It Treat COVID?
11/23 - Nov. 30: A Virtual Conversation with Ryan Prior, Author of The Long Haul
11/15 - Nov. 22: Triple Pandemic this Winter? A Virtual Conversation with New York Times Reporter Apoorva Mandavilli
11/02 - Nov. 17: Why Is There So Little Interest in Public Health Compared to the Latest Medical Breakthroughs?
10/20 - Oct. 27: A Virtual Conversation with Bryn Nelson, author of Flush: The Remarkable Science of an Unlikely Treasure
10/11 - Oct. 20: The Science of the Extraordinary and the Source of Happiness
09/20 - Sept. 29: Busting Myths on the Evolution of Humans and Exercise
09/13 - Sept. 20: The Role of Numbers in Government, Media, Popular Culture, and Life
08/05 - August 18: Monkeypox: What Is It and How Concerned Should We Be?
07/01 - July 28: Preventing Zoonotic Spillover at Its Source
06/28 - July 13: A Virtual Conversation with Dr. Sara Mednick, author of The Power of the Downstate
05/18 - May 26: What Will COVID Look Like This Summer and Will There Be a New Vaccine this Fall?
05/09 - May 16: The Growing Crisis In Our Oceans: A Virtual Conversation with Dr. Drew Harvell
05/04 - May 12: Preventing the Next Pandemic: The Link Between Human Health and the Health of the Planet
04/25 - May 3: Building a Sustainable, Reliable Revenue Stream as a Professional (PAID!) Speaker
04/12 - April 18: The Pandemic in New York City: What Happened and What Will Happen Next
03/31 - April 6: The Health Benefits of Cannabis and CBD: Beyond the Hype
03/23 - April 5: Containing the Impact and Investigating The Long-Lasting Effects of COVID-19
03/15 - March 23: The Health Benefits of Cannabis and CBD
03/09 - March 17: Precision Medicine for The Brain: A Virtual Conversation with Dr. Amit Etkin, Founder and CEO of Alto Neuroscience
02/25 - March 2: Bionic Limbs: A Virtual Conversation with Gideon Gil, Managing Editor of STAT
02/17 - Feb. 24: How to Improve Mental Health and Brain Performance: A Virtual Conversation with Dr. Evian Gordon
02/03 - Feb. 16: What the Polio Vaccine Can Teach Us About the COVID-19 Vaccine: A Virtual Conversation with Dr. David Oshinsky
02/01 - Feb. 8: A Virtual Conversation with Dr. Carl Erik Fisher, Author of The Urge: Our History of Addiction
01/27 - Feb. 2: The Fight Against Vaccine Misinformation: A Virtual Conversation with Dr. John Moore
01/19 - Jan. 26: Making Sense of the Latest Pandemic News: A Virtual Conversation with Robin Lloyd
01/13 - Jan. 20: Children & Pandemic Anxiety: A Virtual Conversation with Dr. Anne Marie Albano
01/06 - Jan. 13: A Virtual Conversation with Dr. Mark J. Mulligan, Director of the NYU Langone Vaccine Center

2021 (40)

12/09 - Jan. 4: The Book Bible: A Virtual Conversation with Best-selling Author Susan Shapiro
11/29 - Dec. 8: The First Shots: A Virtual Conversation with Brendan Borrell
11/10 - Nov. 30: The Other Dark Matter
11/08 - Nov. 17: How to Raise Kids Who Aren’t Assholes
11/02 - Nov. 9: A Virtual Conversation with Dr. Paul Offit, Author of You Bet Your Life
10/20 - Nov. 1: How To Get Published in Five Weeks: A Virtual Conversation with Susan Shapiro
10/13 - Oct. 20: Children and COVID-19: A Virtual Conversation with Mayo Clinic Pediatrician Dr. Nipunie Rajapakse
10/05 - Oct. 14: A Virtual Conversation with Nancy Segal, Author of Deliberately Divided
09/29 - Oct. 5: COVID ‘Long Haulers’: The Long-Term Effects of COVID-19
09/22 - Sept. 28: A Virtual Conversation with Carl Zimmer, Author of A Planet of Viruses
09/14 - Sept. 23: A Virtual Conversation with Award-Winning Journalist Alison Bass
08/23 - Sept. 1: A Virtual Conversation with Betsy Ladyzhets, Founder & Editor-in-Chief, COVID-19 Data Dispatch
08/05 - August 19: Social Media and COVID-19: A Virtual Conversation with Dr. John C. Pollock
08/02 - August 10: The Delta Variant and Booster Shots: A Virtual Conversation with Dr. John Moore
07/27 - August 4: Are Aliens Here? A Virtual Conversation with Anthropologist Jerome H. Barkow, Board Member of METI
07/08 - July 13: The Fight against Tuberculosis: The Forgotten Disease
06/29 - July 8: Did SARS-CoV-2 Leak from a Lab? A Virtual Conversation with Investigative Journalist Katherine Eban
06/24 - June 28: A Virtual Conversation with ProPublica’s Marshall Allen, Author of Never Pay the First Bill
06/17 - June 24: A Virtual Conversation with Dr. Lisa Damour
06/11 - June 17: A Virtual Conversation with Dr. Steffanie Strathdee
06/03 - June 8: A Night of Comic Relief with Science Comedians Brian Malow and Kasha Patel
06/01 - June 3: A Virtual Conversation with Dr. John Moore
05/19 - May 26: A Virtual Conversation with Andy Norman, Author of Mental Immunity
05/04 - RESCHEDULED: May 18: Understanding the Science of Vaccine Development
04/28 - May 4: The Slow Rollout of COVID-19 Vaccines in Europe
04/23 - April 29: A Virtual Conversation with Josh Fischman, Senior Editor, Scientific American
04/13 - April 22: A Virtual Conversation with Liz Heinecke, Author of Radiant: The Dancer, The Scientist, and a Friendship Forged in Light
04/05 - April 14: One Year After Quarantine: Dating and Partnerships in the Time of COVID-19, Part II
03/25 - March 31: Food Scarcity in New York State during the Pandemic
03/18 - March 24: COVID-19 Variants and Vaccines: A Virtual Conversation with Dr. John Moore
03/10 - March 18: A Virtual Conversation with Sherry Turkle on Her New Book, The Empathy Diaries
03/02 - March 11: A Virtual Conversation with Carl Zimmer, Author of Life’s Edge: The Search For What It Means To Be Alive
02/24 - March 3: An Evening with Investigative Journalist Katherine Eban
02/18 - Feb. 25: A Pediatrician’s View on School Reopening
02/10 - Feb. 18: A Virtual Conversation with Dr. Muge Cevik
02/04 - Feb. 10: Reporting on the Pandemic: A Virtual Conversation with New York Times Reporter Apoorva Mandavilli
01/28 - Feb. 3: What Do We Know (and Not Know) about COVID-19 Variants and Vaccines? A Virtual Conversation with Dr. Mirella Salvatore
01/20 - Jan. 27: Understanding the Vaccine Race: A Virtual Conversation with Jon Cohen, Senior Correspondent at Science Magazine
01/14 - Jan. 21: Understanding the Science of COVID-19 Vaccines: A Virtual Conversation with Dr. John Moore
01/05 - Jan. 14: Distributing the COVID-19 Vaccine: A Virtual Conversation with Gerald Posner

2020 (31)

12/06 - Dec. 15: Reporting On and Living With COVID-19: The View of Four Latin American Journalists
12/02 - Dec. 8: What Does It Take to Create a Safe and Effective Vaccine?
11/30 - Dec. 17: Virtual Joint Happy Hour with Science Writers of the Upper Midwest (SWUM)
11/20 - Dec. 1: Big Pharma & COVID-19 Vaccines: A Virtual Conversation with Investigative Journalist Gerald Posner
11/10 - Nov. 17: Reporting On and Living With COVID-19: The View of Three European Journalists
11/02 - Nov. 9: Mental Health and COVID-19: A Virtual Conversation with Robert Klitzman, MD
10/21 - October 28: A Virtual Conversation with Jessica Wapner
10/14 - Oct. 22: Can We Use Science to Promote Behavior That Mitigates COVID-19?
10/08 - Oct. 14: Can We Predict the Next Pandemic? A Virtual Conversation with Dr. Stephen S. Morse
10/03 - Oct. 7: A Virtual Conversation with Carl Zimmer, Science Journalist at The New York Times
09/24 - Oct. 1: A Virtual Conversation with George Zaidan, Author of Ingredients: The Strange Chemistry of What We Put in Us and on Us
09/16 - September 25: Life with COVID-19 Six Months after Lockdown
09/08 - September 16: A Virtual Conversation with Cheryl Pellerin, author of Healing with Cannabis
09/01 - September 10: The Business of COVID-19: A Virtual Conversation with Ed Silverman, Senior Writer and Pharmalot Columnist at STAT News
08/16 - August 24: A Virtual Conversation with Pam Fessler, Author of Carville’s Cure: Leprosy, Stigma, and the Fight for Justice
08/12 - August 20: What Will It Take to Develop a Safe and Effective COVID-19 Vaccine?
08/03 - August 19: A Virtual Conversation with Lisa Selin Davis, Author of Tomboy: The Surprising History and Future of Girls Who Dare to Be Different
07/27 - August 3: A Virtual Conversation with Science Journalist Roxanne Khamsi
07/20 - July 27: A Virtual Conversation with Dr. Jennifer Nuzzo, Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security
07/08 - July 15: A Virtual Conversation with Emily Anthes, Author of The Great Indoors
06/30 - July 9: A Virtual Conversation with Gideon Gil, Managing Editor of STAT News
06/23 - June 30: A Virtual Conversation with Maria Konnikova, Author of The Biggest Bluff
06/16 - June 24: A Virtual Conversation with Ivan Oransky
06/05 - June 16: Will Artificial Intelligence (AI) Become Conscious? A Virtual Conversation with Susan Schneider
06/04 - June 10: SWINY’s First Virtual Social!
05/22 - June 3: Dating and Partnerships in the Time of COVID-19: A virtual conversation with Helen Fisher
05/14 - May 21: Coping with the Isolation and Uncertainty of COVID-19
05/07 - May 13: A Virtual Conversation with Science Journalist Malin Attefall, Television Producer at Sweden’s Public Service TV
05/06 - May 11: A Virtual Conversation with Science Journalist Carl Zimmer
04/22 - April 30: A Virtual Conversation with Doug Levy, Author of The Communications Guide for Coronavirus
02/10 - March 3: An Evening with Science Journalist Lydia Denworth

2019 (10)

12/13 - December 16: SWINY Holiday Get-Together — Have a drink and snacks on us!
10/18 - November 13: An Evening with Robert Klitzman, MD, author of Designing Babies: How Technology is Changing the Ways We Create Children
10/02 - November 7: An evening with Reporters Michael Balter and Meredith Wadman on Exposing Sexual Misconduct and Bullying in Academic Science
09/04 - October 2: An Evening with Katherine Eban, Author of Bottle of Lies
08/01 - August 19: A New Look at New York’s Waterfront
05/29 - June 20: Revel in the Ramble: A Unique and Hidden Urban Gem
04/22 - May 20: SWINY’s Annual Party
04/04 - April 24: Explore the Brave New World of eBook Self-Publishing
03/04 - April 3: An Evening with Gretchen Rubin, Author of “Outer Order, Inner Calm”
01/03 - January 23: An Evening with Abby Ellin, Author of Duped

2018 (9)

12/10 - December 17: SWINY’s Holiday Happy Hour
10/15 - October 22: Health, History and Happy Hour
09/05 - October 9: An Evening with Randi Hutter Epstein
07/30 - August 21: Horticulture on the High Line
06/11 - June 21: SWINY’s Exclusive Summer Solstice Tour of Central Park
05/10 - June 13: An Evening with Carl Zimmer
04/10 - May 7: SWINY’s Annual Party at Pete’s Tavern
04/09 - April 30: The BioBus Experience
01/09 - January 18: Cells Are the New Cure with Dr. Max Gomez

2017 (6)

08/01 - Aug. 23: Cybersecurity and You: Risks, Precautions, and Responses
06/07 - June 20: SWINY’s Sixth Annual Private Tour in Central Park
06/07 - June 15: Book talk with ‘Ends of the World’ author Peter Brannen
04/19 - May 16: Is Artificial Intelligence Outsmarting Us?
02/08 - Feb. 28: SWINY’s Annual Party (SushiSamba, 87 Seventh Ave South)
01/20 - SWINY JOBS: Writer, Architecture/Engineering, Freelance

2016 (11)

11/28 - Jan. 11: Why Do We Love, Why Do We Cheat? An Evening with Helen Fisher
11/16 - Dec. 5: SWINY’s Holiday Social at the New York Beer Company
10/06 - [CANCELED] Oct. 19: Tableau Workshop for Science Writers
09/21 - [Registration Closed] Oct. 13: SWINY’s Exclusive Private Tour of Renowned Research Library
08/12 - Sept. 13: Too Smart to Be Conned? Think Again!
07/19 - Aug. 9: Reduced August Pricing: Data Journalism Career Event
06/07 - June 29: SWINY’s Fifth Annual Private Tour in Central Park
05/23 - June 16: SWINY and AMWA-NY Present the Business of Freelance
04/04 - April 27: An evening with best-selling author Sherry Turkle
03/25 - [Registration closed] April 20: The Highline Reversed: Tour the World’s First Subterranean Solar Garden
01/28 - Feb. 29: SWINY’s Annual Party–Right around the corner!

2015 (13)

11/17 - Tuesday, Dec. 1: Social at New York Beer Company
10/01 - Oct. 13: Join SWINY for Special World Thrombosis Day Event
09/17 - Oct. 20: Panel Discussion: Why Science is Still a Boys’ Club
09/11 - September 29: Alzheimer’s Disease Press Briefing: Potential Treatments on the Horizon
08/20 - Sept. 16: “Going Viral” — What does the future hold?
07/24 - Monday, August 10: Social at New York Beer Company
05/29 - SOLD OUT! June 24: Fourth Annual After Hours Private Tour of Central Park
05/20 - Save the Date: June 24: The Essential Central Park
03/26 - RESCHEDULED: April 2: Behind the Scenes Lunch at the New York Genome Center
02/27 - March 23: Green Science Rocks: An Evening with Cutting-Edge Environmental Start-Ups
01/31 - Feb. 25: SWINY’s Annual Party!
01/27 - SAVE THE DATE: Feb. 25: SWINY’s Annual Party
01/23 - Feb. 9: “The History, Art, and Science of Beer”: What Secrets Lie Beneath that Foamy Head?

2014 (7)

11/14 - Dec. 1: The Eyes Have It: Revolution in Biomedical Imaging
09/14 - Oct. 6: The Art & Science of Pricing—How to Talk Money With Clients
05/28 - June 18: The Essential Central Park: SWINY’S third annual private tour of Central Park after hours
05/06 - May 14: An evening with Gretchen Rubin, author of the NY Times best-seller, The Happiness Project
03/12 - April 9: Genetically Modified Foods—The Sense, Science, & Nonsense
02/04 - February 25: Register now for SWINY’s Annual Party!
01/15 - March 5: The ABCs of SEO: How to be Search-Engine Friendly [Rescheduled]

2013 (10)

11/05 - Nov. 18: Can We Delay Aging?
09/13 - [Canceled] Sept. 25: Reporting on Violence and Trauma
09/03 - Sept. 10: An Evening with the Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience
06/08 - June 24: Amble through the Ramble with SWINY
04/29 - May 21: The Making of Trade Science Books: Best Practices from a Distinguished Imprint
04/26 - May 6: Adventures in Science Writing: How to Build a Sustainable and Sane Science Writing Career
03/22 - April 11: Grab Your Reader! Writing Tactics That Hook and Hold Your Audience
02/13 - March 6: Pinterest — What could a science writer possibly do with it?
02/04 - Feb. 26: SWINY’s annual party: we’d love to see you!
01/09 - Jan. 15: Free screening of “Escape Fire” and discussion with director Matthew Heineman

2012 (12)

11/09 - Nov. 29: Scientific Studies: All You Need to Know—About What You’re Really Reading
10/02 - Oct. 18: Leveraging LinkedIn: An Inside Look at Working It for Job Leads, Assignments, Great Sources, Story Ideas, and Higher Visibility
10/01 - Oct. 11: The Science and Technology of Cornell NYC Tech
09/11 - Sept. 27: Angst: Origins of Anxiety and Depression
05/15 - Tuesday, May 29: An evening with Maggie Koerth-Baker, author of Before the Lights Go Out
05/08 - May 14: SWINY’s Spring Social at Windfall
03/29 - April 17: The Forever Fix: Gene Therapy and the Boy Who Saved It
02/02 - Feb. 29: Annual Party and Leap Day Celebration!
02/02 - 2012 Annual Party and Leap Day Celebration
01/31 - March 30: Bioethics Bootcamp: Finding the Must-Read Angle for Science and Medical Stories
01/19 - Jan. 31 and Feb. 1: Neuroscience Double Header with Max Planck Florida Institute
01/16 - January 26: Tasting the Universe: The Science and Impact of Expanded Sensory Wiring

2011 (10)

12/21 - January 10: Treating the Brain for Depression, Anxiety, and Chronic Pain—Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS), Deep Brain Stimulation and Beyond
11/17 - Dec. 7: Ancient Israel Reimagined: Applying modern science to Biblical narratives
09/20 - Oct. 4: From blog project to published book, with Blair Bolles
09/15 - September 26: BREAKING BAD: The uses — and misuses — of embargoes in science and medical publishing
06/02 - June 13: Social at Windfall Bar and Restaurant
05/12 - May 19: What Does the Latest Research Show about Diets?
04/19 - May 1: Join Pulitzer Prize Finalist Christopher Shinn for Play/Discussion on Using fMRI to Make Movies
04/15 - April 27: Author Dan Ferber speaks on Climate Change as a Health Crisis: Disease, Disasters, and a Path to Resilience
03/11 - March 21: How to Write Science That’s Literature
01/31 - Feb. 24: SWINY’s Legendary February Bash

2010 (12)

11/29 - Dec. 7: The Future of Play: Games are changing — and changing us
10/09 - Oct. 18: Fall Social at Windfall Bar and Restaurant
09/17 - Sept. 28: Epigenetics and Cancer: The Next Evolution in Cancer Therapeutics
07/28 - Aug. 11: Exclusive Tour of New York City’s Largest Green Roof
07/27 -
06/16 - June 28: Join Science Writers in New York for a discussion of the new DSM-5
06/07 - June 22: SWINY & AWIS Present A Window into Science/A Window into Book Authoring – A Conversation with Julie Des Jardins, Author of The Madame Curie Complex
05/25 - June 8: Spring Social at Windfall Bar and Restaurant
04/02 - April 26: Social Media in the Next Decade
02/26 - March 23: Talkin’ Trash: New trends in trash and recycling
02/02 - Feb. 24: 2010 Annual Winter Party, honoring Mary D. Leakey
01/26 - CANCELED: Feb. 10: Media tour at Brookhaven Lab with physicists from RHIC and a live feed from the LHC

2009 (13)

11/17 - Dec. 1: Goodbye Benchtop; Hello Laptop
10/28 - Nov. 19: Ethics in Hard Times: A panel discussion for science and health journalists and writers
10/23 - Nov. 5: Social at Windfall Bar and Restaurant
10/15 - Oct. 29: Land, Sea, Sky & The Science Writer: A Down-to-Earth Day at Lamont-Doherty
08/29 - Sept. 15: LUST, ROMANCE, ATTACHMENT—What brain scanning says about the drive to love (Rescheduled)
07/28 - Announcing SWINY Canoe Trip on the Bronx River!!
06/10 - June 24: The 2009 Swine Influenza: What Happened, What May Happen, and the Role of the Media
05/16 - POSTPONED: June 2: Lust, Romance, Attachment—What brain scanning says about the drive to love
05/01 - May 13: Me.com: Branding Yourself — and Your Outlet — in the Digital Age
04/21 - April 27: SWINY Social at Windfall Lounge, 6 to 9 p.m.
03/05 - March 18: Research and Science Parks
02/20 - March 12: Healthy Bones: Facts, Myths and the Science Behind It All
01/27 - Registration Closed for Social Media for Science Writers

2008 (12)

12/23 - Jan. 29: Social Media for Science Writers
11/25 - Dec. 9: Join us at Stitch NYC for an end-of-year social!
10/02 - Oct. 21: SWINY Fall Social at Stitch!
09/16 - Sept. 23: SWINY Career Night!
06/18 - Canceled: Brainstorm about COPUS before the SWINY summer social
06/17 - July 17: SWINY “Summer in the City” Social (New Date)
04/21 - May 13th: A SWINY Outdoor Event: Rainwater Harvesting (New Location)
04/16 - May 7th: Sue Halpern discusses new book on memory research at SIBL
03/27 - SWINY SPRING SOCIAL
03/09 - March 27th: Science News on Display
01/23 - Tuesday, January 22nd LIFE AND DEATH: BIOETHICS IN 2008
01/23 - SWINY Annual Party — February 4th

2007 (7)

11/06 - November 13th SWINY Social
07/08 - July 18: The Secret Life of Summer Blooms
04/28 - SWINY Social, May 8th
04/07 - SWINY Event: Autism Speaks, May 17
03/06 - Hands-on Crime Scene Investigation Event
02/26 - Robotic Surgery
02/21 - SWINY Gala was an Astronomical Event

2006 (8)

12/27 - SWINY to Host a Galileo Gala
12/13 - Past SWINY Event: NYPL Online
12/10 - Past SWINY Event: Writing Science for Kids
11/18 - SWINY EVENT: Free Library Resources
11/12 - Images from SWINY Oktoberfest
10/16 - SWINY and CUNY team up on an evening with chemist and playwright Carl Djerassi
09/25 - SWINY Oktoberfest
09/16 - Board Meets to Kick off Fall Event Season

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