Ashley D'Souza

News & Events - MIT Graduate Program in Science Writing Upcoming events and recents news regarding the Graduate Program in Science Writing, our faculty, students, and alumni.

Congratulations to our Class of 2026 Taylor / Blakeslee Fellowship winners! Alex Megerle, Ana Georgescu, and @ashleydsouza.bsky.social all scooped up awards this year. You can read about their wins here: sciwrite.mit.edu/news-events/

13.06.2025 13:24 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

🐋 so excited!

06.06.2025 16:45 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Weee that's me! So excited and grateful for this opportunity 🦉

29.05.2025 15:39 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

My latest! 🦆🤒

19.02.2025 19:25 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Unholy All plugged up with wood, I feel like a bastardized Pinocchio.

So grateful and joyful that my story found its home in The Margins! My first time publishing fiction. :) Thank you @aaww-nyc.bsky.social!

aaww.org/unholy/

10.02.2025 14:18 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Science journalism becomes plain old journalism "For too long, science journalism has been treated as something distinct, something <em>extra</em> — the domain of specialists writing for audiences who are already deeply interested in and informed…

“For too long, science journalism has been treated as something distinct, something extra — the domain of specialists writing for audiences who are already deeply interested in and informed about science. This is bad," writes @siricarpenter.bsky.social

12.12.2024 00:00 — 👍 28    🔁 7    💬 1    📌 1

Communities relearn the habits of local news "If you'd been elected to some local position in the past year, my call was probably your first time ever dealing with a journalist. That had never been true in my past jobs."

"If news outlets only rely on muscle memory and continue doing things exactly as they always did, they will not survive or thrive," @samjmintz.bsky.social writes. "But many of the basic rhythms are important to re-establish."

06.12.2024 17:02 — 👍 27    🔁 7    💬 1    📌 1

More photos from the scene by @ashleydsouza.bsky.social

08.12.2024 21:16 — 👍 4    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

I hung out with a garter snake in the sanctuary for 30 minutes while working on this story, but she did not say anything memorable for me to quote 🐍

06.12.2024 22:29 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It's turkey time! (My latest bird-related piece)

12.11.2024 15:21 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Two poems of mine were just published in "Journal IX: Urban Elegy" by Writers Without Margins. "Flowers" was inspired by a dream I had, and "Mass" was inspired by Alexis Pauline Gumbs's book, "Undrowned". 🐋

29.10.2024 14:13 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

one of my favorite stories I've worked on so far

29.10.2024 14:11 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0