My March story for @forbes has just gone live. It's all about pedestrian crossings and how the timings they're based on no longer match the demographics of our cities - research from the University of Bath

https://www.forbes.com/sites/lauriewinkless/2026/03/05/fewer-than-2-of-older-pedestrians-can-cross-the-street-in-time/

#science #sciencejournalist #scicomm

Hey #scienceJournalist, trying to pitch something obscure? *TON* might have some advice for you, like: "When pitching tough subject matter, the quality of your writing plays an especially important role. 'If you can really write beautiful, thoughtful, smart prose, that will absolutely make you stand out from the crowd'"

https://www.theopennotebook.com/2025/11/25/isotopes-archaea-and-cold-water-physics-how-to-sell-obscure-science-stories-to-editors-and-readers

#pitch

My latest article for @forbes is about two new studies on urban light pollution (and one is a citizen science project)

https://www.forbes.com/sites/lauriewinkless/2025/07/23/street-lamps-arent-the-main-source-of-light-pollution-in-cities/

#science #scicomm #sciencejournalist #citizenscience

Deep, chewy, rich, digestible. A cracking good job by #ScienceJournalist Zack Savitsky.

''But the implications go beyond just building better superconductors. A theory that explains strange metals may force a fundamental rethinking of how electricity works in all materials. It might subsume the standard theory the way general relativity, with its curved spacetime, subsumed Isaac Newton’s theory of gravity—and prove just as unsettling. Strange metals are forcing physicists to ask whether the very idea of an electron, or any particle for that matter, is an oversimplification of what’s really going on. “The violation of the standard theory of solids in these strange metals is so dramatic—it’s in your face,” says Qimiao Si, a physicist at Rice University who collaborates with Paschen. “There’s no question there’s new physics.”''

#StrangeMetals
#conductivity
#electrons
#CondensedMatterPhysics

https://www.science.org/content/article/strange-metals-point-whole-new-way-understand-electricity

My April article for @forbes has a distinctly NZ flavour. It's about a new study that uses satellite radar imagery to measure land movement in NZ's coastal cities - the bad news is, in many places, it is sinking. I spoke to the lead author of the study https://www.forbes.com/sites/lauriewinkless/2025/04/16/new-zealands-major-cities-are-sinking/

#subsidence #nz #engineering #cities #scicomm #sciencejournalist

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[2023-12-07 10:59 UTC]

I am new here, so I start with an #introduction.

I am a #sciencejournalist for the Swiss weekly #NZZaS. Until recently I was also president of the Swiss Association of Science Journalism (#SASJ).

I studied history and philosophy of science and later also biology.

As a journalist, I mainly cover biological topics such as #evolution or #infectiousdiseases, but I also write about the business of #scientificpublishing, the #historyofscience, and #interdisciplinary research approaches.