Ann Finkbeiner is a science writer who has contributed to various publications including Scientific American, Nature, Science, Hakai Magazine, Quanta Magazine, Discover, Sky & Telescope, and Astronomy.
Finkbeiner test
The
Finkbeiner test is named after her. The test is a checklist to help science journalists avoid gender bias in articles about women in science.
Finkbeiner is an English major,
and for 20 years taught and directed a graduate science-writing program at Johns Hopkins University in
Baltimore,
Maryland.
Career
Finkbeiner has written columns for
USA Today and
Defense Technology International (now defunct) and her book reviews have appeared in
The Wall Street Journal,
The New York Times, and
Nature.
Finkbeiner is a co-proprietor of the science blog The Last Word on Nothing.
Books
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After the Death of a Child.
Articles
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Ann Finkbeiner, "Orbital Aggression: How do we prevent war in space?", Scientific American, vol. 323, no. 5 (November 2020), pp. 50–57.
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