David Bradley Science Writer

Current

• Science Blogger at Sciencebase.com (Self-employed)
• David Bradley Science Writer at www.sciencebase.com (Self-employed)

Past

• Senior Assistant Editor at Royal Society of Chemistry

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David Bradley Science Writer’s Summary

I am a freelance science writer with almost 20 years experience. I have a strong background in chemistry and several years parallel experience in technical scientific editing. I write news and features on commission as well as other materials and have branched out in the last decade or so into blog and website creation. I have gained many useful insights into creating websites and blogs that get ranked highly by the search engines (so-called SEO, search engine optimisation) and if you're after a wordsmith with online media expertise do get in touch. I can help you avoid the main pitfalls when first setting up a site or boost your rankings by advising on SEO techniques and what you should and should not be doing to stay in Google's good books.

You can contact me through LinkedIn or better still on david.bradley [AT] gmail.com

You can read a more complete resume on my site at http://www.sciencebase.com/resume.html or search for David Bradley Science to find me elsewhere online.

David Bradley Science Writer’s Specialties:

Written science communication - various media: print, web, brochures, radio. Chemistry, science, astronomy, biology, particles, biomedicine, biotech, pharma, pharmaceuticals, medicinal chemistry, geology, earth sciences, cosmology, astrobiology, nanotechnology zoology, blogging, blogs, and bloggers, webtools, web 2.0, internet, social bookmarking, social networking, seo, sem, search engine optimization, search engine management

David Bradley Science Writer’s Experience

• Science Blogger

  Sciencebase.com (Self-employed)

  (Self-Employed; 1-10 employees; Writing and Editing industry)

  March 1999 — Present (9 years 3 months)

  Sciencebase.com emerged from an old chemistry news site I created on the Tallahassee Freenet system to alert readers to my ramblings in the Elemental Discoveries section of the younger chemists' magazine New Elements. Elemental Discoveries was started in 1996, so I kind of lay claim to have been blogging since May of that year, which is a decade longer than a I care to admit, strictly speaking. Sciencebase.com is now a fully fledged science portal with science news, views, interviews, a proper science blog with multiple categories, feeds, and open commenting to allow readers to make their thoughts known. Check it out, I am constantly updating the site, adding features and plugins to make it more Web 3.0 than before and currently it has 2500+ subscribers, which isn't bad for a one-man show, as far as I am concerned.

• David Bradley Science Writer

  www.sciencebase.com (Self-employed)

  (Self-Employed; Myself Only; Online Media industry)

  January 1989 — Present (19 years 5 months)

  I am a freelance science writer and editorial consultant. I produce several specialist science news webzines as well as contributing to the likes of Science, Nature, New Scientist etc.
  
  www.sciencebase.com is my science portal
  www.reactivereports.com is my chemistry news site
  www.spectrallines.com is a springboard to three spectroscopy related webzines - Resonants, Spectral Lines, X-factors
  www.psigate.ac.uk/spotlight is a general science news site I produce

• Senior Assistant Editor

  Royal Society of Chemistry

  (Non-Profit; 51-200 employees; Publishing industry)

  January 1989 — July 1996 (7 years 7 months)

  Technical editing responsibilities, including copy editing, putting together journal issues, assigning peer reviewers, representation at conferences, deputising in the absence of the editor. Worked on the full gamut of RSC chemistry journals at various times.

Additional Information

David Bradley Science Writer’s Websites:

• My Website
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• My Portfolio

David Bradley Science Writer’s Interests:

guitar (listening and playing), swimming (preferably in an ocean, somewhere warm and sunny), karate (a very recent addition to my activities still a colourless belt but I can shout Ki-Ai!!! with the best of them), singing (not just in the shower and yes occasionally in tune, with a new-ish troupe that has performed in public just twice so far) guitar (oh, yes, I already said, but guitar is my passion).

David Bradley Science Writer’s Groups:

Association of British Science Writers (ABSW), US National Association of Science Writers (NASW), Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), Fudoshin Karate Club

•    Science & Technology Media Professionals ™ member
•    "friendfeed" friends member

David Bradley Science Writer’s Honors:

Too many to list here. Actually, 3-4 but I'll have to go away and look up the years they were so long ago...

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