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By Sheeva Azma Thanks to my membership in the National Association for Science Writers, I got a press pass to attend the 2024 AAAS annual meeting as a journalist (for FREE!) this past February. While I’ve already done a deep dive into the three branches of the US government, this AAAS session added a new dimension to my previous knowledge.

By Sheeva Azma If you subscribe to the Fancy Comma blog, you may know that I attended a two-day conference on scientific evidence and the courts which occurred in Washington, DC at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) on September 21 and 22, 2023. I tuned in virtually to watch seven sessions, which was all of the sessions on the first day of the conference, except the last one.

By Sheeva Azma I virtually attended the 2024 AAAS Conference and was lucky to get a press pass to attend as a journalist due to my membership in the National Association of Science Writers. I learned a lot that I am sharing in the 2024 AAAS annual meeting recap blogs here. I am a dedicated AAAS stan; you can read all of my writing about various AAAS seminars and meetings I’ve attended here.

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