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Emily Willingham

Freelance journalist
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Graduation Year: 2022 (Project Year)
Bio: Emily Willingham is a science writer and author of The Tailored Brain: From Ketamine to Keto, to Companionship, a User’s Guide to Feeling Better and Thinking Smarter (Basic 2021) and of Phallacy: Life Lessons from the Animal Penis (Avery, 2020). She is a regular contributor to Scientific American.
Location: San Francisco Bay Area
Career: Freelance journalist
Website: http://www.emilywillinghamphd.com/

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by Knight Science Journalism / April 6th 2026 / KSJ News & Events

Knight Science Journalism at MIT Announces 2026-27 Fellowship Class

An elite group of science journalists from around the globe will join KSJ at MIT this August to embark on a year of research and study.

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by Jamie Jiang / April 3rd 2026 / Fellowship Life

Stephen Robert Miller, On the Careful Work of Reporting on Disasters

In “Over the Seawall,” the environmental reporter and current KSJ Fellow interrogated the human desire for simple solutions.

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