ScienceWriters2025 is a wrap! Thank you to the ~500 attendees that braved the shutdown and the weather to join us in Chicago for four jam-packed days of workshops, panels, tours, networking, and more. Between October’s virtual sessions and the November in-person convening, we are grateful to everyone for making ScienceWriters2025 part of your calendar. Whether it was your first time or your fifteenth, you are what make this community thrive.

Thank you to the funders, sponsors, and individual donors whose generous support allowed us to plan an independently hosted conference in six short months. Special thanks to our Platinum supporters whose early commitment gave us a foundation we could build on – we couldn’t have done it without you!

Thank you to all the volunteers and staff who worked fervently to offer top-notch sessions, virtual and in-person mentoring, and other programming to benefit our community. The NASW Programs and the CASW New Horizons committees, as well as the joint CASW-NASW ScienceWriters Steering Committee, are made up of volunteers with an unwavering commitment to building and fostering this welcoming professional community, with its diversity of members, viewpoints, and roles in the science journalism ecosystem. We look forward to bringing the same spirit next year to Oregon State University in Corvallis, and hope to see many of you there!