Month: November 2015

  • Ein Sommer voll Wissenschaft

    By Senne Starckx, Belgian science journalist Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting and the Heidelberg Laureate Forum, summer doesn’t equal with relaxing on the beach or hiking in the mountains. Since a couple of years I always try to have some blank space in my agenda in the last week of June and the first week of…

  • New Unity Found in a Rough Environment

    New Unity Found in a Rough Environment

    2nd European Conference of Science Journalists Budapest 2015: a 1st prelimary synopsis and evaluation. The 2nd European Conference for Science Journalists ECSJ, held on the 3rd of November 2015 in the Hungarian Academy of Science, was a powerful showing of a revitalized and reunited European science journalism. Here come highlights of five panels*, at the end…

  • Figures which blow your mind

    Figures which blow your mind

    Atto, Femto, Tera, Peta, Exa – welcome to understand your body and the universe! An EUSJA study trip to the heart of science make neurons rock. 40 000 Petabyte Storage Power “The twentieth century was made in Budapest.” This was observed by Nature in 2001. Not only the prestigious Academy of Science, inside and outside a temple…

  • EUSJA is opening up a position for a team to coordinate its Nucleus network

    EUSJA is opening up a position for a team to coordinate its Nucleus network

    Nucleus is a 4-year EU Horizon2020 project that started on 1.9.2015. In this project EUSJA has a special task of science journalism ethics and developing a digital toolbox about ethics, especially regarding questions about responsibilities in science and innovation, i.e. emerging technologies, innovation hype, cherry picking of scientific evidence, etc. The network will be open…