Tag: science journalists

  • Travel grants for Big Science Business Forum 2018

    The organisers of Europe’s first Big Science Business Forum 2018 (BSBF2018) invite journalists from Europe to apply for a media travel grant. The grants cover travel and accommodation up to 750 euro during BSBF2018.  The forum takes place in Copenhagen 26-28 February 2018. Deadline for applications is January 26. Nine of Europe’s largest Big Science organisations…

  • Study trip to Lund

    EUSJA has confirmed for its members the study trip to the European Spallation Source (ESS) from April 3 to 5. ESS is a multi-disciplinary research facility based on the world’s most powerful neutron source, now under construction in Lund, Sweden. ESS will enable unprecedented world leading research using neutrons, providing new scientific opportunities in a wide…

  • ABSW Awards 2018

    By Mico Tatalovic, Chairman of the ABSW “Science writing awards for work published or broadcast in the UK or Irish based media in 2017 open for entry on the 1st of January 2018. https://www.absw.org.uk/absw-awards/awards.html The Awards are for works of science, technology, engineering or mathematics (STEM) journalism/writing, in print, broadcast or online, published within the UK…

  • Alternative Facts Stop Here

    By Aisling Irwin,  science journalist, ABSW These days, scientists are dismayed at the devaluation of their principal currency: the fact. At the Falling Walls 2017 conference in Berlin last week they were making this very clear. Hundreds of delegates at the annual meeting of scientific luminaries posed in front of the splendid Brandenburg Gate holding…

  • Who’s afraid of science journalists? Portugal’s scientists step into journalists’ shoes

    By Vera Novais, Observador  The “Who’s afraid of journalists?” session at SciComPT2017 meeting, in Portugal, explored the tricky relationship between journalists, scientists and press officers by having them role play each other’s jobs What would happen if you put a scientist into a newsroom, and a journalist into a research lab? They might just have…