Cocktails in UTS’s new Great Hall? Café Scientific in a pub? Book Launch event of The Genome Generation? Pre-conference drinks with sci-comm up-and-comings?
Yes to all! The conference social calendar is now in place and we even offer a choice on the Tuesday evening.
First off is a relaxed pre-conference get-together at the Belgian Beer Café in [...]
Brought to you by The Tall Poppy Campaign and Teach for Australia:
Event: Teach for Australia – Innovative pathways for outstanding science graduates
Monday 20 February, 2012
Royal Society Room at the SA Museum, North Terrace
12:30pm – 1:30pm (Lunch Included)
Speakers: Adam Buxton, Teach for Australia
Tessa Mudge, Alumni and Associate at Teach for Australia
Places are strictly limited and priority [...]
Thanks to Pete Wheeler, UWA for sending in this article:
Thanks to a new initiative called theSkyNet, you don’t need a supercomputer to help collect data for the next generation of radio telescopes.
This ambitious citizen science project uses a global network of privately owned computers to process astronomical data arriving from galaxies, stars and other distant [...]
The Federal Government’s Unlocking Australia’s Potential grants are about inspiring people with science.
$5 million is available across three categories for projects delivered over the next three years.
Projects will represent a national mix of activities involving a variety of audiences, geographic locations and scientific topics. The grants round aims to inspire a program that focuses on priorities such [...]
From Alison Leigh:
I didn’t grow up dreaming that one day I would be …. the Editorial Director of the World Congress of Science Producers. No such thing existed. Now it does and like the best things in life – it evolved.
I emigrated to Sydney from the UK in 1988 – bicentennial year; fully expecting my [...]
[ 27 February 2012 to 29 February 2012. ] On the web, your colleague in the office down the hall is as close as the one from the other end of the continent – but wouldn’t it be nice to catch up with all of them in more than 140 characters? In person and in one place? To chat about what they’ve been up [...]
If you're attending #asc2012 add yourself to our lanyrd conference page (using twitter) & see your fellow attendees http://t.co/NQ6TRlba #
Ditto Mathieu. MT @matisidro: @auscicomm Hi ASC, I'm a Fr-Aussie currently working in science outreach at ESO in Europe. Pls'd to follow you #
If you're attending #asc2012 add yourself to the lanyrd conference page (using twitter) [...]
If you're attending #asc2012 add yourself to our lanyrd conference page (using twitter) & see your fellow attendees http://t.co/NQ6TRlba #
Ditto Mathieu. MT @matisidro: @auscicomm Hi ASC, I'm a Fr-Aussie currently working in science outreach at ESO in Europe. Pls'd to follow you #
If you're attending #asc2012 add yourself to the lanyrd conference page (using twitter) [...]
[ 27 February 2012 to 29 February 2012. ] Computer games can be a powerful form of media, not only in school teaching, but also to engage the general public in science. In a session at the Australian Science Communicators’ National Conference, ASC2012, a panel of experienced game designers and educators will explore and explain how this is done. Among the speakers at this [...]
I thought this was an interesting read. I didn’t, however, agree with the comment that articles on the Conversation are boring. Anyway the thrust of this post is there appears to be an ongoing online debate about how science should be communicated by journalists and vice versa. In many of these articles there are a [...]