AHOY fellow conference goers I find myself suddenly available to attend the ASC meeting in Canberra. However, affordable accommodation escapes me. If anyone in Canberra has a spare bed they feel comfortable making available from Sunday until Wednesday, then I’d love to hear from you. Leanne McKnoulty (Brisbane) leannem@netspace.net.au
| 10 February 2010 | ||
| 6:30 pm | to | 9:30 pm |
The ASC ACT branch welcomes you to continue your conference conversations in style with a drink in the gardens of University House from 6:30pm…
If you’re from Canberra, it’s a great place to grab a beer, meet the local committee and tell us what events you’d like to see in 2010.
If you’re from out of town, it’s a great place to grab a bite to eat, say farewell to new friends and call a taxi. And if you were involved with conference organising, planning, speaking or volunteering, it’s a great place to grab a glass of champagne, put your feet up and celebrate.
In short, if you’re interested in anything to do with communicating and science, come along for a social drink.
University House is a short walk across campus – more info at http://www.anu.edu.au/unihouse – ACT members will be around to lead the way from CPAS, the new scienc-art hub.
Hi
I also have a couple of spots in a car leaving from Sydney Uni around lunchtime Sun, Returning Thursday morning arriving Sydney about 12.30.
Make a case in 20 words or fewer 🙂
Phil
On 2/2/10 4:53 PM, “William Rifkin” wrote:
> Carpooling to the ASC conference from Sydney? > > It is silly to drive / fly / crawl individually. > > I am planning to arrive in Canberra in late afternoon on Sunday and return on > Wednesday evening. > > There is one space in my car, or I am happy to pay for petrol for a ride in > someone else’s car. > > > If you would like a ride, make a case for being a ‘good passenger’ in 25 words > or fewer in reply to this listserv. > > We can use the ‘automaticity’ of social processes on the listserv to > coordinate. > > > Those who have spaces in their car can select their passengers. > > Passengers pay for the petrol. Driver brings the music. > > > > Will > > William D Rifkin, PhD > Director, Science Communication Program > Faculty of Science, BSB-BABS > UNSW, Sydney, NSW 2052 AUSTRALIA > > willrifkin@unsw.edu.au > +61 2 9385 2748 > +61 2 9385 1530 fax > > www.scom.unsw.edu.au > www.onset.unsw.edu.au > www.dayinscience.unsw.edu.au > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > ASC-list mailing list > list@asc.asn.au > http://www.asc.asn.au/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=97&Itemid=115
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Carpooling to the ASC conference from Sydney?
It is silly to drive / fly / crawl individually.
I am planning to arrive in Canberra in late afternoon on Sunday and return on Wednesday evening.
There is one space in my car, or I am happy to pay for petrol for a ride in someone else’s car.
If you would like a ride, make a case for being a ‘good passenger’ in 25 words or fewer in reply to this listserv.
We can use the ‘automaticity’ of social processes on the listserv to coordinate.
Those who have spaces in their car can select their passengers.
Passengers pay for the petrol. Driver brings the music.
Will
William D Rifkin, PhD Director, Science Communication Program Faculty of Science, BSB-BABS UNSW, Sydney, NSW 2052 AUSTRALIA
willrifkin@unsw.edu.au +61 2 9385 2748 +61 2 9385 1530 fax
www.scom.unsw.edu.au www.onset.unsw.edu.au www.dayinscience.unsw.edu.au
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The Diversity for Life campaign is pleased to announce the launch of a global photo contest on agricultural biodiversity.
Photographers may enter in either the professional or amateur category. The winning entries will be displayed at a prestigious exhibition in Rome during the Festival of Biodiversity in May 2010.
Deadline for submission is 16 April 2010. See the attached for the rules. http://diversityforlife.org/photo-contest/ http://diversityforlife.org/photo-contest/
Cathy Reade Coordinator – Public Awareness Crawford Fund Ph/Fax: 07 54483095 Mobile: 0413 575 934 www.crawfordfund.org
The Crawford Fund’s mission is to increase Australia’s engagement in international agricultural research, development and education for the benefit of developing countries and Australia.
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The CSIRO notice about their new release Open Science: Sharing Knowledge in the Global Century by Julian Cribb and Tjempaka Sari, is too good an opportunity to miss to remind ASC members attending the annual conference that a session on Tuesday, 9 Feb at 4.45pm will address this issue.
The session is titled “Can Science Communication Save the World – The Barriers to Open Science” – sign up now on the conference ning site!
The world faces acute challenges including climate change, poverty, ill-health, pollution and food insecu-rity. If science is coming up with the solutions, can science communication save the world? A vast gap has opened between the creation and the sharing of knowl-edge. Deliber-ately or unintentionally, barriers have arisen between science and its adoption and use by the people. What are these barriers, how can they be overcome or eliminated, and what is the science communicator doing wrong and right? As science communication professionals, learn about and share examples of how to open up science to those who most need it.
Panel members are:
JULIAN CRIBB, author, journalist, editor and science communicator. He currently provides specialist consultation in the communication of science, agriculture, mining, energy and the environment. His career includes appointments as newspaper editor, scientific editor, science correspondent, director of public affairs, member of numerous boards and advisory panels, and president of national professional bodies for agricultural journalism and science communication. Julian will provide an overview of the key issues and challenges in making science open to the public.
MICHAEL MOORE, the CEO of the Public Health Association of Australia, who will raise some issues in health/medical communication – getting the message out to the public on health issues. Michael is a former Minister of Health and Community Care and was an Independent member of the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly for four terms from 1989 to 2001. He was the first Australian Independent Member to be appointed as a Minister to a Government Executive. Michael holds a post-graduate diploma in education, a master’s degree in population health, is an adjunct professor with the University of Canberra and is widely published. He is also a political and social columnist who has served on a range of Boards including the Australian Health Care Reform Alliance and the Institute of Public Administration.
ELSKE VAN DE FLIERT, Co-director and Principal Research Fellow at the Centre for Communication and Social Change, School of Journalism and Communication, The University of Queensland who works between and with scientists/researchers and farmers in the developing world and Australia, and will focus on barriers to getting the results of agricultural research for food security to farmers, as well as barriers to having farmers involved in research.
If your work touches on any of the key challenges facing the planet, then come along and learn how to get your message out.
Hope to see lots of you there!
Cathy Reade Coordinator – Public Awareness Crawford Fund Ph/Fax: 07 54483095 Mobile: 0413 575 934 www.crawfordfund.org
The Crawford Fund’s mission is to increase Australia’s engagement in international agricultural research, development and education for the benefit of developing countries and Australia.
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From: asc-media-bounces@lists.asc.asn.au [mailto:asc-media-bounces@lists.asc.asn.au] On Behalf Of Melinda.Chandler@csiro.au Sent: Tuesday, 2 February 2010 9:13 AM To: asc-media@lists.asc.asn.au Subject: [ASC-media] New science communication title from CSIRO PUBLISHING
CSIRO PUBLISHING is pleased to announce the release of Open Science: Sharing Knowledge in the Global Century by Julian Cribb and Tjempaka Sari. This book can be ordered online (http://www.publish.csiro.au/nid/21/pid/6195.htm) or call our Customer Service Department on 1300 788 000.
Open Science: Sharing Knowledge in the Global Century Authors: Julian Cribb & Tjempaka Sari Published: February 2010 by CSIRO PUBLISHING 232pp – Paperback – 9780643097636 – $39.95
Offers practical ways to communicate science in a highly networked world where billions of people still have little or no access to advanced knowledge or technologies. The authors describe low-cost, effective means to transfer knowledge to target audiences in industry, government, the community and to the public at large.
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Join Chris Darwin and National Geographic’s Genographic team to celebrate Darwin’s 201st birthday, and hear of plans for this year – the UN International Year of Biodiversity.
I’m writing to invite you to one of two receptions marking the conclusion of Evolution the Festival – the year-long celebration of Charles Darwin and evolution.
The first is at the Australian Museum in Sydney this Thursday 4 February from 5 to 6 pm – details below. Please RSVP by Tuesday 2 February.
And pencil in 24 February for a Melbourne reception coinciding with tall ship Stad Amsterdam’s visit as part of the recreation of the voyage of the Beagle. More details nearer the time.
We will be issuing a final bulletin of Darwin-related events next week so please also let us know of any activities your organisation has planned for the next two months.
Please also let us know about events you’ve been involved in. We will be reporting back to Minister Carr on the breadth and depth of activities held across Australia and hope to demonstrate to him the benefits of investing in collaborations such as the Evolution Festival.
Niall Byrne for Phil Batterham and Evolution the Festival
Celebrating the Evolution Festival and Darwin’s 201st birthday
5-6 pm, Thursday 4 February, Australian Museum, corner of College & William Street (enter via William Street Business Entrance)
In the Surviving Australia Gallery
With:
* Chris Darwin: great great grandson of Charles Darwin
* Spencer Wells: Explorer-in-Residence and Director, The Genographic Project, National Geographic Society, and the principal investigators from around the world
* Phil Batterham: Director, Evolution the Festival
* Michael Harvey: Head of Exhibitions, Australian Museum
Hear about research into our deep ancestry, Chris Darwin’s DNA revealed, and find out how you can be involved in the UN International Year of Biodiversity. Refreshments provided.
RSVP by Tuesday 2 February to Niall Byrne, 03 9398 1416, 0417 131 977 or niall@scienceinpublic.com.au
Parking available for $12 – instructions at http://www.australianmuseum.net.au/Visitors-with-disabilities
Beagle Project comes to Australia: a tall ship recreates the voyage of the Beagle
Clipper Stad Amsterdam, a three-mast tall ship, will be visiting Australia during February and March as part of the global Beagle project.
The Beagle project is a year-long voyage with an international crew of scientists, philosophers, historians, artists and biographers crossing the oceans of the world, from Brazil to Patagonia, and from the Andes mountain range to the Galapagos Islands. Stad Amsterdam will sail the Pacific Ocean to Australia and pass through the Cape of Good Hope.
The Clipper will function as a sailing laboratory and a thermometer for the planet. Fossil hunters, DNA researchers, geologists, oceanographers and other scientists will conduct in-depth research along the route to evaluate the earth’s current condition.
Stad Amsterdam is visiting Australia:
* Sydney: 11-16 Feb, Overseas Passenger Terminal Melbourne
* Melbourne: 23-26 Feb, Workshops Pier, Williamstown
* Adelaide: 1 Mar – port dates & berth to be confirmed
* Perth: 14 Mar – port dates & berth to be confirmed.
Darwin’s pitbull
Richard Dawkins is visiting Australia in March. He’s speaking on:
* Thursday, 4 March in Brisbane – https://www.qtix.com.au/show/Richard_Dawkins_10.aspx (SOLD OUT)
* Friday 5 March at 7pm at the Melbourne Town Hall (with Robyn Williams). The session kicks off the literary year for the Melbourne Writer’s Festival – http://www.mwf.com.au/2010/content/mwf_2009_home.asp (SOLD OUT)
* The 2010 Global Atheist Convention in Melbourne on 12-14 March – http://www.atheistconvention.org.au/
* Sydney Opera House, Sunday 7 March for the Sydney Writers Festival – http://www.sydneyoperahouse.com/whatson/richard_dawkins.aspx
* Adelaide Writers Week – details to be announced – http://www.adelaidefestival.com.au/servlet/Web?s=2290869&p=AF_Events_Wri ters
Richard Dawkins is an evolutionary biologist, author and outspoken atheist. He was named as one of TIME Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in 2007. In his latest book, The Greatest Show on Earth, he takes on the creationists and all those who question evolution through natural selection.
Ongoing exhibitions
* Darwin to DNA at the Melbourne Museum http://museumvictoria.com.au/darwin-to-dna explores the discovery of evolution by Darwin and his contemporary Alfred Russel Wallace including specimens they collected. It then takes you further into the genetic mechanisms of DNA, and how we can use DNA to examine questions about evolution. Until 23 December 2010.
* Crocodiles and their kind are an evolutionary success story-they have been around for the past 200 million years. See one of the largest crocodilians that ever existed in Supercrocodilians-Darwin’s ultimate survival story at the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory http://www.nt.gov.au/nreta/museums/exhibitions/current.html , Darwin, extended until February 2011.
The Festival team acknowledge the support of our major sponsors, the Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research, the State Government of Victoria and the University of Melbourne. We are also supported by Museum Victoria, New Scientist, the City of Melbourne and Cosmos.
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Hi All,
I’m teaching a one day course at the WEA in Sydney, “Science All Around Us” – see http://www.weasydney.com.au/index.php?action=course&course_action=list&cat=CULTURE+AND+SOCIETY&subcat=SCIENCE
and http://www.weasydney.com.au/doc/course_outline/01WK057.pdf
A lot of people on this list might know a lot of that material already, of course. However, it would be great if you could point it out to others who might be interested.
I’ll be performing at Kings Cross poets on Saturday the 20th – see kxboheme.com. Some of my performance work does include elements from science !
Also, I’ve stumbled over a quite interesting Climate Change site – by an enlightened farmer, who says ” Biofuels, soil humus and nuclear energy can end global warming”.
This is a quite interesting synthesis, include nuclear energy within its prescription – but also generating soil to absorb CO2 – as compared to watching it get blown away in those dust storms every decade or so.
See :
http://www.yeomansconcepts.com.au/index.htm
Regards,
Senior Science Communication Coordinator (Full time, permanent – Brisbane)
Join our dynamic communication team at the Queensland Institute of Medical (QIMR) research – one of Australia’s largest and most successful medical research institutes. If you are interested in science and have a passion for communicating effectively to a range of audiences then this job is for you.
We are seeking an effective, enthusiastic science communicator with a degree (or equivalent) in science communication or a related field, ideally with relevant qualifications and/or experience in a science discipline.
You will work closely with scientists and the External Relations team to develop and manage our website and intranet, produce a range of communication material, and assist in the organisation and execution of QIMR’s public events.
Your excellent and innovative web skills will set you apart for this position. Previous experience in maintaining complex websites and implementing improvements to increase usage is essential. This busy role will demand excellent organisational skills, the ability to work autonomously, prioritise and meet tight deadlines. As a professional communicator, your written communication skills and ability to produce materials for a range of audiences will be exceptional.
Attractive salary packaging and superannuation options apply. This is a full-time permanent appointment.
For more information, contact Sarah Tennant on (07) 3362 0291 or sarah.tennant@qimr.edu.au .
To apply, go to www.qimr.edu.au/employ http://www.qimr.edu.au/employ . Your application should quote reference # 03/10 and address the selection criteria. Applications close 12 February 2010.
Queensland Institute of Medical Research
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Science Communication Manager
300 Herston Road, Herston QLD, 4006
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