Dear ASCers,

Nearly 150 communicators from 50 of Australia’s most important science institutions have already signed up for the ASC National Conference at ANU in Canberra from 7-10 February, or signalled their intention to do so. Why don’t you join them? We’ve extended the earlybird rate until Friday 22 January so you can.

For less than $500 ASC members can hear the top brass from our research providers—Warwick Anderson of the NHMRC, Margaret Sheil of the ARC, and Mike Whelan of the CSIRO—give their views on the challenge of science communication. Other participants at the conference include Craig Whitelaw from Google on social media; Alison Leigh of the World Congress of Science and Factual Producers on science documentaries; renowned cancer researcher David Vaux on bad science and Will Steffen from ANU’s Climate Change Institute on communicating climate change post-Copenhagen.

And for those who are not members, joining for less than $80 will entitle you to the membership rate.

Come and discuss the new National Science Communication Strategy. Take part in the third Hot Air Symposium on Communicating Climate Change. Expose yourself to the latest research in science communication. Explore social media and how it can be applied to science communication. Find out how the arts can be used to put science across.

And get to know your colleagues at functions at Questacon—the National Science and Technology Centre, and with SCINEMA, the Festival of Science Film.

Visit the ASC website now at www.asc.asn.au and register.

Tim Thwaites Conference Coordinator Australian Science Communicators

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