We’re looking for a science communicator to join our team at Science in Public for 3 to 6 months with an immediate start. We need someone who is organised, loves science and wants to help scientists get their work into the public space. Ideally you’ve got a couple of years professional work experience and can…
Tuesday 15 August 2017 Highlights from Day 4 of National Science Week 454 events and exhibitions, 21 online activities, and dozens of great stories and talent. National and international talent, researchers, experts, and other interesting people available for interview around the country. Plenty of photo opportunities.
New dating of ancient human teeth discovered in a Sumatran cave site suggests modern humans were in Southeast Asia 20,000 years earlier than previously thought. The international research led by Dr Kira Westaway from Macquarie University and published in Nature, has pushed back the timing of when humans first left Africa, their arrival in Southeast…
We’re looking for an experienced science communicator to join our team at Science in Public, someone: who has developed and delivered communication strategies and understands what it takes to make science news who loves science and loves working with scientists to get their work into the public space who knows who’s who and can list…
On Sunday 14 February for journalists at the 2016 AAAS, Washington DC Forty of the world’s leading science journalists will join me for a good dinner, Australian shiraz, and a briefing on some of the best of Australian science on Sunday 14 February 2016 during the AAAS Annual Meeting in Washington DC. Science in Public’s…
Re-training the brain with painless exercises may be the key to stopping recurring tendon pain, according to Melbourne researchers. AFL, basketball and netball players are the major sufferers, with tendon pain in the knee debilitating and long-lasting. The injury can sideline a player or cause them to give up the sport entirely. “More than 50…
Join us for a conversation with Geoff Carr, The Economist’s Science Editor, hosted by the University of Melbourne on behalf of the Parkville Precinct Communications Group, at a special viewing of the exhibition TRANSMISSIONS | Archiving HIV/AIDS | Melbourne 1979-2014. The exhibition showcases artworks, manuscripts, and other material from private collections and public archives explores…