Do you know any exceptional early career researchers with peer reviewed papers and potential to be a media star?

If so, consider nominating them for Fresh Science – a competition where we train them and throw them to the media lions – generating hundreds of stories.

More info on that below, and also:

• Put your science in front of pollies and journos
• 30 travel grants to Europe for PhD students via EMBL Australia
• Never miss a prize deadline – check our science prize calendar
• Forever young – growing old gracefully with science
• ‘The Sound of Breaking Glass’ – women in science news
• Women in Science Parliamentary Friendship Group
• Media training for scientists – Melbourne, Sydney (and maybe Adelaide)

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Applications for the L’Oréal For Women In Science Fellowships will open on 1 April 2012.

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Welcome back – this is my first 2012 bulletin for journalists interested in science.

• Australians are risking skin cancer to avoid nanoparticles
• No word on the $2 billion Square Kilometre Array yet
• Let us know if you’re heading to Vancouver for the AAAS conference
• Tasmanian-born nuclear physicist Allan Clark is home from the Large Hadron Collider
• TB – the threat to Australia and our region –  World TB Day on 24 March
• It’s not too late to register for the 2012 Australian Science Communicators National Conference in Sydney – 27-29 February
• Saving maths

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What we see in the night sky is only five per cent of the Universe. So what’s the other 95 per cent of the Universe made of – a young physicist has the answers across Tasmania this week.

One of Australia’s leading young physicists will reveal the dark secrets of the Universe in Tasmania this week with a series of school and public talks in Burnie, Launceston, Devonport and Hobart.

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