This third Science Talks will focus on Understanding HIV/AIDS for accurate news reporting. Host speakers will be Dr. Malene Bras, Dr. Kenneth Mayer, and Dr. Annette Sohn from the International AIDS Society.
Saturday, September 1st will be kick-off day for The Kavli Prize Week in Oslo, Norway (1-6 September).
Follow the six-day events via the WFSJ’s Twitter account: @WFSJ – Hashtag: #KAVLIPRIZE
This years Kavli Prize Fellows, five science journalists from Colombia, China, Mexico, Australia/Japan and South Africa, will be participating in the award ceremony and the exciting six-day program. Some of the fellows will be taking over our Twitter account and will tweet live from the events.
The profiles of the five science journalists that will attend can be consulted here. Shorty after the Kavli Prize Week we will post on the WFSJ blog some of the journalists’ lived experiences.
Also follow the events through the Kavli Prize’s website, Facebook page, and Twitter account.
ABOUT KAVLI PRIZE WEEK
The Kavli Prize Week 2018 is a high-profile event honoring and recognizing this year’s laureates/scientists for their seminal advances in the research areas of Astrophysics: the origin, structure, and composition of the cosmos, Nanoscience: science at the atomic scale, and Neuroscience: science of the human brain. Discover the 2018 Kavli Prize Week’s program here.
During a one-day meeting at ESOF2018 in Toulouse on July 9th, 28 innovative science journalists and change makers in newsrooms from a total of 13 countries (10 European) gathered for the first edition of the European Kavli Symposium to discuss, explore and envision the future of science journalism in Europe.READ MORE
In her The Open Notebook feature, Aneri Pattani writes about the potential advantages and drawbacks of having a science degree as a science journalist. READ MORE
Inspired by the 2018 International Women’s Day theme #PressforProgress, at Taylor & Francis they took an unusual and involved approach to identify and present the 100 most downloaded research from the previous 5 years in our medicine, health, STEM, and social sciences journals, with a female lead author.READ MORE
The 7th Summer School for Environmental Journalism on Crete, Greece (20-29 July 2018) put the environmental movement into place as a global focus for science, journalism, and society. Learning and an academic exchange on a dream island. WFSJ board member, Wolfgang Chr. Goede, was invited to the Summer School as a lecturer. He reports on his experience.READ MORE