<div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Julia Wilson (Sense About Science)</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jwilson@senseaboutscience.org">jwilson@senseaboutscience.org</a>></span><br>
<br></div><div class="gmail_quote">This is a reminder that the deadline for
registration for this event is approaching! Sense About Science and Elsevier
are holding a discussion session on science and the media for early career
researchers in all sciences, engineering and medicine (PhD students, post-docs
or equivalent in first job) at the MIT Museum in connection with the Cambridge
Science Festival .<br><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">The session is free to attend with a drinks
reception following it but registration is required as there are limited
places. It would be great if you could send this reminder around to your early
career researchers and encourage them to apply.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Many thanks</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Julia </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-variant:small-caps">REMINDER: DEADLINE FOR REGISTRATION APPROACHING!</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-variant:small-caps;color:#7030A0">How do journalists approach stories? Balance the need for news
and entertainment with reporting science? What happens when research
announcements go wrong; statistics are manipulated; risk factors are distorted;
or discussions become polarised</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-variant:small-caps;color:black">Standing up for Science</span></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black">: </span><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-variant:small-caps;color:black">A discussion on Science and the Media</span></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span lang="EN-GB">Held
by Sense About Science and Elsevier </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span lang="EN-GB">at
the MIT Museum (265 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge,</span></p>
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02139)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span lang="EN-GB">Monday
26<sup>th</sup> April 5.30 – 7.30pm</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-variant:small-caps;color:black"> </span><span lang="EN-GB">Followed by a drinks reception</span>.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Places
are limited so please register by emailing Julia Wilson on <a href="mailto:jwilson@senseaboutscience.org" target="_blank">jwilson@senseaboutscience.org</a></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span lang="EN-GB">by
Tuesday 20th April 2010.</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-variant:small-caps;color:#7030A0">S</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#7030A0">peakers: </span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Science and the media:<span> </span></span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Dr
Christophe Reddy, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">What journalists are looking for?</span></b><span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black"> </span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Journalist tbc</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">The role of journals in science
news:<span> </span></span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Dr Orla Smith, Editor of Cell’s Leading Edge</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Standing up for Science the nuts and
bolts:<span> </span></span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Alice Tuff, Development Manager, Sense About Science.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black"></span></p>
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