Our spring AGM seems a distant memory, but as summer turns to autumn we are pleased to mail out the first Stempra newsletter from your new(ish) committee. Thank you for bearing with us as we got going, I hope you enjoy this update. After, slightly belatedly, introducing the new committee, we’ve included a round up [...]
Sci Comm news
Stempra Press Officer Training Event, 10 March 2011 A new event held jointly with the Science Media Centre, and as a direct result of the Science and the Media Report chaired by Fiona Fox, the Stempra Press Officer Training Event was held in March at The Royal Institution in London. The aim was to give [...]
New Committee and AGM report
Welcome to the Stempra newsletter! This is the first newsletter since the new committee was elected at the AGM, so we thought it would be a good idea to remind everyone of who we are (with some selected highlights of the circulated biographies) and the new positions we’ve taken on. New chair (2 year term): [...]
EVENT REPORT: Summer Drinks in Scotland
Back in July we organised Stempra summer drinks in Edinburgh. Fantastic weather meant that we were able to spend the evening on the rooftop terrace with our sunglasses! Interesting discussions ranged from badger culling to how to get rid of Google cache memory, so you don’t get targeted by advertisements tailored to your browsing history. [...]
Twitter – a black hole for time OR a great tool for engaging?
In early July over 30 Stempra members, new and old, gathered at Charles Darwin House to discuss the usefulness or otherwise of Twitter and other social media. The evening began with thoughts from Brian Owens, Assistant News Editor and tweeter at Nature; Jo Brodie, a sci commer who has been tweeting for three years and [...]
Working with journals
Many of us promote research as it is published, and this means trying to find publication dates from a range of journal titles. We know why we want this information, and we know the common complaints, but many of us are unaware of what it’s like on the ‘inside’. At this year’s British Science Association [...]
The Silly Season
We asked each other and our colleagues what the biggest silly season stories we’d been involved with were… Paul Thorne trumped everyone by revealing that he once had a tug of war in front of Westminster, whilst dressed as a piece of pizza. Naturally, he describes it as a “hard hitting piece of public relations [...]