Would you like to better understand how people get social media followers using fake news and misinformation?

Pretend to be a faker and play at Bad News, a simulation game.
https://www.getbadnews.com/en#intro

Job Offer - Italian language only

Avviso pubblico per assunzione/i a tempo determinato presso l'Istituto Romagnolo per lo studio dei tumori di Meldola (FC) con Qualifica dirigente “Fascia C” per la posizione di Dissemination Manager

Scadenza domanda 09.09.22

https://www.irst.emr.it/it/avvisi-pubblici-per-tempi-determinati/avviso-pubblico-per-dirig-area-tecnostruttura-ias-c-dissemination-manager

Do you want to know what our alumni are working on?
Here's a science comics project with the collaboration of our alumnus Roberto Lei (class 2019-2020)

https://www.museogemma.unimore.it/2022/08/28/confini-limiti-mobili-in-una-realta-che-muta-2/

Climate Tracker, in partnership with Open Society Foundations, is offering its Caribbean Climate Justice Journalism Fellowship to Caribbean climate journalists, storytellers and communicators.

Selected fellows will learn from a range of environmental, storytelling, and journalism experts, while practically applying their learning in articles aimed at sharing the national and regional climate justice debates, with the primary intention and focus on publishing powerful stories on climate justice.

Fellows will receive a monthly stipend.
Applicants must be between the ages of 18 to 35.

The application deadline is Sept. 23.
https://climatetracker.org/caribbean-climate-justice-journalism-fellowship-now-open-1/

Job offer
We the curios - Bristol science Museum (UK)
Contract: 12 Month Fixed Term
Working hours: Part time, 30 hours a week

Duties:
_developing, coordinating and occasionally presenting Planetarium shows
_ creating content for our Curious Stuff website pages and YouTube channel
_delivering activities around the Big Screen on Millennium Square

https://wethecurious.peoplehr.net/Pages/JobBoard/Opening.aspx?v=a0c2c013-9e85-4b13-a6ec-7d8d8242cf07

Closing date for applications: 3 October, midnight

The Scientist offers three full-time internships each year (on site and/or remote) . The position pays $2,500/month and typically lasts for four months.

Deadlines:
🌈Spring: December 1st (internship runs approximately February – June)
🌞Summer: April 1st (internship runs approximately June – October)
❄️Winter: August 1st (internship runs approximately October – February)

How to apply:
https://www.the-scientist.com/freelance#1

Congratulations to our alumna Giulia Fredi.
She is one of the winner of the 14th edition of the 2022 #EniAward.
Known internationally as the “Nobel Prize for Energy”, the Eni Awards are a global reference point for research in the fields of energy.
Giulia has been awarded during an official ceremony at the Quirinale in the presence of the President of the Italian Republic Sergio Mattarella.

PCST Venice Symposium on the theme
Science communication education and training. Challenges and strategies for research and academic institutions.
September 28-30, 2023

Early bird registrations are open, along with a Call for Presentations to collect good practices and experiences on scicomm education and training to be presented and shared at the Symposium.
Deadline for proposals: 15 January 2023.

Further information enclosed and available at http://www.univiu.org/pcst-venice-2023
You can also contact pcstvenice@univiu.org

The Munich Center for Machine Learning (MCML) - a joint research initiative of LMU and TUM has a full-time Science Communication Coordinator position open. You can find more information here: Science Communication Coordinator (m/w/d) | Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München |https://job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/f2721ab20d7ac6c03378787be23da85813fcdffb0?ref=homepage

Also, the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society (RCC) and the Munich Science Communication Lab (MSCL) are looking for a Doctoral Candidate in Environmental Humanities (TVL E13, 65%) to join its team. More information here: PhD in Environmental Humanities: One Open Position - Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society - LMU Munich https://www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/about_rcc/jobs/env_hum_doctoral/index.html

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Hello, there’s a trainee job opportunity at EMBL Grenoble, sharing the link here: https://www.embl.org/jobs/position/GR00198

Hello everyone! SciCommBites are looking for early-career scicommers: Get paid to write about #scicomm research (#sciscicomm), develop your writing portfolio, and connect with researchers and practitioners around the world. Applications are due Dec 2.
Check out below ⬇️
https://twitter.com/scicommbites/status/1595436479907495936?t=OL3Bc06a3PxkaDlqpH5-ww&s=35

A wide range of perspectives to be more impactful in the way we communicate climate change
https://open.spotify.com/show/7daccEuEs6JkjXktYjzXwE

Free online workshop on evaluation, sustainability and making a case for the value of engagement.

🔹you can explore key skills such as how to design evaluation questions and unpick the ethics of your evaluation practice.
🔹You will hear from speakers, who have developed sustainable engagement practice and partnerships, on their experiences and the tools they have found most useful.
🔹 you will focus on how to advocate for the value of engagement, with sessions on how to write engagement into funding applications, evidencing impact through narrative case studies, and the role of engagement in creating impact through research.

https://www.publicengagement.ac.uk/whats-new/events/environmental-engagement-practice-evaluation-sustainability-and-making-case

"Dancing means being hungry or having an eating disorder. Anyways, the relationship with food is so complicated"
Jadranka Jezeršek Turnes

🆕 story from SciComm master storytelling lab

🖥 Zoom webinar
15 dec. 2022 - 2:00 p.m. London time
How publishers are learning to create and distribute news on TikTok

Nic Newman, Senior Research Associate and consultant on digital media, discusses findings from his recent Reuters Institute report on adoption of TikTok among news publishers, how they and independent journalists are using the platform to reach younger audiences, and how the platform could better support trusted journalism.

https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_NQrRcyU1T9KjKwY7vkgEgw

EURAXESS brought together global contributions on the theme of public engagement, science communication and researcher mobility. Attendees came from far and wide, including South Africa, Israel and Kazakhstan.

Recording is now available here: :http://mp.streamamg.com/tiny/p6l2w.

In the webinar we considered:

The international perspective and global researcher mobility – can doing more public engagement and science communication broaden your perspective and experiences?
Recent developments – what is on offer regarding resources, new opportunities and support?
Personal perspective – has engaging in science communication and public engagement with science helped researchers’ skills and career development, or changed their perspective?

The new Horizon2020 ITN HIDDeN ("Hunting Invisibles: Dark sectors, Dark matter and Neutrinos" ) is offering now a full-time position in Science Communication and Outreach for 23 months at Università di Bologna (UNIBO).

Starting date (flexible) Feb-Marc 2023
Salary range: € 40,966 – € 51,166 per year

Responsibilities:
🔹Support and develop outreach activities within UNIBO’s Department of Physics and Astronomy, which benefit the local community.
Liaise with University and funder communication teams for media coverage and press relations.

🔹Develop a promotional Material for primary school teachers, videogame on neutrinos and dark matter video for prospective students and researchers

🔹Possibility for outreach and educational research if the candidate demonstrates interest in these directions.

The deadline for applications is January 15th 2023.
All applications must be sent through the web page https://hiddeneu.eu/