International Natural Product Sciences Taskforce (INPST) 2018 Science Communication Award

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According to International Natural Product Sciences Taskforce (INPST)

Rules for participation

1. The INPST 2018 Science Communication Award will be given in Gold (2000 USD), Silver (1000 USD), and Bronze (500 USD) to the authors of the three best blog posts that will be published on the INPST website in 2018.

 

2. Each blog post for participation in the INPST 2018 Science Communication Award needs to have a minimum of 1000 words and at least one image (photo, scheme, or other graphical representation), and needs to be send as a Word file to marc.diederich@me.com (the submission deadline is December 31, 2018). Example of the needed submission format can be viewed here.

 

3. The submitted blog posts need to be focused on a life sciences-related topic, and to be written in easily understandable (layman’s) terms. Participation with more than one blog posts is allowed. Blogs with more than one authors are allowed (if a blog post with several authors is the winner, the award will be divided to equal parts among the participating authors). Example of a published blog can be viewed here.

 

4. The winners will be selected based on the quality of the writing and on the provoked public interest (e.g., reflected in parameters such as the number of page views and the number of sharing on the social media). The winners will be announced in March 2019.

 

5. Why participating in the INPST 2018 Science Communication Award contest? In addition to the monetary Awards, each of the three winners will be honored with a Certificate (in Gold/Silver/Bronze) issued by the distinguished Evaluation Committee. Each blog post published on the INPST website will confer an exceptional scientific and public visibility to both each participating author and to the covered topic (which could be a great chance to promote a scientific topic or research of particular personal interest).

 

Keywords: science communication, blogging, science writing awards, blogger contest, science communication awards, blogs, bloggers, blogging competition, science writing contest.

 

Evaluation Committee of the INPST 2018 Science Communication Award: Atanas G. Atanasov, Bernd L. Fiebich, Ge Lin, Marc Diederich (Chair of the Committee), Michael Heinrich, Oliver Grundmann, Rachel Mata, and Volkmar Weissig.

 

The INPST 2018 Science Communication Award is sponsored by Envision Biotechnology.

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WordPress.com for Google Docs lets you edit in Docs and publish in WordPress

As someone who writes on WordPress.com for a living, my two least favorite things about the platform are the inability to edit together with colleagues and the inconvenience of losing drafts to glitches. But fret no more: WordPress is making it easier to collaborate with colleagues and harder to lose work to bugs.

The company is launching a new integration for Chrome that lets you write, edit and collaborate in Google Docs, and then effortlessly save and publish your pieces straight to your blog.

The add-on will come in handy to writers and bloggers that rely on the popular content management system to publish their stories, but opt to crank out content in third-party text editors to avoid losing work as a result of unexpected errors – we all know how disheartening this could be.

Instead of resorting to text-editing apps such as Simplenote and Dropbox Paper like TNW’s own Abhimanyu Ghoshal, WordPress.com for Google Docs offers the convenience of using both at the same time.

This means that you’ll no longer have to deal with nerve-wracking copy-and-paste headaches since all formatting preferences from Docs will automatically be applied to the copy in WordPress.

But more importantly: You’ll also be able to edit pieces with partners and colleagues simultaneously and follow the changes they make in real-time.

The nifty integration will be available for any WordPress.com blog as well as any WordPress.org website equipped with the Jetpack plugin. All you have to do to enable it is authorize the add-on with access to your blog by signing up to your WordPress account.

The integration also comes with a convenient sidebar where you can keep of all authorized sites and collaborators working on your pieces. Once you save a draft, the add-on will generate a preview link where you can check out how your work will appear when published.

WordPress-parent company Automattic has open-sourced the plugin on GitHub where you can browse the code by heading to this repository here.

Check out the official announcement here for more details on how to download and implement the add-on.

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