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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Neil deGrasse Tyson Becomes 1st American to Receive Stephen Hawking Medal

Neil deGrasse Tyson (left) and Jean-Michel Jarre (center) will receive the Stephen Hawking Medal for Science Communication this year. Garik Israeliank, astrophysicist and creator of Starmus, made the big announcement on June 6 at the Rose Center for Earth and Space in the American Museum of Natural History.

Credit: Hanneke Weitering/Space.com

NEW YORK — Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson received the Stephen Hawking Medal for Science Communication Tuesday (June 6), becoming the first American scientist to earn the prestigious award.

Neil deGrasse Tyson speaks at the Rose Center for Earth and Space at the American Museum of Natural History on June 6, 2017.

Credit: R. Mickens/Copyright AMNH

Tyson, who refers to himself as “your personal astrophysicist,” is most known for his television series “Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey” and podcast-turned-television-series “StarTalk.” He is the director for the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History here in New York City, where Tuesday’s announcement was made.

The Stephen Hawking Medal is an annual award created in association with the Starmus Festival, an international gathering celebrating science and art that will take place in Trondheim, Norway, on June 18-23 this year. Medals are given to science communicators in three categories: writers, musicians and artists, and people in the film and entertainment industry. Hawking, a famous theoretical physicist and author of several best-selling books about the universe, handpicks the recipients himself. [he Most Famous Astronomers of All Time]

Winning in the music/art category this year is Jean-Michel Jarre, a French electronic music composer whose work has been largely inspired by space, technology and science fiction. In the entertainment category, producers of the CBS sitcom “The Big Bang Theory” received the medal.

Previous recipients of the award include the German composer Hans Zimmer, for his score on the film “Interstellar,” and film director Jim Al-Khalili, for his work on the documentary “Particle Fever.”

During the announcement, Tyson said he was “deeply moved not only to be honored at all, but to be honored by Stephen Hawking, who many of us know as the brilliant scientist that he is, but in addition to that fact, he’s devoted a huge part of himself to bring science to the public.”

Hawking was not present at the announcement in New York Tuesday, but he did make a video appearance on the big screen to personally congratulate the award recipients. Tyson said he’ll be “venturing to Norway in two weeks to receive the medal personally from” Hawking at the Starmus Festival.

Space.com asked Tyson what he thinks makes for effective science communication, particularly when it comes to controversial subjects like climate science, vaccines and the shape of the Earth (which is definitely not flat). He said the best way to approach discussions like these, in which people either do not understand the underlying science or flat out deny it, is to give people what they need to reach the right conclusion themselves, or “empowering ideas rather than just giving people something else to think.

Crowds gathered at the Rose Center for Earth and Space in the American Museum of Natural History for the announcement that Neil deGrasse Tyson and Jean-Michel Jarre will receive this year’s Stephen Hawking Medal for Science Communication.

Credit: R. Mickens/Copyright AMNH

“Education is not just pouring in knowledge,” he added. In other words, good science communicators teach people how to reach the right conclusions through logic and reason, not by simply regurgitating facts. [Boom! Watch Neil deGrasse Tyson Drop Mic on B.o.B’s Flat-Earth Theory]

Empowering people to better understand scientific concepts also means making this material accessible and easy to understand. For example, Tyson’s latest book, “Astrophysics for People in a Hurry” (W. W. Norton & Company, 2017), breaks down the science of complicated stuff like black holes and quantum mechanics into little nuggets of easily digestible information, making it more enjoyable for more people to read.

Email Hanneke Weitering at hweitering@space.com or follow her @hannekescience. Follow us @Spacedotcom, Facebook and Google+. Original article on Space.com.

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This article and images was posted on [www.sciencealert.com] June 5, 2017

By Hanneke Weitering, Space.com Staff Writer-Producer