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Lasker Essay Contest for Early Career Scientists and Clinicians

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About the Contest

The Lasker Essay Contest engages early career scientists and clinicians from the US and around the globe in a discussion about big questions in biology and medicine and the role of biomedical research in our society today. The Contest aims to build skills in communicating important medical and scientific issues to broad audiences. The topic is announced annually in early February, and winners are announced in mid July.

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Graduate & Undergraduate Students: Apply to the NASW Mentoring Program at AAAS 2024

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Graduate & Undergraduate Students: Apply to the NASW Mentoring Program at AAAS 2024. Are you a graduate or undergraduate student looking for guidance on how to establish a career in science writing? Are you curious about how senior science writers do their jobs?

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Job Opportunity: IITF Scientific Writing Support Needed

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The US Forest Service's International Institute of Tropical Forestry is looking for scientific writing support The position will be mostly remote, but also require some on-site meetings. 

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Submit your entry to the Lasker Global Student Essay Contest

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Now in its seventh year, the Lasker Foundation invites submissions to its global student essay contest – open to all aspiring bioscience and health communicators (med students, biomedical and public health students – graduate students and post-doc).

The winner will receive $10,000 and an all-expense-paid trip to New York City to attend the 2020 Lasker Awards on September 25.

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¿Eres un ESCRITOR/A que ama la CIENCIA y que quisiera ayudar a salvar el planeta?

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The Communications Department at the Union of Concerned Scientists is hiring a Bilingual Web Content Manager and they are looking for a creative, tech-savvy writer to create engaging content! 

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Oportunidad de internado en Scientific American y Scientific American en Español

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Nature Publishing Group (NPG), the publisher of Scientific American and a family of related scientific journals and reference works, is currently accepting applications for its f*all editorial interns.*

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Comunicación generacional: ¿Cómo comunicar las ciencias a una audiencia general en la era de Facebook, Twitter y Wikipedia?

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Desde los tiempos de antaño, los medios se han alimentado de los famosos estándares de popularidad (“ratings”) para medir el éxito o impacto en sus seguidores.  Entonces, no es sorprendente que la audiencia te suba al tope de las encuestas o te haga caer en un profundo abismo.  Lo que ha cambiado es la versatilidad y rapidez con que se dan estos escenarios.  Muchas veces se piensa que el gusto de la audiencia es puramente generacional, pero existen factores que trascienden más allá de la jerga generacional, la tecnología de último momento o las gráficas y visuales llamativos que se usen, como lo es el contenido del mensaje, ya sea fragmentado o en su totalidad.  Es por esto, que cuando se habla de temas científicos, que por lo general se consideran aburridos o fuera del interés de la au

Editing and Proofreading Service for Science Writing

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There is a secret to knowing how to express yourself
thoroughly in writing. This is not less true for
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