Grant Jacobs • Apr 12, 2011 •
Do you know someone who has written who has written a science book–with it’s first edition in English–during 2008, 2009 or 2009, targeted at an audience aged up to 14? If so, let them know about the English 2011 Royal Society Young People’s Book Prize so that they can give their publisher a head’s up to … Read More
Grant Jacobs • Dec 01, 2010 •
The second year of the Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine is calling for entrants. There are two competitions, one open to entries internationally, the other to ’current or former UK NHS-related staff and UK health students’. In each competition £5000 is awarded to the winner, £1000 to the second-place getter … Read More
Grant Jacobs • Nov 08, 2010 •
Any local students looking to make a buck or looking for a foot into the door of the biotechnology industry? I would particularly encourage final-year students with a leaning towards the biotech industry or entrepreneurship to look at this opportunity, as the meeting will be an opportunity for you to mix and talk with biotechnology people … Read More
Grant Jacobs • Oct 21, 2010 •
The shortlisted submissions for the Royal Society of New Zealand’s Manhire Prize for Creative Science Writing for 2010 are now available on-line. Congratulations to all short-listed writers. The entries are available as PDF files to download. Share your favourites in the comments. Have happy reading! (As an aside I had wanted very much to … Read More
Grant Jacobs • Oct 08, 2010 •
Time for the weekly round-up of lighter fare. Ancient Greece is a (Grecian) myth The Onion puts out the odd gem, such as this report of an announcement that historians have entirely fabricated ancient Greece. Here’s an excerpt to get you started: The group acknowledged that the idea of a sophisticated, flourishing society existing in … Read More
Grant Jacobs • Sep 28, 2010 •
Are you a hard-up Ph.D. student or post-doc looking for a chance to win a freebie? Or a staff member looking for a present for the kid on the cheap? MedGadget are running an on-line competition: enter in the comments your predictions of who will win the Nobel prizes, being announced from … Read More
Grant Jacobs • Jun 08, 2010 •
Just a quick note of an international essay competition worth $US25,000 to some happy early-career neurobiologist. Details are on-line, with the deadline only a few days away (June 15th). The competition requires a 1,000 word essay, evidence of publications done by the applicant during the past three years using molecular or cellular biology, a c.v. Read More
Grant Jacobs • Jun 03, 2010 •
Recently I pointed out the latest Quark prizes competition for science blog writing had opened. Public voting is now starting until June 7th. (Ending midnight, New York City time.) To vote, go the list of nominees, browse the entries, then click on the link near the top reading ‘click here to vote’. Read More
Grant Jacobs • May 26, 2010 •
Get your votes in for this year’s science blogging Quark awards. Yes, there is cash on offer. Yes, you can nominate your own blog post. They only take the first 200 nominations accepted, so get moving. Please read the rules carefully! No excessively long posts, only from the last … Read More
Grant Jacobs • Dec 21, 2009 •
Those end-of-year lists keep coming… Emerging are a number of lists representing “New Zealanders of the Year”. Not all have announced their nominees, but two of those that have started to announce them include scientists amongst their number. The New Zealand Herald New Zealanders of the Year for 2009 recognises two scientists, Dame Anne Salmond … Read More