SASJA - South African Science Journalists' Association

16/03/2023

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16/03/2023

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14/03/2023

📣 Only one day left for media professionals to register for embargoed materials & to submit questions in the press conference for the final part of IPCC’s Sixth Assessment Report entitled 2023: the Synthesis Report.

➡️ 2pm CET 20 March 2023
➡️ Reg closes 14 March 2023
⚠️Terms of embargo must be respected

Details:
➡️ https://bit.ly/MASYRreg=
➡️ https://adobe.ly/3lxHm6e

22/11/2022

Dr Nehemiah Latolla, postdoctoral fellow in the Chemistry Department of Nelson Mandela Bay University, was the South African winner of the FameLab Science Communication Competition South 2022 season. He is about to represent South Africa at the upcoming International Final 2022 on Friday, 25 November at 12h00 (SA time) on YouTube.

Finalists are from South Africa, Germany, Italy, the Czech Republic, Thailand, Malaysia & Switzerland.

Contestants will have just three minutes to bring their research across to a virtual audience in an exciting and engaging way.

Watch live Friday 25 Nov at 12h00 at https://www.youtube.com/user/famelab

The South African Agency for Science and Technology Advancement (SAASTA) and Jive Media Africa deliver the FameLab competition in South Africa. Find out more about FameLab South Africa at https://www.saasta.ac.za/competitions/famelab/
One of the sponsors of the local competion was the National Institute for Theoretical and Computational Sciences (NITheCS).

FameLab SA Winner 2022 The FameLab South Africa Finals were held on the 17 October 2022, ten young scientists showcased research from some of the top academic and research institutes across the country in a way that non-experts can follow along and enjoy. The ten finalists each presented a three-min...

31/10/2022

Just published… Special issue on ‘Radical Reason’ This issue shows how African thought has and could contribute to the development of new logics and new forms of reason and reflects on the full complexity of the lived experiences and conditions of being in the world now – on the horizon of the emergence of a not yet fully determinable world when radical thought, science, ethics, institutional arrangements, and other shared systems of valuation and understanding, are required to give depth and meaning to the full articulation of the questions that we need to be asking now to engender the arrival of a just and equal world to come. No one discipline or system of thought can answer the questions the world is facing today. This is the time for ‘radical reason’. https://buff.ly/3Fqhml1

31/10/2022

We invite you to a session on promoting social justice through accessibility of language in science. The session will be held at the Cape Town International Convention Centre on the 5th of December 2022 from 11:30 – 13:00. For more information and to register, click here: https://buff.ly/3zpo1Ig

17/10/2022

TODAY at 18:00, do watch the exciting and interesting finals of the Famelab young scientist communication competition on this SAASTA YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mXjgLeZvoQ

Be inspired by the ten stories about African science and discover who will represent South Africa in the FameLab International Competition 2022. Will it be O...

17/10/2022

Worth noting

https://stias.ac.za/events/the-183rd-nobel-symposium-physics-outreach-programme-2022/

05/10/2022

Well donebto the recipients

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2022 was awarded jointly to Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser and Anton Zeilinger "for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science"

17/08/2022

There should be more discussion out there about post-viral conditions and how those suffering from Long Covid are now forcing researchers and clinicians to revisit MECFS and asking about the physical, rather than neurological, causes of these very little understood conditions. Great Inside Science segment from the BBC.

BBC Inside Science segment on , and Microclots includes brief interviews with Professor Douglas Kell () and Professor Resia Pretorius...

23/03/2022

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26/01/2022

10/01/2022

South African Centre for Epidemiological Modelling and Analysis - SACEMA

The manner in which people access water differs according to income. People in high- and middle- income areas tend to have piped connections in their homes.

07/01/2022

Science journalists, SASJA has received this request - "My name is Vibeke Quaade, Senior Communications Advisor, Danida Fellowship Centre in Denmark. We arrange communications seminars for Danida funded researchers and journalists, online and in-person, and in March 2022 we are planning a seminar of four sessions, to be held online (three sessions) and in-person (one session) in Pretoria. For the last session we are looking for a science journalist, who besides being a professional science reporter is an expert in training journalists in science reporting. I hope you can help us. Kindly send names and contact details either here or to [email protected]"

13/12/2021

Science writers

CALL FOR PAPERS—Your chance to contribute to a theme issue of The Lancet.

Find out what we're aiming for with this issue and how your work can be featured 👉 hubs.li/Q010GNpW0

22/11/2021

Excellent talk by a seasoned and very good scientist who is passionate about science communication

Dr. Michelle Thaller, an Astronomer and Deputy Director of Science for Communications at NASA Headquarters, presented a Maniac lecture entitled, "Emotional ...

28/10/2021

22/10/2021

Happening now....this is so disturbing!

06/10/2021

Two climate modellers - and a researcher in related complex systems - have been awarded the Nobel Prize in physics today!

They received the award for "physical modelling of Earth's climate, quantifying variability and reliably predicting global warming." This is research they were doing back in the 1950s and 1960s. Yes, that's how long scientists have been worried about the risks of climate change, and this prize-winning work informed the formal warning of climate risks that scientists delivered to a U.S. president in 1965.

To learn more about climate models, see our Global Weirding episode in the comments; and to see how the even more complex models we used today (because I'm a climate modeller myself) have evolved from those originally developed by these Nobel prize-winners, see the chapter I wrote for the US National Climate Assessment, also linked below.

01/10/2021

Excellent report to download and read https://council.science/current/news/unleashing-science-delivering-missions-for-sustainability/

With just nine years to achieve the 2030 Agenda with its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), all countries and actors need to urgently intensify efforts and realign their priorities and resources towards longer-term, more collaborative and drastically accelerated action. Achieving the transform...

27/09/2021

We would like to introduce you to our Outstanding Article Award which will form part of our Annual SAJS Awards. Read more about this award here: https://buff.ly/3EW0CPR

20/08/2021

What to do with the fishermen....?😞

21/07/2021

COVID-19 VACCINATION ROLL-OUT FOR MEDIA

Applications are now open for those in the media who are under 35 to get vaccinated.

The registration site is not the EVDS one, so if you fall in to that category, please register here: https://mrs.gcis.gov.za/

By submitting this form you hereby acknowledge that you have read and accepted the Protection of Personal Information (POPI) disclaimer. GCIS shall take all reasonable measures to protect the personal information of registrants and for the purpose of this disclaimer “personal information” shall ...

30/06/2021

Useful KRISP webinar this coming Friday, 2 July. The two speakers, Prof. Tulio de Oliveira and Dr Richard Lessells, are acknowledged international experts in the field of research on the SARS-CoV-2 virus and all interested in learning more about emerging variants, especially in terms of how easily those might be transmitted and how effective currently-authorized vaccines are against the specific variants, should attend this event.

Register at https://ukzn.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_HukxVAtiQBy51b73KbfuUw .

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: 2021-07-02 Data@Breakfast: Prof Tulio de Oliveira, Covid-19 update. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.

28/05/2021

Important report released today

Minister Barbara Creecy, to launch alien and invasive species status report in Cape Town The Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and […]

07/05/2021

Nature Africa launch

CALLING ALL WITS ACADEMICS & POSTGRADUATE RESEARCHERS!

Wits University is a founding partner of Nature Africa, a new online magazine reporting on scientific research and policy across Africa.

A virtual event to celebrate the launch of Nature Africa takes place on Monday, 10 May 2021 at 16:00 SAST, titled: "The potential of young African scientists: How can Africa empower young researchers to lead a new science renaissance in the continent?" Register here: https://bit.ly/3xSgWxy

Nature Africa is part of the Springer Nature stable of prestigious journals. The new digital magazine began publishing freely accessible science news, research highlights, and feature stories by African researchers, on 3 May 2021. https://bit.ly/3vO9sdg

07/05/2021

What a fascinating tale! With a South African twist :-)

For the first time, researchers have identified the remains of a sailor from the doomed 1845 Franklin expedition of the fabled Northwest Passage.