Renshaw01 @Renshaw01@qoto.org

The World Federation of Science Journalists (@WFSJ) is recruiting new board members from around the world for their 2023-2025 term
#sciencejournalists #stem

Apply here: https://wfsj.org/news/wfsj-board-member-application/

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Background: The mandate at the World Federation of Science Journalists is to support, promote and advance science journalism across the world.

Science journalism has real, practical and measurable value. Good science journalism informs and enables people to make life-saving and life-altering decisions, whether that’s to have a vaccination or to vote for a party that offers a workable energy plan. The importance of our role of translating science and applied science for large audiences has been starkly illustrated in the past few years.

WFSJ encourages membership in every part of the world, especially countries in what is known as the Global south.

FREE voting photo ID for students
#students #stem #UK #free
UK folks, super important. Photo ID will be required to vote for the next election, but University IDs won't work, risking the silencing of young voices. Students can now get a suitable photo ID for FREE from
@nusuk, go to the page: https://www.nus.org.uk/photo-id and click on the link

[Reposting from bird app as it's sooo important]

FREE Ada Lovelace Day pack

[Originally posted on Twitter, as I can't see this toot from @findingada on Mastodon, I'm retooting it here]

Young people, teachers, parents and other educators! Take a look at a free Ada Lovelace Day pack to inspire girls to consider STEM careers. Pack includes teaching scenarios, posters and links http://bit.ly/1KFIdsr #girlsinSTEM #education #free

Is the tide turning on predatory academic publishers?
#medicalwriters #stem #predatorypublishing

Web of Science have just removed the MDPI flagship journal IJERPH from their lists. This means IJERPH has no more an Impact Factor.

This is significant because IJERPH is one of the largest open-access mega-journals in the world

~50 other journals are also affected.

See the Twitter thread on this here: https://twitter.com/PaoloCrosetto/status/1638526088908353537

Inspirational women
#stemwomen #medicalwriters

To mark International Women's Day, The Nobel Prize are celebrating women who have changed the world. Visit their website to see all of the amazing women who have received the #NobelPrize and their remarkable achievements at the time of the award.

https://www.nobelprize.org/

#stemwomen #medicaljournalist
The Women's Health Across the Lifespan Symposium is on 30th March 2023.
To honour International Women's Day they are offering an exclusive £5 discount TODAY for 24 hours using the code IWD23 - Find out more: https://mynutriweb.com/womens-health-across-the-lifespan/?utm_source=ZohoCampaigns&utm_campaign=Womens_Health_Symposium_hit_2&utm_medium=email

Happy International Women's Day!

Tag a woman who inspires you and tell us why 👇 #IWD2023
@Liz_ORiordan
Breast cancer survivor and role model.

Checking your breasts properly (3 of 3)
#stemwomen #breastcancer #thankscancer
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Checking your breasts properly (2 of 3)
#stemwomen #breastcancer #thankscancer
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Checking your breasts properly (1 of 2)
#stemwomen #breastcancer #thankscancer
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This captivating educational poem created by totally telling tales,
@EllamaeStatham
&
@Liz_ORiordan
empowering people to breast check. Original thread was on twitter: https://twitter.com/BreastCancerNow/st
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Checking your breast properly (3)
#stemwomen #breastcancer #thankscancer
It looks like Twitter may have removed the middle part of the thread because the cartoons were inappropriate!! Apologies, If I find them I will post them here.

Checking your breasts properly (2 of 2)
#stemwomen #breastcancer #thankscancer

Second part of this captivating educational poem created by totally telling tales,
@EllamaeStatham
&
@Liz_ORiordan
empowering people to breast check.
'This Is The Way To Examine Your Chest’ is a captivating educational resource to help promote regular breast checking and ensure people understand the signs and symptoms of breast cancer to look out for." - Manveet Basra, Breast Cancer Now

Checking your breasts properly (1 of 2)
#stemwomen #breastcancer #thankscancer

This captivating educational poem created by totally telling tales,
@EllamaeStatham
&
@Liz_ORiordan
empowering people to breast check. Original thread was on twitter: https://twitter.com/BreastCancerNow/status/1633181005304545280

Space scientist Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock has just been honoured with her own Barbie doll 👏🏾
#stemwomen

How lovely. Saw this on the bird site and had to share it further. Here is the thread:
https://thefemalelead.com/post/space-scientist-dr-maggie-aderin-pocock-honoured-with-her-own-barbie-doll

Breast Cancer Screening in the UK
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Breast Cancer Screening in the UK (1)

Breast cancer screening can save your life. If you are eligible, make sure to get screened.

Here is a thread from Breast Cancer Now on Twitter.

Screening can pick up breast cancer before there’s any signs or symptoms. And the sooner breast cancer is diagnosed, the more effective treatment is likely to be. Here’s 5 things every woman needs to know about NHS breast screening.

https://twitter.com/BreastCancerNow/status/1633090239550959617

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How to REALLY examine your breasts
#breast cancer #stemwomen

Please see Dr Liz O'Riordan's video on how to properly examine your breasts.

https://twitter.com/Liz_ORiordan/status/1630865715082285056

Was Rosalind Franklin a victim of sexism in research?

28 February – 70th anniversary of the day Francis Crick walked into the Eagle pub in Bene’t St, Cambridge, and announced: “We have found the secret of life!” Had he and James Watson discovered the chemical structure of DNA  by nicking Rosalind Franklin’s data, though?

#Stem #medicalwriters #stemwomen

See the whole of the tweet thread here:
https://twitter.com/OddThisDay/status/1630509585780883458

Dramatic fall in number of clinical trials in Britain between 2017 and 2021
#medicalwriters #STEM #pharmaceutical

The ABPI notes a 44% drop in the number of participants recruited to commercial clinical trials in the past 5 years.

The number of industry clinical trials started in the same period fell by 41%.

As a result The Office for Life Sciences has announced there will be an independent review into the UK commercial clinical trials landscape by Lord James O’Shaughnessy, Senior Partner at consultancy firm Newmarket Strategy, Board Member of Health Data Research UK (HDR UK), and former Health Minister

The Office for Life Sciences is supposed to champion research, innovation and the use of technology to transform health and care service

Thanks to Paul Agapow on Twitter for the information.