Fresh Science is looking for the best and brightest early-career researchers who have made a peer-reviewed discovery and received little or no media attention.

Successful applicants will participate in Fresh Science South Australia: first, a day of media and communication training, learning how to find the key, compelling ‘story’ in their research, and how to tell that story. Then, in the following pub night, the challenge of explaining their research in the time it takes a party sparkler to burn out.

Applicants can be researching in any field of science – from medicine to mathematics, from environmental science to computer science.

Nominations are now open, and close on 25 June. Fresh Science SA will be held at the South Australian Museum 13 August (tentative date), with a pub event that night.

We’re looking for:

• early-career researchers (from honours students to no more than five years post-PhD)
• a peer-reviewed discovery that has had little or no media coverage
• some ability to present ideas in everyday English.

Fresh Science helps young researchers develop expertise in presenting their ideas clearly to a general audience and to the media. And we demonstrate to the media that science in Australia is exciting, vibrant and successful.

You can read more at freshscience.org.au.