{"id":357,"date":"2016-12-01T22:13:21","date_gmt":"2016-12-01T22:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/reech\/?p=357"},"modified":"2016-12-01T22:13:21","modified_gmt":"2016-12-01T22:13:21","slug":"december-1-sciwestminster16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/reech\/2016\/12\/01\/december-1-sciwestminster16\/","title":{"rendered":"DECEMBER 1 &#8211; #SciWestminster16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>December 1<\/strong> &#8211; <span style=\"color: #ff0000\">Day <\/span><span style=\"color: #339966\">1<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff9900\">Stand up for Science! Talk to your MP!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jessica Teeling travelled to London earlier this week to meet local MP Caroline Noakes at Portcullis House in Westminster. She was invited to join the Royal Society&#8217;s &#8216;<em>Assessing the evidence: scientist in Westminster reception&#8217;\u00a0 <\/em>which is part of their annual paring scheme. Although not paired with an MP this year, this reception provided a great opportunity to meet scientist in technology, engineering, medicine and mathematics (STEMM) disciplines and listen from speeches from Sir Venki Ramakrishnan (PRS), Jo Johnson MP, Stephen Metcalf MP, Madeleine Moon and Professor <span style=\"color: #000000\">Brian Cox<\/span>. It was agreed that communication between scientist and policy makers is vital for the UK!<\/p>\n<p>Why not apply for the <a href=\"https:\/\/royalsociety.org\/grants-schemes-awards\/pairing-scheme\/scientists\/\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff9900\">RS pairing scheme<\/span><\/strong><\/a> next year &#8211; it is worth it!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-359 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/reech\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/141\/2016\/12\/CQEM61961.jpeg\" alt=\"cqem61961\" width=\"851\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/reech\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/141\/2016\/12\/CQEM61961.jpeg 851w, https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/reech\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/141\/2016\/12\/CQEM61961-300x111.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/reech\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/141\/2016\/12\/CQEM61961-768x284.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 851px) 100vw, 851px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>[contact-form][contact-field label=&#8217;Name&#8217; type=&#8217;name&#8217; required=&#8217;1&#8217;\/][contact-field label=&#8217;Email&#8217; type=&#8217;email&#8217; required=&#8217;1&#8217;\/][contact-field label=&#8217;Website&#8217; type=&#8217;url&#8217;\/][contact-field label=&#8217;Comment&#8217; type=&#8217;textarea&#8217; required=&#8217;1&#8217;\/][\/contact-form]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December 1 &#8211; Day 1 Stand up for Science! Talk to your MP! Jessica Teeling travelled to London earlier this week to meet local MP Caroline Noakes at Portcullis House in Westminster. She was invited to join the Royal Society&#8217;s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1730,"featured_media":358,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-biosciadvent"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/reech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/reech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/reech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/reech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1730"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/reech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/reech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":368,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/reech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions\/368"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/reech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/reech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/reech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/reech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}