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You need to be a Fellow of the RAS or a member of the RAS staff.
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Tell us about your outreach and educational activities – news, events, websites and resources.
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We're happy for you to write in your own style, but have a few pointers towards making an impact. Think of an informative but short headline; put some facts and details in the introduction; keep it short and snappy. As with popular science writing, put the most important points first, then go into detail for the keen reader. Writing for the Web is less formal that for a printed publication, and can be a lot more fun, but needs to be enjoyable for all, so avoid too much slang or jargon. And, above all, remember that the RAS has a wide reach, across the sciences from astronomy through planetary sciences and solar-terrestrial physics to solid Earth geophysics. Keep that wide audience in mind and include weblinks if you want to go into detail.
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No, this is not a science publishing site. If you have new scientific research, please contact a scientific journal. If you want to publish in A&G, contact the Editor or submit your article via https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/astrogeo
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We love images of your outreach event, your astrophotography, or educational resources; please tell us some details about them, such as when they were taken or what’s happening in them. Note that you should either hold the copyright on the images yourself or the copyright holder agrees that the images can be reposted. Many websites are happy for you to post their images, but please check their terms of use.
You need to make sure that the images are in formats we can use: jpeg, jpg, png and bmp. We can't use pdf or tif files.
They do need to be reasonably high resolution, so that we can show them off for you. If the files are too small to be useable, the site will return an error when you try to post them.
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No, we do not have general comments, but if you want to follow up a post with some further or related information, please do so. We do tweet about the articles (@astrongeo) and feature them on our Facebook page (www.facebook.com/astrongeo), so there is an opportunity to comment on items there, if you want to be brief.
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You need to be a Fellow of the RAS or a member of the RAS staff.
{slider What should I post about?}
Tell us about your outreach and educational activities – news, events, websites and resources.
{slider How should I write my post?}
We're happy for you to write in your own style, but have a few pointers towards making an impact. Think of an informative but short headline; put some facts and details in the introduction; keep it short and snappy. As with popular science writing, put the most important points first, then go into detail for the keen reader. Writing for the Web is less formal that for a printed publication, and can be a lot more fun, but needs to be enjoyable for all, so avoid too much slang or jargon. And, above all, remember that the RAS has a wide reach, across the sciences from astronomy through planetary sciences and solar-terrestrial physics to solid Earth geophysics. Keep that wide audience in mind and include weblinks if you want to go into detail.
{slider Can I post my papers here?}
No, this is not a science publishing site. If you have new scientific research, please contact a scientific journal. If you want to publish in A&G, contact the Editor or submit your article via https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/astrogeo
{slider Can you show my pictures?}
We love images of your outreach event, your astrophotography, or educational resources; please tell us some details about them, such as when they were taken or what’s happening in them. Note that you should either hold the copyright on the images yourself or the copyright holder agrees that the images can be reposted. Many websites are happy for you to post their images, but please check their terms of use.
You need to make sure that the images are in formats we can use: jpeg, jpg, png and bmp. We can't use pdf or tif files.
They do need to be reasonably high resolution, so that we can show them off for you. If the files are too small to be useable, the site will return an error when you try to post them.
{slider Can readers comment on the site?}
No, we do not have general comments, but if you want to follow up a post with some further or related information, please do so. We do tweet about the articles (@astrongeo) and feature them on our Facebook page (www.facebook.com/astrongeo), so there is an opportunity to comment on items there, if you want to be brief.
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