Science Media Centre Malaysia

Science Media Centre Malaysia Where science meets the headlines. We aim to provide evidence-based information to support journalists to report on complex or controversial science issues.

Stand a chance to win a RM1,500 grant to produce your own climate story or content! 🌿✍️Join our 1-day training and mento...
23/10/2025

Stand a chance to win a RM1,500 grant to produce your own climate story or content! 🌿✍️

Join our 1-day training and mentorship with leading storytellers.
🎥 Learn to craft powerful climate stories
💰 Win a RM1,500 production grant
📰 Get your work published or featured online!

📅 Register before 29 October 2025
🔗 tinyurl.com/PANASClimateStorytelling2025

Are you a Malaysian aspiring or early-career journalist, or a content creator passionate about the environment? 🌎🌱 This ...
14/10/2025

Are you a Malaysian aspiring or early-career journalist, or a content creator passionate about the environment? 🌎🌱 This workshop is for YOU!

Learn to tell climate stories that are evidence-based, human-focused, and solutions-driven, and reach real audiences. This project is supported by the British Council’s Alumni UK Climate Action Grant Projects 2025.

📅 Saturday, 8 November 2025
🕘 9 AM – 5 PM
📍Sustain.ed, 30, First Floor, Jalan Hang Kasturi, Kuala Lumpur

Spaces are limited. To be considered, submit your Expression of Interest by 29 Oct 2025.

➡️ Register here: tinyurl.com/PANASClimateStorytelling2025

Climate change is often framed as a global crisis, but its impacts are local. When stories are told only from a distant,...
16/09/2025

Climate change is often framed as a global crisis, but its impacts are local.

When stories are told only from a distant, global lens, the issue can feel abstract and disconnected from our lives here in Malaysia. And that is why localised, humanised, and solutions-focused storytelling is so important; it makes climate change tangible and relevant.

Through the PANAS! Climate Change Stories in Malaysia initiative, five grantees have produced powerful articles capturing how communities across Malaysia are experiencing and responding to climate change, from indigenous knowledge to adaptation practices, from changing weather to community-led innovations.

🇲🇾 This Malaysia Day, we celebrate these voices and perspectives that bring the climate conversation home. We invite you to read and share these stories because building a stronger climate discourse begins with amplifying our own.

A big thank you to the International Science Council Asia-Pacific and INGSA-Asia for supporting this initiative. With this, we wrap up our Grassroots Science Advice project and open the door for many more local climate stories to be told.

For more info about the project and to read the articles, visit: https://sciencemediacentremalaysia.com/panas-workshop-isc-2025/

Thank you INGSA-Asia for the feature and for the support, together with International Science Council Asia-Pacific in m...
16/06/2025

Thank you INGSA-Asia for the feature and for the support, together with International Science Council Asia-Pacific in making the PANAS! Science Journalism Workshop a success! 🙌

As part of the project, we will be supporting the development of localised climate stories, told through human-centred and solutions-focused narratives by Malaysian journalists. 🌏✍️

The insights and discussions from the workshop will also be synthesised into a practical toolkit: designed for journalists, scientists, and climate communicators to bridge the gap between science and society in a time of climate urgency.

More to come soon, watch this space! 🌿

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🔗 Read the full article on their website here:

In efforts to encourage collaboration between scientists, journalists, and policymakers, recipients of the Grassroots Science Advice Promotion Awards 2024, Ms Tan Su Lin and Dr Nurulaini Abu Shamsi, hosted a transdisciplinary workshop aimed at bridging the gaps between science communication and evid...

We were truly inspired by the energy and enthusiasm of all 30 participants at the PANAS! Science Journalism Workshop - a...
22/05/2025

We were truly inspired by the energy and enthusiasm of all 30 participants at the PANAS! Science Journalism Workshop - a vibrant mix of scientists, journalists, advocates, and policymakers coming together to explore how science advice can strengthen public communication and inform evidence-based policymaking, especially around climate change.

A big thank you to the International Science Council Asia-Pacific and the International Network for Governmental Science Advice Asia (INGSA-Asia) for making this possible.

Also, heartfelt thanks to our partner, Universiti Malaya’s Department of Science and Technology Studies, and to Dr Nurulaini Abu Shamsi and her amazing team for co-hosting the workshop with us!

Here’s to more conversations, collaborations, and climate stories to come - this is just the beginning. Stay tuned.. PANAS! 2.0 is just heating up. 🔥

Last reminder to submit your Expression of Interest for this interdisciplinary workshop on science communication for evi...
02/05/2025

Last reminder to submit your Expression of Interest for this interdisciplinary workshop on science communication for evidence-based policymaking. Deadline is 5 May 2025!

Link: tinyurl.com/ScienceJWorkshop

📣 Calling all journalists, scientists & science communicators!

Curious how science advice can take your work to the next level? Whether you are reporting on climate change or shaping public understanding, this free one-day workshop will explore how science advice can strengthen science communication and support evidence-based policymaking—especially around climate change. 🌏

📅 20 May 2025
📍 Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur
🕘 9 AM – 5 PM
🎟️ Admission is FREE – but only 30 spots available!
✅ Submit your Expression of Interest by 2 May 2025
🔗 Link: tinyurl.com/ScienceJWorkshop

This interdisciplinary workshop is brought to you by Science Media Centre Malaysia, in collaboration with Universiti Malaya, and supported by the International Science Council Asia-Pacific and INGSA-Asia.

🚨 LAST CALL! 🚨This is your final reminder to pitch your story idea for PANAS! Climate Change Stories in Malaysia and sta...
01/05/2025

🚨 LAST CALL! 🚨

This is your final reminder to pitch your story idea for PANAS! Climate Change Stories in Malaysia and stand a chance to receive a story grant to produce a powerful, evidence-based piece highlighting how climate change affects communities in Malaysia 🌏✍️

Hurry, deadline for pitch submission is TOMORROW, 2 May, 2pm!

Submit your 200-word pitch now: tinyurl.com/PANASClimateChangeStories

‼️ DEADLINE EXTENDED ‼️

Good news! You now have until 2 May 2025 to submit your pitch for PANAS! Climate Change Stories in Malaysia.

We are looking for evidence-based, human-centric climate stories that make an impact.

Selected contributors will each receive RM1,500 to produce a 700–900 word story in English or Bahasa Malaysia.

📩 Submit your 200-word pitch here: tinyurl.com/PANASClimateChangeStories


‼️ DEADLINE EXTENDED ‼️Good news! You now have until 2 May 2025 to submit your pitch for PANAS! Climate Change Stories i...
26/04/2025

‼️ DEADLINE EXTENDED ‼️

Good news! You now have until 2 May 2025 to submit your pitch for PANAS! Climate Change Stories in Malaysia.

We are looking for evidence-based, human-centric climate stories that make an impact.

Selected contributors will each receive RM1,500 to produce a 700–900 word story in English or Bahasa Malaysia.

📩 Submit your 200-word pitch here: tinyurl.com/PANASClimateChangeStories


What is a story pitch? And how to write a compelling pitch? Swipe through for these simple steps! Still not too late to ...
24/04/2025

What is a story pitch? And how to write a compelling pitch? Swipe through for these simple steps!

Still not too late to submit your pitches for PANAS! Climate Change Stories in Malaysia. Deadline: April 27th.

🔗 Link: tinyurl.com/PANASClimateChangeStories

📣 Calling all journalists, scientists & science communicators!Curious how science advice can take your work to the next ...
19/04/2025

📣 Calling all journalists, scientists & science communicators!

Curious how science advice can take your work to the next level? Whether you are reporting on climate change or shaping public understanding, this free one-day workshop will explore how science advice can strengthen science communication and support evidence-based policymaking—especially around climate change. 🌏

📅 20 May 2025
📍 Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur
🕘 9 AM – 5 PM
🎟️ Admission is FREE – but only 30 spots available!
✅ Submit your Expression of Interest by 2 May 2025
🔗 Link: tinyurl.com/ScienceJWorkshop

This interdisciplinary workshop is brought to you by Science Media Centre Malaysia, in collaboration with Universiti Malaya, and supported by the International Science Council Asia-Pacific and INGSA-Asia.

📢 Call for Climate Story Pitches!Are you a Malaysian journalist, writer, or science communicator passionate about climat...
18/04/2025

📢 Call for Climate Story Pitches!

Are you a Malaysian journalist, writer, or science communicator passionate about climate change? 🌏✍️

Science Media Centre Malaysia is inviting 200-word story pitches under our PANAS! Climate Change Stories in Malaysia initiative.

We are looking for evidence-based, solutions-oriented stories that reflect the lived experiences of Malaysian communities impacted by climate change. 🌱

💰 Selected contributors will each receive RM1,500 to produce a 700–900 word written story in English or Bahasa Malaysia.

🗓️ Deadline to pitch: 27 April 2025

📍 Shortlisted participants must attend a workshop at Universiti Malaya on 20 May 2025

Submit your pitch now!
🔗 Link: tinyurl.com/PANASClimateChangeStories

This initiative is organised in collaboration with Universiti Malaya and supported by the International Science Council Asia-Pacific and INGSA-Asia.

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Science often takes a backseat in mainstream media and only hits the headline either during a eureka moment or a crisis. There are many reasons for this. Lack of science desks at media houses; lack of science journalists and scientists who are trained in communication; the knowledge and cultural gap between scientists and journalists; and the fear of being misquoted by the media are some of the main reasons.

These issues become magnified during a crisis like COVID-19.

To address this issue, Malaysian Biotechnology Information Centre (MABIC) and The Petri Dish launches a platform to provide factual and evidence-based information to support journalists to report on complex or controversial science issues that make headlines, such as the SARS-CoV-2.

Established by Malaysian Biotechnology Information Centre (MABIC) and The Petri Dish, Science Media Centre (SMC) Malaysia is founded by trained science communicator, Dr Mahaletchumy Arujanan and journalist, Tan Su Lin. Both Mahaletchumy and Su Lin represent a combined experience of almost 30 years in biotechnology, science communication and journalism.