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This week: Open access and open science journalism

December 2, 2019April 22, 2014

I had a couple of guest posts come out today, and surprisingly both happen to be about open access. The first was for Canadian Science … Read more

Tags cancomm, CSP, cswa, guest blog, open access, science communication, science journalism, science writing

Riding the social media wave

December 2, 2019April 3, 2014

Sometime in the last few days I passed 2000 followers on Twitter. I was keeping track because Paige Brown (@FromTheLabBench) wrote a great blog post … Read more

Tags blogging, outreach, science, science communication, social media, twitter

I see spring

December 2, 2019March 22, 2014

Living in a landscape as dynamic as the West Coast, you can’t avoid the heady drama of the region’s seasonal cycles. On this the third … Read more

Tags Brant geese, ecology, flowers, herring, nature, ocean, pacific northwest, seasons, spring, Trumpeter swans, Vancouver Island, west coast

Citizen science

December 2, 2019March 12, 2014

My latest post for Canadian Science Publishing came out yesterday – all about citizen science, what kind of projects we have in Canada, and what … Read more

Tags birding, Canadian Science Publishing, citizen science, CSP, earthworms, groundwater wells, guest blog, NEPTUNE Canada, RinkWatch

Choices

December 2, 2019March 4, 2014

I have a three inch scar on my left forearm, winding thin and white across my yellow-brown skin. The pup who gave it to me, … Read more

Tags academia, anxiety, career choices, Creativity, depression, goals, life choices, mental health

Science communication challenge – accepted

December 2, 2019February 22, 2014

This week I wrote up the last of my guest posts for Canadian Science Publishing’s blog. The first two – Scientific Societies in the Internet … Read more

Tags blogging, Canadian Science Publishing, cdnpoli, ecology, ELA, environment, fisheries, guest posts, NRC Press, scicomm, science communication

Science policy advocate interview

December 2, 2019February 13, 2014

John Dupuis, over at Confessions of a Science Librarian, has been running email interviews with our iPolitics science policy series group. The most interesting questions, … Read more

Tags Canada, Canadian politics, Canadian science, cdnpoli, cdnsci, interview, politics, science, science policy, scipolicy

I want my Canada back

December 2, 2019February 6, 2014

*Note: this post was re-printed on rabble.ca, which “features some of the best new and emerging progressive voices in Canada”. *Edited 6 Feb 8pm to … Read more

Tags Canada, cdnenv, cdnpoli, cdnsci, Conservatives, democracy, elections, environment, First Nations, Harper, politics, science

What is this 'science communication' you speak of?

December 2, 2019February 5, 2014

My second post for Canadian Science Publishing came out on their blog yesterday. “Scientists are often bombarded with terms such as ‘outreach’ and ‘public engagement’, … Read more

Tags Canadian science, Canadian Science Publishing, NSERC, outreach, scicomm, science communication

At home in nature

December 2, 2019February 2, 2014

In a previous post, I mentioned a Guardian article that deemed nature writing little more than “bourgeois escapism” that romanticized the natural world. It’s made me … Read more

Tags anxiety, depression, nature, nature photography, nature writing, outdoors, photography, public spaces, writing
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