Riding the social media wave
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
Watershed Moments 2.0
Posts starting January 2013, after blog revamp.
I see spring
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
Citizen science
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
Science communication challenge – accepted
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
Science policy advocate interview
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
I want my Canada back
*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
What is this 'science communication' you speak of?
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
At home in nature
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
Scientific societies in the internet age
My first post for Canadian Science Publishing came out on their blog yesterday: “These days much of our life takes place online: banking and bill … Read more
