Coming soon: Science Borealis
A group of Canadian science bloggers (Kim Moynahan, Steph Taylor, Pascal Lapointe, Raymond Nakamura, Maryse de la Girody, and myself) has been working with Canadian … Read more
Watershed Moments 2.0
Posts starting January 2013, after blog revamp.
Academia and Illness
Tenure, She Wrote is a pseudonymous group blog covering issues for women in science and academia, and has had a lot of well-written, thought-provoking posts … Read more
Oil and gas development in Southern Alberta
This morning I saw an interesting tweet from the Southern Alberta Technology Council: Apparently the City of Lethbridge has been approached by an oil and … Read more
Arctic Memories
This morning I’m thinking of the Arctic, for a range of interrelated reasons. A tragic accident in the Arctic Ocean (M’Clure Strait) this morning claimed … Read more
On Scientists Writing Well
I enjoy reviewing a well-written paper, and strongly believe that it doesn’t matter how great your science is if you can’t communicate it to others. … Read more
Wildfire and water
Well my op-ed in Al Jazeera English just came out today. Check it out here. Huge thanks to Colin Schultz for editing help prior to … Read more
Did You Miss Me?
I’ve been away from blogging lately – so many ideas but far too dense of a brain fog to try and explain any of them. … Read more
Is it nature?
When I first started playing around with my husband’s old Nikon camera this spring, I assumed I was all about nature photography. Macro shots of … Read more
Modelling our way to the answers
I ran across a press release recently for a paper on snowpack and climate change in Oregon. It caught my attention because it was written … Read more
Canadian science communication takes off
The topics I follow most closely on Twitter are #cdnpoli, #cdnsci, and #scicomm. A lot of news from the first two has been pretty negative … Read more
