Finding Your Niche
I have a friend, Kim Moynahan, whom I’ve only met in person once way back in 2013. We communicate on email and Slack, we work … Read more
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Building Community from the Ground Up
Regular readers of this blog will know that I’m deeply interested in the question of community: what it is, how you build it, and how … Read more
The Joys of Volunteering
Last week I had a guest post up on the Canadian Science Publishing blog about volunteering for your scientific society. Based on my own experience … Read more
Federal Funding for Canadian Scicomm?
Last week my colleague Pascal Lapointe (Agence Science-Presse) and I had a post up on the Science Borealis blog suggesting that the federal government’s review … Read more
Sea level rise in Canada
Two weeks ago, I wrote a blog post for Science Borealis with my co-editor in the Earth & Environmental Science subject category, Sri Ray-Chauduri. A … Read more
Communicating science and ocean currents – an interesting mix
This week I had a couple of guest posts at Canadian Science Publishing and on Science Borealis. 1. Scientists Must Communicate! But How? This post … Read more
Mount Polley mine disaster: redux
Science Borealis is holding a blog carnival to celebrate their first anniversary, with bloggers writing about the most important story in their field for 2014. … Read more
Taking a Moment to Breathe – and Think
It’s been a busy couple of months. I’ve been moving, which is never fun for anyone, and also requires re-establishing a medical support network. Luckily, … Read more
A big week
*Updated late 15 October with link to second iPolitics piece in series, and addition of new paper out in CJFAS The Canadian government kicks off … Read more
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