This week: Open access and open science journalism
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
science communication
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
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
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
ALL the questions: Notes to a young scientist writer
In early November I had an email from Kelly, an environmental science student finishing her MSc. She’s at a crossroads, with loads of questions about … Read more
The Space Between Science and Story
When I was a kid I played ‘newspaper reporter’. I’d drag my dad’s heavy typewriter out of the closet, roll in a sheet of scrap … 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
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
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
