Science in the post-Harper era
Canada’s 42nd election is a week behind us, and much has changed in Canada’s political landscape. The country heaved a collective sigh of relief following … Read more
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On science being broken – and some ideas to help fix it
I just had a two part blog series posted on the Canadian Science Publishing blog, looking at whether or not science is broken – and … Read more
Creativity and diversity
I spent last weekend re-acquainting myself with the downtown streets of my adopted hometown, a city I moved to at 17 to attend university. At … Read more
Taking a few side roads
While I’ve written a few posts here recently, I’ve also been busy elsewhere and thought I’d share some of my posts that have come up … Read more
Questions about a Parliamentary Science Officer
A couple of weeks ago, the European Union’s Chief Scientific Advisor (CSA) was axed. It didn’t make headlines in Canada until about a week ago, … Read more
Editorial post at Science Borealis
Fear not, dear readers, I haven’t forgotten my blog but have been busy elsewhere – namely over at Science Borealis where we’re making plans to … Read more
When a student asks for career advice…
…what do you say? I wrote a new post over at Canadian Science Publishing answering this very question. How do you advise a keen student … Read more
Finding your science ‘voice’
I’ve just finished reading Terry Tempest Williams’ When Women Were Birds: Fifty-Four Variations on Voice. In it she talks about finding our voice – whether … Read more
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 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
