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Canadian science

Science funding in Canada should include science communication

September 13, 2017

I have an op-ed up on the Science Borealis blog this week, about the federal government’s Naylor Report on fundamental science, and how we need … Read more

Tags Canadian politics, Canadian science, cdnpoli, cdnsci, Global Young Academy, Naylor Report, sciart, scicomm, science art, science communication, science policy, scipolicy

Mount Polley mine disaster: redux

December 14, 2014

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

Tags BC, blog carnival, Canadian science, environment, Environmental science, fish, mining, Mount Polley, politics, Quesnel, science borealis, scipolicy, water

Questions about a Parliamentary Science Officer

November 26, 2014

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

Tags Canadian science, cdnsci, Chief Science Advisor, European Union, Parliamentary science officer, politics, science, science policy, scipolicy

Science policy advocate interview

February 13, 2014

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

Tags Canada, Canadian politics, Canadian science, cdnpoli, cdnsci, interview, politics, science, science policy, scipolicy

What is this 'science communication' you speak of?

February 5, 2014

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

Tags Canadian science, Canadian Science Publishing, NSERC, outreach, scicomm, science communication

A big week

October 15, 2013

*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

Tags Canadian science, Conservatives, cswa, Harper, iPolitics, science borealis, science in fiction, science policy

Coming soon: Science Borealis

September 30, 2013

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

Tags blog aggregator, Canadian science, Canadian Science Publishing, cancomm, Genome Alberta, scicomm, science borealis, science communication

Canadian science communication takes off

July 25, 2013

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

Tags Canada, Canadian politics, Canadian science, cancomm, scicomm, science borealis, science communication, science policy, scienceonline

Government vs. the Public: Mind the Science Gap

February 23, 2013

Last fall I wrote a post about Canadian science communication, which got a lot of hits – for me, anyway. Some liked it, others hated … Read more

Tags Canadian government, Canadian science, cancomm, CERC, CFI, NSERC, science communication, science policy

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