By Kimberly Moynahan, Core Team & Interim Editorial Manager It’s been a quiet month here on the Borealis Blog. Except for a few announcements, we decided to take a short hiatus from outreach over the holidays and give our volunteers a break. We’re just now getting back into the swing of things. As many of […]
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Top 10 Borealis Blog Posts of 2015
It’s that time of year, when organizations share the top stories that engaged their readers over the twelve months of 2015. We’re happy to share the top 10 posts on the Borealis Blog in 2015, written by our fantastic team of volunteer editors. The posts cover everything from science blogging to animal testing, and from […]
Science Borealis Editors’ Picks for 2015
It’s that time of year again when our editors reflect back on the Science Borealis members’ posts and blogs they’ve been following all year and select their favourites. Choosing isn’t easy. Science Borealis now boasts a membership of 122 blogs — about a dozen up from last year. Together, this year, our members have posted […]
An invitation to join our #scicomm survey
Dear Science Borealis Member, Have you ever wondered who your blog readers are or where they come from? Do you sometimes suspect that we’re all just blogging to each other, shouting into a great big Canadian science blog echo chamber? Well we have too! And now we’re in a position to find some answers. We’ve […]
Science Policy and Blogging: Mixing it up at CSPC 2015
Lisa Willemse, Science Borealis Board Member “Oh, the East is East and the West is West and never the twain shall meet.” Though this line from Rudyard Kipling’s 1889 Ballad of East and West is often used to describe differences, the poem – a commentary on race and colonialism – is actually much more positive, […]