Project foundup – Reflections: 100 voices for Canadian science communication

This week marks the end of our Reflections: 100 Voices for Canadian Science Communication project. We started this project as a complement to Agence Science-Presse’s #100LaScience campaign, which shared science journalists’ thoughts on science communication. Our project wouldn’t have got off the ground without the initial help of Science Borealis volunteer and ASP journalist Pascal […]

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Voices for Canadian #Scicomm100 – Weekly recap: Oct 8-14, 2016

Week 6 is finished! And our Outreach team and supporters have really been powering through our “Reflections: 100 Voices for Canadian Science Communication” campaign. Only 23 voices left to go! With hundreds of Tweets and re-Tweets of the #scicomm100 hashtag and visitors to our Facebook page, our followers now excitedly anticipate who the next Voice […]

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Science Borealis Feature Blog: Middle PhD Crisis

Catherine Lau, Biology & Life Sciences co-editor   The journey through academia can be a tough one, but writing about it can help. Just ask our featured blogger Carolina Gomez, a PhD candidate at the Institut national de la recherche scientifique (Laval, QC) and the creator of ‘Middle PhD Crisis’. When she’s not investigating protein […]

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Voices for Canadian #Scicomm100 – Weekly Recap: Sep. 26 -30, 2016

We just wrapped up Week 4 of our “Reflections: 100 Voices for Canadian Science Communication” campaign. We’re very pleased with how well this initiative has had a meteoric rise across Twitter via the #scicomm100 hashtag and from our Facebook page. In fact, we’ve had a few people asking if they can get these quotes and […]

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Voices for Canadian #Scicomm100 – Weekly Recap: Sep. 17 – 23, 2016

Week 3 of our “Reflections: 100 Voices for Canadian Science Communication” campaign has been great fun. Lots of you have shared our quotes and images via the #scicomm100 hashtag and from our Facebook page. We really appreciate everyone’s enthusiasm! Do you have a favourite quote from this week’s batch? If so, tell us! Meanwhile, in […]

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