By Michelle Lavery and Betty Zou, General Science Editors After a peer rebellion among Canadian health researchers, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research has agreed to reinstate face-to-face peer reviews. But what makes face-to-face discussion so vital to the process? Recent events have sparked concern over the way researchers are awarded government grants. Face-to-face […]
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Experimenting with Creativity
By Michelle Lavery, General Science Editor Here at Science Borealis, we have no qualms about getting creative. Science communication is all about finding new and innovative ways of getting complex information to a wide and varied audience. We’re all storytellers; we’ve got poets (Phish Doc) and artists (Raymond’s Brain and CommNatural, to name […]
A summer science blog hit list: books, travel, and dinosaurs
by Michelle Lavery and Brian Owens General Science subject editors Hello Science Borealis readers! Summer is a great season for science – and we’ve got a new editor on board and lots to get excited about. Shall we dive in? Michelle Lavery is joining Brian on the General Science team from her cozy office at […]