Susan Vickers, Communication, Education & Outreach co-editor As a chemist passionate about outreach, I’ve spent a lot of time and effort trying to combat the public’s fear of chemicals, dubbed by chemists as “chemophobia.” It infuriates me when companies tout products as “chemical-free” (who wants to buy a vacuum?!), and am convinced that this has […]
Lisa Willemse and Catherine Anderson, Communication, Education & Outreach co-editors At the end of August, the Council of Canadian Academies released a report on the state of Canadian science culture. Despite the finding that “general coverage of science in Canada in the English-language media appears comparatively underdeveloped”, they also found that “Canadians have positive […]
Lisa Willemse and Catherine Anderson, Communication, Education & Outreach co-editors If you’re reading this blog post, then chances are good that you’re familiar with Science Borealis. You may know that there are 100-odd blogs on this network, and that a good number of them are written by researchers or students in one of many […]
by Science Borealis team members: Jenny Ryan (Canadian Science Publishing), Lisa Willemse (Stem Cell Network), Mike Spear (Genome Alberta) …Though, to be fair, we weren’t the only ones. People travel from all over the world to attend what has become an international coming “Together” of science communicators. ScienceOnline is an annual conference – now in […]
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