This week marked the beginning of our “Reflections: 100 Voices for Canadian Science Communication” campaign, where we’re sharing 100 quotes from Canadian scientists, artists, and thinkers about what science communication means to them. The response thus far has been phenomenal and we want to maintain this momentum. We’re excited not only to share these #scicomm100 […]
Raymond Nakamura
We’re Live! Reflections: 100 Voices for Canadian Science Communication
Image credit: Jen Burgess Today Science Borealis launches Reflections: 100 Voices for Canadian Science Communication! On Twitter and through Facebook we will be promoting a rich and varied conversation about science communication in Canada. Over the next 50 days, you can find out what 100 scientists, journalists, policy makers, communications specialists, government leaders, and artists […]
Science Games People Play
Raymond Nakamura and Liz Martin-Silverstone, Multimedia co-editors With the hashtag PokeBlitz, Canadian entomologist Morgan Jackson used the Pokemon Go craze to encourage people to appreciate biodiversity. This inspired us to peek at other ways computer games communicate science. Benefits “Games are fundamental to the way we learn,” said Jeremy Friedberg, a molecular genetics PhD turned […]
Science Borealis featured blog: Laura Ulrich – Monsters and Molecules
Liz Martin-Silverstone and Raymond Nakamura, Multimedia co-editors After our Science Borealis Reader Survey, we randomly selected four participating blogs to be profiled here on the Borealis Blog during 2016. This is the second of those featured posts. RN: I’m delighted to introduce my new Multimedia co-editor, Liz Martin-Silverstone, a paleontological powerhouse studying across the […]
Have you heard the one about Canadian science podcasts?
Raymond Nakamura and Lisa Willemse, Multimedia co-editors <Play the theme music, which is an original composition or available through Creative Commons that elicits a sense of Canada as well as science and multimedia…> Raymond <who sounds as though he’s speaking from the bottom of a deep well>: Welcome to another episode of “Multimedia Posts on […]
