Robert Gooding-Townsend, Science in Society co-editor Last October, at the height of the American presidential election, the internet was talking about nothing else. Well, almost. Amongst all the takes on Sanders and Clinton and Trump and Rubio and the future of America, one story rose to the top of The Atlantic’s website and stayed there. […]
Thoughts About the Closing Public Outreach Engagement Lecture of the 100th Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition Connie Tang, Chemistry co-editor Each year, the Canadian Society of Chemistry holds the Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition, better known as the CSC conference. This year’s edition, which ran from May 28 to June 1 in Toronto, marked […]
This past week (March 1st to 7th) marked the third annual #SciArt Tweet Storm. Begun in 2015 by the folks at Symbiartic, the SciArt Tweet Storm is part celebration, part marketing campaign, part science communication, and all beautiful. As in previous years, the rules were simple – Each day, participants Tweet 3 pieces of […]
Raymond Nakamura, Multimedia co-editor “I started this,” says chemist Steve Maguire in the introductory video of his YouTube channel, Science Is Not Scary, “because I was sick and tired of dreck masquerading as quality programming.” Now I am not as worked up as Maguire, but as Science Communications Consultant Lisa Willemse emailed, “making and […]
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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