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Climbing up the Hill: Getting involved in Science and Society
As promised in my least work principle entry, today’s entry will try to identify relatively easy ways for science trainees and professors to help further the public knowledge of, and excitement about, scientific research. I’ll try to stick to dissemination of academic information and communicating with governments and Beth will follow up next week with getting general information out to the public (adults and kids!)… Continue reading
Posted in General, Jobs, Science Communication
Tagged Canada, CIHR, degrees, Employment, fellowship, Government, Graduate Student, knowledge translation, life choices, media, non-academic jobs, PDF, PhD, Policy, Post Doc, postacademic jobs, royal society, Science, science and society, Science Communcation, science literacy, science outreach, stem cell charter, Training, transferrable skills, University
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The Least Work Principle and Catalysing from Complacency
This short blog entry argues that when looking at the relationship or science and society, the majority of scientists only see (and avoid) the energy barrier in front of them and fail to imagine and strive toward the products on the other side. There are of course exceptions to the rule and this article hopes to inspire such visionary thinking. It contends that the products, similar to those in a chemical reaction, will provide a state that will in their own time lead to less energy expenditure for scientists. Continue reading
Posted in Education and Training, General, Science Communication
Tagged Canada, doctors, Employment, funding, Genetics, Government, Human Genome Project, knowledge translation, life choices, Michael Smith, non-academic jobs, PDF, PhD, Policy, Post Doc, postacademic jobs, Sanger, Science, Science Communcation, science literacy, science outreach, transferrable skills, University
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Knowledge Translation and Collaboration with Community
“Knowledge translation” is one of those buzz words you seem to hear a lot these days. To put it briefly, it basically means getting research results to be used in “the real world.” Traditionally, academics have disseminated their research results … Continue reading
Posted in Science Communication
Tagged collaborative research, knowledge translation, KT
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2010 Canadian Taxes: Did you get your T2202 and T4a?
As I outlined in one of my very first blog entries the waters are quite muddied when it comes to understanding the tax benefit regarding scholarships outlined in the 2006 budget. It became quickly apparent that things were a little more complicated though, especially when it came to post docs on fellowship or trainees paid from their supervisor’s grant. Continue reading
Posted in Financial, Policy
Tagged bursaries, Canada, Canadian Taxes, CAPS, CIHR, fellowship, funding, Government, Graduate Student, money, NSERC, PDF, PhD, Policy, Post Doc, scholarship, scholarship tax credit, Science, SSHRC, t2202, T4a, t4a code 04, Tax Education Amount, taxes, Training, University, UofT PDA
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