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Quarterly Summary: “CAP”ital Action and Effective Communication
This quarter has been a very active one for the Black Hole site, marked most notably by a tripling of site traffic in the month of March. Admittedly, most of this increased traffic was due to Budget 2010 and the … Continue reading
Posted in Financial, General, Jobs, Policy, Science Communication
Tagged Budget 2010, business, Canada, CAPS, CFI, CIHR, degrees, doctors, Employment, fellowship, funding, Government, Graduate Student, Journals, knowledge translation, life choices, MBA, MD, media, money, non-academic jobs, NSERC, PDF, PhD, Policy, Post Doc, postacademic jobs, scholarship, Science, science and society, Science Communcation, science literacy, science outreach, SSHRC, Summary, taxes, Training, transferrable skills, University, UofT PDA
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Talking Science to Non-Scientists and What’s In It For You?
Piggybacking off of Dave’s last post, which detailed ways that scientists can “help further the public knowledge of, and excitement about, scientific research,” with a specific focus on disseminating academic research and communicating with government, my posting today is going … Continue reading
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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Thoughts on the “Science to Business” Program
While looking at the Canadian Institutes of Health Research’s (CIHR) funding opportunities1 the other day, I came across this interesting opportunity: Science to Business: CIHR‘s Science to Business (S2B) program is designed to encourage individuals with PhDs in a health … Continue reading
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Tagged business, CIHR, commercialization, education, funding, health care system, knowledge translation, MBA, PhD, S2B, scholarships, Science to Business
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