Author: broadscience

SciComm Workshop Bonus 2: The case of legionella pneumophila / How to detect an eating disorder?

broadscience Communication, Education and Outreach, General Science, Multimedia
Interviews by: Alyshia Guan (Undergraduate student in Dietetics) and Mariam Saad (PhD Student in Natural resource sciences) The Broad Science team recently hosted a 3 day science communication and podcast workshop, for mainly graduate science students at McGill University's Macdonald Campus, which was generously supported by the Lister Foundation. www.mcgill.ca/osas/cpd/listerengagedscience

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SciComm Workshop Bonus 1: Microwaves, Cows and Wetland Carbon

broadscience Communication, Education and Outreach, General Science, Multimedia
Interviews by: Audrey St-Yves (Master's student in Animal Science), Haley Alcock (Master's student in Natural Resource Sciences), and Anthony Iheonye (PhD student in Bioresource Engineering) The Broad Science team recently hosted a 3 day science communication and podcast workshop, for mainly graduate science students at McGill University's Macdonald Campus, which was generously supported by the Lister Foundation. https://www.mcgill.ca/osas/cpd/listerengagedscience

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The Social Life of DNA Part 2: What does it mean to be Indigenous?

broadscience Communication, Education and Outreach, General Science, Multimedia
This episode will conclude our series on the social life of DNA. First, on BiteSize Science (6.02min), we chat about Atlantic staff writer Ed Yong’s two-year mission to fix the gender imbalance in his writing.  Our main story then follows Dr. Lynn Gehl(7.35min), an Algonquin-Anishinaabe woman from Eastern Ontario who just last April won her 30-year fight for status recognition under the complex rules of Canada’s Indian Act. Our guest, Dr. Kim TallBear(25.12min), helps us…

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The Social Life of DNA

broadscience Communication, Education and Outreach, General Science, Multimedia
Join us as we wind our way through the complicated social life of DNA for the first part of the season. What can DNA tell us about our identity? How are direct to consumer DNA tests, like 23 and me, being used in different communities? From empowering African American communities to seek lost roots to white supremacist using it to perpetuate social constructs of race...we are about to get skin deep. Guests: Christine Carter, Dr.…

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