Scientists develop a model to reveal wild killer whales’ diets

May 13, 2022 Anaïs Remili Biology and Life Sciences, Communication, Education and Outreach, Health, Medicine and Veterinary Science

A new study presented a method to reconstruct killer whales’ diets using the lipid composition of their blubber. By measuring these lipids, called fatty acids, in the killer whales’ fat and those in their potential prey, scientists can estimate the abundance of each prey species in the whales’ diet. This new method may hold the...

Sylvia McNicoll: What the Author, Now, Knows

May 13, 2022 L. E. Carmichael Biology and Life Sciences, Communication, Education and Outreach, General Science

Welcome to Cantastic Authorpalooza, featuring posts by and about great Canadian children’s book creators! Today’s guest: Sylvia McNicoll. Take it away, Sylvia! For all the dogs I’ve known in my life, I wrote What the Dog Knows. Such a slow and pleasureful project; it took nearly ten years of revising the story and evolving the...

Connell Lecture Series: Dr. Michael Rosen

May 12, 2022 Andrew Zhai Biology and Life Sciences, Communication, Education and Outreach, Health, Medicine and Veterinary Science

Written by Cindy Yimei Wan Dr. Michael Rosen is the Chair of the Department of Biophysics at UT Southwestern Medical Center and a principal investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Dr. Rosen was invited to give a Connell Lecture on March 9th, 2022, during …

‘It’s Taken 40 Years, But It Worked’

May 10, 2022 Research2Reality Communication, Education and Outreach, General Science

For these two award-winning researchers, a lifetime of seeking answers on cancer has paid off in ways they couldn't have imagined. Get the full story ‘It’s Taken 40 Years, But It Worked’

Worry

May 8, 2022 jeremy Communication, Education and Outreach, Multimedia, Physics and Astronomy

Pruning your active projects is underrated.

Why Should Early-career Scientists Engage in Science Communication?

May 6, 2022 Anaïs Remili Biology and Life Sciences, Communication, Education and Outreach, Health, Medicine and Veterinary Science

Science communication (also called #scicomm) is a skill. It involves sharing science with a larger audience, beyond Academia, in an understandable way. Effective science communication relies on a delicate balance between too few details and too much information, which can confuse a non-expert audience. Above all, it should be entertaining and tell a story. With...

Charis Cotter – Scary Dolls and Haunted Dollhouses

May 6, 2022 L. E. Carmichael Biology and Life Sciences, Communication, Education and Outreach, General Science

Welcome to Cantastic Authorpalooza, featuring posts by and about great Canadian children’s book creators! Today’s guest: Charis Cotter. Take it away, Charis! I was devoted to my dolls from an early age, and my love of dolls has never left me. I think I have about 26 or 27 now … I’ve lost count. Most...

Significance

May 5, 2022 jeremy Communication, Education and Outreach, Multimedia, Physics and Astronomy

There’s a reason all of the early academic work in field X deals with simple models.

Project Timeline

May 3, 2022 jeremy Communication, Education and Outreach, Multimedia, Physics and Astronomy

Not shown: Extra pauses while people are confused, the many rewrites of the paper, bug hunting and data cleaning, and probably ten unique things that only showed up in this one project ever.

Science Rendezvous Is Almost Here!

May 2, 2022 L. E. Carmichael Biology and Life Sciences, Communication, Education and Outreach, General Science

If the last two years have taught us anything, it’s that science matters. It helps us solve problems, find solutions (or mix them!), and make life better. From dinosaurs to robots to hoverboards to vaccines to things that go boom, science is also really cool. Canadian science lovers get to celebrate twice a year: in...

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