Lay Science Writing Competition 2024: Research ensures innovation and safety go hand in hand for stem cell transplantation

Lay Science Writing Competition 2024: Research ensures innovation and safety go hand in hand for stem cell transplantation Transplantation Organs and Tissues Plasma Stem Cells Transfusion Blood Thursday, November 21, 2024 Drs. Chaahat Singh & Giorgia Caspani Our partnership with the Centre for Blood Research (CBR) at the University of British Columbia is helping to...

There Will Be Blood… So Can We Be Safer?

November 21, 2024 Research2Reality Communication, Education and Outreach, General Science

A breakthrough coating can help mitigate the risks that come from blood-contacting medical devices such as catheters and stents. Get the full story There Will Be Blood… So Can We Be Safer?

How genomics could help protect B.C.’s redcedars

November 19, 2024 UBC Faculty of Science General Science

Western redcedar (Thuja plicata) is found from northern California to Haida Gwaii. The trees can live more than 1,000 years, but are increasingly under threat from climate change. Photo: istock/Dave Hutchison Photography.A collaboration among UBC, the B.C. Ministry of Forests and industry uses targeted genome sequencing to produce resilient western redcedar seedlingsBy Geoff GilliardThere is a...

There’s no best way to write something

November 19, 2024 Stephen Heard Biology and Life Sciences, General Science

What’s the best way to write your next paper – or, to ask a simpler question, the best way to construct your title, write the opening sentence of your Introduction, or plot the pivotal data set? The bad news is that there isn’t a best way. The good news is exactly the same. When I...

How to bridge the natural sciences research-to-action gap

November 14, 2024 UBC Faculty of Science General Science

Drs. Fiona Beaty (left) and Alex Moore (right) are conducting their conservation research in collaboration with the people in the ecosystems they’re studying to develop findings in a more meaningful way.Less emphasis on publishing, more relationship building with Indigenous communities neededBy Geoff GilliardFrom the humid mangrove forests of American Samoa to the cold waters of Canada’s...

Palaeo How-To: What are Trace Fossils?

November 13, 2024 21mediair Biology and Life Sciences, Environmental and Earth Sciences, General Science

By Lindsay Kastroll, Master’s student in Biological Sciences, University of Alberta Demystifying the way the science actually works… In the last edition of Palaeo How-To, we discussed the different types of fossils and how they form. However, that edition focused specifically on body fossils, which are direct evidence of an organism represented by actual fossilized...

Buffon’s eulogy, Pliny vs. Newton, and is science a big pile of facts?

November 12, 2024 Stephen Heard Biology and Life Sciences, General Science

A couple of months ago, I reviewed Jason Roberts’s new book Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life. It’s the story of two eighteen-century naturalists, Carl Linnaeus and Georges-Louis Leclerc, the Comte de Buffon, and their contrasting approaches to studying biology. In a nutshell, Linnaeus was looking for structure and...

10K on Cobalt Thunder

November 6, 2024 Glendon Mellow General Science, Multimedia

As of 15th of October, 2024 I have officially cycled 10,000 km (6213 miles) on Cobalt Thunder, my 2013 Felt Nine 70 mountain bike, since spring 2020. Beauty shot of my blue bike against autumn leaves and blue sky with white clouds.

Meet Me at NCTE!

November 6, 2024 L. E. Carmichael Biology and Life Sciences, Communication, Education and Outreach, General Science

Happy I Read Canadian Day, everybody! If you’re not familiar, today is the day we celebrate Canadian stories by reading a Canadian book for 15 minutes. All forms of reading count, and you certainly don’t have to stop after 15 minutes. Goodness knows I never do! This year, I’m celebrating I Read Canadian Day with...

ChatGPT has become Nickelback

November 5, 2024 Stephen Heard Biology and Life Sciences, General Science

In our new book on teaching and mentoring scientific writing, we’ve included a chapter considering the use of so-called “AI” tools in scientific writing. (“AI” writing tools such as ChatGPT are better called LLMs, or “large language models”, and I’ll make that switch right now.) It’s an unavoidable topic these days; students are using LLMs...

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Lay Science Writing Competition 2024: Research ensures innovation and safety go hand in hand for stem cell transplantation

There Will Be Blood… So Can We Be Safer?

How genomics could help protect B.C.’s redcedars

There’s no best way to write something

How to bridge the natural sciences research-to-action gap

Palaeo How-To: What are Trace Fossils?

Buffon’s eulogy, Pliny vs. Newton, and is science a big pile of facts?

10K on Cobalt Thunder

Meet Me at NCTE!

ChatGPT has become Nickelback

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