I'm posting after 15 May because fact-checking was needed! On Monday 12 May 2014, Marina Silva, the former Brazilian Minister of the Environment under President Lula, who is currently running on a Presidential election ticket with Eduardo Campos, as candidate for Vice-President, gave the opening speech, in Portuguese at the 3rd Adaptation Futures Conference in Fortaleza, […]
Science policy
Networking 101: Conferences: David Staples' Guest Blog
This term has been even more hectic than usual, with a perfect storm of teaching, research and administrative (bureaucratic) duties. As a result, I got behind with my regular twice monthly blog posts. I'm now attempting to get back on track with a double post. In addition to teaching Plant Ecology, I've also been supervising […]
Where are the senior women in STEM?
So, here's the thing: I'm a female Biology professor, and when I was an undergraduate (1977-81 UofT), there were more or less 50:50 male to female students in my classes. This bottom-up input of women into Biology has been happening for decades. So, thirty years on, where are the other female Full Professors? In fact, where […]
Figuring out the link between Social Media and What I do as a Biology Prof
Anybody who has given any kind of cursory glance over this website in the last 2 months, will know that webpage construction has rather ground to a halt. The reason for this, is that I have spent a lot of time since mid-September, exploring and experimenting with social media, specifically Twitter. The impetus for […]
Must-read books for scientists: 1. A Perilous Imbalance
In 2010, IRIS launched a book by my colleague in Osgoode Hall Law School, Professor Stepan Wood. It's called a Perilous Imbalance. I introduced the authors, Stepan and Stephen Clarkson, a political science professor at the University of Toronto, so I had to read the book. After reading the book, I came to realize that […]
