In April 2018, I spent a month as a visiting professor in the Biology Department of Monash University in Melbourne. The fabulous Professor Joslin Moore was my host, and I got to hang out with her welcoming and dynamic ecology research group. While there, I also visited colleagues and relatives in Brisbane and Sydney, where I […]
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Most people in #HigherEd have a very limited understanding of #OpenAccess
This week, FACETS Journal, Canada's first multidisciplinary journal launched, and I have been tweeting about it over @YorkUScientists. In 2015, Lucas Colantoni and I investigated the state of knowledge amongst my colleagues and his student peers, about what Open Access means. We found, that while nearly everyone has heard of Open Access, not many people […]
Tools for battling Meetingitis Disease (too many meetings)
Young Women In STEM & their allies step forward at York University & Université de Montréal
I am very glad that the York University and University of Toronto TA and contract faculty strikes are over. I wasn't lecturing this term, so my work life was much less disrupted than that of many others: students, faculty and staff. For me, March 2015 wasn't only about the emotional exhaustion of dealing with the impact of the […]
Why is an ecology prof worried about the Anti-Vaccination movement?
HINT: it concerns science, which concerns everyone, including me, as a parent: And, since I'm 2 days late to post this, because I've been teaching and speaking at the University of Alberta, I'm double-dipping, and turning a storify into a blog post. [View the story "Does Twitter help or hinder the vaccination conversation?" on Storify]
To students AND professors: on being a better [Science] Communicator
A recent survey carried out by the Council of Canadian Academies, found that most Canadians value science (see results infographics at left & right), yet funding to higher education research is a drop in the bucket of Ontario's and Canada's overall budgets. The report by the Expert Panel on the State of Canada’s Science Culture: SCIENCE CULTURE: WHERE CANADA […]
Cryptocurrency and the Transdisciplinary Sustainability Space
Leadership & management lessons learned directing IRIS: Part 1
True leaders never stop being minions The summer has flashed by and keeping to my self-imposed blogging schedule has been tough, even though I stepped down as Director of IRIS, York University's Institute for Research and Innovation in Sustainability, at the end of April 2014, and switched my daily routine from a leader & manager-type […]
Lab Alumnus: Dr. Andrew Tanentzap
The sub-title for this post is: Andrew's main Hobby is doing science all the time! Dr. Tanentzap, who is a Lecturer in the Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, has been very busy in the last couple of weeks, since his latest paper, with Mark Vicari & myself was published in Biology Letters. It's all about how moose […]
Lab Alumnus: Dr. Gustaf Granath
The sub-title for this page is: He Runs Up Mountains for Fun! I met Gustaf in 2004, when I was on sabbatical in Umeå at SLU, the Swedish Agricultural University. Gustaf was a student at SLU-Uppsala campus, but was interested in doing a research project with my host, Dr. John Ball, who was in the Animal […]
