UPDATED 25 July 2015. It's been 7 weeks since I originally posted this blog. In the interim, it's been a case of 2 steps forward, one step back. I've acquired a file with the York University Human Resources Health, Safety and a personal trainer. I've also been back to my family doctor (the umbrella/gatekeeper for institutional reporting on […]
Dawn's Blog and General News Items
We celebrated one of my many great mentors at #Nomifest
I'm still recovering from an SI joint injury that slowed me down in the last 3 weeks. I couldn't move for 2 days. Luckily, acupuncture gave me enough mobility to fly to Boston for a celebration of the science and mentorship of Professor Naomi Pierce of Harvard University. I met Nomi when I was a grad student […]
My first MOOC: UQx's Denial101x Making Sense of Climate Science Denial
Update August 4, 2015: Unfortunately, my lower back & hip injury, has taken up ridiculous amounts of my life, and limited me to a max of 7 hours a day work, standing up, since late April. I was very sad that this meant I simply couldn't complete this very worthwhile, beautifully organized MOOC. I watched the first […]
The sky high Opportunity Cost of dealing with #HigherEd administration
The reason I am late by a week with this post, is that I spent a ton of time last week: 1. With inspiring high school students and great colleagues (at right). For the 2nd year, I judged the Toronto Envirothon at the Ontario Science Centre. 2. With inspiring university students: I edited the publishable research of my […]
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 […]
Higher Education politics: from sustainability to strikes
One of my top undergrads: MT @flori_nicoleta: I hate the position York put their students & faculty in. What were they thinking? #CUPE3903 — Dawn Bazely (@dawnbazely) March 17, 2015 I had planned to blog about the March 7 Women In STEM event celebrating the Faculty of Science's 50th anniversary. I'll do that next time. Instead, […]
Jim Woodgett discusses the Challenges of Science Communication
Yesterday, Monday 2 March, Dr. Jim Woodgett, research director of Mount Sinai's Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, spoke about the issues and challenges faced by scientists, when it comes to doing effective communication of science in the public understanding of science realm. If you’re a Canadian scientist on Twitter you will know him as @JWoodgett, and may […]
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]
Academic Citizenship: my authored output in 2015 so far, is 15 references
John Morgan (@JMorganTHE) and Chris Havergal's (@CHavergalTHE) wide-ranging article in the Times Higher Education magazine describes the stresses and strains on the clear glue that holds the global higher education ecosystem together. All of the invisible work that we do beyond our research and teaching can be loosely termed "administration", or community-building, or academic citizenship. […]
Keeping on the bright side: High & Low points of my 2014 #HigherEd year in numbers
An Academic New Year's Resolution list: For 2015, 101 Big And Small Ways To Make A Difference In Academia http://t.co/DCBuVYWyLo — Conditional Accept (@conditionaccept) January 7, 2015 In my experience, what I do remains a mystery to most people both within and outside of Higher Education. When they were young, my daughters told me that […]
