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This week’s episode is a very special one. For one thing, it’s the triumphant return of Sawayra Owais as host of the AlmaMAC. For another, she speaks to a guest who studies some very important, very timely issues. I’d probably label them as crises really. Rida is a Masters student at McMaster university. This week Sawayra talks to her about her research which includes assessing science policy decisions from a human rights perspective. For example: stay at home restrictions and the homeless/unemployed, and child welfare affected by institutional racism. See www.scientificanada.ca for the full show notes.

Hi hello, and welcome to the show. Today is a particularly special episode of the AlmaMAC. Actually, it’s probably the most Meta episode of the AlmaMAC that we’ve ever had. Today I’m joined by the inventor of the AlmaMAC, the once and future host of the AlmaMAC, Sawayra Owais! This is actually a 2-parter, since we have so much to talk about. Today we are going to talk about the show in general - how did Sawayra come up with it? What is the goal of the show? How has it evolved, etc. See the full show notes at www.scientificanada.ca !

Sabrina Schalz is a PhD student in Urban Evolutionary Ecology at Middlesex University, focusing on the speech perception of wild Carrion Crows in London. However, in this interview, you will find that she's broadened her scope to cats  https://sabrinaschalz.wordpress.com/ Find the full show notes at https://scientificanada.ca/

Thanks again to Francesco Zangari! Follow him on Twitter, https://twitter.com/franthewriter1 And now, you may notice we still have a couple minutes left. So here we go, another installment of Journal Club. This week, I want to share something timely. The new year is upon us, which means we are almost done with this 12th month of ours, and this garbage fire of a year. But what if we could have one more month? Allow me to introduce you to the International Fixed Calendar. (read the full notes on www.scientificanada.ca )

Hello and welcome to Random walk episode 27. This week you will be hearing from PhD Candidate and science writer Francesco Zangari. Francesco is finishing his PhD on Molecular Genetics at the University of Toronto, and recently attended ComSciCon-GTA, a conference on communicating science for researchers local to the Greater Toronto Area. This is another 2-parter, and this week we will be talking a bit about Francesco’s research, competitiveness in science, lab safety with COVID, and social media for communicating science. In part two, we are going to dig more into science writing. For full show notes, head to https://scientificanada.ca/2020/12/16/rw27/

Welcome back to the show, I’m your host Adam, and this week I am going to be talking to ZiYan Chen about communicating science as a researcher and grad student. But before we get to the interview, I’m excited to announce that as well as being a guest on this episode, ZiYan is one of our very first guest authors on our website, scientificanada.ca . This is a big deal for us! One of my first goals I had with this project was to get to a position where I could start sourcing articles from contributing writers. But I wanted to make sure I did it ethically.    In a lot of cases, young scientists and science communicators aren’t paid for their work. In a lot of cases, communicating research to the public, writing articles that don’t end up in an academic journal, or doing outreach activities are seen as secondary to “real” research. A lot of aspects of academia seem to operate under the expectation that experts will volunteer their time and expertise. As much as I wanted to get scientificanada to a place where we could start taking articles from contributors, I didn’t want to do it unless these writers could be compensated in something concrete. Like money. And that’s where our Patrons have come in.    At this point, we are still operating at a loss, considering website hosting, purchasing domains, not to mention the time I spend recording and editing episodes and our site. But over the last year I’ve been putting away contributions from our few but consistent Patrons, and because of them, I’ve been able to start commissioning articles for the website.  So first, thank you to everyone who has subscribed to our Patreon, I couldn’t do all of this without your support.  Second, please check out ZiYan Chen’s article, up on scientificanada.ca/articles . She’s written a great piece about attending ComSciCon-GTA, or, the Greater Toronto Area’s first Science Communications conference, including a whole load of take-aways that are super useful for anyone just starting out in “sci-comm”.  And thirdly, all of this will always be free - the podcasts, the articles, everything - but there is so much more I want to do with this platform. There are so many scientists and researchers with fantastic stories and opinions, and so many different voices that need to be shared, and I want to help get these stories heard. If you want to help us keep doing what we’re doing, and then some, please consider joining our Patreon. As little as 1-dollar per month helps, and with that you will get early access to all of our content, as well as some bonuses every so often.    Anyway, thank you for listening, and I hope you enjoy my interview with Zi Yan Chen, about attending the GTA’s first ComSciCon.   Oh, and check out Tareq on Instagram at @RCIscience and www.theatlantic.com/projects/planet  ps our website is www.scientificanada.ca . jus' sayin'

We are back! And with two great guests, Canada's DRAKE and KYLE from the Brain Buzz Podcast! (I wanted to make a click-bait Drake-based title but deemed that too "unprofessional") Kyle and Drake a psychology grad students at the University of British Columbia. When they aren't working towards graduating, they produce a fantastic podcast where they interview other psychology researchers. Last week I talk to them about their research. This week we are talking about their show. But that is not all! You can hear the mirror image of this interview on their show, which will be up at BrainBuzzPodcast.com

We are back! And with two great guests, Canada's DRAKE and KYLE from the Brain Buzz Podcast! (I wanted to make a click-bait Drake-based title but deemed that too "unprofessional") Kyle and Drake a psychology grad students at the University of British Columbia. When they aren't working towards graduating, they produce a fantastic podcast where they interview other psychology researchers. This week I talk to them about their research, and next week we are talking about their show. But that is not all! You can hear the mirror image of this interview on their show, which will be up at BrainBuzzPodcast.com

Kathryn is back to talk ComSciConCAN2020! We talk about our take-aways from the 2020 edition of ComSciConCAN, a grad-student focused conference on science communication!   Remember, we have a big write-up about the conference available for free at https://www.patreon.com/scican   Kathryn Vaillancourt is a PhD candidate at McGill University studying how addiction can change the way traits are passed down, without having to alter the person's genetic code. It's a fascinating (and relatively new) area of research called "epigenetics".

Roshan is back to talk ComSciConCAN2020! We talk about our take-aways from the 2020 edition of ComSciConCAN, a grad-student focused conference on science communication! Remember, we have a big write-up about the conference available for free at https://www.patreon.com/posts/scienti... Dr. Roshan Achal (from University of Alberta) is a physicist who organizes, corrals, and places individual atoms for nano-devices. 

Sarah is back to talk ComSciConCAN2020! We talk about the panels, policy, and new initiatives!  Remember, we have a big write-up about the conference available for free at https://www.patreon.com/posts/scientificanada-40932072   Sarah Turner studies Community Health Science at the University of Manitoba, focusing on breast milk, epidemiology, and health promotion.  Her work in science communication stems from interest in science policy and advocacy.

And we're back! Last you heard, we were going to ComSciConCAN-2020, and you met some attendees. Now that we're back, you'll hear about the conference from Adam and his previous guests. This week, we start with Tareq! You remember Tareq right?  :) www.scientificanada.ca patreon.com/scican

And we're back! Last you heard, we were going to ComSciConCAN-2020, and you met some attendees. Now that we're back, you'll hear about the conference from Adam and his previous guests. This week, we start with Tareq! You remember Tareq right?  :)