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Beyond protection?
The impact of ethics sprawl on researchers at Canadian universities.
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Rethinking academia’s role in innovation
Why Canadian universities need to better support scholar-innovators to catalyze academic entrepreneurship.
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Cancelling in-person Congress wounds humanities research
Budget squeeze and logistical complexities leave the century-old conference without a host.
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“Mission-driven” is not a bad word
When non-scientists help set research priorities, society can tackle big problems together.
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Beyond the Nobel Prize in medicine – the Canada conundrum
Our emphasis on boutique funding programs, rather than open discovery science, hampers our prospects.
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We’re way past the point of preventing climate change, it’s time to adapt
Researchers and funders are increasingly focusing on how to prepare for a changed – and changing – climate.
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Cities are becoming a living lab for species evolution
Scientists have found that urban animals are not just adapting their behaviours, but changing at a genetic level compared to their country cousins.
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The precarious practice of cluster hiring
Clusters are often described as prioritizing interdisciplinary collaboration, but that comes with its own unique set of challenges.
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Research culture in biomedical science needs to change
A new Wellcome Trust sponsored survey will hopefully bring about some positive change in the field.
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First-year students are a relatively satisfied bunch, survey says
87 percent of students say university has so far met or exceeded their expectations, according to the Canadian University Survey Consortium.
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Canadian scientists team up with Barbie to help girls imagine a ‘really cool career’
Barbie’s You Can Be Anything campaign matches girls up with female mentors excelling in male-dominated fields.
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Archives are adapting to an era of digitization and decolonization
“Acknowledging that [Indigenous communities] have sovereignty over the material and that it is indeed not yours is one of the key things we’re trying to promote in the work that we’re doing with the archival community.”
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Suffering a crisis of faith in Canadian science
To find value in scientific research, we need to understand and respect the social environment in which it occurs.
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Major international survey will shine a spotlight on the academic profession
Canadian researchers offered a sneak peek of some of the results at Congress in Vancouver.
