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How to integrate storytelling into your next research grant application
By humanizing your data, your grant will be more memorable and compelling.
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Skills training in the age of rapid technological change
ChatGPT is demonstrating the disruptive potential of AI for higher education. The challenge is to identify how to use this disruption to advance learning.
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Sarah Ruediger joins the Black Hole team!
The neuroscientist is gearing up to cover topics from open, team-based science to putting EDI to work in the field.
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Preventing budget overruns for your CFI Innovation Fund request
The first in a 2-part series on what to do to make sure you are requesting the right amount of funding for your new piece of equipment, renovation, or new construction.
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Editors Canada releases new guidelines for the ethical editing of students’ work
The guidelines require students to have a letter signed by their instructor indicating what kind of editing help is permitted.
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Fresh eyes for your academic writing
How three free algorithms can help you to edit efficiently.
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Quarterly summary: Start-ups vs. starting up a lab… is it the same?
As Dave starts his second parental leave, we look back at what the Black Hole has been writing about for the last six months.
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Proposing and structuring conference papers
Strategies to surprise and excite your audience.
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How to craft an organizational structure for your research article
The IMRAD, hourglass and inverted pyramid structures are all options you can use - it is up to you to find which works best for your article.
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How to write a statement of teaching philosophy that shines
Your discipline and its conventions shape how you do research. How might they also shape your approach in the classroom?
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Slowing the momentum of academic misconduct
Graduate students and professors need to act to promote academic integrity.
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Strategic paragraph structuring
Be conscious and deliberate with how you occupy the landscape of your writing.
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McGill reveals shortlist for the Cundill History Prize
Eight writers from around the globe are vying for the richest prize awarded to history books in English.
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Your reader is a little bit drunk
Many academics are chronically sleep deprived. When you’re writing your most important documents, ensure your formatting makes it easy for tired brains to process your words.
