Science Communication

Last year I was invited to visit my old graduate department at the University of Toronto to speak on a panel about science careers. The panel was part of a …

I received a few of these emails, from scholars’ press and others, offering me a chance to publish my thesis (which anyone can find online for free in its entirety, if …

It’s ten years since SARS, and last week I shared some SARS memories on stage at Litmus Test, as part of their “Health & Safety” theme. Here is the story …

I love non-fiction writing, but I’m really terrible at pitching my ideas. That’s unfortunate, because non-fiction stands and falls with a good pitch. I just can’t sell myself. To illustrate …

PeerJ launched today (congrats!) and one of their very first published papers is about the science of magic! “Perceptual elements in Penn & Teller’s “Cups and Balls” magic trick” studies …

Scientists on Twitter came out of the woodwork to tweet their #overlyhonestmethods this week. Thousands of tweets all described the reality behind many of the vague phrases in methods sections, …