I don’t often share quotes as a tweet or Facebook status, preferring to give real-time life updates, share interesting articles I’ve read about social media marketing or science, and of course post pictures of cats---but once in a while, a quote makes sense. Time and place,...
If you have a feed reader harvesting RSS feeds for your consumption, or are active in social media, you might have seen an upsurge in women-in-science-based activity around the middle of October each year. You may even have seen the name Ada Lovelace mentioned. Since its...
October 13th is International Plain Language Day (IPLDay), a celebration of clear communication and the plain language movement. In Vancouver, we celebrated IPLDay a week early at Communication Convergence, a conference that brought together communicators from different fields for an afternoon of discussion. I'm fairly new to the...
Whether you’re in the initial stages of building your brand or you’re well established and undertaking an overhaul, a design style guide is well worth considering. Although it’s a non-trivial outlay in terms of both time and money, the headaches and expenses a design style guide...
Talk Science to Me has had the pleasure of working on multiple projects for the Council of Academies for quite some time now. A bit over a year ago, I myself was privileged to meet some of the folks at their offices in Ottawa. I have since edited several remarkable reports epitomizing the council's overarching goal to "identify emerging issues, gaps in knowledge, Canadian strengths, and international trends and practices."