Do Female Academics Have to Be Role Models?

We talk a lot about the importance of women and minority academics mentoring students and new faculty. But are we expecting too much of them?

Another Week, Another Post

The week has gone by in a blur and I have no scintillating ideas to explore as I’ve used them all up. Though what often happens is that I start writing and all of a sudden I have a completed blog post! Half of my energy went into recovering from writing last week’s post for…

A few last words before my blog hiatus

*Edited Dec 13 to add link to post on Bernadette Conant, CEO of Canadian Water Network. *Edited Dec 14 to add link to Editors BC blog post. Last week I talked about words we use in science communication, and tried to unpack what a lot of them mean. It wasn’t my most popular post, but…