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The Em Dash Responds to the AI Allegations “In recent months, a curious fixation has emerged in corners of academia: the em dash. More specifically, the apparent moral panic around how it is...

“Let’s be honest: The real issue isn’t me—it’s you.” www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...

That’s ridiculously frustrating 😩

When it comes to health information, who should you trust? 4 ways to spot a dodgy ‘expert’ Even if we feel we have some understanding of science, few of us have the time or the capacity to verify every claim made by every so called ‘expert’.

Good advice...

4 ways to spot a dodgy ‘expert’ theconversation.com/when-it-come...

1. Dodgy experts don’t acknowledge uncertainty

2. The dodgy expert doesn’t strive to be objective

3. Dodgy experts cherry-pick evidence

4. Dodgy experts don’t change their mind when the evidence changes

Research Assistant - RNA Therapeutics Core Facility

We are looking for a talented Research Assistant to work in the #RNATherapeutics Core Facility at the @ircm.bsky.social in beautiful Montreal.

More details on the position and on how to apply here:
www.ircm.qc.ca/en/position-...

Wondering how High-Fidelity uses AI in the editing and reviewing of your grants and manuscripts?

We don’t. We use our PhD-educated brains and years of experience writing, editing, and evaluating scientific literature.

Hope that clears things up.

TODAY!!! Treat yourself to the peace of mind that comes with knowing what to expect BEFORE there's a deadline for doing the big daunting thing you don't know how to do!

We've got a great gang of researchers coming; all we're missing is YOU!

Register here: pages.hifiscicomm.ca/TACV

National Letter Open Letter from Canadian Researchers to the Federal party leaders Click here to sign this letter See who has signed - version française se trouve à page 3 - Dear Party Leaders We, the undersigne...

Dear Canadian researchers, faculty, RAs, PDFs and grad students, this letter is for the federal party leaders asking them to defend and expand Canadian research sovereignty with a historic investment in science, please sign and share
docs.google.com/document/d/1...

An Open Letter to Canadians: Let's Ensure Canada's Research Reflects All Canadians 🚨 Canada needs research that works for everyone! 🚨 Science shapes the policies that impact our daily lives—from healthcare to climate action to economic growth. But if our research doesn’t include di...

Sign the petition! Canadians: An Open Letter to Canadians: Let's Ensure Canada's Research Reflects All Canadians

Crafting your narrative: How to write a Tri-Agency CV Register for our free webinar on April 16, 2025 at 1:00 pm EDT

Canadian researchers who apply for NSERC, CIHR, or SSHRC grants: Join us for a free webinar on the new Tri-Agency CV, including how to organize your contributions into an engaging story. Your reviewers will appreciate it! pages.hifiscicomm.ca/TACV

Gentle reminder that trips to the US probably aren’t a great idea right now

Pierre Poilievre partage sa plateforme pour le Québec à la nation québécoise - Parti conservateur du Canada Québec (QC) – Pierre Poilievre, chef du Parti conservateur du Canada et de l’Opposition officielle, a partagé le contenu de sa plateforme pour le Québec dans un discours devant les citoyens de la Capi...

1/ So...about that that Conservative "announcement" about ending wokeness in federal research funding. It's not (yet) a published policy, but a line in a speech, which the party has only distributed in French (no English translation avaiable on the website).
www.conservateur.ca/pierre-poili...

Two stills from the Kombucha lady meme. The left says "Never Updating Your CCV again" and has a positive facial expression, the right says "Writing a 5-page Tri-Agency CV" and shows her grimacing.

Canadian researchers: Did you know that soon you won't be able to apply for Tri-Agency grants without a project-specific 5-page narrative CV?

Because you don't have enough to do already, am I right?!

Our new CV Switchover Solution will help simplify the process. Coming NEXT WEEK!

I'm thrilled to co-organize the inaugural #AdiposeBiology conference with Jacqueline Beaudry, Hoon-Ki Sung, and @sablesys.bsky.social!

📍Montreal, Canada
📅 August 19-20, 2025

Registration opens Jan 1, 2025. Mor info in the coming weeks.

Hope to see you there! @AdiposeBiology #AdiposeBiology2025

March 21, 2-3 pm ET: What to do when your federal grant has been stopped or terminated

If you have a federal grant, I *highly* recommend going to this Friday's webinar on responding to grant terminations.

Lisa Brown, former general counsel at Dept of Ed, will present along with other lawyers.

Friday, March 21, 2-3 pm. More info & register here: www.linkedin.com/pulse/regist...

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One more day to make your CIHR Project Grant application as awesome as possible! FOR FREE! Click here to nab our Ultimate Project Grant Checklist before it's gone until the Fall: pages.hifiscicomm.ca/Ultimate_PG_Checklist

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5 more days! Here's some help achieving a manageable level of whelm: pages.hifiscicomm.ca/Ultimate_PG_Checklist

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If you spend your entire review raving about how excellent someone’s proposal is, give them one minor suggestion to improve it, and inexplicably dock them 0.6 points, you need to take a real hard look at yourself. Full stop.

Sigh. Sometimes I read grant reviews and the only logical conclusion I can see for the scoring is straight-up sexism. Or racism. Or both. It’s incredibly disheartening.

A Reddit post by user Throwawayainteasy: I get exhausted trying to explain this stuff to people who fundamentally don't understand pure scientific research. It's mostly not profitable, at least in the short-term. Some of the most important scientific breakthroughs are things that we won't really understand the value of until 10-20 years from now or more. Possibly generations. That's just the nature of science. It can even be true for the seemingly mundane stuff. In the 60s someone gets curious how flies can get around so well with such tiny brains, that answer turns into new understandings, those understandings merge with new computing, and in the 2020s we have autonomous drones and self driving cars who's existence is rooted all the way back to someone's unheralded research that started because they thought bugs were neat. No for-profit company would fund the first 20 steps in that process, because there's no clear path to profitability until the end. That's why governments across the world are the primary funders of pure research.

In case anyone was wondering why the government was so heavily invested in scientific research (pre-DOGE) here is a clear explanation from one of the workers on the chopping block:

Oh, hey, just so everyone knows… we’re a Canadian company.

Also, no tariffs on services, so we remain here for our US clients, too. Big hugs folks. This is just deplorable and you’re all in our hearts ❤️

With all the carnage being indiscriminately wrought on scientists in the US, remember, a war on science is a lost war. Science doesn’t care what you or anybody else thinks. You either embrace science or you chase imaginary demons. It took us centuries to realize this.

My heart breaks for all those at NIH with all these illegal exec orders & firings
These are irrecoverable losses for US science & health

Don’t think for a second similar purging of science & health ecosystems won’t happen in 🇨🇦 if PP & the Cons win the federal election
It will

#dontvoteconservative

a person is peeking out of a door with the words `` i have arrived '' on it . Alt: a person is peeking out of a door with the words `` i have arrived '' on it .

We finally made it here from the Bad Place! Looking forward to finding all our treasured peeps—and making some new ones