In Canada, scientists are struggling with stagnant funding science.org/content/articl…

President’s message / Disproportionate risk management stifles research caut.ca/node/12211

Fundamental research is the path to large scale impact. Too often 🇨🇦 governments of all stripes are focused on ribbon cutting events. Time to get serious.

We are looking for a talented post-doctoral fellow to join us in a CIHR-funded project to characterize a preclinical model of primary progressive MS focused on neuroinflammation - please share this Vancouver Canada opportunity quandtlab.com/join-our-team-…

A single piece of advice for those on the faculty job market preparing for upcoming interviews in 2023: 📢Interviewers are not going to grill you nor give you a hard time. All they want to know is whether you can be a friendly colleague & collaborator. 1/4

Year end thoughts re academic hiring: Too few people in academic departments understand that the time constant for creating department culture is long. That long time constant is a buffer for short periods of mismanagement, but if not appropriately managed, becomes unstable.

trudeau "Canada’s spending on higher education research and development, as a share of GDP, has exceeded all other G7 countries." This is a lie. sciencebusiness.net/news/researche…

My rough back-of-the-envelope calculation is that the entirety of the increase in funding to granting councils in the 2018 budget (the "Naylor boost") will have been eaten up by inflation as of September.

For Canada's research community, Budget2023 was a big disappointment. It's particularly hard to fathom why no investment was made to augment support for grad students & postdocs. But maybe history will repeat itself positively if the research community mobilizes again. Read on.

Thoughtful call to action re #Budget2023 and the obvious lack of support for research. The question for me and, I suspect, many others is can we find the energy and optimism necessary to do it again?

As the wise Dr. Anne Hennessy said in a recent conversation between us for The Royal College: "Medicine should come with a black box warning for women." It's an understatement. @ShirlyWhirlMD André Picard Canadian Medical Association #WomenInMedicine washingtonpost.com/wellness/2023/…

There was a stabbing at the University of Waterloo today. A man entered a classroom, asked what the class was about, and stabbed three people, who are now in hospital. The attacker has been taken into custody. The class was PHIL 202: Gender Issues.

We Ask the Canadian Government to Increase CIHR’s Budget - Sign the Petition! chng.it/G799Zxm7 via Change.org Canada

The Project Grant Program accounts for over half of CIHR’s grants and awards budget. We’ve crunched the numbers and invite you to take a peek behind the scenes of CIHR’s largest competition (1/6)

There is a pretty tight fit between the time when Canada stopped putting money into Science/Higher Ed, and the point where national productivity gains stalled out. Basically, a commodity boom made us forget everything we learned post-1993 about productivity.

Colleagues Please Repost! This is a predatory journal that is calling itself "Journal of Immunology" soliciting papers. The real deal is "THE Journal of Immunology (AAI, J Immunol) . This is pretty insidious. Be aware....