GAC is happy to announce that Dr. Jamie Kirkpatrick (McGill University) is the 2023 W.W. Hutchison Medalist!! 🏅🏅 Congratulations Dr. Kirkpatrick and stay tuned for the 2023/24 Hutchison lecture tour! gac.ca/about/grants-a…

Canadian Science Engagers: have you heard about this call for participants for Under the Microscope's global science engagement and funding project led by Stephanie Ajwan'g Okeyo? underthemicroscope.net/view_research?… We'd love to have a few more of you sign up: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

Couldn't agree more! Year round, please!

Truth-seeking is slow, incremental, & above all *social*. Live debate is all about big dramatic claims & facility with language. It selects for charisma, not truth. But! If you have this pre-scientific, evangelical conception of truth, then there is *only* charisma ...

Did you know that, in the mantra ‘Reduce, Reuse, Recycle’, the Rs are ordered from the biggest to the lowest environmental impact potential? That’s right! 👇 Reduce your consumption > Reuse what you already have > Recycle. While recycling does prevent us from using new

#FossilFriday! 73-million-year-old #amber from the #PipestoneCreekBonebed near #WembleyAB. Finding big pieces of it never gets old :-) Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum #paleontology #livefromthefield County of Grande Prairie

My brother-in-law died from suicide last year. Since then, my sister has faced one catastrophe after another. She is now on the brink of losing her home, and we are up against the clock. Please help save her house! Every cent counts. 🙏❤️ #anyssavsbank gofundme.com/f/help-anyssa-…

Downright excited for work today. It’s the first lecture of the labour of love course that is FSCI198, McGill University’s new campus-wide, whole-person, collaborative climate course. Co-taught by Dr. Diane Dechief @JennSunday Julia Freeman + I with contributions from others along the way.

This is coming up! :)

The climate action course that I’ve been working on made it into Le Devoir: ledevoir.com/environnement/…?

Grey clouds gathering…

What a great project and group to be part of… instagram.com/stories/mcgill…

Calling all science students! We would love to read your poetry 📚 #STEM #Montreal #poetryprize #Literature

ChatGPT shows signs of the same biases that arise in audit studies of human beings. When you give ChatGPT resumes, it's biased in how it evaluates minorities. When you ask ChatGPT to generate resumes for women & minorities, it generates systematically different types of resumes

It was great to join Shawn Apel last week for the Radio Noon Quebec call-in show - June 13, 2024: How has your name been mispronounced? cbc.ca/listen/live-ra…