We’re now in the high season for scientific conferences, and for those who have been attending conferences for a number of years, you’ll have noticed more and more people…
Conference season is upon us. Whether you’re a student, an early-career researcher, or a PI attending with members of your lab group, if you’re heading to a scientific conference…
When I visited the Science Museum in London, England, during the summer of 2016, I just walked right in—right past the reception desk—without paying. I suddenly found myself standing…
Labwork. We all know it. It’s tedious, monotonous, dull… A means to an end. The worst part of conducting research. A struggle. A pain. Boring. But now that I…
So you’ve decided to take a huge leap into the unknown and study abroad or perhaps just in a linguistically different region of your own country. Now you have…
Picture a scenario in which one student in a lab designs and carries out a set of experiments while another does the data analysis, and the two write up…
In the summer of 2017, Canadian Science Publishing welcomed Transactions of the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering to its journal portfolio, with Dr. Marius Paraschivoiu of Concordia University appointed…
During my Master’s degree, I spent nearly the whole first year testing a new experimental set-up for growing sterile fungal cultures. After an enormous amount of work, the new…
One of Canadian Science Publishing’s longstanding journals, Genome, is welcoming a new editor: Dr. Lewis Lukens from the University of Guelph. Dr. Lukens’s research focuses on bioinformatics and quantitative…
Workplace conflict is a factor in most people’s jobs, including scientific researchers. In a research lab or at a field site, however, mild conflicts can be intensified by demanding…