Over the course of his career, Steven J. Cooke, an esteemed biologist, editor, and Canada Research Professor, has watched the public’s trust in science erode. The last decade…
This month the Society of Canadian Aquatic Sciences (SCAS) is heading to one of Canada’s three coasts for its second annual meeting. Following the society’s inaugural event in 2023…
This year for International Open Access Week, two movements have merged—climate justice and open access. Climate justice is a movement acknowledging the unequal effects of climate change among global…
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. Caribou, whooping crane, Gibson’s big sand tiger beetle and dwarf western trillium…
One July morning in 2016, millions of flying insects descended on Campbellton, New Brunswick, carpeting parking lots and swarming in trees. The insects were so numerous that the plume…
Last year the article Scientists on Twitter: Preaching to the choir or singing from the rooftops? ranked #38 out of 2.8 million most popular scholarly articles scored by Altmetrics.…
They can be ravenous, consuming more than their body weight in a single bloody meal. Then they slip away into dark cracks and crevices waiting to feed on you…
A new paper published in FACETS investigates the conservation science literature to identify trends and bias in the amount of research conducted on imperiled species. The paper notes that while conservation…
Dr. Jules M. Blais is a Professor in the Department of Biology at the University of Ottawa, and has served as Associate Editor for Environmental Reviews and Environmental Toxicology…