Forum

Canadian Science Publishing is committed to supporting the research community. In the Forum you will find Resources to help navigate life during and beyond the academy, Perspectives on academic research and culture, scholarly publishing, and science communication, and Conversations on the triumphs and challenges of being a researcher. These posts are idea troves and kindling for discussion—perfect to share with a colleague or bookmark for future use.

Chasing Arctic dreams: A conversation with Dr. Mark Mallory

Conversation|Arctic Science

Reflections from women in Canadian chemistry

Conversation|Women in Science

Arctic science to art

Perspective|Science Communication

Highlighting the research of Canada’s aquatic science community

Brief|Fisheries and Aquatic Science

Funding and open science as avenues for improving accessibility and equity in science

Perspective|Academia

Reflecting on our collective journey in 2023

Brief|Scholarly Publishing

On matters of mud, media, and making discoveries: A Q&A with Dr. John Smol

Conversation|Academia

Meet the Editor: Dr. Shelley Hepworth

Conversation|Botany

Elements of Science: What are the elements of a great discussion?

Resource|Science Communication

For open science, not for profit

Perspective|Open Science

Elements of Science: What are the elements of a great abstract?

Resource|Science Communication

Celebrating mammals in the Canadian Journal of Zoology

Perspective|Academia

Elements of Science: What are the elements of a great table?

Resource|Data

Fisheries of the forest

Brief|Animal Science

The influential role scientific societies play in advancing the field: An aquatic sciences case study

Perspective|Fisheries and Aquatic Science

Elements of Science: What are the elements of a great title?

Resource|Scholarly Publishing

Elements of Science: What are the elements of a great briefing note?

Resource|Science Policy

DORA at 10: A decade of advocacy for redefining research assessment

Perspective|Scholarly Publishing

Beyond the academic: The value of non-academic peer reviewers

Resource|Community-Engaged Research
A topographic map of an entirely fictional location depicting rugged mountain peaks, lakes, rivers, and trails, with green colour indicating vegetation.
A topographic map of an entirely fictional location depicting rugged mountain peaks, lakes, rivers, and trails, with green colour indicating vegetation.

Elements of Science: What are the elements of a great map?

Resource|Data
Start-up business being developed in a coworking space. Multi-ethnic teams with young experts from all around the world are involved in project development.
Start-up business being developed in a coworking space. Multi-ethnic teams with young experts from all around the world are involved in project development.

Alt-Ac Careers: Entrepreneurs

Resource|Career
Scientist filling vials with solution through pipette in test tube rack. Chemist is examining medicine during scientific experiment. She is wearing gloves at pharmaceutical factory.
Scientist filling vials with solution through pipette in test tube rack. Chemist is examining medicine during scientific experiment. She is wearing gloves at pharmaceutical factory.

Alt-Ac Careers: Commercial R&D

Resource|Career

Data practices for community-engaged research

Resource|Community-Engaged Research

A snapshot of open data in Canada

Perspective|Data
Female software engineer codes at computer
Female software engineer codes at computer

Alt-Ac Careers: Data scientist

Resource|Career

Open access for climate justice: keeping communities in focus

Perspective|Open Access

Purpose and possibility: a primer for users of open data

Resource|Data

Different ways the public participates in scientific research

Resource|Community-Engaged Research

Authorship practices for community-engaged research

Resource|Community-Engaged Research

Taking time to learn: New author resource for community-engaged research

Resource|Community-Engaged Research
Illustration of planet Earth
Illustration of planet Earth

Geoscience and society: “Small shifts to a better future”

Conversation|Earth Science
Illustration of graphs on laptop screen with magnifying glass
Illustration of graphs on laptop screen with magnifying glass

A review with a difference: Tips for peer reviewing data papers

Resource|Data
Illustration of planet Earth
Illustration of planet Earth

Leaders in Canada’s geoscience community make a case for evolving education

Conversation|Earth Science
A detail of a Morpho Didius butterfly wing. These butterflies originate from South America and the wing span can be up to 15cm.
A detail of a Morpho Didius butterfly wing. These butterflies originate from South America and the wing span can be up to 15cm.

Why do we work for a mission-driven, not-for-profit publishing company?

Perspective|Career
Two researchers take samples of water on a yellow, oar-equipped raft.
Two researchers take samples of water on a yellow, oar-equipped raft.

Alt-Ac Careers: Scientific consultant

Resource|Career

Meet the Editor: Dr. Karen Anderson

Conversation|Drone Systems

Always more to yield: unanswered questions in chemistry II

Conversation|Chemistry

Sharing is caring: data papers give science a boost

Resource|Data

What’s the deal with preprints?

Resource|Scholarly Publishing

Perseverance tips for peer review

Resource|Peer Review

Always more to yield: unanswered questions in chemistry  

Conversation|Chemistry

Chemistry community reacts to the sustainability challenge

Conversation|Sustainability

Canadian Science Publishing signs the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Publishers Compact

Resource|Sustainability

Announcing the winners of the ArcticNet Student Association x CSP Student Feature Contest

Brief|Arctic Science

Are not-for-profit publishers able to change the world [of scholarly scientific communications]?

Perspective|Open Access
Partida Norte Island
Partida Norte Island

Molecular diet analysis of the marine fish-eating bat and potential mercury exposure

Conversation|Zoology

Remotely-sensed trends in vegetation productivity and phenology during population decline of the Bathurst caribou herd

Conversation|Arctic Science
Open Access
Open Access

Open Access Week 2021 “It Matters How We Open Knowledge: Building Structural Equity”

Brief|Open Access

Is Canadian Science Publishing a “Regional” publisher?

Perspective|Scholarly Publishing
Two women standing and talking in an office
Two women standing and talking in an office

A practical guide to networking III: Following up

Resource|Career
OVerhead view of two women sitting at table drinking coffee
OVerhead view of two women sitting at table drinking coffee

A practical guide to networking II: Reaching out

Resource|Career
Two women sitting and talking at a table in cafe
Two women sitting and talking at a table in cafe

A practical guide to networking I: Getting started

Resource|Career

Visualizing geotechnical data with state-of-the-art techniques

Conversation|Science Communication

Visualizing science with microscopy

Conversation|Science Communication

Visualizing science on the ground and in the sky

Conversation|Science Communication

Visualizing science in the Arctic

Conversation|Science Communication

Visualizing science on the fly

Conversation|Science Communication

Visualizing a bug’s life

Conversation|Science Communication

Visualizing science under water

Conversation|Science Communication

Visualizing plant development

Conversation|Science Communication

Humpback whales in Newfoundland eat capelin and not much else

Conversation|Zoology

Visualizing genomic patterns

Conversation|Science Communication

Visualizing science with in vivo live imaging

Conversation|Science Communication

Is creativity in your visualizing science toolkit?

Conversation|Science Communication

Visualizing science is all about the moment

Conversation|Science Communication
Four owls sitting on fence posts
Four owls sitting on fence posts

Visualizing science starts with a feeling

Conversation|Science Communication

Visualizing science through sketching

Conversation|Science Communication

PubCasts: Audiobook-style readings of peer-reviewed articles increase reach and visibility

Resource|Science Communication
Stacks of lumber on shelves in a building
Stacks of lumber on shelves in a building

Forest research and skyrocketing lumber prices: what’s the connection?

Perspective|Forest

Meet the Editor: Dr. Sally Pehrsson

Conversation|Earth Science

What happens when you put an artist in a science lab?

Conversation|Science Communication

Meet the Editor: Canadian Journal of Zoology

Conversation|Zoology

Scalable and sustainable: making research open access

Perspective|Open Access

Meet the Editor: Botany

Conversation|Botany

Building a COVID-19 legacy with innovative teaching

Resource|Teaching

Could volatile organic compounds save bats from white-nose syndrome?

Brief|Microbiology

Meet the Editor: Arctic Science

Conversation|Arctic Science

Top of the pile: An author’s guide to SEO for scientific articles

Resource|Scholarly Publishing

Open science: Now is the time for Canadians to speak up

Perspective|Open Access

Being Alt-Ac positive: A guide for academics

Resource|Career
Photo of Dr. Murphy sitting on a rock outside and talking with students
Photo of Dr. Murphy sitting on a rock outside and talking with students

Meet the Editor: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences

Conversation|Earth Science
A tree covered in spruce budworm moths.
A tree covered in spruce budworm moths.

Community science combats spruce budworm in eastern Canada

Brief|FACETS
looking up at bridge that connects two buildings
looking up at bridge that connects two buildings

Alt-Ac Careers: Science Policy Advisor

Resource|Career
looking through pipeline at ocean with rocky shore
looking through pipeline at ocean with rocky shore

Straight from the source: Producing expert-written analysis and commentary

Resource|Science Communication

Alt-Ac Careers: Public Information Officer

Resource|Career

Live tweeting science conferences: The good, the bad, and the ugly

Resource|Academia

Getting your research seen on social media

Resource|Science Communication

Scientists on Twitter: Q&A with authors of Twitter’s most popular article

Perspective|Science Communication
People sitting in chairs looking at screen at conference
People sitting in chairs looking at screen at conference

How to keep costs down at a conference: A guide for academics

Resource|Academia

Women in Science: Dr. Barbara Hawkins

Conversation|Women in Science

Juvenile lizards consume invasive fire ants

Brief|Zoology

Increasing audience diversity at science museums: Does Europe have a solution?

Perspective|Academia

Zen and the art of labwork

Perspective|Academia

Meet the Editor: Canadian Journal of Chemistry

Conversation|Chemistry

Studying in your second language: How to survive and thrive

Resource|Academia

Art the Science is helping to bridge the gap between science and art, one artist residency at a time (Phase 1)

Perspective|Science Communication

Meet the Editor: Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Conversation|Forest

Celebrating Canadian women in science at the Museum of Nature

Perspective|Women in Science

Credit where credit is due: Authorship disputes and how to avoid them

Resource|Academia

Meet the Editor: Arctic Science

Conversation|Arctic Science

Science and entrepreneurship: Different careers, common ground

Perspective|Science Communication

Meet the Editor: Transactions of the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering

Conversation|Academia

Diamonds in the rough: Publishing your negative and duplicated results

Resource|Academia

Meet the Editor: Genome

Conversation|Genome
A freelance science writer at laptop.
A freelance science writer at laptop.

Alt-Ac Careers: Freelance Science Writer

Resource|Science Communication

Meet the Editor: Anthropocene Coasts

Conversation|Anthropocene

Pax Scientia: How to Keep the Peace in the Lab and Field

Resource|Academia

Women in Science: Britt Wray

Conversation|Women in Science

Women in Physics: Dr. Sabine Stanley

Conversation|Women in Science

The Future and Past of Manitoba’s Tall Grass Prairie

Conversation|Botany

The Bank of Canada Just Gave Us a Great Gift

Perspective|Academia

Women in Science: Dr. Geneviève Ali

Conversation|Women in Science

The Last Big Hurdle: How to Prepare for a Successful PhD Defence

Resource|Academia

Scientists and Social Media: Finding Value in the Echo Chamber

Resource|Science Communication

Women in Science: Bernadette Conant

Conversation|Women in Science

Women in Physics: Dr. Renee Horton

Conversation|Women in Science

The Hidden Life of Trees, by Peter Wohlleben

Perspective|Science Communication

Considerations for mentoring an undergraduate

Resource|Career

Women in Physics: Dr. Diane Nalini de Kerckhove

Conversation|Women in Science

Nick Preobrazenski: APNM Undergraduate Research Excellence Award Winner

Perspective|Applied Health

How to create a professional website: A guide for academics

Resource|Career

Women in Science: Dr. Tara Macdonald

Conversation|Women in Science

Meet the Editor: Anthropocene Coasts

Conversation|Anthropocene

Celebrating Peer Review Week 2017

Resource|Scholarly Publishing

Conflict of Pinterest: Is social media a conflict of interest source in academic peer review?

Resource|Scholarly Publishing
Hello, my name is in black ink on a vintage typewriter
Hello, my name is in black ink on a vintage typewriter

What’s in a Name?

Resource|Scholarly Publishing

A Grad Student’s Guide to Applying for Scholarships

Resource|Career

Climate Change Communications in Three Steps

Perspective|Science Communication

Marching on After the March for Science

Perspective|Science Policy

Dr. Thomas M. “Tim” Dauphinee (1916-2017)

Perspective|Career

Behind the Scenes at Botany: Meet the Associate Editors

Conversation|Botany

Women in Physics: Dr. Victoria Kaspi

Conversation|Women in Science

Meet the Editor: Canadian Geotechnical Journal

Conversation|Geotechnical

Science Communicators, Get Your GIF On

Resource|Science Communication

Women in Physics: Dr. Shohini Ghose

Conversation|Women in Science

Canada’s Softwood Lumber Trade: Past, Present, and Future

Perspective|Science Policy

Ten Tips for Making the Most of Your Summer Conference Trip

Resource|Career

Lab Girl, by Hope Jahren

Perspective|Science Communication

A Review and Rx for Canada’s Research Ecosystem

Perspective|Science Policy

Women in Physics: Dr. Ursula Franklin

Conversation|Women in Science

How to Write a Journal Article: Tips and Tools

Resource|Scholarly Publishing

Budget 2017: Fueling Innovation with Skills Training, Superclusters, and Science

Perspective|Science Policy

Women in Science: Dr. Caroline Fox

Brief|Women in Science

How to Keep Your Research Out of Fake Journals and Scam Conferences

Resource|Scholarly Publishing

Citizen Scientist, by Mary Ellen Hannibal

Perspective|Science Communication

Celebrating Our Outgoing Executive Editor-in-Chief

Conversation|Scholarly Publishing

Ten steps for making the most of your post-doc years

Resource|Career

Women in Science: Dawn Bazely

Conversation|Women in Science

Spotlight on Science North: Nightlife on the Rocks

Perspective|Science Communication

Open up! On the Benefits of Open Access Publishing

Perspective|Open Access

How to write a scientific peer review: a guide for the new reviewer

Resource|Scholarly Publishing

Meet the Editor: Canadian Journal of Microbiology

Conversation|Microbiology

21st Century Science Overload

Perspective|Scholarly Publishing

Scientist, meet librarian

Perspective|Library

From the Worst to the Best: A Personal Reflection on the International Council for Science Advisory on Gender Issues in Field Research

Perspective|Career

Women in Science: Mary Anne Moser, CEO and Co-Founder of Beakerhead

Conversation|Women in Science

Where Should I Submit My Journal Article?

Resource|Scholarly Publishing

Using Video to Share Your Research

Resource|Science Communication
overhead view on young business people around wooden desk
overhead view on young business people around wooden desk

Collaboration Station

Resource|Academia

Open Access: Reaching Your Audience

Resource|Open Access

Teeny Tiny Particles and Massive Money: Canada’s Bright Future in Particle Astrophysics

Perspective|Physics

Women in Science: Dr. Anna Warwick Sears

Conversation|Women in Science

Meet the Editor: Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering

Conversation|Civil Engineering

Women in Science: Dr. Kathy Lewis

Conversation|Women in Science

Newtonian Physics, Dubious DNA, and Killing Bambi

Perspective|Physics

Meet the Editor: Canadian Journal of Microbiology

Conversation|Microbiology

Volunteering With Your Scientific Society

Resource|Career

Channel your inner artist at the library

Perspective|Science Communication

Updating Physical Employment Standards: A Scientific Approach

Conversation|Applied Health

Library firsts

Perspective|Library

Meet the Editor: Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Conversation|Forest

Women in Science: Interview with Sarah Boon

Conversation|Women in Science

Understanding the Ocean

Perspective|Science Communication

Women in Science: Dr. Imogen Coe

Conversation|Women in Science

Meet the Editor: Canadian Journal of Zoology

Conversation|Zoology

Open Access, Open Data, Open Science

Perspective|Open Access

How History (Yes, History) Plays Into Your Science

Perspective|Academia

Seriously, Get to Know Your Audience

Resource|Science Communication

Who Needs Open Access?

Perspective|Open Access

When Publishers Don’t Play Fair

Perspective|Scholarly Publishing

Making the Most of Your Academic Genealogy

Resource|Academia

Adapting to the Changing Media Landscape: How to Talk to Journalists and Write About Your Own Work

Resource|Science Communication
purple and blue corals that look like brains
purple and blue corals that look like brains

How Does Creativity Fit Into Science Communication?

Resource|Science Communication

Narratives of Nature: Use Storytelling to Reach New Audiences With Your Research

Conversation|Genome

The Great Northern Cod Comeback: A Q&A with George Rose

Conversation|Fisheries and Aquatic Science

Recognizing and Rewarding Peer Review

Perspective|Scholarly Publishing

Women in Science: Dr. Rita Winkler

Conversation|Women in Science

Meet the Editor: Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences

Conversation|Fisheries and Aquatic Science

If Science is Broken – How Can We Fix It?

Perspective|Academia

Is Science Broken?

Perspective|Academia

Meet the Editor: FACETS

Conversation|FACETS

Women in Science: Dr. Kathy Bleiker

Conversation|Women in Science

Women in Science: Dr. Usha Srinivasan

Conversation|Women in Science

Women in Science: Dr. Christie Bahlai

Conversation|Women in Science

Writing, Rejection, and How to Avoid Perishing in a Publication-Crazy World

Resource|Scholarly Publishing

Women in Science: Deborah Martin-Downs

Conversation|Women in Science

Women in Science: Dr. Alwynne Beaudoin

Perspective|Women in Science

Women in Science: Dr. Line Rochefort

Conversation|Women in Science

Meet the Editor: Biochemistry and Cell Biology

Conversation|Biochemistry and Cell Biology

Women in Science: Gwen Bridge

Conversation|Women in Science

Meet the Editors: Genome

Conversation|Genome

Meet the Editor: Applied Physiology, Nutrition, and Metabolism

Conversation|Applied Health

Women in Science: Dr. Carolyn Relf

Conversation|Women in Science

Women in Science: Dr. Catherine Anderson

Conversation|Women in Science

Women in Science: Dr. Andrea Kirkwood

Conversation|Women in Science

Citizens + Science = A Good Combination

Perspective|Academia

Meet the Editor: Canadian Geotechnical Journal

Conversation|Geotechnical
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