#AntiScience #AntiDEI #NSERC #SSHRC #CIHR
-- Open Letter to Protect Tri-Council EDI Data --

"The recent motion by the House of Commons Standing Committee on Science and Research is incredibly damaging, unscientific in its approach, unethical, and puts equity deserving researchers and graduate students at risk."

"the CSCR just passed a motion to force the Tri-Councils to release [...] funded and non-funded scholarship and project applications, including confidential data about funding applicant's EDI questionnaires and information about their institutions, peer reviewer comments and more."

🔗https://x.com/OCUFA/status/1985391484254711843

SRSR Committee Meeting; Minutes
🔗https://www.ourcommons.ca/DocumentViewer/en/45-1/SRSR/meeting-6/minutes

Kudos to #Canada's three major research-funding agencies for their draft all-green, zero-embargo, rights-retention #OpenAccess policy.
https://science.gc.ca/site/science/en/interagency-research-funding/policies-and-guidelines/open-access/draft-revised-tri-agency-open-access-policy-publications

The agencies are the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (#CIHR), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (#NSERC) and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (#SSHRC) — sometimes known collectively as the #TriAgency.

#Copyright #Embargoes #GreenOA #OpenLicenses #RightsRetention

The UK Cass report advocates clinical trials for all hormone-blockers and gender-affirming medications. A feasible, established practice in Canada and the UK for many therapeutics.

Individuals receiving trans care can participate in affordable research using routinely-collected data, an approach that is supported by the public and adheres to strict privacy and ethical standards—akin to vaccine surveillance during the pandemic. #CIHR #TransHealth #CassReport #PublicHealth #ICES #HDRNCanada

🔓 "An Open Letter on Open Access" by John Willinsky of PKP, published at #SLAW

Willinsky calls for movement in Canada beyond embargo periods toward sustainability in the Tri-Agency review of the Open Access Policy on Publications ⤵️

https://www.slaw.ca/2024/01/12/an-open-letter-on-open-access/

#OpenAccess #SSHRC #NSERC #CIHR #AcademicChatter #ScholarlyPublishing #Copyright

Calling all science communicators! Join the Gairdner Foundation, #ScienceUpFirst and #RCIScience for a free, in-person workshop exploring the role of science literacy in building #science culture. Uncover the power of community and how researchers and science communicators can work with and within communities to foster science culture from the ground up. This interactive workshop is a unique opportunity to network and collaborate. Dinner is included. Sponsored by the Government of Canada and #CIHR. Date of event: Sept 21, 2023.
#scicomm #scienceliteracy

https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/are-facts-enough-the-power-of-community-annual-science-literacy-workshop-tickets-692632461337