AskPippa🇨🇦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
#RCIscience has some great events coming up this month -- some online, some in person.
They are all FREE.
- May 1: The Secret Life of Pets -- ask an expert, online. You can submit questions. Answers from an #animal #psychologist.
- May 11: #Bird Watching event on Glendon Campus of #YorkUniversity with a bird researcher.
- June 7: #Science is a #Drag. The award-winning sensation #ScienceIsADrag challenges the #cis/heteronormative stereotypes of science with entertaining drag performances and interactive science presentations. Come for dinner, drinks & drag.
Details and signup: https://www.rciscience.ca/
Fun #science gifts promoted by the Royal Canadian Institute for Science. I have a soft-spot for this organization because I was on council for about 8 years and helped organize and create free public #science events.
#RCIscience
https://www.rciscience.ca/blog/2022-holiday-gift-guide
#RCIscience
https://www.rciscience.ca/blog/2022-holiday-gift-guide
If you're in the #Toronto or #GTA area, there are some amazing #science experiences coming up organized by #RCIscience (Royal Canadian Institute for Science). There is an event on CO2 monitoring (Nov 24), and one the science of baking cookies (Dec 6). The website has a number of videos of talks by top scientists on other topics too. Most RCI events are free.
https://www.rciscience.ca/
https://www.rciscience.ca/