Right Turn: Season’s greetings and upcoming event

2025 is almost behind us. Are the years speeding up, or is it just me?

I’d like to wish all of you a very Merry Christmas, if you celebrate, and a Happy New Year. This year, Signals bloggers, past and present, have an additional reason to be excited. CCRM has been awarded the 2025 William Edmond Logan Award for Excellence in Science Communications from the Royal Canadian Institute for Science (RCIScience). Previous winners have included CBC’s Quirks & Quarks, Sanofi Pasteur Canada, Celestica and IBM Canada. (The award also recognizes CCRM’s podcast. Please check it out, if you haven’t already.)

If you are in the Toronto area, CCRM will be receiving the award at a special event on January 29, 2026. CCRM, MaRS Discovery District and RCIScience will be hosting a public event entitled “Healthy skepticism: Combatting medical misinformation,” featuring a panel discussion to hear from leading communicators in science, social media and journalism. Register for the first “MaRS Mornings” of 2026 here. Molly Thomas, the host of Big [If True] on TVO, will be the moderator and confirmed panellists include Samantha Yammine and Krista Lamb. I hope you will join us for this worthwhile event.

Until then, thank you to all the bloggers for their effort and dedication this year.

I leave you with this stem cell Christmas parody video to enjoy. If you are playing Whamageddon, don’t click!

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Stacey Johnson

Stacey Johnson is the editor of Signals and a contributor. For 25 years, Stacey has been providing strategic communications counsel to government, corporate, technology and health organizations. She began her career at the CTV Television Network and then moved to Hill & Knowlton Canada where she advised clients in a variety of industries and sectors. Stacey is the Vice President, Communications and Marketing for CCRM, a leader in developing and commercializing regenerative medicine-based technologies and cell and gene therapies. She has a Master's degree in Public Relations. You can follow her on Twitter @msstaceyerin.

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