by Stacey Johnson | Jul 5, 2019
Propaganda is everywhere these days. Even (especially?) at a conference for public relations professionals. La Generalista, aka Alicia Wanless, was the opening keynote speaker at the recent Canadian Public Relations Society’s (CPRS) “Evolving Expectations” annual...
by Stacey Johnson | Jun 28, 2019
There’s a new blog in town and it’s in direct competition to Signals. Or is it? In our information saturated world, there is a great deal of competition for your attention. In 2015, Netflix users had streamed 42.5 billion hours of video and its users collectively...
by Stacey Johnson | Jun 21, 2019
In our hyperconnected world, video is king. There are many reasons for this, including the fact that for marketers video helps convert visitors (to a website for example) into customers. Videos also bring testimonials to life. Real people are telling us why we should...
by Stacey Johnson | Jun 14, 2019
Writers will know that inspiration can come from the strangest places. Earlier this week I came across a Twitter thread from “Dr Esther @EstOdek” who was amusingly upset (I think that’s an oxymoron) that she learned, too late for her PhD on starfish, that The Hulk’s...
by Stacey Johnson | Jun 7, 2019
Australian culture and pride were very much on display at ISCT 2019, the annual meeting of clinicians, regulators, researchers, technologists and industry who claim membership in the International Society for Cell and Gene Therapy (ISCT). While it was my first time...
by Farah Qaiser | May 27, 2019
What is science policy? How do I translate my research expertise into policymaking? And what does working in the federal public service involve? These were some of the questions swirling around in my head as I set off to attend the Science Outside The Lab North (SOtL...
by Lyla El-Fayomi | May 22, 2019
A mouse with mysterious cables attached to its head explores an enclosure, casually walking past a small wooden stick, uninterested. Cut to another scene of the same mouse as it walks past the same stick – only this time, a light atop its head begins to glow. Without...
by Stacey Johnson | May 17, 2019
It was announced publicly this week that the Ontario Institute for Regenerative Medicine’s (OIRM) funding will not be renewed after March 2020. Closing OIRM would be a significant loss to the regenerative medicine community in Ontario, where so many of Canada’s stem...
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