Excellent story with great advice!

Writing a news story for Nature about the impacts of US government cuts to science on Canadian science and scientists. If you are a Canadian scientist affected by Trump's funding cuts to science or other impacts, please get in touch via my contact form: www.lesleyevansogden.com Please repost.

A piece in the New York Times brings up a “zombie” proposal to combat climate change — basically using smoke & mirrors to cool the planet. No matter how many times people kill the idea, it seems to come back to the headlines. Don’t let it. It’s not a good idea. globalecoguy.org/solar-geoeng...

How wildfires are threatening B.C.’s drinking water: thenarwhal.ca/wildfires-th...

Join me in May 2026 for a Nature Writing Workshop in the Great Bear Rainforest. Slow down and be inspired in a magical habitat where ancient forests meet the sea. With daily wildlife tours by boat from comfortable Great Bear Lodge. Details here… www.lesleyevansogden.com/naturewritin...

Field Trips to CSIR On 1 Dec 2025, registered delegates can: 🔬 Bet on the Biomanufacturers 🌱 Explore sustainable plastics innovation 🤖 Step into the future with 4IR robotics Applications open soon – don’t miss out. #WCSJ2025 #ScienceJournalism #SciComm #WFSJ

Join us on Tuesday December 7 at @csir as we explore Reporting under fire: science journalism in conflict zones and authoritarian regimes. Register now for #WCSJ2025 www.wcsj2025.org/registration @wfsj25.bsky.social @richardastone.bsky.social

It’s time to register for the 13th World Conference of Science Journalists #WCSJ2025 - in Africa for the first time! 🌍 Join us 1–5 Dec in Pretoria, South Africa, for a programme of global speakers, debate & networking. Organised by SASJA & SDCfA on behalf of WFSJ. Don’t miss out! @wfsj25.bsky.social

Have you checked out the #WCSJ2025 programme of speakers and sessions from around the world? Taking place Dec 1-5 in Pretoria, South Africa, registration is now available and we invite you to take a look. Don’t miss out! Register today wcsj2025.org/registration/ @wcsj2025.bsky.social

@ljevanso.bsky.social and I will be hosting a workshop called Moderating for Impact. Pumped to be headed to South Africa! Woot!

Science writers and journalists are often asked to moderate panels & other public conversations, but there are few training opportunities. It's why @ljevanso.bsky.social & I are hosting Moderating for Impact at the World Conference of Science Journalists. www.wcsj2025.org/programme/wo...#WCSJ2025

Registration is open for the #WCSJ2025 which will be held from 1 to 5 December - in Africa for the first time. Our inspiring programme includes speakers from around the world. Don’t miss out, register today wcsj2025.org/registration/ #WCSJ2025

Banking biological samples from endangered species on the Moon? It's not a crazy as it sounds when you hear cryobiologist Mary Hagedorn tell it to @ljevanso.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...

My latest scientist profile for @NatureCareers on Dr. Mary Hagedorn of the @smithsonian and her proposed moonshot to preserve endangered species www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Host a workshop at #WCSJ2025! Share your tools, skills & expertise with science journalists from around the world. Limited slots on 1 & 5 Dec 2025 at CSIR ICC, Pretoria. 🔗Details & proposals: shorturl.at/puGcC #WCSJ2025 #ScienceJournalism #ScienceCommunication #SciComm

Host a field trip for #WCSJ2025! Showcase your science, research or innovation to global journalists on 1 or from 5 Dec 2025. You run the trip — we help promote it. Open your doors to the world! 🔗 Learn more: shorturl.at/SlmFR #WCSJ2025 #ScienceJournalism #WCSJ @wfsj25.bsky.social

Showcase your brand at #WCSJ2025 Secure a booth in the vibrant Exhibition Hall—connect with 1000+ global science journalists. Don’t miss this chance to shine at the world’s largest science journalism event. 🔗Details: shorturl.at/9Yoyd #ScienceJournalism #WCSJ #scicomm @wfsj25.bsky.social

Host a workshop at #WCSJ2025! Share your tools, skills & expertise with science journalists from around the world. Limited slots on 1 & 5 Dec 2025 at CSIR ICC, Pretoria. 🔗Details & proposals: shorturl.at/puGcC #WCSJ2025 #ScienceJournalism #ScienceCommunication #SciComm

For #BioScience ( @aibsbiology.bsky.social , @oxunipress.bsky.social ), I wrote about receding water levels in Lake Titicaca and how Indigenous communities and scientists are collaborating to protect the lake and its high-altitude endemic species. doi.org/10.1093/bios...

For #BioScience ( @aibsbiology.bsky.social , @oxunipress.bsky.social ), I wrote about what sexual diversity in the natural world can teach humans about sex, gender, & inclusive biology. doi.org/10.1093/bios...

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Can grizzlies and humans get along better? There is a way! @ljevanso.bsky.social's recent @knowablemag.bsky.social report, now available in Spanish via @revistaknowable.bsky.social 👇

On getting along with the neighbours - when those neighbours are grizzly bears! My latest feature for Knowable Magazine: knowablemagazine.org/content/arti...

Really good story by @ljevanso.bsky.social at Knowable, about living alongside grizzlies in British Columbia. It can absolutely be done, but it takes changes in behavior on both sides. And it can't happen, anywhere really, without local Indigenous input. knowablemagazine.org/content/arti...

🗓️Deadline for your #WCSJ2025 presentation/workshop/panel/session proposal is May 5th. Haven't submitted yet? Get cracking & join global science journalists shaping dialogue at WCSJ, Dec 1-5 in Tshwane, South Africa 🇿🇦 Submit your proposal here: wcsj2025.org/call #ScienceJournalism #SciComm

A survey on gender equity and discrimination was conducted by University Affairs, inviting all genders to participate. In my in-depth feature I unpack what that survey found out. The long road to gender equity.

Updates on gender diversity and equity in Canadian universities, by @ljevanso.bsky.social for @universityaffairs.bsky.social universityaffairs.ca/features/the...

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I contributed to this deep dive by @ljevanso.bsky.social on the long road to gender equity in the 🇨🇦 academy. Worth a read! universityaffairs.ca/features/the... @widowweb.bsky.social @flybehaviour.bsky.social

Good luck to all USA-based scientists, science communicators, & public science supporters Standing Up for Science tomorrow! Take care, stay safe, if anyone hassles you, just start explaining alpha- vs. p-values and make sure you leave them in the recovery position.

Just in time for International Women’s Day #IWD2025 my feature for University Affairs on gender discrimination and bias at Canadian universities. With thanks to all of the sources that shared with me so honestly. universityaffairs.ca/features/the...

Thanks for the excellent piece @ljevanso.bsky.social & to all for sharing their experiences & expertise including @flybehaviour.bsky.social (I still need to find the other women researchers who contributed & follow them here, too!) FYI @usaskcomfacdev.bsky.social universityaffairs.ca/features/the...

Appreciate all three of my scientific society homes - @freshwaterscience.bsky.social, @amfisheriessoc.bsky.social, and @iaglr.bsky.social - being signatories on this letter supporting the importance of protecting science for the benefit of all.

Many of us know what it’s like to work remotely. But I was intrigued about what it’s like to work remotely… on Mars. I interviewed Nicolas Randazzo for @Nature to find out. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

You go girls! Plenty more work to be done in this arena. Shout out to all of the amazing women and girls in science, breaking down barriers and challenging biases, advancing the science that benefits all humanity.

Cis-male faculty at Canadian Universities, have you ever witnessed and called out sexism by colleagues in real time? Willing to share anecdotes about the context even if you can’t share names? Working on a story about gender equity for @UA_magazine. Please reach out and repost. Thanks!

Happy to see this story launch, though my job was considerably less arduous than the efforts of the four members of the Salty Science crew! Read the story of their epic row across the Atlantic here: www.popularmechanics.com/adventure/ou... @popularmechanics.bsky.social

How I love this! Way to go @redlipblenny.bsky.social - what a tour de force!

Thanks for the kind words @mayapersram.bsky.social I’m glad you enjoyed it. It was a talented group of panelists full of great advice.

Isabelle Côté was part of a team of 4 marine scientists from 3 academic generations on a rowboat with 2 tiny sleeping cabins crossing 1 entire ocean. Check out this incredible tale of their journey as told to me by @redlipblenny & crew for @NatureCareers www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Part 2: of interview tips from Anna Maria Tremonti. #caj24 6. Clarify 7. Assume nothing 8. Stop talking 9. Revisit, reflect 10. Throw out other people’s rules, make your own

Enjoying all the wisdom and great questions in this room about conducting great interviews, led by Anna Maria Tremonti. 1. Always be curious 2. Know who you’re talking to 3. Do the background research 4. Prepare 5. Listen carefully 1/2

Beetles make up a quarter of all animal species—there are 40,000 species of leaf beetle alone—and form effectively an evolutionary microcosm of the tree of life. Why are there so many beetle species? @ljevanso.bsky.social in search of an answer: buff.ly/4aK50Rd

If you ever attended the Lindau Nobel Laureates meeting as a Young Scientist (even if now an older scientist) and would be willing to do an interview about your learnings/mentorship there and how it shaped your career and future opportunities, please reach out. Also please re-share - thank you!

A group of 39 prominent biologists and philosophers hasve released the New York Declaration on Animal Consciousness, a document that states that there’s a “realistic possibility” of consciousness in many animals. www.quantamagazine.org/insects-and-...

Decades ago, the idea of essential “keystone species” took hold in ecology and culture. The metaphor has become so widespread that some researchers fear it has lost all meaning. Now, some ecologists are tightening up the term. www.quantamagazine.org/ecologists-s...

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Podcast alert! @cbcwhatonearth looks at the upcoming fire risk in Alberta. I for one am very worried. Sound like I'm not alone. www.cbc.ca/listen/live-....

For your Things That Used to Be Worse and Got Better files: Much of the Eastern U.S. was deforested in the 18th & 19th centuries. European settlers cut down every tree they could reach. Now forests have regrown and eased global warming 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/succ...