The Doris Huestis Speirs Award is presented annually to an individual who has made outstanding lifetime contributions to Canadian ornithology. In 2017. the award went to Professor David Bird who is Emeritus Professor of Wildlife Biology and Director of the Avian Science and Conservation Centre of McGill University in Montreal, Quebec. Research research by Martin Gardiner
Podcast Episode #1070: “Kissing and Income Inequality”
The Ig Nobel Prizes honor achievements that make people LAUGH, then THINK. In the Ig Informal Lectures, some days after the ceremony, the new Ig Nobel Prize winners attempt to explain what they did, and why they did it. In Podcast Episode #1070, Marc Abrahams presents the 2020 Ig Nobel Prize winners for Economics Christopher […]
Meic Goodyear joins the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS)
Meic Goodyear has joined the The Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists™ (LFHCfS). He says: I was a Public Health Intelligence Specialist working at Lewisham PCT from 2003 until I retired in 2014. I have BSc in Physics, and professional qualifications in Computer Science from the British Computer Society, in IM&T (Health) from the NHSIA, and in […]
A look at how science publishing became a juggernaut industry
Stephen Buranyi explored how the business of publishing science (and other) research reports became such a big business. Buranyi’s article, appeared in The Guardian, in 2017: Is the staggeringly profitable business of scientific publishing bad for science? It is an industry like no other, with profit margins to rival Google – and it was created […]