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Luca and Julia get tips on how to help save the environment and learn about what it's like to be a fish researcher in this interview with Chelsea Bishop. Chelsea is a Master's student in biology at McGill University, studying how chemicals in lakes (e.g., carbon) can cause changes in the fish.

Science Journalists Alyssia and Julianna ask Scott Bell some hard hitting questions regarding his research investigating rare genetic diseases in youth. Scott is a PhD student at McGill University based at the Douglas Mental Health University Institute. Using advanced genetic techniques including making neurons from stem cells, Scott recently led a ground breaking discovery identifying a new neurodevelopmental disease cause by mutation in a brain gene called ACTL6B. You can read more about Scott's work here: https://www.mcgill.ca/newsroom/channels/news/quebec-siblings-rare-orphan-disease-lead-discovery-rare-genetic-diseases-296454

Science Journalists Maine and Jonah interview Debarati Das. Debarati is a planetary scientist doing her PhD at McGill University. She is a National Geographic Explorer and collaborates with NASA's Mars Science Laboratory team to study the habitability of Mars. You can follow Debarati on twitter: @DebaratiDas44

Broad Science Youth is Back to school! This special youth edition has been especially released to celebrate science literacy week in Canada http://www.scienceliteracy.ca/ This episode features youth from the Pierre Elliot Trudeau elementary school interviewing scientists at the CKUT 90.3 fm station. This marked the launch of our first research project, which trained undergraduate STEM students to deliver the Broad Science Youth workshop and in collaboration with academic researchers from McGill University will begin to track outcomes of our unique youth programming. Go to broadscience.org to find out more! Shout out to... Student participants: Alyssia, Elsie, Giannouli, Julianna, Luca, Julia, Marine, Jonah, and their teacher, Laura-Annie, Academic advisors: Dr. Allison Gonsalves and Dr. Diane Dechief Undergraduate Facilitators: Mitaali Taskar, Connie Li, Mo Akif, and Liam Halloran Produced by: Mitali Taskar and Connie Li Edited by: Rackeb Tesfaye and Ryan McFarlane (and mixed) If you want to find o

Our last episode of 2018 is about graduate student mental health and wellness. Rosalind, a PhD student shares her struggle with mental health and navigating barriers within her academic institution (13.48mins). Dr.Teresa Evans explains her team's study published this year in Nature that found grad students 6 times more likely to experience depression and anxiety compared to the general population (25.48). Lastly, we have a roundtable discussion about the roles students play to form community in graduate student spaces, with Benny Niles (Just Tryna Grad) and Susanna Harris (The PhDepression)39.28mins. On BiteSize Science, hosts Rackeb and Alyssa chat about Dr. Jess Wade's mission to improve the representation of women scientists on wikipedia (8.23mins). Lastly, we shout out Dr. Sunshine Menezes and her Metcalf Institute team for hosting the Inclusive #SciComm Symposium in Rhode Island. https://web.uri.edu/inclusivescicomm/ Links: https://www.theguardian.com/education/2018/jul/24/academic-writes-270-wikipedi

In April, we teamed up with the Mcgill University’s Social Equity and Diversity Education Office (SEDE) for their My Day @ McGill events, which hosts and introduces hundreds of elementary school kids to what it’s like to be a university student for the day Youth 7 to 12 years came into our CKUT Radio Station to learn about science and why science communication is important. They also learnt about scientific interviewing and gained basic radio production skills. The young journalists then interviewed a #ActualLivingScientist, which were graduate students and postdoctoral fellows in the Montreal area, including many volunteers from BrainReach McGill. This workshop is meant to empower youth to think critically about science, how it’s represented in the media and day to day life. It’s never to early to start having these discussions and hopefully it will inspire a next generation of youth to go into STEM. Thanks to EVERYONE for Participating! SEDE: https://www.mcgill.ca/equity_diversity/community-engagem

We hosted our second science storytelling slam in collaboration with Confabulation at the Phi Centre on May 5th at 7:00pm. Our broad range of speakers involved in STEM fields shared stories about how science has impacted them. The theme for the night was Infinity and Beyond: true personal science stories about Imagination, The Future and Boundless Possibilities. This event also marked the 8 year anniversary of Confabulation, a unique Canadian monthly storytelling showcase bringing true personal stories to stage. Check them out and their brilliant podcast at http://www.confabulation.ca/ Host: Matt Goldberg Storytellers: Maya Hey,I Anthony Iheonye, Alex Allard Follow Broad Science: Twitter: @science_broads Facebook: Broad Science https://www.broadscience.org/

On Bite Size Science we’ll be discussing an editorial published last month in Science Magazine entitled “Instagram won't solve inequality” and the responses following this article, including that by science.sam (Samantha Yammine). Our main story will examine sexual harassment and assault in the academic science fields. We will hear about the lived experience of Ada, a survivor of sexual harassment (17.40min). We also spoke to Dr. Robin Nelson, a biological anthropologist at Santa Clara University who along with her colleagues, has spent years examining the prevalence and impact of sexual harassment in science academia(35.29min). Lastly, we spoke to Dr. Karen Kelsky, the creator of the "crowdsourced survey of sexual harassment in the academy,” which went viral and has accumulated thousand of entries from anonymous individuals all over the world (48.00min). Bite Size Science Notes: http://www.sciencemag.org/careers/2018/03/why-i-dont-use-instagram-science-outreach http://science.sciencemag.org/content/360/6

Interviews by: Liam Fitzpatrick (Master's Student in Bioresource Engineering) and Adeyemi Olutoyin Adegbenjo (PhD Student in Bioresource Engineering) The Broad Science team recently hosted a 3 day science communication and podcast workshop, for mainly graduate science students at McGill University's Macdonald Campus, which was generously supported by the Lister Foundation. www.mcgill.ca/osas/cpd/listerengagedscience

Interviews by: Marina Nguyen (Master's student in Food Science), Naresh Gaj (PhD Student in Bioresource Engineering), and Christopher Nzediegwu (PhD Student in Bioresource Engineering) The Broad Science team recently hosted a 3 day science communication and podcast workshop, for mainly graduate science students at McGill University's Macdonald Campus, which was generously supported by the Lister Foundation. www.mcgill.ca/osas/cpd/listerengagedscience

Interviews by: Alyshia Guan (Undergraduate student in Dietetics) and Mariam Saad (PhD Student in Natural resource sciences) The Broad Science team recently hosted a 3 day science communication and podcast workshop, for mainly graduate science students at McGill University's Macdonald Campus, which was generously supported by the Lister Foundation. www.mcgill.ca/osas/cpd/listerengagedscience

Interviews by: Audrey St-Yves (Master's student in Animal Science), Haley Alcock (Master's student in Natural Resource Sciences), and Anthony Iheonye (PhD student in Bioresource Engineering) The Broad Science team recently hosted a 3 day science communication and podcast workshop, for mainly graduate science students at McGill University's Macdonald Campus, which was generously supported by the Lister Foundation. https://www.mcgill.ca/osas/cpd/listerengagedscience

This episode will conclude our series on the social life of DNA. First, on BiteSize Science (6.02min), we chat about Atlantic staff writer Ed Yong’s two-year mission to fix the gender imbalance in his writing.  Our main story then follows Dr. Lynn Gehl(7.35min), an Algonquin-Anishinaabe woman from Eastern Ontario who just last April won her 30-year fight for status recognition under the complex rules of Canada’s Indian Act. Our guest, Dr. Kim TallBear(25.12min), helps us navigate the complicated intersection between DNA and Indigeneity. This episode ends with a preview of Broad Science’s communication workshop with Graduate STEM students at McGill University(uploaded in full as a bonus*). Links and resources https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/02/i-spent-two-years-trying-to-fix-the-gender-imbalance-in-my-stories/552404/ https://theconversation.com/becoming-indigenous-the-rise-of-eastern-metis-in-canada-80794 http://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/indian-status-why-lynn-gehl-s-court-challenge-matt

Join us as we wind our way through the complicated social life of DNA for the first part of the season. What can DNA tell us about our identity? How are direct to consumer DNA tests, like 23 and me, being used in different communities? From empowering African American communities to seek lost roots to white supremacist using it to perpetuate social constructs of race...we are about to get skin deep. Guests: Christine Carter, Dr. Alondra Nelson, Dr. Aaron Panofsky

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Broad Science and Confabulation present a night of storytelling and science. People of ALL backgrounds were invited to share their personal stories about science. https://www.broadscience.org/ http://www.confabulation.ca/ Music by: Louis Stein and Christian Apollo Photo by: Mickaël A. Bandassak