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Leaving the Bat Cave

January 5, 2021

by Lucas Greville (ComSciCon-GTA 2020)

As I sit in my living room, I search for the motivation to finish writing my...

We Need Your Help! A Canadian Bat Box Project

December 22, 2020

by Karen Vanderwolf (ComSciCon-GTA 2020)

If you have a bat box I want to know about it!

Bats in Canada face multiple threats from habitat loss and disease. As towns and cities expand, the large old trees that bats call home are being cleared, and bats are losing their roosts. Bats need a warm and secure place to roost during the day in the summer. A bat box is a simple and effective way to provide additional roosting habitat for...

So, what do you really do? A Grad Student’s Guide to Effective Science Communication

December 21, 2020

by Daniela Capello (ComSciCon-GTA 2020)

It’s that time of year...

What You Need to Know about Graduate School – A Letter from Me to You

December 9, 2020

by Emerita Mendoza Rengifo (ComSciCon-GTA 2020)

Dear Future Graduate Student, ...

Inspiring the next generation of scientists with water droplets

November 11, 2020

by Rebecca Dang

Water droplets are beautifully shaped spheres of transparent liquid unlike any other substance on Earth. To the naked human eye, we see a colourless small sphere of water. We might not suspect...

The cover of the September 2020 special issue of Natural History magazine, which features a close-up photo of a cute bat

ComSciCon partners with Natural History magazine on a special print issue

October 1, 2020

By Stephanie (Hamilton) Deppe

We are thrilled to announce that ComSciCon partnered with ...

Celebrating storytelling at the 4th annual ComSciCon-Houston

July 25, 2020

This is a guest post written by ComSciCon-Houston Co-Chair and Rice University Psychological Science PhD student Autumn Horne.

Since 2017, ComSciCon Houston has served the graduate student community in southeast Texas by bringing together experts, graduate student leaders, and participants who are passionate about science communication. This year, our conference theme was “...

Statement in support of international students in the United States

July 13, 2020

Every year, thousands of students around the world—including many of our volunteer leaders and student participants at ComSciCon—make the difficult choice to leave their home countries in order to pursue their education. As soon as they make this choice, they are often forced to navigate labyrinthine and expensive immigration bureaucracies. Once they arrive in their new homes, they must learn about customs, traditions, and...

Bryan Le's book cover (light blue) titled "150 Food Science Questions Answered" with the tagline "Cook smarter, cook better"

ComSciCon18 Alum Bryan Le – A Journey to Book Publication

June 19, 2020

by Bryan Le

I never thought I’d end up as a writer. And yet here I am, publishing my first book about food science in the kitchen.

Like many PhD students, I started off thinking that research was the life for me.

Do experiments. Collect data. Get published. Rinse and repeat.

I was heading into my third year when I realized that the research life was...

BlackLivesMatter and SciComm

June 2, 2020

Scientists and science communicators must denounce systemic racism and police brutality against Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, George Floyd, and all Black people, and we demand justice. ComSciCon stands in solidarity with #BlackLivesMatter. #STEM fields have had, and continue to have, a long history of exclusion and violence against BIPOC. This is also true in SciComm.

The leadership at ComSciCon has been reflecting on our own anti-racism efforts and are committed to doing the work to doing better to educate ourselves and those we serve, including at our flagship...