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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-matters-1.2806534

http://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/indian-status-5-things-you-need-to-know-1.2744870

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

Dr. Jessica Ruglis: Living in dead spaces by Broad Science, making science inclusive, engaging and intersectional

Matt Goldberg: My dynamic disease and me by Broad Science, making science inclusive, engaging and intersectional

Carolina Makowski: Understanding humanity in research by Broad Science, making science inclusive, engaging and intersectional

Zahraa Chorghay: Trial and Error by Broad Science, making science inclusive, engaging and intersectional

Dr.Linda Peliter: Learning to talk stem cell by Broad Science, making science inclusive, engaging and intersectional

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