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Arthur Michaud has a Ph.D from the University of Strasbourg in France, in developmental Biology. He is now working at Institut Pasteur France. He is also an extremely active science communicator. Arthur and Adam talk about what seems to be a societal difference between science communication in the French-speaking world compared to Canada.

PS: Pardon the audio. I was/am experimenting with webcast audio. We are all doing our best in these Trying Times (tm).

Dr. Karen Kwon is a recent chemistry graduate from Columbia University, and freelance science writer. I talk to Karen about being named a AAAS Mass Media Science&Engineering Fellow which includes a 10-week placement at Scientific American, gaining writing experience, being a "journalist" rather than "communicator", and freelance writing from her temporary home in Vermont. 

Shawn talks to Dr. Allison Kennedy about taking on COVID-19 during an Instagram LIVE interview.

LIGO, writing for Scientific American, a bit of Ed Yong fanboying, and maybe.. just maybe... the birth of a new project?

SciAm article: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/mind-the-mass-gap/

Twitter profile: https://twitter.com/Sumeet_kul

Books mentioned: 

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43261015-the-best-american-science-and-nature-writing-2019

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27213168-i-contain-multitudes?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=VZD34c6oXP&rank=1

I had the chance to talk to Dr. Karmela Padavic-Callaghan about the brave new world of virtual conferencing and how it's making science more accessible. The conference she attended was SCIENCE TALK '20.

Pretty much everything has shut down, and a lot of people are trying to work from home. Adam and Shawn hosted an Instagram Live show where they talked about the difficulties they are having with staying motivated, and how importance of face-to-face time with other people.  Keep it up everyone, we'll get through this.

On episode 161 Adam talks to Hilary Caldwell, a kinesiology PhD candidate at McMaster University. One of the things Hilary is involved with is developing the concept of "Physical Literacy". 

From wiki:  Physical literacy is a fundamental and valuable human capability that can be described as a disposition acquired by human individuals encompassing the motivation, confidence, physical competence, knowledge and understanding that establishes purposeful physical pursuits as an integral part of their lifestyle.  For more info, Hilary recently had a paper published (open access!). Or check out wiki: 

 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0230447 

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_literacy

Shawn talks with Celeste Suart from the Truant lab about ataxia! Find out more about ataxia research at SCAsource and Huntington's Disease at HDBuzz which her lab also works on. Read more about how SCAsource was started here.

If you want to reach out to Celeste on Twitter, you can find her here @suartce and she's open to collaborations! Feel free to email her at [email protected] to get involved!

It's a big "Communicating Science" week at the AlmaMAC!

Shawn asks Adam about an article he got published called Researchers play with elastic bands to understand DNA and protein structures.  It was written for non-experts, but is laying the groundwork for a presentation Adam is giving next week in Denver.  Shawn and Adam also talk about the lecture they gave on Monday about how hard it can be to know your audience and package up your research just for them. Shawn briefly talks about the SciCommTO conference held last weekend.

Matt is in the Hoare Lab studying drug delivery with nanoscaled particles for cancer treatment. He's also the winner of McMaster's 3MT in 2019! Watch his winning talk here.

That really long word he used is poly(oligoethylene glycol methacrylate) and you can read more about its applications in the Hoare lab here.

Tweet him @CampeaMatt and his supervisor @HoareLab!