🔍 La diplomatie scientifique au 91ème Congrès!
Elle devient un outil essentiel pour renforcer l'attractivité des systèmes de recherche nationaux et promouvoir la coopération internationale.
📅 16 mai à 17h à l’Université d'Ottawa.
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Save the date : May 16th/5p.m.
#Acfas2024
This Acfas Université d'Ottawa | University of Ottawa's special event panel will gather scientists from Canada🇨🇦, France 🇫🇷, Morocco🇲🇦, Switzerland🇨🇭 and the Pdt. of AUF to discuss the stakes of #ScienceDiplomacy .
La France au Canada 🇫🇷 🇪🇺 Université d'Ottawa | University of OttawaResearch Dr. Mona Nemer

Journalists: do you think you know how federal research funds flow to universities?

Chances are, you don't.

Read Lisa Young's 'Research Funding 101' piece over on the site-that-must-not-be-named. See her Twitter bio for the link.

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Back to regular programming. I had missed this earlier this week but I commend Manitoba for announcing a COVID review in its budget. This is the way to go!

This. For the life of me I can't figure out why we on the left can't grasp the basic principles of federalism. I, too, love school lunch programs. So it's my job to pressure my province to institute a well-resourced, well-run program, not to demand the feds usurp prov authority

The University of Ottawa’s message honouring the life of Benoît Pelletier.
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Décès de Benoît Pelletier (1960-2024)

C’est avec une profonde tristesse que j’ai appris le décès de Benoît Pelletier. Époux, père, juriste, ancien député de la circonscription de Chapleau, ministre des Affaires intergouvernementales canadiennes et autochtones, de la Francophonie…

Political science with public health: “liberal democracies must very carefully balance trade-offs between individual liberties and the protection of public health to preserve the core public ideas of constitutionality, parliamentarism, and public responsiveness.”

Check out this new blog post by Mel Cappe & Yan Campagnolo where they examine the significance of the recent Supreme Court of Canada decision in elevating Cabinet secrecy to the status of parliamentary privilege and deliberative secrecy: bit.ly/3IO59Hr

🔍🦠 Exciting News! My first paper with Éric Montpetit is now published in Policy & Society Journal. It explores the interplay between uncertainty, emotions, and scientific discourse in shaping the stringency of COVID-19 policies. Dive into our findings: vu.fr/tBCSC
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Political science with public health: When emotions meet scientific evidence in decision making. Fascinating research design and counter-intuitive findings.

📢🆕Early view❗️

How do scientific statements interact with uncertainty sentiments & shape policy choices❓

Antoine Lemor & Éric Montpetit examine policymakers’ emotional states, uncertainty & their interplay with scientific statements during #Covid19 👇

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“There’s a growing body of evidence that finds fatal overdoses from unregulated toxic drugs actually increase after police departments seize illicit drugs.”

vancouver.citynews.ca/2024/03/19/bc-…

Congrats to Dr. Mathieu JP Poirier, Steven J. Hoffman, and Tina Nanyangwe for being awarded funding for their project on Centring Gender in the Evaluation of International Laws.

yfile.news.yorku.ca/2024/03/19/fed…

Watch GSPIA Professor Nomi Claire Lazar discuss emergency preparedness in Canada with former Deputy Minister François Daigle:

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Hey my medicine and public health people!

How much do you know about eugenics?

Just old pseudoscience, you say?

Any idea how much it continues to influence us?

Answer: A LOT.

I taught a class on the history of eugenics and public health today. Here's what we covered: 🧵

This is a must-read. A powerful critique of mainstream economics coming from Angus Deaton, a recent Nobel Prize winner in economics who has spent most of his career within the mainstream.

He highlights five major deficiencies of mainstream economics, and they are spot on: the…

Aujourd'hui, le Centre d'excellence sur la fedération canadienne et l'Institut sur la gouvernance (@IOGCa) lancent un rapport qui résume les leçons tirées de la pandémie de COVID-19, la seule étude pancanadienne de ce type.

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