Matt McTaggart
@mctaggart.bsky.social
Phys chem / nanoscience / science policy at RMC Kingston. Co-organizer of Science Meets Parliament 🇨🇦
What a year it's going to be! What fun we'll have!
What a year it's going to be! What fun we'll have!
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#SciParlON2025 wouldn’t be possible without the support of our incredible sponsors! 👏 #SciParlON2025 ne serait pas possible sans le soutien de nos incroyables partenaires !
Thank you, Royal Military College of Canada! Merci, Collège militaire royal du Canada !
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Thank you, Royal Military College of Canada! Merci, Collège militaire royal du Canada !
sciencepolicy.ca/programs/sci...
April 30, 2025 at 4:39 PM
#SciParlON2025 wouldn’t be possible without the support of our incredible sponsors! 👏 #SciParlON2025 ne serait pas possible sans le soutien de nos incroyables partenaires !
Thank you, Royal Military College of Canada! Merci, Collège militaire royal du Canada !
sciencepolicy.ca/programs/sci...
Thank you, Royal Military College of Canada! Merci, Collège militaire royal du Canada !
sciencepolicy.ca/programs/sci...
Thinking a lot about moral integrity this weekend (coincidentally, voting opened in Canada).
From @theradr.bsky.social:
"We must not just seek just goals ... we have to get there by striving to be the people we're supposed to be, every single step of the way."
www.lifeisasacredtext.com/pursue/
From @theradr.bsky.social:
"We must not just seek just goals ... we have to get there by striving to be the people we're supposed to be, every single step of the way."
www.lifeisasacredtext.com/pursue/
Pursue justice, justly
how to chase it beyond the slogan
www.lifeisasacredtext.com
April 21, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Thinking a lot about moral integrity this weekend (coincidentally, voting opened in Canada).
From @theradr.bsky.social:
"We must not just seek just goals ... we have to get there by striving to be the people we're supposed to be, every single step of the way."
www.lifeisasacredtext.com/pursue/
From @theradr.bsky.social:
"We must not just seek just goals ... we have to get there by striving to be the people we're supposed to be, every single step of the way."
www.lifeisasacredtext.com/pursue/
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This easy letter writing tool by @e4dca.bsky.social lets you contact all your local candidates to ask them to commit to protecting and promoting science in Canada!
Take one minute to help put science on the radar this election 👇 #elxn45 #CdnPoli #CdnSci 🧪 🇨🇦
Take one minute to help put science on the radar this election 👇 #elxn45 #CdnPoli #CdnSci 🧪 🇨🇦
April 18, 2025 at 3:45 AM
This easy letter writing tool by @e4dca.bsky.social lets you contact all your local candidates to ask them to commit to protecting and promoting science in Canada!
Take one minute to help put science on the radar this election 👇 #elxn45 #CdnPoli #CdnSci 🧪 🇨🇦
Take one minute to help put science on the radar this election 👇 #elxn45 #CdnPoli #CdnSci 🧪 🇨🇦
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Let’s give this starter pack business a go! Here are (mostly) 🇨🇦 accounts I follow for science policy. Will continuously update! #scipol 🧪
go.bsky.app/UMLZfh5
go.bsky.app/UMLZfh5
April 11, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Let’s give this starter pack business a go! Here are (mostly) 🇨🇦 accounts I follow for science policy. Will continuously update! #scipol 🧪
go.bsky.app/UMLZfh5
go.bsky.app/UMLZfh5
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The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Wilfrid Laurier University invites applications for a Tenure Track faculty position at the Assistant Professor level in Physical Chemistry. Applications will be accepted until March 28th, 2025. #chemjobs
careers.wlu.ca/job/Waterloo...
careers.wlu.ca/job/Waterloo...
Assistant Professor - Dept. of Chemistry & Biochemistry
Assistant Professor - Dept. of Chemistry & Biochemistry
careers.wlu.ca
February 24, 2025 at 12:09 PM
The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Wilfrid Laurier University invites applications for a Tenure Track faculty position at the Assistant Professor level in Physical Chemistry. Applications will be accepted until March 28th, 2025. #chemjobs
careers.wlu.ca/job/Waterloo...
careers.wlu.ca/job/Waterloo...
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Completely condemn the highly disappointing decision by @acs.org to take down and then amend their pages on Diversity, equity, and inclusion - www.acs.org/about/divers... - this is not what #RealTimeChem stands for.
www.acs.org
February 10, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Completely condemn the highly disappointing decision by @acs.org to take down and then amend their pages on Diversity, equity, and inclusion - www.acs.org/about/divers... - this is not what #RealTimeChem stands for.
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Who runs the ACS? Is it a member-run organization that serves that membership. Or is it a money making publishing house.
This move does real damage to the profession. This move does real damage to my colleagues and peers and trainees and our future chemists.
Grow a spine @acs.org
This move does real damage to the profession. This move does real damage to my colleagues and peers and trainees and our future chemists.
Grow a spine @acs.org
The @acs.org has deleted its website on diversity, equity, inclusion and respect.
www.acs.org/about/divers...
www.acs.org/about/divers...
www.acs.org
February 10, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Who runs the ACS? Is it a member-run organization that serves that membership. Or is it a money making publishing house.
This move does real damage to the profession. This move does real damage to my colleagues and peers and trainees and our future chemists.
Grow a spine @acs.org
This move does real damage to the profession. This move does real damage to my colleagues and peers and trainees and our future chemists.
Grow a spine @acs.org
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February 10, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Besides showing basic respect for human dignity, active inclusion and equal recognition of diverse standpoints work to correct long-standing social failures that sabotage science and scholarship.
Attacks on inclusion must be met as attacks on the fundamental mission of higher learning.
Attacks on inclusion must be met as attacks on the fundamental mission of higher learning.
I have run out of patience with the apparent silence of most US science institutions (and not just US) in the face of Trump & Musk's rampage. There are of so many facets of that, but in this column for @chemistryworld.com I talk about the assaults on inclusion.
www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/scie...
www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/scie...
Scientific institutions have a long history of anticipatory obedience
Societies should learn from this and speak up to support inclusion
www.chemistryworld.com
February 7, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Besides showing basic respect for human dignity, active inclusion and equal recognition of diverse standpoints work to correct long-standing social failures that sabotage science and scholarship.
Attacks on inclusion must be met as attacks on the fundamental mission of higher learning.
Attacks on inclusion must be met as attacks on the fundamental mission of higher learning.
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My piece in the Hill Times today is relevant to the challenges Canada is facing in this new version of North America.
Yes, the immediate issue with tariffs is the threat to our economy/trade. But the solutions are not just economic.
www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/0...
Yes, the immediate issue with tariffs is the threat to our economy/trade. But the solutions are not just economic.
www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/0...
Policy-making for innovation requires high levels of collaborative resolve
Canada is facing unique challenges including emerging global crises and wicked social issues. Innovation needs to be guided by policies that are adapted to tackle these evolving, unpredictable and unc...
www.hilltimes.com
February 3, 2025 at 3:46 PM
My piece in the Hill Times today is relevant to the challenges Canada is facing in this new version of North America.
Yes, the immediate issue with tariffs is the threat to our economy/trade. But the solutions are not just economic.
www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/0...
Yes, the immediate issue with tariffs is the threat to our economy/trade. But the solutions are not just economic.
www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/0...
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Science is political. It wouldn't necessarily have to be partisan.
But when one party is opposed to science-based policy, scientists have a choice between saying "you're right, thoughts and prayers are probably as effective as reducing carbon emissions" or saying "fuck that."
But when one party is opposed to science-based policy, scientists have a choice between saying "you're right, thoughts and prayers are probably as effective as reducing carbon emissions" or saying "fuck that."
February 2, 2025 at 6:04 AM
Science is political. It wouldn't necessarily have to be partisan.
But when one party is opposed to science-based policy, scientists have a choice between saying "you're right, thoughts and prayers are probably as effective as reducing carbon emissions" or saying "fuck that."
But when one party is opposed to science-based policy, scientists have a choice between saying "you're right, thoughts and prayers are probably as effective as reducing carbon emissions" or saying "fuck that."
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I keep thinking about what might have happened if people had listened to Patricia Williams, Charles Lawrence, Mari Matsuda, Gary Peller, Jonathan Kahn, and other actual critical race theorists about the shift away from racial justice towards diversity as a framework
medium.com/space-anthro...
medium.com/space-anthro...
Diversity is a Dangerous Set-up
Recreational antiracism won’t change anything: a review of Jonathan Kahn’s critique of implicit bias discourse.
medium.com
January 29, 2025 at 12:38 PM
I keep thinking about what might have happened if people had listened to Patricia Williams, Charles Lawrence, Mari Matsuda, Gary Peller, Jonathan Kahn, and other actual critical race theorists about the shift away from racial justice towards diversity as a framework
medium.com/space-anthro...
medium.com/space-anthro...
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Registration for the 16th Canadian Chemical Crystallography Workshop is open! Taking place immediately after #CSC2025 in Ottawa. For more information, including general topics and suggestions for accommodations, check out our website: xtallography.ca/index.php/xt...
CCCW 2025 – Canadian National Committee for Crystallography
xtallography.ca
January 24, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Registration for the 16th Canadian Chemical Crystallography Workshop is open! Taking place immediately after #CSC2025 in Ottawa. For more information, including general topics and suggestions for accommodations, check out our website: xtallography.ca/index.php/xt...
Oh my but this looks beautiful
I'm sure I shouldn't do this yet, but it's just too damned classy.
Coming in September 2025.
Coming in September 2025.
December 18, 2024 at 2:25 AM
Oh my but this looks beautiful
DEADLINE TODAY for applications to Science Meets Parliament 2025!
Research can't speak for itself - we need voices from the natural, social, formal sciences, engineering and the humanities to be heard everywhere that your knowledge contributes to the public benefit, including our legislatures!
Research can't speak for itself - we need voices from the natural, social, formal sciences, engineering and the humanities to be heard everywhere that your knowledge contributes to the public benefit, including our legislatures!
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Science Meets Parliament - CSPC
The Canadian Science Policy Centre (CSPC) and the Office of the Chief Science Advisor (OCSA) are pleased to offer our Science Meets Parliament programs. During these events, over 100 emerging leaders ...
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December 6, 2024 at 4:41 PM
DEADLINE TODAY for applications to Science Meets Parliament 2025!
Research can't speak for itself - we need voices from the natural, social, formal sciences, engineering and the humanities to be heard everywhere that your knowledge contributes to the public benefit, including our legislatures!
Research can't speak for itself - we need voices from the natural, social, formal sciences, engineering and the humanities to be heard everywhere that your knowledge contributes to the public benefit, including our legislatures!
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Il y a 35 ans, 14 jeunes femmes étaient tués à Polytechnique Montréal parce qu'elles étaient des femmes
ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelles/sp...
ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelles/sp...
25 ans après Polytechnique : 14 visages d'une tragédie
25 après la tragédie de Polytechnique, voici les portraits des 14 femmes qui ont perdu la vie le 6 décembre 1989.
ici.radio-canada.ca
December 6, 2024 at 6:33 AM
Il y a 35 ans, 14 jeunes femmes étaient tués à Polytechnique Montréal parce qu'elles étaient des femmes
ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelles/sp...
ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelles/sp...
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Just remember there’s a reason that English is now the Lingua Franca of science, not German
December 6, 2024 at 12:03 AM
Just remember there’s a reason that English is now the Lingua Franca of science, not German
Also, a very strange way for the lawyers, financiers, and business leaders in the legislature to say that their specialties create no real economic impact
This statement in particular is horrifying and clearly not true: “Real impact on our economy will come from areas such as physics, chemistry, maths, engineering and biomedical sciences.”
December 4, 2024 at 1:25 PM
Also, a very strange way for the lawyers, financiers, and business leaders in the legislature to say that their specialties create no real economic impact
A surefire way to reduce the total economic advantages of research to a country is to cut off the parts that generate unpredictable or uncountable benefits
It’s a dark day for research in Aotearoa New Zealand and the ramifications for the country are huge. Minister Judith Collins has just announced our blue-skies funder will no longer fund humanities & social science research and that 50% of what is funded must have economic benefit.
December 4, 2024 at 1:22 PM
A surefire way to reduce the total economic advantages of research to a country is to cut off the parts that generate unpredictable or uncountable benefits
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In a Nature survey, 80% of science-policy experts say their country’s science advice system is poor or patchy.
I've written about the state of global science advice & what should change.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Thnx to @ingsa.bsky.social @transformevidence.bsky.social @jperkel.bsky.social
I've written about the state of global science advice & what should change.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Thnx to @ingsa.bsky.social @transformevidence.bsky.social @jperkel.bsky.social
Science could solve some of the world’s biggest problems. Why aren’t governments using it?
A Nature global survey finds that most specialists are unhappy with systems to provide science advice to policymakers.
www.nature.com
December 4, 2024 at 10:27 AM
In a Nature survey, 80% of science-policy experts say their country’s science advice system is poor or patchy.
I've written about the state of global science advice & what should change.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Thnx to @ingsa.bsky.social @transformevidence.bsky.social @jperkel.bsky.social
I've written about the state of global science advice & what should change.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Thnx to @ingsa.bsky.social @transformevidence.bsky.social @jperkel.bsky.social
"But science-advice systems do have one thing in common: many people think they’re not up to the job"
A revealing and timely article on the complicated relationship between science and public policy:
www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪
A revealing and timely article on the complicated relationship between science and public policy:
www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪
Science could solve some of the world’s biggest problems. Why aren’t governments using it?
A Nature global survey finds that most specialists are unhappy with systems to provide science advice to policymakers.
www.nature.com
December 4, 2024 at 12:00 PM
"But science-advice systems do have one thing in common: many people think they’re not up to the job"
A revealing and timely article on the complicated relationship between science and public policy:
www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪
A revealing and timely article on the complicated relationship between science and public policy:
www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪
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Science Meets Parliament 2021 (SMP 2021) - CSPC
Science Meets Parliament 2023 The 3rd Science Meets Parliament Program for 2023 is now complete and was a huge success. Apply Now Appliquer maintenant See what people have to say about Science ...
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November 30, 2024 at 11:36 AM
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Bienvenue à @sandralapointe.bsky.social et @thelacollaborative.bsky.social !
I encourage everyone with an interest in social innovation, knowledge mobilization, and talent development to follow their impactful work! 🧪
I encourage everyone with an interest in social innovation, knowledge mobilization, and talent development to follow their impactful work! 🧪
November 26, 2024 at 2:41 AM
Bienvenue à @sandralapointe.bsky.social et @thelacollaborative.bsky.social !
I encourage everyone with an interest in social innovation, knowledge mobilization, and talent development to follow their impactful work! 🧪
I encourage everyone with an interest in social innovation, knowledge mobilization, and talent development to follow their impactful work! 🧪
Welcome to BlueSky @sciencepolicy.bsky.social! Canada largest science policy forum, connecting and building capacity at the intersection of research and public policy #CSPC2024 🧪
November 22, 2024 at 4:24 PM
Welcome to BlueSky @sciencepolicy.bsky.social! Canada largest science policy forum, connecting and building capacity at the intersection of research and public policy #CSPC2024 🧪
"Countries that win in the economy of the 21st century invest in talent. Confident countries invest in themselves." Minister Champagne reminding us that Canada deserves to be both #CSPC2024
November 21, 2024 at 12:44 AM
"Countries that win in the economy of the 21st century invest in talent. Confident countries invest in themselves." Minister Champagne reminding us that Canada deserves to be both #CSPC2024