February 2012
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Upcoming Health Symposium in Quebec
List prepared by the Fonds de recherche du Québec - Santé.
February 21 - 29, 2012
Canadian Digestive Diseases Week and Annual CASL Winter Meeting 2012 www.cag-acg.org
February 23 - 25, 2012 Leadership in transplantation - Annual Scientific Conference 2012 www.cst-transplant.ca
May 2 & 3, 2012 Biotech City 10th Anniversary Symposium www.2012biotech.com
May 7 - 10, 2012 Annual Conference...
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Press attaché schedule for the AAAS Annual Meeting
I am immensely proud to be representing Université de Montréal - the world’s second largest French-speaking university - at the Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science that is taking place in Vancouver. I am going as the university’s principle journalist liaison person for scientific research and as its press attaché for English and Foreign language...
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Oxytocin me baby!
These people are getting stock-photo freaky on oxytocin.
Oxytocin is widely known as the “love hormone” released during birth and breastfeeding to bond a mother and child, but it’s released other times, too. Oxytocin supposedly overflows us with positive feelings about one another.
Or does it?
The truth will be revealed by Dr. Jennifer A. Bartz (Psychology, McGill) at...
January 2012
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“Le 1 %, c’est moi !”
– Alain Noël à sa classe d’une centaine d’étudiants du cours Politiques sociales au Département de science politique de l’Université de Montréal.
Le Québec lutte efficacement contre la pauvreté - UdeMNouvelles
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A Kingdom of the Mind: How The Scots Helped Make...
stokehomepageq: A Kingdom of the Mind: How The Scots Helped Make Canada (Mcgill-Queen’s Studies in Ethnic History)
Presents a selection of historical essays, demonstrating the early influence of the Scots in shaping Canada’s national identity. This book is of interest to those who ask, “What is a Canadian?” Take Action! Get it immediately!!
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What's that golfball? →
My favourite blog, Expolounge, uses the medium of film to explain the history of that giant golfball at Parc Jean-Drapeau - otherwise known as the United States Pavilion of Expo 67 or the Montreal Biosphère. The Biosphère is an environmental museum managed by the federal Government of Canada and is focussed on the ecosystem of the Saint-Lawrence River. It’s worth checking out.
November 2011
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À l'année prochaine
This is me signing off until 2012 - I am going on annual leave to spend the festive season with my family in Tauranga, New Zealand. The dreary beach photo captures the spirit of the place perfectly and is copyright ”The Sebel Trinity Wharf Tauranga” Hotel, where I will probably have my Christmas dinner. Don’t get me wrong, I am looking forward to it; I just always approach a trip...
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“Fun fact - 85% of Montreal-related Tumblr content is either created in or...”
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Feeding the world without destroying the planet:...
Agricultural landscapes can provide many different ecosystem services, including food, high quality freshwater, opportunities for recreation, and flood control. Yet we often focus narrowly on the production of food, which can unintentionally undermine provision of other key services. The idea of managing for ecosystem services compels us to consider more than one service and obliges us to...
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Homophobia research chair launched at UQÀM by...
The Quebec Ministry of Justice and UQÀM (University of Quebec at Montreal) announced North America’s first ever chair for research into homophobia today. The research will be directed by Line Chamberland, a sexologist who published a hard hitting yet constructive and pragmatic report into homophobia in provincial schools last year. You can find the report here, in French only.
The fact that...
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A bit more time for castration-resistant prostate...
A study published today in The Lancet by Dr. Fred Saad of the University of Montreal and Dr. Mathew R. Smith of the Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center reveals that the drug denosumab inhibits the bone metastasis of prostate cancer. The researchers worked with 1432 men suffering from a castration resistant prostate cancer and found that the bone-metastasis-free survival of those receiving...
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Un médicament pourrait offrir un peu plus de temps... →
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Une étude publiée aujourd’hui dans The Lancet par le Docteur Fred Saad de l’Université de Montréal et le Docteur Mathew R. Smith du Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center révèle que le médicament denosumab empêche le cancer de la prostate de métastaser vers les os. Les chercheurs ont…
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SciPak: New Word of the Week Subject: Genetics →
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With October and all those quirky earth science terms under our belts, it’s now time to switch gears to the topic of genetics. This particular discipline of biology deals with the passage of traits from one generation to the next—and the numerous genes that make every one of us unique. The…
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This is what I do, and this is why I've been quiet
Sorry if this blog has been a little boring lately, I’ve been a bit preoccupied by my day job. This week was huge for scientific research in Quebec and in particular Université de Montréal. Firstly, I had the immense honour of organizing two international tele-press conferences (French then English) with Science - which included the pleasure of welcoming the AAAS’ Natasha Pinol and...
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McGill takes on horseshit
I received the following invitation from the AWESOME Redpath Museum at McGill today - you should rock on down and check this out.
“Alternative medicine” indeed is a perplexing term. What does it mean? What is it an alternative to? Medicine either works, or it doesn’t. If it works, it isn’t “alternative.” If it doesn’t work, it isn’t medicine. So what then is “alternative medicine?” The...
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prenzlauerberliner asked: Hey! Thanks for adding me. I happen to be in Montréal for a visit just now so was intrigued to come across ur Tumblr page. What gave you the idea to start Fuck Yeah Quebec?
October 2011
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What's not to like about a Religion professor who...
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Those two profs. are officially in my list of favourite professors here at Concordia.
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Growing older and wiser →
National public broadcasting services are perhaps the Commonwealth’s most important cultural legacy. Check out this excellent interview with an Université de Montréal researcher that Australia’s ABC broadcast yesterday. They have a comedian interpret the results after the interview with the scientist. It’s great.
questerre asked: Like your site. There is a lot of science studies on shale gas. Pembina, Suzuki, Worldwatch, Greenpeace, Frac Attack, MIT, have all done good work mostly opposed or neutral to shale gas. There is also a huge body of science that is attached to industry and gets discounted. Would you like references?
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Study reveals that Montreal's mental health...
Some Montrealers and Quebecers are unfairly suffering because of the concentration of mental health services in certain neighbourhoods, according to a study that was led by André Ngamini Ngui, a researcher with the Douglas Institute for Mental Health, Université de Montréal, and Institut national de la recherche scientifique’s Centre for Urbanisation, Culture and Société. The findings will be...
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September 2011
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Quebec - a great place for university research
This tumblr started as a whimsical experiment, and more of a replacement for posting links to Facebook than anything else. However, it’s rapidly became the cornerstone of my professional and personal communications – a looking glass that offers a glimpse into research at universities in Quebec and out to the cultural and geographical dimensions that colour my work and my life. The name came to me...
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Fun, disgust and sex all taste the same to your...
New research from Université de Montréal and McGill University’s Montreal Neurological Institute and Douglas Mental Health Hospitals show that the brain initially reacts to different emotional stimuli in much the same way, with disgust, amusement and sexual arousal provoking the same areas.
Ten male subjects aged between 21 and 30 years were treated to a series of more than 120 short film...
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Le diabète de type 2 et la santé du cœur : Café...
L’IRCM vous invite chez lui pour la tenue de son premier café scientifique de la saison 2011-2012.
Le diabète de type 2 et la santé du cœur : c’est sur ce thème que l’Institut vous offre une occasion privilégiée de venir vous informer des nouvelles percées scientifiques en recherche sur le diabète et d’entendre les experts de l’IRCM en matière de recherche clinique, de nutrition et des...
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Le Québec ré-adopte la vie en institution pour... →
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«Ce sera une bouffée d’air frais pour nous. On peut dire qu’un tabou a été brisé. On ne revient pas aux asiles d’autrefois, mais on offre un service important»
Quebec returns to life-long institutionalization for some mentally ill people
“It’ll will be a breath of fresh air for us - you could say that a taboo has been broken. We’re not going back to the asylums of yesteryear,...
“You can’t have a great city without an institution of higher learning”
– Laval Mayor Gilles Vaillancourt
Université de Montréal campus opens in Laval