The Physics of Plants with Teressa Alexander
“When I was growing up in the Caribbean, I never met someone who looked like me who was a scientist. I never saw it on TV. I never saw it portrayed in… Continue reading
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Being Black in Science
Black. Lives. Matter. George Floyd. Breonna Taylor. Ahmaud Arbery. Michael Brown. Eric Garner. An unending macabre list of names, stretching back years, decades, centuries. They are victims of terrorism, injustice heaped upon injustice… Continue reading
Disappointing end to COP25
The UN Climate Change Conference COP25 was held this December 2019 in Madrid, Spain. The conference serves to build the level of ambition ahead of 2020 and operationalize action items of the Paris… Continue reading
Nugget of Wisdom: Try again tomorrow
It’s been a little quiet on the MyLFG front lately. Sometimes the trials and tribulations of life can get in the way and put a hold on otherwise important things. Now that I’ve… Continue reading
Photo Series: Paris Climate Strike 2019
The Paris Climate Strike – Grève pour le climat – manifestation à Paris – took place today, September 20th. It was replete with people from different ethnicities, age groups and even groups of… Continue reading
Nominated for People’s Choice Award: Canada’s Favourite Science Blog
Great news, MyLGF community! It’s Science Literacy Week in Canada and My Little Green Foot has been nominated for the Short List for People’s Choice Award: Canada’s Favourite Science Blog! Yay us!! As of… Continue reading
6 Lessons Learned from Grad School in France
As I approach the end of my Master’s program, I decided to reach out to other international students living in Paris to get a feel for their particular experience as graduate students en France. Along… Continue reading
What inspired this blog?
We’ve all heard the saying, “things don’t always turn out the way you’d expect.” My university undergraduate experience, as is the case with most, was a very narrow focused one, separate from a… Continue reading
The bird of many names
By Kaeli Swift Camp robber. Whiskeyjack. Canada jay. Gray jay. I know of no other bird that goes by as many names as the Canada jay. In fact, it has so many names… Continue reading
Exploring great apes’ social attention with Harvard PhD student Laura Lewis
The Hominidae family, whose members are known as the great apes, are a taxonomic family of primates that includes the bonobo, chimpanzee, gorilla, orangutan and humans. The great apes are our closest living relatives and are well-known for their… Continue reading