#cspc2022 — Public Fediverse posts

100% of the audience at #CSPC2022 supported the health data charter. The more I think about, the more I believe charter is important. Benefiting from health data is clearly a human right. Done.

Next up Saadia Muzaffer, @[email protected]:

If you take out immigrant women from 🇨🇦's STEM-trained workforce, the total number of women left is less than 16.29%

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Biggest challenge for @[email protected]: no source of operating funding

#SciPol #CSPC2022

Next, @[email protected], co-founder of @[email protected]: black inclusion in STEM

Changing the reality of "lonely only", born out of entrenched racism in science ➡️ ex) 🇨🇦tri-council gap in funding success

↪️Little accountability, coordination, "one-and-done" bandaid initiatives
#CSPC2022

An anti-racism lens is required to be applied in all stages of research for excellence in science.

Barriers:
- diversity (all aspects of hiring)
- inclusion (toxicity, marginalization, and workplace racism)
#CSPC2022

Next panel, equity and anti-racism in science:

Dr. Harpreet Kocchar, president of @[email protected]: anti-racism is a best-practice of science and essential to maximize science done both within and outside of the government

#CSPC2022

Sometimes #innovation talks fall on a few buzzwords or phrases. Today's buzzword (from many speakers) is referring to 🇨🇦 as "punching above its weight."

Fact (in many fields), but good #SciPol is essential to move from a nascent (deep tech?) hot topic to beyond.
#CSPC2022

A few topics from @[email protected]'s ADM, Nipun Vats:

A national Lab to Market program enable graduate students to take their innovations to market

#Quantum: citing National Quantum Strategy, "launching in the not-to-distant-future" 👀
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And my #SciPol day at #CSPC2022 beings!

Starting with @[email protected]:
Talking on the recent (re)formulation of a permanent standing committee in the House of Commons on S&T

Scientists ↔️ parliamentarians ↔️ Canadians

[⚠️caution: 👩‍🔬experimentalist at work!]: prepping for conference tweet/tooting tomorrow!

#CSPC2022: My interests in #SciPol + #QuantumTechnologies + #CdnSci finally combine!