Divorce Party, by Lisa Baird
After ripping each other apart, and your tents, to stay together, when you finally let it drop when the holes and the boat you shared become bigger than your bravest bucket…
Research: trolls don’t just enjoy hurting others, they also feel good about themselves
Results showed that gender, psychopathy, and sadism were all significant independent predictors of malevolent trolling. That is, if you are male, have high psychopathy, or high sadism, you are more likely to troll.
At Sea with the Marine Birds of the Raincoast: a review
Caroline Fox’s ‘At Sea with the Marine Birds of the Raincoast’ welcomes readers into the world of BC’s bird-filled, rugged coastline. But, her message almost gets lost in a sea of jargon.
Microplastics research in the Okanagan: media roundup
On World Water Day 2022, our Microplastics Okanagan team and project partners published a press release about the Microplastics In Okanagan Lake project. We were blown away by the community response!
Ongoing study of microplastics in Okanagan Lake being conducted with community collaboration
Several community partners and Okanagan College students have teamed up to determine if there are microplastics in Okanagan Lake and Kelowna’s municipal wastewater.
Ologies podcast can teach us heaps about interviews and story telling
Ooh, nerds. The best. Also, amazing interviewer. I wonder if she was ever a theatre or improve nerd.
Ologies podcast and the art of interviewing
Each episode of Alie Ward’s Ologies podcast begins with the premise of a featured “-ology” (a branch of science), but by the end is so much more.
Brand, marketing, and press guidelines in one spot
Mount Allison University is going through a website redesign at the moment so lots of these guidelines are going to get shuffled and rewritten, no doubt. But I love these old pages.
Never take the bait
Rightwing antagonists abound in online communities. Here’s a good analysis of the challenge of playing their game.
On Twitter, blocking someone is not enough: remember to hide replies
On Twitter, hiding replies is as important as blocking. To protect yourself, block; to protect others, hide replies (and block).
Guides and learning resources from the NPR communications team
These NPR style guides and learning tools are excellent. NPR Style guide A guide to style guides NPR Training https://nprillustration.tumblr.com/ NPR Curios https://socialmediadesk.tumblr.com/