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Podcast Creation Information Session

Podcast Creation Information Session

Join us for a Podcast Creation Info Session, hosted by the Digital Scholarship Centre, the Sound Studies Institute, and University of Alberta Library Aviary service. We’ll provide an introduction to academic podcasting and explore why researchers are increasingly turning to podcasts for knowledge mobilization. 2:30pm Wednesday, November 27 Online

women on birdsong

women on birdsong

Women have disrupted research on bird song, and their findings show how diversity can improve all fields of science. For more than 150 years, dating back at least to Charles Darwin’s writings on sexual selection, scientists have generally considered bird song to be a male trait. But over the past 20 years, research has shown that both males and females in many bird species sing, especially in the tropics...