Jim Handman.bsky.social
@sciencejim.bsky.social
Executive Director, Science Media Centre of Canada.
Former Exec Producer, CBC Quirks & Quarks, Ryerson University (now TMU) journalism instructor. Award-winning science journalist and SciComm trainer. http://sciencemediacentre.ca/
Former Exec Producer, CBC Quirks & Quarks, Ryerson University (now TMU) journalism instructor. Award-winning science journalist and SciComm trainer. http://sciencemediacentre.ca/
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Congratulations to the 2025 winners of the international @aaas.org Kavli Science Journalism Awards! Read the full list of this year's winners—including journalists from Australia, Canada, France, the Netherlands, Norway, and the United Kingdom: bit.ly/4oCwZtq
November 13, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Congratulations to the 2025 winners of the international @aaas.org Kavli Science Journalism Awards! Read the full list of this year's winners—including journalists from Australia, Canada, France, the Netherlands, Norway, and the United Kingdom: bit.ly/4oCwZtq
Congrats to @isabellegroc.bsky.social for her Silver Award for a magazine article funded by Sitka Biodiversity Reporting Grants.
Congratulations to the 2025 winners of the international @aaas.org Kavli Science Journalism Awards! Read the full list of this year's winners—including journalists from Australia, Canada, France, the Netherlands, Norway, and the United Kingdom: bit.ly/4oCwZtq
November 13, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Congrats to @isabellegroc.bsky.social for her Silver Award for a magazine article funded by Sitka Biodiversity Reporting Grants.
B.C.’s century-long feast on big, old trees has sent forests into freefall: thenarwhal.ca/bc-forests-l...
How logging has sent B.C. forests into freefall | The Narwhal
A Sierra Club BC report reveals a gap between B.C.’s forestry promises, including old-growth deferrals, and reality
thenarwhal.ca
November 13, 2025 at 2:11 PM
B.C.’s century-long feast on big, old trees has sent forests into freefall: thenarwhal.ca/bc-forests-l...
Canada officially loses its measles elimination status www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
Canada officially loses its measles elimination status
The return of measles has been largely attributed to lower childhood vaccination rates
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Canada officially loses its measles elimination status www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
These are the environmental programs to be cut under Carney’s first budget: thenarwhal.ca/carney-budge...
How Carney’s first budget impacts the environment | The Narwhal
Prime Minister Mark Carney’s first budget scales back many Trudeau-era environmental programs and creates a youth climate corps
thenarwhal.ca
November 7, 2025 at 9:16 PM
These are the environmental programs to be cut under Carney’s first budget: thenarwhal.ca/carney-budge...
Down a Forgotten River: Travel with me along the Chemainus, a ribbon of life defined by logging, floods, droughts, a lawsuit — and hope. via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Culture/2025...
Down a Forgotten River | The Tyee
Travel with me along the Chemainus, a ribbon of life defined by logging, floods, droughts, a lawsuit — and hope.
thetyee.ca
October 16, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Down a Forgotten River: Travel with me along the Chemainus, a ribbon of life defined by logging, floods, droughts, a lawsuit — and hope. via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Culture/2025...
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🎉📚 Congratulations to the SWCC 2024 Book Awards winners 🎉📚
We want to thank all publishers and authors for submitting a total of 62 (!) books, showing us again the diversity and abundance of Canadian Science Literature 📖
#SWCCBookAwards #SciComm #WinnersScienceBookAwards
We want to thank all publishers and authors for submitting a total of 62 (!) books, showing us again the diversity and abundance of Canadian Science Literature 📖
#SWCCBookAwards #SciComm #WinnersScienceBookAwards
September 15, 2025 at 1:12 PM
🎉📚 Congratulations to the SWCC 2024 Book Awards winners 🎉📚
We want to thank all publishers and authors for submitting a total of 62 (!) books, showing us again the diversity and abundance of Canadian Science Literature 📖
#SWCCBookAwards #SciComm #WinnersScienceBookAwards
We want to thank all publishers and authors for submitting a total of 62 (!) books, showing us again the diversity and abundance of Canadian Science Literature 📖
#SWCCBookAwards #SciComm #WinnersScienceBookAwards
The Big Bad Wolf Is Afraid of You www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/s...
The Big Bad Wolf Is Afraid of You
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October 7, 2025 at 2:24 AM
The Big Bad Wolf Is Afraid of You www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/s...
Following hard-won sea otter recovery, First Nations call for a new hunt cheknews.ca/following-ha...
Following hard-won sea otter recovery, First Nations call for a new hunt
Half a century ago, sea otters were on the brink of extinction along British Columbia’s coast.
cheknews.ca
September 29, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Following hard-won sea otter recovery, First Nations call for a new hunt cheknews.ca/following-ha...
@cloelogan.bsky.social Saw your piece in @nationalobserver.com.web.brid.gy and thought you might be interested in our free, weekly, embargoed newsletter for journalists with latest Canadian peer-reviewed research. Register here: sciencemediacentre.ca/site/resourc...
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September 28, 2025 at 3:58 PM
@cloelogan.bsky.social Saw your piece in @nationalobserver.com.web.brid.gy and thought you might be interested in our free, weekly, embargoed newsletter for journalists with latest Canadian peer-reviewed research. Register here: sciencemediacentre.ca/site/resourc...
A high-tech greenhouse brings fresh produce to Gjoa Haven, an Inuit hamlet in Canada’s Arctic whose residents have little experience growing plants. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/w...
Where No Trees Grow, Fresh Strawberries All Year Round
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September 22, 2025 at 9:34 PM
A high-tech greenhouse brings fresh produce to Gjoa Haven, an Inuit hamlet in Canada’s Arctic whose residents have little experience growing plants. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/w...
@whysharksmatter.bsky.social Did you see this? www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
Meat from critically endangered sharks is commonly sold under false labels in the US
Researchers from the US determined the species of 29 samples of shark meat bought in shops or online. 93% had been labeled ambiguously as ‘shark’, and 31% overall were from four endangered...
www.eurekalert.org
September 22, 2025 at 3:17 PM
@whysharksmatter.bsky.social Did you see this? www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
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KUOW - Newborn orca spotted with Northwest's endangered J Pod
Newborn orca spotted with Northwest's endangered J Pod
The orca J pod has been very active in Central Puget Sound waters Friday, and they've got reason to be animated: There's a new calf.
www.kuow.org
September 22, 2025 at 2:52 PM
KUOW - Newborn orca spotted with Northwest's endangered J Pod
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Honoured to have won in the Natural World category for my @reuters.com feature on the troubling link between climate change and volcanic eruptions. Thanks to the judges for their kind words, and congrats to all the other winners! 🌋
🥁 Drumroll please...
An investigation into the fossil fuel industry’s role in anti-protest laws;
A profile of a Palestinian woman collecting climate-resilient heirloom seeds;
And a sprawling television series tackling the profound fight between saving the planet and growing our economies...
An investigation into the fossil fuel industry’s role in anti-protest laws;
A profile of a Palestinian woman collecting climate-resilient heirloom seeds;
And a sprawling television series tackling the profound fight between saving the planet and growing our economies...
The 2025 CCNow Journalism Awards — Covering Climate Now
Covering Climate Now is thrilled to announce the winners of the 2025 CCNow Journalism Awards. Our awards program, now in its fifth year, honors excellent reporting on many critical dimensions of the c...
www.coveringclimatenow.org
September 19, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Honoured to have won in the Natural World category for my @reuters.com feature on the troubling link between climate change and volcanic eruptions. Thanks to the judges for their kind words, and congrats to all the other winners! 🌋
Congrats to @jaelabernstien.bsky.social ernstien.bsky.social and the rest of the CBC News team for their @coveringclimatenow.org journalism award. coveringclimatenow.org/projects/the...
September 22, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Congrats to @jaelabernstien.bsky.social ernstien.bsky.social and the rest of the CBC News team for their @coveringclimatenow.org journalism award. coveringclimatenow.org/projects/the...
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Smoke from Canada’s wildfires killed nine-year-old Carter Vigh – and 82,000 others around the world www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Smoke from Canada’s wildfires killed nine-year-old Carter Vigh – and 82,000 others around the world
Toxic particles spewed by 2023’s wildfires were even responsible for 22,000 early deaths in Europe, researchers say
www.theguardian.com
September 16, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Smoke from Canada’s wildfires killed nine-year-old Carter Vigh – and 82,000 others around the world www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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I've been investigating the spread of toxic chemicals from sites under federal responsibility. After months of work, I can share this story about a Canadian neighbourhood where people didn't know they were drinking contaminated water until a professor showed up.
www.cbc.ca/news/pfas-to...
www.cbc.ca/news/pfas-to...
Officials may not have caught extent of toxic chemicals spreading in water near St. John's, professor warns | CBC News
When a Newfoundland professor discovered unsafe forever chemicals in people's drinking water, he suspected it was coming from a federal site. Four months after officials were alerted, residents are st...
www.cbc.ca
September 11, 2025 at 3:59 PM
I've been investigating the spread of toxic chemicals from sites under federal responsibility. After months of work, I can share this story about a Canadian neighbourhood where people didn't know they were drinking contaminated water until a professor showed up.
www.cbc.ca/news/pfas-to...
www.cbc.ca/news/pfas-to...
New data put Canadian wildlife population declines in focus: 53 per cent of the Canadian monitored species are decreasing in abundance - gift article. www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/e93470d...
New data put Canadian wildlife population declines in focus
WWF says it’s a sign that policies protecting species at risk across the country or improving their chances of recovery are inadequate
www.theglobeandmail.com
September 22, 2025 at 2:08 PM
New data put Canadian wildlife population declines in focus: 53 per cent of the Canadian monitored species are decreasing in abundance - gift article. www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/e93470d...
Rope-heavy fishing traps are a deadly hazard for endangered animals. There are safer options. Why haven’t they caught on more widely? www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/scien...
Adoption of whale-safe fishing gear lags in race to save endangered animals
Rope-heavy fishing traps are a deadly hazard for North Atlantic right whales. There are safer options. Why haven’t they caught on more widely?
www.theglobeandmail.com
September 21, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Rope-heavy fishing traps are a deadly hazard for endangered animals. There are safer options. Why haven’t they caught on more widely? www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/scien...
Researchers Use AI to Predict Beavers’ Impact on Local Habitats—and Show How Humans Can Help insideclimatenews.org/news/1309202...
Researchers Use AI to Predict Beavers’ Impact on Local Habitats—and Show How Humans Can Help - Inside Climate News
By linking pond size to dam length, vegetation and stream power, researchers give land managers more precise tools to anticipate water storage, biodiversity and climate resilience.
insideclimatenews.org
September 19, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Researchers Use AI to Predict Beavers’ Impact on Local Habitats—and Show How Humans Can Help insideclimatenews.org/news/1309202...
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Don’t get me wrong: if the science showed that telling people the world was ending + there’s nothing we can do about it actually catalyzed action, I’d be doing it with the best of them! (though definitely NOT attacking others to do so.)
However, what science shows is *exactly the opposite*. Read:
However, what science shows is *exactly the opposite*. Read:
How to talk about climate change and the problem with doomerism
Should we be yelling that the sky is falling at every chance? Or might that paralyze us into inaction, creating a self-fulfilling prophecy?
www.resilience.org
September 12, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Don’t get me wrong: if the science showed that telling people the world was ending + there’s nothing we can do about it actually catalyzed action, I’d be doing it with the best of them! (though definitely NOT attacking others to do so.)
However, what science shows is *exactly the opposite*. Read:
However, what science shows is *exactly the opposite*. Read:
Welcome to the Great Bear Sea www.biographic.com/welcome-to-t...
Welcome to the Great Bear Sea
After decades of discord, Canada and First Nations are working together to build a network of marine protected areas stretching from Vancouver Island to Alaska.
www.biographic.com
September 9, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Welcome to the Great Bear Sea www.biographic.com/welcome-to-t...
B.C. oceans facing 'alarming' oxygen depletion, new study from warns www.biv.com/news/environ...
B.C. oceans facing 'alarming' oxygen depletion, new study warns
The emerging threat is now a persistent and widespread issue in Pacific Canada, and could damage the region's marine life and fisheries, a new study says.
www.biv.com
September 4, 2025 at 2:07 PM
B.C. oceans facing 'alarming' oxygen depletion, new study from warns www.biv.com/news/environ...
Wildfires are reversing Canada's progress on improving air quality www.cbc.ca/news/science...
Wildfires are reversing Canada's progress on improving air quality | CBC News
A new report released today found that, while globally air pollution levels were somewhat flat, Canada experienced its worst pollution since 1998, with more than half of Canadians breathing air that s...
www.cbc.ca
August 28, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Wildfires are reversing Canada's progress on improving air quality www.cbc.ca/news/science...
Integrating environmental considerations is key to Carney’s seven priorities policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/au...
Integrating environmental considerations is key to Carney’s seven priorities
Carney’s mandate priorities can only succeed if environmental and climate integrity are embedded in every decision.
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August 28, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Integrating environmental considerations is key to Carney’s seven priorities policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/au...