Canadian vs imported pooches | More bear mixing | Polar bear hope | Body checking | Pregnancy COVID vaccine | June 14, 2022 | SMCC Heads Up – Embargoed and recently published research with a Canadian focus, curated by SMCC for science journalists.
June 7, 2022 | SMCC Heads Up
Pandemic drug shortages | Misleading energy reporting | Ugly fishes | Healthcare vaxx hesitancy | Enduring PCBs | June 7, 2022 | SMCC Heads Up – Embargoed and recently published research with a Canadian focus, curated by SMCC for science journalists.
SMCC Heads Up | May 31, 2022
Vaxx mandate results | Connecting protected areas | Transgender suicide | Lasting HIV therapy | Weak Omicron immunity | May 31, 2022 | SMCC Heads Up – Embargoed and recently published research with a Canadian focus, curated by SMCC for science journalists.
May 24, 2022 | SMCC Heads Up
Illegal-weed drivers | Toxic Lake Erie | Hospitalization rates | Excess pandemic deaths | Rapid animal adaptation | May 24, 2022 | SMCC Heads Up – Embargoed and recently published research with a Canadian focus, curated by SMCC for science journalists.
May 17, 2022 | SMCC Heads Up
Air pollution COVID | Bird flu | Socioeconomic brains | COVID-driven antibiotic resistance | Wildfire cancer risk | May 17, 2022 | SMCC Heads Up – Embargoed and recently published research with a Canadian focus, curated by SMCC for science journalists.
May 3, 2022 | SMCC Heads Up
Heatwave frequency | Inuit health outcomes | Longtime oyster fisheries | Mosquito brains | Drowning medical conditions | May 3, 2022 | SMCC Heads Up – Embargoed and recently published research with a Canadian focus, curated by SMCC for science journalists.
May 10, 2022 | SMCC Heads Up
Forest CO2 uptake | Post-COVID readmissions | Rapid COVID test misinterpretation | Seeds for post-fire forests | May 10, 2022 | SMCC Heads Up – Embargoed and recently published research with a Canadian focus, curated by SMCC for science journalists.
April 26, 2022 | SMCC Heads Up
Cancer busts its DNA | Cancer deaths rise | Wildfire emissions | Plastic-riding disease | Weekend COVID pileups | April 26, 2022 | SMCC Heads Up – Embargoed and recently published research with a Canadian focus, curated by SMCC for science journalists.
Access to embargoed materials
The Science Media Centre sends out roundups of Canadian research every Tuesday morning (every second Tuesday in the summer). The emails contain links to embargoed materials – journal articles, press previews, news releases – on journal press sites, where access to such materials is restricted. If you click on links that are still under embargo, […]
April 19, 2022 | SMCC Heads Up
Younger opioid deaths | Pot-poisoned pets | Key ecosystem feature at risk | Killer safety signage | Household COVID | April 19, 2022 | SMCC Heads Up – Embargoed and recently published research with a Canadian focus, curated by SMCC for science journalists.
April 12, 2022 | SMCC Heads Up
Endangered B.C. albatross | Busy moms breastfed less | Omicron vs Delta | Boreal creep | Fire-weather fingerprints | April 12, 2022 | SMCC Heads Up – Embargoed and recently published research with a Canadian focus, curated by SMCC for science journalists.
April 5, 2022 | SMCC Heads Up
Arctic plastic flood | Conversion efforts | Fishy fishing | Massive fossil | Spring COVID surge | Fracking & pregnancy | April 5, 2022 | SMCC Heads Up – Embargoed and recently published research with a Canadian focus, curated by SMCC for science journalists.
March 29, 2022 | SMCC Heads Up
Fire–flood forecast for BC | Super-spreading ticks | Earthworm invasion | Long COVID in healthcare workers | March 29, 2022 | SMCC Heads Up – Embargoed and recently published research with a Canadian focus, curated by SMCC for science journalists.
March 22, 2022 | SMCC Heads Up
Pandemic effects on strokes | Obesity birth risks | Tasty apples | Happy crabs | Long-lived parrots | Vampire diets | March 22, 2022 | SMCC Heads Up – Embargoed and recently published research with a Canadian focus, curated by SMCC for science journalists.
March 15, 2022 | SMCC Heads Up
COVID surgery-delay costs | Immigrant pandemic fears | Unvaxxed effects on vaxxed | How we worsen flooding | March 15, 2022 | SMCC Heads Up – Embargoed and recently published research with a Canadian focus, curated by SMCC for science journalists.
March 8, 2022 | SMCC Heads Up
Preventing the next pandemic | Vaxxed dialysis patients win | Indigenous wildlife insights | Calming dogs (& music) | March 8, 2022 | SMCC Heads Up – Embargoed and recently published research with a Canadian focus, curated by SMCC for science journalists.