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COMPETITION

Science Communication Writing Competition on Consciousness

On September 17, MONIC launched a popular science article competition with the aim of contributing to its primary mission : to highlight scientific knowledge in the field of consciousness , and to address the concrete issues that this raises from a scientific, philosophical and societal point of view.

WINNING ARTICLES

This body that the brain reconfigures

Malak Lafkouk

Behind the scenes of consciousness

Hicham Maazouz

Stimulating the sleeping brain with sounds

Anne Calvel

The mind on autopilot

Coralie Périard Mailloux

Women's sleep under the influence of hormones

Élizabeth Garneau

Predictive brain and psychedelics

Arsenii Prozorov

Meditation to soothe your inner weather

Matis Brossard

Consciousness, from humans to artificial intelligences

Evaëlle Maryse Alcimé

The brain speaks when the body freezes.

Anelida Lheandele Cadet

et

Ghita Lafrifra

Exposure to violence transforms our experience of reality

Jonathan Nanez Arcila

CONFERENCE

5 winners of the competition had the chance to present their article at the conference on March 19, 2026 and 5 others will present at the next conference organized by MONIC in the fall of 2026.

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EDITORIAL TEAM

The winners of the competition had the opportunity to receive support from publishers as well as training in science communication to help them with their writing.

A big thank you to our editorial team collaborators!

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Member of the editorial committee

Bruno Dubuc, M.Sc.

A science communicator, he holds a master's degree in neurobiology from the University of Montreal. He worked for about ten years as a journalist and science researcher, both in print and on television. In 2002, he launched the website "The Brain at All Levels" and in 2010 the blog of the same name. Since 2014, he has given lectures on neuroscience and is part of the UPop Montreal volunteer collective that organizes free courses in bars, including several on neuroscience, which he has also had the pleasure of leading. In 2024, he published the book " Our Brain at All Levels: From the Big Bang to Social Consciousness " with Écosociété.

Trainer in science communication

Marie-Paule Primeau

Editor-in-Chief of the journal Dire (University of Montreal) since January 2015. A freelance copy editor for Protégez-Vous magazine, she has over ten years of experience in writing, editing, and editorial supervision. Specializing in science communication, she assists researchers in disseminating their work clearly and accessibly. She notably founded and led workshops for the UdeM Science Communication Clinic and recently offered a science communication training workshop at IVADO. She is also

Member of the National Magazine Awards jury for four years, contributing to the evaluation

excellence in editorial creation in Canada. Marie-Paule is pursuing studies

graduates in publishing at the University of Sherbrooke.

Author Profile RaccourSci

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Member of the editorial committee

Emmanuelle Lescouet, PhD

Editor for various projects, she currently directs the literary journal Nuit Blanche . She teaches publishing and cultural mediation at the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières and the Université de Montréal. Her research focuses on imaginaries of hope such as hopepunk and cosyfantasy, as well as the accessibility of culture, particularly through digital means and utopian experiments.

His hypothesis notebook

His reading blog

Hicham Maazouz

auteur de l’article Dans les coulisses de la conscience

"This initiative presents an excellent opportunity to develop essential knowledge dissemination skills, particularly in a context where scientific communication plays a central role in the dialogue between research and society. "

Malak Lafkouk

auteure de l’article Ce corps que le cerveau reconfigure

" Excellent and very practical training ; I leave with clear tools to write more fluid, accessible, and rigorous popular science texts."

Jonathan Nanez Arcila

auteur de l’article L’exposition à la violence transforme notre expérience de la réalité

"I would like to commend this inspiring initiative aimed at highlighting young neuroscience researchers through a science communication competition. This type of activity makes a concrete contribution to the democratization of knowledge and the social appropriation of science. "