Dean S. Shamess
Ph.D. Candidate
Public / Science Policy
University of Saskatchewan
Democracy and innovation
Governance of science / scientific governance
Conferences / Presentations
Presented “Conflict! A multi-country experiment on conflicts over the public funding of science”, Till and McCulloch Meetings, Plenary Session “Public Trust and Policy Decisions in Science: Who Gets to Define the Facts?”, November 2025, Ottawa, ON
Presented “Preferences for the Regulation of Stem Cell Therapies”, Till and McCulloch Meetings, Closed Session “Bringing the Pieces Together”, November 2024, Montreal, QC
Presented “The Roles of Universities in Sustaining Innovation”, International Conference on the Science of Science and Innovation, July 2024, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C.
External Workshops / Courses
Economics of Ideas, Science and Innovation, Institute for Progress, 2024
ICPSR Summer Program, University of Michigan, 2023
Software / Coding
The vast majority of my coding/quantitative work is conducted via R. I also, as needed, use STATA, Julia and Python.
I’m extremely grateful to have learned to use and understand these tools prior to the widespread availability of LLM-assistance. I feel this has made me better able to leverage LLMs as, truly, assistive technologies to troubleshoot and improve the efficiency of the code I write, as opposed to relying on them as the foundation of my scholarly workflow.
Other
I previously managed the Twitter/Bluesky accounts and helped with the newsletter for the Institute 4 Replication, under the direction of Dr. Abel Brodeur (UOttawa).
I have offered, freely, tutoring in statistics, especially the applied kind, since 2019 and continue to do so out of the enjoyment and gratification it brings me. I would not be where I am today without educators who were willing to go the extra mile, and this is one small way that I think I can continue that process.