David MacNaughton, on behalf of Palantir, is on Carney's advisory council on Canada/US relations... 🫠🤣 Put your elbows down, turnips...

Even with broad public support, no major museum has taken up the genocide in Gaza. No large institution I know of has put on an exhibition about Palestinian artists or Palestinian lives. www.equator.org/articles/how...

!! Here’s a link to full video of the 60 Minutes segment that Bari Weiss killed last minute, via @jasonparis.bsky.social: is.gd/paU8Ko (It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)

Happy Solstice | Tattooed Sun, 1994, stonecut by Kenojuak Ashevak | Baffin Fine Arts

When you become a university administrator, is "desire to destroy the university" listed as one of the job requirements?

This is one of the reasons I remain horrified by seeing @historians.org suggest "ways to use gAI" that included this:

Read @gigitang.bsky.social reflection on the brilliant Critical Minerals symposium she & Katie Donnelly organised for the Minerals project. The symposium was generously supported by UCD College of Arts & Humanities seed funding & @ucdhumanities.bsky.social imperialminerals.ie/2025/12/19/c...

NEW: York University Censored Exhibition at Goldfarb Gallery then Fired the Curator Artist Amy Ching-Yan Lam was forced to change her 'Acceptable Protest' animation, removing a 'Free Palestine' sign and reference to a university president character. By @rdassaly.bsky.social.

What is this “new model”, for museum loans that we increasingly read about in the press releases of UK national museums? Loans have always taken place from these museums of course. Ramping them up to distract from restitution demands borrows a methodology from the old Edwardian V&A model (1/4)

Un autre très bon épisode de #20minutesavantlafindumonde sur l'IA et l'environnement. En + d'être leur 100e épisode (fait par des humains !) podcast.ausha.co/20-minutes-a...

Coming up soon! Join us for the last session of 2025 🥳 *having completed the readings is optional 😅

Very pleased to learn that skating will be part of the resistance.

This is incredibly important. If you read one thing this week: marcusolang.substack.com/p/im-kenyan-...

✂️ Want to make a dadaist poem, a decaying museum, or another craft related to #EnergyHeritage? Join us this Wednesday for the 2nd installment of the @energy-ethics.bsky.social Reading Group on Creative & Critical Engagements w/ Energy Heritage. Register: energyethics.st-andrews.ac.uk/events/cee-r...

✂️ Want to make a dadaist poem, a decaying museum, or another craft related to #EnergyHeritage? Join us this Wednesday for the 2nd installment of the @energy-ethics.bsky.social Reading Group on Creative & Critical Engagements w/ Energy Heritage. Register: energyethics.st-andrews.ac.uk/events/cee-r...

Absolutely horrific and repulsive. Solidarity with Jewish friends, especially as it’s the first night of Hannukah www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Condolences to the families of the victims of the Bondi Beach shooting, and a fast recovery to Ahmed al-Ahmed, the man who was shot trying to stop the shooter. Anti-semitism is a scourge.

I refuse to let this era be defined by the sick villains and spineless cowards. We are surrounded by everyday heroes and they will keep emerging.

My latest for 4Columns: the shiny new Studio Museum has reopened after a major upgrade, but I’ve got a lingering ambivalence. 4columns.org/d-souza-arun...

🛢️ Shell’s gas arm has paid Queensland Museum more than $10m to shape children's climate education, with branded resources that distort how fossil fuel pollution has caused the climate crisis according to a report from @commsdeclare.bsky.social. via @desmog buff.ly/1WOF5BI

Call for Submissions - Botanical Imaginations In this special series, @edgeeffectsmag.bsky.social seeks to diversify, complicate, and proliferate Botanical Imaginations. How do communities around the world relate with plants? edgeeffects.net/botanical-im... #envhist #envhum #plants #botany

Been curious about MISN? Fired up about mining injustice, Land Back, and global solidarity organizing? Join our New Member Orientation to learn what we do, how our collective works, and ways you can plug in! 📅 Tues Dec 16 🕡 6:30pm EST 💻 Zoom - email info@ mininginjustice .org for the link

In other words, they will not even be recording water withdrawals. The Ontario government is proposing changes that would allow hundreds of mineral exploration companies to take water for early-stage work without a permit. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/12/09/n...

Ford moves to let mining companies take water — no permit required @nationalobserver.com www.nationalobserver.com/2025/12/09/n...

Fellow instructional faculty, I'm torn about what to do about Canvas in the upcoming semester. On the one hand I hate it and want to not give my work to the university to train AI but on the other hand that is where/how they check everything for accessibility which is good and helpful. What to do?

Join Verso and @haymarketbooks.org on Dec 19 @ 12pm (EST) for a virtual conversation about climate catastrophe and the left, featuring: Andreas Malm, Wim Carton, @triofrancos.bsky.social, and Wen Stephenson. RSVP at the link below!

The IDF executed two Palestinian men in Jenin. They verified that they were unarmed, told them to walk back to the building, and then shot them dead.

Hey @nature.com, have you got an explanation for how the hell THIS happened? & especially why you accepted a paper with such a bizarre piece of genAI slop in it?! & more to the point, why we should take you seriously at all going forward? www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Canadian weapons, mining interests, and refugee policies are leaving fingerprints on the ongoing genocide in Sudan. @nisrinelamin.bsky.social, @policingblack.bsky.social and Ismail Adam write about Canada’s role in Sudan’s brutal and escalating war. breachmedia.ca/in-the-genoc...

Researchers, educators, young people and artists are collaborating to develop a ‘pedagogy of hope’ for creative climate change education.

NOVEMBER 30TH = The deadline to apply to attend the 2026 Canadian History of the Environment Summer School (CHESS) in Prince Edward Island in June. The theme is Climate & History. niche-canada.org/2025/10/20/c... #envhist #cdnhist #climhist #envhum #histgeog

Another brilliant essay from @eryk.bsky.social, this time he writes the history of ChatGPT against the backdrop of mass loneliness and social distance. This history is still unfolding and the signs are not encouraging for where we are headed.

I was at a non- English conference this week and I was alarmed at the number of times I heard “I asked Chat GPT” from people who are in social movements and community work. Are these very important debates about the impact of this tech surfacing beyond English first communities?

As soon as I heard Peter Thiel was doing lectures about the Antichrist, I figured it was time to talk with @gilduran.com again — and he did not disappoint. This is a great conversation not just about the Antichrist talk, but the broader project of Thiel and his fellow tech billionaires.

TRUMP: and this Daniel, he went into the den? MAMDANI: The lion's den, yes TRUMP: surely they ate him MAMDANI: Here's the part where it gets a little Broadway: they didn't TRUMP: Unbelievable

🚨Join us this monday for the second talk in this semester’s colloquium series. @mininghistory.bsky.social presents: “Mining the Past: What is the role of historians in the mining industry?” 📅 Nov 24, 2025 ⏰ 3:00–4:30 PM CET Haven’t registered yet? There’s still time: bit.ly/MiningThePast #histSci

🌐 #COP30 alarm: “Colonialist logic” creeping in as rich countries pay poorer ones for emission credits—letting the North keep polluting while the South bears the burden. #ClimateJustice #CarbonMarkets www.publico.es/sociedad/m-a...

✨ Deadline Alert! ✨ Apply for the 2026–27 Critical Digital Humanities Postdoctoral Fellowship, a 1 year fellowship supporting a recent PhD. Theme: Doubles, Doppelgangers 📅 Apply by Nov 25, 2025 | 4pm EST 🔗 More info: uoft.me/cdh26-27 #digitalhumanities #DH #postdoc #postdoctoral

News | British Museum dropped tobacco sponsor after query from Department for Health Partnership with Japan Tobacco International came to an end in September

Register for our December session on "Decay and Remediations": energyethics.st-andrews.ac.uk/cee-reading-...

The humble collage that emerged from today's session, inspired by Huebert's eels and chemical spills. Merci Agathe d'avoir participé ! 🫶🏻

I have just participated to the first Energy Heritage reading group organized by @camillemarys.bsky.social, specially enjoyed the creative time on the "blob" described in Oil People. I'm looking forward for the next session!

Around 1,000 Met Museum employees have filed to unionise with UAW Local 2110, aiming to unite workers across conservation, visitor services, digital, retail and education. buff.ly/FWylOd1

"One task of any socialist movement is to devise a language that expands people’s sense of what is possible." ICYMI: Casey A. Williams explores how Stuart Hall’s politics of culture can offer the left a blueprint for confronting the climate crisis. Read the full essay👇

Yikes. All kinds of financial nightmares at the Palm Springs Art Museum as trustees flee the scene. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

This week the event "Culture, Heritage and Climate Change: a look from Latin America" will take place on November 21, at the Amazon Museum (Belém, Para, Brazil)! The meeting will be hybrid with simultaneous translation into English and Spanish. #COP30 🔗 Registration and info: abre.ai/culturapatri...

NEW: Canadian authorities detained Richard Falk while he and his wife, Hilal Elver, were en route to a Palestine conference in Ottawa last week. I sat down with professor Falk to discuss what happened and Canada's complicity in the genocide in Gaza. www.readthemaple.com/canada-detai...

The decline in literacy is the result of a top-down class war.

The first session of the Energy Heritage reading group convened by @camillemarys.bsky.social kicks off this Wednesday with a discussion on "Black Gold and Plastic Legacy," with a focus on David Huebert's brilliant novel Oil People + the exhibition Plastic Heart: Surface All the Way Through