Correctional Services Canada will be eliminating all prison librarians at federal prisons. This will save between $1.5 million and $2.5 million annually.

Parks Canada, which includes responsibility for many national museums across Canada, is “...ceasing or reducing lower priority activities, such as library services,” according to the budget.

The Canadian Museum of History and Canadian War Museum are cutting permanent staff levels by 18% over the next 3 years. Currently, they receive $78 million but at the end of four years, there will be a permanent annual cut of $5.1 million. This has resulted so far in a loss of 67 positions.

We had an amazing time playing MINE-O-POLIS at CONTACT Gallery yesterday--thank you to everyone who came out and for your invaluable feedback on the game. We look forward to finalizing it and making it available to all on our website 🎲

Our team got together yesterday for a final "mock play" session of Mine-o-polis before today's soft launch. A labour of love, it is genuinely good and I can't wait for it to be out into the world. If you're into critical extraction studies and alternative modes of public engagement, stay tuned!

Waitlist spots are now available!

Both parties are intent on destroying higher education in Canada, and at the same time Canada likes to make self righteous noises about what is happening in the US re immigration and detentions. Fix your own back yard.

New special issue of academic zines! journals.library.unt.edu/index.php/un...

Big thanks to our Mine-o-polis team who is working hard behind-the-scenes to get game cards and pieces (3D)printed! www.beyondextraction.ca/mine-o-polis

🔍 SNEAK PEEK: preparing for our upcoming #Mineopolis board game workshop this Sunday at CONTACT Gallery! Looking forward to seeing everyone there (registration is currently full but please do sign up for our waitlist) www.eventbrite.com/e/mine-o-pol...

A new report by Museum Hue sheds light on the difficulties faced by dozens of museums and cultural centers led by people of color in the Northeastern states.

So corrupt. Remember when John Horgan retired and went straight to the board of Teck Coal? The NDP is run by corporations for their own interests. thenarwhal.ca/bc-teck-lobb...

After four days at a mining conference with 27,000 people, @fatimabsyed.bsky.social breaks down the buzz around Ontario’s plan to fast-track mine approvals, and why some people still have questions. thenarwhal.ca/ontario-1p1p...

For example, you could have used this well-known painting by William Hind found in the BC Archives.

Hey @royalbcmuseum.bsky.social - why are you using an AI generated image when you have a wealth of digitized images and paintings from the gold rush that you could use?

Book Launch #2 April 2 - 12pm Eastern Join us as we celebrate the new book Resisting Erasure: Libraries in Palestine and Palestine in Libraries Learn more and register: https://libraryjuiceconnections.org/events/resisting-erasure-libraries-in-palestine-and-palestine-in-libraries-2/

This Trans Day of Visibility, consider supporting an independent trans historian and freelance researcher! I've been slowly chipping away at a history of Canada's first trans organization and your support can make that financially possible. Consider hiring me through my website or through my ko-fi!

A group of intergenerational artists, collectively known as Slow War Against the Nuclear State, investigates the afterlife of nuclear politics in a haunting, timely exhibition

Mark Carney presenting at the Junos was a smart propagandist move by the Liberals. The greatest threat to the arts in Canada is Carney himself, but this will not be legible to many people because they saw him give an award to Joni.

Infrastructure Landlords: The Rentier Capitalism of Commercial Academic Publishers This piece explores how major academic publishers are becoming “infrastructure landlords”, not just publishing research, but owning the systems around it. 👉 www.openlibhums.org/news/931/ #OpenAccess #ScholComm

The brother of the Heated Rivalry casting director is now leader of Canada’s left party.

The immediate status quo, centrist attacks on Avi Lewis are precisely why he is effective and needed. In face of growing right wing escalation, an unbashadely left opposition that is anti capitalist & internationalist is both principled *and* realistic.

My anti-AI prints arrived and they’re even better in person! I can’t wait to post in my office and give out to fellow refusers (I got 5 to start). Thanks @wolfproofpress.com + @literaturegeek.bsky.social! #DHmakes

📣 Call for art Artists and creatives - submit your work to CRASSH's 25th anniversary exhibition! The theme is 'Knowledge in a Fractured World' and can be interpreted broadly, from personal to global Deadline 31 July 2026 Find out more at bit.ly/4svggKv

Join us on Thursday 2 April for our next Designing Sustainable Worlds hybrid seminar at Norwich University of the Arts—we'll be joined by @jochamb.bsky.social from @futuresstudiouu.bsky.social, and Sarah de Villiers from Architecture at Norwich Everyone welcome! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/designing-...

📢 JOB OPENINGS at CSIC @cchscsic.bsky.social (Madrid)! As part of my ERC project WILDHIST, the Institute of History is hiring two 3-year postdoctoral researchers in the global history of rubber. Application deadline: 24 April 2026. More info 👉 euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/422012 @erc.europa.eu

This is utterly bonkers, and simultaneously completely unsurprising, entirely foreseeable, and long warned about by experts (and common sense) in Canada and around the world.

Aamjiwnaang First Nation feels left in the dark after oil spill in St. Clair River in Sarnia It’s been eight days since Suncor’s Sarnia refinery reported an oil spill - and the First Nation is still waiting on answers www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Pleased to see @ledevoir.com picking up this story on the closure of #ParksCanada library - part of larger pattern of shutting down govt libraries+devaluing govt researchers' work. Write @juliedabrusin.bsky.social to express your concern! #envhist #cdnpoli #cdhist www.ledevoir.com/culture/9660...

CFA for Critical Pathways Fellowship here at Utrecht University (funded, 4-6 weeks in Autumn 2026, deadline 27 April). Open to academics, artists, activists, conservationists, journalists, etc. www.uu.nl/en/news/maki... #envhum @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social

Read about the amazing work my dear friend Dr. Malvoisin has been doing at the Brooklyn Museum!

An extraordinary herbarium containing almost 300 pressed plants is now available to explore online. It has been digitised with support from the Isaac Newton Trust and Trinity College, Cambridge. Edward Hanmer’s Herbarium (MS Add.10547): https://loom.ly/J1Zj8OM @camdiglib.bsky.social

It begins! Long awaited first episode of @mediaindigena.bsky.social introducing Beyond Fires & Floods: Indigenous Narratives in an Era of Extremes, a series of amazing panels @rickharp.bsky.social and I organized at UBC podfollow.com/mediaindigen...

Registration for this in-person event is now *at capacity* but we have opened a waitlist! Sign up here: www.eventbrite.com/e/mine-o-pol...

“There’s no ceasefire,” says Hamdouna’s father. “It’s all talk, for the media. In reality, there’s no ceasefire.”

BREAKING: Nearly 1,000 faculty members at NYU are on strike. The union for non-tenured faculty, @CfuUaw, was optimistic about reaching an agreement this morning. But after giving the university a 3 hour extension, the two sides could not agree, and the strike is now on.

Perhaps because of its pliancy, plastic creates the kind of philosophical conundrums that academic theorists relish. A new anthology on the material reminds how artists put theory into practice as they explore all that plastics do, for better or worse.

Oh my god.

A beautiful place with great people!

We are hiring! The Department of Inequality, Transformation and Conflict under @steffenmau.bsky.social is looking for Postdoctoral & Doctoral Researchers (m/f/d). Find out more & apply via www.ips.mpg.de #MaxPlanck #Postdoc #PhD #Sociology #SocialScience #PoliticalScience #Inequality #Conflict

Deadloch singlehandedly keeping me afloat in these times 🫶🏻

Reading this at 34 weeks o__o

Huge cuts to museums and heritage

the Norwegian campaign against enshittification is pretty great tbf vimeo.com/1168468796

Pigeons get such a bad press. 32 of the 64 Dickin medals awarded to animals have gone to our feathered friends. www.spink.com/media/view?i...

wrote a personal essay in HELIOTROPE on plastic and the energetic connection between nightlife and library work www.heliotropejournal.net/helio/excess...

Join us on April 12 at CONTACT Gallery in Toronto and be among the first to play-test our pilot game! Together, we'll explore how the city’s landmark institutions—from the Toronto Stock Exchange to banks and universities—sustain Canadian #extractivism. 2/3

Stoked to be soft-launching this project next month with our talented @beyondextraction.bsky.social team. Help us spread the word or better yet, if you're in Toronto, join us!

@nichecanada.bsky.social has just published my "5 minute read" about the reduction/closure of #ParksCanada library services. Take a look. #envhist #cdnhist niche-canada.org/2026/03/16/i...