Karen Pinchin
@karenpinchin.bsky.social
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Investigative food systems journalist, teacher & author of Kings of Their Own Ocean (July 2023)
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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD
about 2 years ago
How do you pay rent? With money, like a sucker? Have you thought about using eels? In medieval England, people did just that! In fact, eel-rents were very common. In 1100, English landlords collected more than 500,000 eels in rent each year. That's a lot of eels! Here's a map: 🗃️🧪
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In a world imperilled by apathy, I feel fiercely that individual choices must and do matter. So that makes it extra special that Jenn Thornhill Verma picked up on this deep thread for her lovely Kings review:
reviewcanada.ca/magazine/202...
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Finding Amelia | Literary Review of Canada
Jenn Thornhill Verma reviews “Kings of Their Own Ocean,” by Karen Pinchin.
https://reviewcanada.ca/magazine/2023/12/finding-amelia/
about 2 years ago
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I’m here for embrace of complexity in all its forms!
add a skeleton here at some point
about 2 years ago
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Prof Alessandro Tagliabue
about 2 years ago
I wrote a comment piece about our ability to predict how ocean productivity will respond to climate change and the need for a new generation of biological forecasting tools:
rdcu.be/dqPEA
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Chris Berube
about 2 years ago
The Committee to Protect Journalists say the level of danger and casualties among journalists in Gaza is worse than anything they have every covered.
cpj.org/2023/11/jour...
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As Nov. 11 approaches and war pummels Europe & the ME, it's strange to look back at this Walrus piece I wrote (13 years ago gah) about the portended death of the Legion:
thewalrus.ca/lest-we-forg...
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Lest We Forget | The Walrus
Is the Royal Canadian Legion fighting a losing battle?
https://thewalrus.ca/lest-we-forget/
about 2 years ago
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Am heading to the Everglades for the first time ever (!) before the Miami Book Fair next week so am prepping with the Field Trip ep. by
@washingtonpost.com
and it is so excellent. Now to not step on any poisonous snakes! 🐍🐊🌴
about 2 years ago
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Megan O’Toole
about 2 years ago
All bakeries in the Gaza City and North Gaza governorates have stopped operating due to Israel’s systematic targeting and a lack of fuel and flour, according to Palestinian officials. Oxfam has accused Israel of using starvation ‘as a weapon of war’.
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Gaza at ‘breaking point’ as Israel refuses to allow in life-saving fuel
War-shattered Gaza’s health, sanitation, water and food services are nearly exhausted as Israel prevents fuel to enter.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2023/11/7/israel-hamas-war-live-one-month-of-conflict-10000-dead-in-gaza
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Science Friday
about 2 years ago
Phronima sedentaria is a type of hyperiid amphipod, or small crustacean, that preys on gelatinous plankton, such as salps. 🧪 Learn more:
www.sciencefriday.com/articles/mon...
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John Upton
about 2 years ago
The Solutions Journalism Network is looking for a new leader for its climate initiatives.
jobs.lever.co/solutionsjou...
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Solutions Journalism Network - Director, Climate
Title: Director, Climate Reports to: Chief Program & Operating Officer Position Type: Full Time Location: Hybrid for candidates in the New York City area who are able to work from SJN’s midtown offi...
https://jobs.lever.co/solutionsjournalism/0a87cb95-39f4-4fdc-9134-2efe2412415f
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Megan O’Toole
about 2 years ago
Al Jazeera Arabic correspondent Wael Dahdouh’s wife, daughter and son have been killed in an Israeli shelling attack on a house where they were sheltering. Dahdouh has been described as ‘the backbone of Al Jazeera’s coverage in Gaza.’
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Israel accused of using ‘starvation as a weapon’ against Gaza civilians
International charity says just two percent of usual food delivered to enclave since Israel imposed ‘total siege’.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2023/10/24/israel-hamas-war-live-fuel-shortfall-could-force-un-to-halt-work-in-gaza-2
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Phil Lewis
about 2 years ago
A Mississippi mother who spent 7 months searching for her son discovered that an off-duty officer ran him over less than an hour after he left the house. Authorities then buried him without notifying his family
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A mother reported her son missing in March. Police kept the truth from her for months.
Bettersten Wade’s search for her adult son ended when she discovered that an officer had run him over — and without telling her, authorities buried him in a pauper’s field.
https://t.co/jMEgn4NeVX
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Colin Schultz
about 2 years ago
In its 41-year history, ITLOS has only ever produced two advisory opinions: one on deep-sea mining and the other on high seas fisheries. So experts say it’s difficult to know how the court will approach the much broader and more complex matter of climate change.
hakaimagazine.com/news/what-do...
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What Does the Law of the Sea Say about Climate Change? | Hakai Magazine
A team of 21 judges is going to figure it out.
https://hakaimagazine.com/news/what-does-the-law-of-the-sea-say-about-climate-change/
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Laura Helmuth
about 2 years ago
We! fixed! acid! rain! And we can fix climate change 🧪
www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...
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The World Solved Acid Rain. We Can Also Solve Climate Change
Lessons from how we tackled acid rain can be applied to our world today
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-world-solved-acid-rain-we-can-also-solve-climate-change/
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Baby’s first honey mushroom. 🍄
about 2 years ago
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Brandy Schillace
about 2 years ago
I’m actually shocked it took this long to overturn. I mean, I’m not shocked because … patriarchy. But the evidence has been right there all along. Another example among many that bias clouds our ability to see reality. WOMEN WERE HUNTERS:
www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...
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The Theory That Men Evolved to Hunt and Women Evolved to Gather Is Wrong
The influential idea that in the past men were hunters and women were not isn’t supported by the available evidence
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-theory-that-men-evolved-to-hunt-and-women-evolved-to-gather-is-wrong1/
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#5amwritersclub and it seems a bit early to be trying to describe this photo
#sharkweek
about 2 years ago
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Carl T. Bergstrom
about 2 years ago
My thought as well. We get a sorry-ass plica semilunaris and everyone else gets a nictitating membrane. Image: Gray's anatomy
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This Afterwords convo on the state of our oceans, sustainability, and the #ClimateCrisis with moi and Laura Trethewey is going to get deep. 🌊 Tickets are free, but registration required:
https://buff.ly/45CMp6D
about 2 years ago
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Mark MacKinnon
about 2 years ago
Hamas co-founder acknowledges "mistakes" were made in Oct. 7 attacks, and says group willing to release women, children and foreigners its holding hostage if Israel agrees to 24-hour pause. My interview with Hassan Yousef, head of Hamas in the West Bank
www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...
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Colin Schultz
about 2 years ago
Almost 25 years after the Marshall decision, why are Indigenous communities still waiting for their fishing rights to be implemented? To help answer the question, we need to understand the obstacles.
hakaimagazine.com/features/the...
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The Legal Fishery Sparking Arrests and Violence | Hakai Magazine
Canada has spent nearly 25 years ignoring its own Supreme Court—and Indigenous fishers on the East Coast are suffering the consequences.
https://hakaimagazine.com/features/the-legal-fishery-sparking-arrests-and-violence/
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈
about 2 years ago
🧪🦑🐡🦈
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Meet the Florida drag queen tagging sharks in a wig and full makeup
Florida drag queen Miss Toto explains why both sharks and queer people need protection, as she raises money on the open seas.
https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/08/florida-drag-queen-miss-toto-shark-tagging/
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Neurospicy, you heard it from
@karenho.bsky.social
first and I am here for the rebrand! 🌶️
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about 2 years ago
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Just signed out of Twitter for the last time and it feels FANTASTIC. See you on here exclusively going forward, bbs!
about 2 years ago
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I'm extremely stoked to be in Fredericton on Thursday to launch Kings! (And possibly more excited to be hanging with Mr. Seguin for the first time in ages.) Come hang with us! Wilsers, 5pm:
www.karenpinchin.com/events/2023/...
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Fredericton: Launch and Signing — Karen Pinchin
https://www.karenpinchin.com/events/2023/10/12/fredericton
about 2 years ago
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When Kings first published, I commissioned a petty knife (great for bass, mackerel and trout!) with a bluefin-patterned handle and red trim to suggest the fish's flesh. (See page 237 for gory details if you wanna.) She finally arrived!! 🐟🔪
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@dreid63
over 2 years ago
This started as a story for Catapult. I signed a contract to write about No Meat Required and the process of creating a first book. I’d done an hour-long interview with Alicia Kennedy. Then the magazine folded. It freed me to write as I like.
https://www.chefdeborahreid.com/today/today1986873
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