Very excited for Homesick by Nick Shapiro. It tells a story of formaldehyde exposure from prefab trailers, which does some heavy, complex lifting itself. But what I love most is how it chronicles multiple approaches to activist research & how to let the research lead you. @dukepress.bsky.social

If you're in London in February and want to get your geek on with me: "This presentation outlines the rocky efforts of 2 Indigenous researchers to collaborate through an extremely relational form of Western knowledge: statistics." www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

I (Max) highly recommend this book. The ethnography is beautiful. The methods of an activist/researcher are exceptional. The theories of change are poetic and grounded. The case study is holy shit.

We’re waking up our social media presence!🌱Every week, a different CLEAR member will share what life looks like in the lab, from wet lab work to community authorship. Each perspective is unique, showing the diff ways we think about what we do and *how* we do it. Stay tuned! 1/8

Our editor @historiamagoria.bsky.social chose "Catching an Authentic Lake Trout: Knowledge Legitimization in Academia" by Alex Flynn, with Rui Lui, @maxliboiron.bsky.social, Kaitlyn Hawkins, and Molly Lahn Rivers as our latest Editor's Pick! niche-canada.org/2025/06/12/c... #indigenous #academia

🎙️ This snippet offers a glimpse into Verena's comprehensive Seminar in our Series, which is full of strategies, tactics and tools related to the science of policy making and changing. And there's even more to explore— join our Seminar Series in September! ires.ubc.ca/news-and-events/

Today there's a public briefing on the collection, "Act boldly or fail: academic perspectives at a pivotal moment in global plastics treaty negotiations," where 60+ experts outline the consequences of delayed or diluted action 1/ www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

You can still register for tomorrow & Wednesday's workshops on promotion & tenure files for community-based research. Day 1 is CVs & Day 2 are dossiers. The team includes @arnkeeling.bsky.social @rosiealegado.bsky.social & Letitia Henville 1/3 cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/for...

Teen Vogue really does have some of the best reporting. This collection is great and includes a piece from @maxliboiron.bsky.social . Will definitely be using this entire list for teaching. www.teenvogue.com/tag/plastic-...

Last day in Nunatsiavut with this fantastic crew - Jacquelyn Winters, @maxliboiron.bsky.social, Katrina Anthony, @paulmccarney.bsky.social (and Liz Pijogge, who was back in Nain). 📸: Dillon Shiwak

A short blog post with @maxliboiron.bsky.social for @clear-lab.bsky.social on the ethics of summary stats and why choice matters. It might seem obvious, but these problems still appear in papers when summarizing plastics data civiclaboratory.nl/2025/06/30/t... #PlasticPollution #ornithology

Squeeeee! Outlining a paper with @thelabandfield.bsky.social & @paulmccarney.bsky.social about community-based metrics & measure for contaminants research. Spoiler: they aren’t the usual Western science metrics.

Good morning! It’s a mild and foggy start to the day here.

The draft Plastics Treaty has 3 sets of “Principles & Approaches, only 1 of which includes “knowledge of Indigenous Peoples. Even then, it includes Indigenous *knowledge* to the marked exclusion of Indigenous *Peoples*. A better way starts with Indigenous rights. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Good morning!

Good morning! It’s really cold today but nice and damp for the plants.

There's a lot of chatter around the proposal being inserted into a budget bill that would put a moratorium on any AI legislation being passed by the states for the next 10 years. I thought I'd say a bit about why this is an absolutely disastrous move. www.404media.co/republicans-... 1/n

Great coverage of our mutual aid network across the US-Canadian border moving Indigenous data so it's safer. www.theverge.com/features/664...

Good morning! Frosty but bright.

Good morning! It’s a chilly, foggy start to the day.

THIS was inside the stomach of a baby #shearwater - can you help us identify the brand/source? #CitizenScience #SeabirdSaturday #IngestedPlastic

This is the funnest piece I've ever written. It's a choose-your-own-lab-adventure w/ multiple endings based on contamination training in our lab- based on true stories. There's also some theory about purity and fragility. ;) Thanks to editors @jrmdns.bsky.social Fernando Rubio & David Pontille

Today is publication date for our Fragilities volume! "At a time when it may be easy to fall into a defeatist melancholia, if not outright pessimism, the book is an invitation to think from fragility to build life-affirming politics and ethics" It's got an amazing line-up & it is open-access! 🤓

Join us for a two-day workshop on preparing your promotion and tenure file for community-based research! July 16 & 17 2025, free, and probably a little bit fun. Sponsored by CLEAR and the IndigeLab Network www.indigelabnetwork.com/test-worksho...

Good morning. We’ve had a weather hiccup.

As the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues continues this week, discussions focused on financing Indigenous Peoples' work. But delegates say before that can happen, states must hold up to their commitments to implement UNDRIP.

Good morning on this cost and frosty start to the day.

Good morning. So far so good.

Good morning! It’s a frosty start to a beautiful day

Join us for a two-day workshop on preparing your promotion and tenure file for community-based research! July 16 & 17 2025, free, and probably a little bit fun. Sponsored by CLEAR and the IndigeLab Network www.indigelabnetwork.com/test-worksho...

#ICYMI folks w/deep experience re:crisis web archiving (@sucho-org.bsky.social)+building tools for it (@webrecorder.net) made a free zine teaching how anyone can archive the things you love on the web before they go away: zinebakery.com/homemade-zin... & why you shouldn't expect others will do so

NO, they did not "resurrect" the dire wolf (Aenocyon dirus). They have only edited 14 genes of the gray wolf to resemble it. Apparently, all the changes are focused on its appearance (color, size and shape of the ears) It is pure propaganda. (blog) www.newscientist.com/article/2475...

Good morning! Bit of freezing rain and ice fog this morning but pleasantly fresh.

Good morning!

Good morning from the start of a new day.

ACLU has a very helpful summary of rights (very few) and set of strategies around data on devices when you’re crossing in2 the US www.aclu.org/news/privacy...

April 9 – The Hidden Plastic Waste Exports, the Case for Basel Convention Controls on RDF and Textiles www.genevaenvironmentnetwork.org/events/the-h... April 10 – Establishing a Global Alliance on Highly Hazardous Pesticides fao.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Join Taryn on a tour of CLEAR! Why are our lab coats pink (spoiler: it's for scientific)? What senses do we use to identify plastics (hint: more than our eyes!)? What kind of people work at CLEAR (awesome people, obv)! @munlgeog.bsky.social #WomenInSTEM #QueerScience youtube.com/shorts/CVKwx...

Today is International Transgender Day of Visibility. There’s much to do everywhere so that trans and non-binary people can live without fear. Our single point of reflection is this: what’s your organisation doing to support trans+ people?

Here are two pie charts that show the baseline differences in sharing behaviour for research items on the two platforms. There seems to be a higher proportion of original posts on Bluesky than X. 7/11

"We are likely to find ourselves as intellectuals or political philosophers facing a situation in which our chief task is not to imagine better worlds but rather to think how to prevent worse ones." Tony Judt

Quite possibly the best starting slide of a plenary ever. #AAG2025 Stanley Brunn Award lecture with Katherine McKittrick!!

Good evening from Detroit!

Teen Vogue is consistently amazing.

In the latest assault on First Amendment rights, Columbia University has expelled and fired Grant Miner, President of UAW Local 2710, which represents thousands of Columbia student workers. The firing comes one day before contract negotiations were set to open with the University.

Good morning!

In many urban areas across Africa, Asia, and Latin America, households are increasingly resorting to burning plastic waste for cooking and heating due to the scarcity and high cost of traditional fuels. theconversation.com/households-a...

One of the top news stories in Canada right now 😂

What are your plans for tonight? 1. tv & ennui 2. soft pants & hard liquor 3. dark arts & crafts 4. books & ignoring bedtime

Farmers depend on climate data. They’re suing the USDA for deleting it. Growing food is a precarious business, and losing access to key information makes it worse. grist.org/food-and-agr... #Farmers #Farms #Food #Agriculture