Join us tomorrow (12 noon Pacific time, UTC/GMT-7:00) for a webinar on Indigenous Survivance & Resurgence, Traditional Knowledge, & the Arts, with Jeff Corntassel, Cease Wyss, and Eglée Zent events.sfu.ca/event/45175-...

The New Lives of Images is out! In this ambitious new work, eco-philosopher and cultural theorist Adrian Ivakhiv presents an incisive new way of thinking about images and imagination. #ReadUP https://www.sup.org/books/media-studies/new-lives-images

The #infowar on #Canada is ramping up. #Canadians need to urgently update their #medialiteracy in time for their April 28 #federal_election. Here's one way to do that. www.cbc.ca/radio/frontb...

A longer-term reply to Trump's tariffs... beyond national sovereignty to ecological sovereignty... blog.uvm.edu/aivakhiv/202...

Where we are now, and where we should be heading instead... blog.uvm.edu/aivakhiv/202...

„It’s wild that the American VP is criticizing European countries for stifling freedom of speech. In the Press Freedom Index, the US ranks 55th, while Sweden is 3rd and Germany 10th. Russia, meanwhile, sits at 162.“ Pekka Kallioniemi

Join us one week from today @westernu.bsky.social @westernuhistory.bsky.social @westernpolsci, @waschukcan.bsky.social @matthewlebo.bsky.social @AdamHarmes, & yours truly

There’s a lesson in the mass firings of federal employees, carried out as part of an administrative coup by the world’s wealthiest tech oligarch, in the country that until recently was seen as the paragon of stability and prosperity. That lesson is that we are all dispensable now. shorturl.at/dXUk5

Their aim is nothing short of a new Dark Ages. Anti-science, anti-education, anti-democracy, in favor of needless human suffering. NIH cuts billions of dollars in biomedical funding, effective immediately www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

the irony of all these cuts to grant funding is that if they go through, the humanities will be the only programs universities will be able to afford to run

It's not just weather. Work with foreign nationals is a BIG part of what NOAA does - from climate negotiations (UNFCC, IPCC, Montreal Protocol), ocean (biodiversity conservation, fisheries, species protections), to space (satellites, space launches, etc.).

The world's richest man is taking food and medicine from the world's poorest children www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...

this is just the dumbest possible way for an empire to collapse

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

The beginnings of a resource guide for what's happening in the US... "Now is not a time for meekly tut-tutting our disapproval -- or for shouting “coup!” and “fascism!” without the necessary analysis. What we do need is Aikido- or Jujitsu-style redirections of their energy." shorturl.at/PskYh

And for what?

If you have been unable to keep up with Trump's destruction of democracy and the US government in the last two weeks, here is a summary (with citations) by @hcrichardson.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

Canada’s response to U.S. tariffs. Justin Trudeau's best speech. Canada will place 25% tariffs on $155 billion in US imports in retaliation for Trump tariffs. That is an addition to a nationwide boycott on all US products across Canada. #cdnpoli #tariffwar

Just sayin’

wow...

"the Disinformation Machine...facilitates the abuse of power by distracting attention away from actual political conspiracies, the ongoing abuses and machinations of corrupt, powerful people..." @brianklaas.bsky.social on what Musk has wrought. Terrifying. 1/2

@davetroy.com interviews author Peter Pomerantsev about his new book "How to Win an Information War: The Propagandist Who Outwitted Hitler." The book explores the work of Sefton Delmer, a journalist who developed unique ways to destabilize Hitler's propaganda programming.

Not enough has been made of this Ipsos poll from last month, which shows that viewers of right-wing media (Fox News, Breitbart, Newsmax, et al) are off-the-scale misguided about the true state of the economy, inflation, immigration, crime, etc. If media accuracy was required, they'd be off the air.

On the informational catastrophe of the US election, the 50 year context leading up to it, and the loss of a common sense-world (with a little help from Isabelle Stengers)... blog.uvm.edu/aivakhiv/202...

🔱 Coming soon: Solomiya - the #Environmental Issue 🔱 🇺🇦 We're super excited to be collaborating with Solomiya Magazine to showcase different perspectives on Ukrainian ecologies from artists and scientists in light of Russia’s war More info: solomiyamag.com/issue/4