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MSF staff are universally understood to be engaged in an essentially sacred form of work. For a state to nonetheless continuously murder them is a testament to a truly unthinkable degree of depravity. msf.org/msf-denounce...

Hey @mark-carney.bsky.social: would this be so hard to say, if nothing else to protect Canadians aboard?

If you're inFredericton on November 3, join us for a spooky public lecture by @deindustrialpol.bsky.social co-investigator Dr. Lachlan MacKinnon, CRC in Post-Industrial Communities at Cape Breton University. "Cinematic Ruin: My Bloody Valentine and Industrial Crisis in Cape Breton, 1979-1990."

Horray for our "mainland" Geography colleagues!

I started tracking the TRC's Calls to Action in 2016 and, since Eva Jewell and I stopped writing annual reports in 2023 out of despair, things have only become more bleak. No meaningful structural changes have been made. They were never even attempted. A clear-eyed take from @michellecyca.com

"single-use plastic of the mind" had me GAGGED

Ice roads are a lifeline for First Nations. As Canada warms, they’re disappearing. Indigenous peoples are navigating the slow collapse of winter roads — and an even slower pace of help. grist.org/indigenous/i... #Indigenous #Tribes #Canada #Climate #Trucking #Ice #Climate #Roads #Transportation

I feel like I’m going bananas. My university has just released a video explaining how to get the most out of Copilot and we’re apparently partnered with an external company to facilitate us using it. I just asked it about my research...

TODAY! In less that 2.5 hours, actually. Still time to register and tune in online to this panel discussing The Price of Gold @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social @memorialu.bsky.social

interested in the history of mining, smelting, heavy industry, workplace health & safety, or company magazines in canada?the trail bc museum and bcrdh.ca have just digitized a complete run of "cominco magazine." bcrdh.ca/islandora/ob... thanks to @kellyblack.ca for the tip! #bchist #cdnhist #envhist

www.cbc.ca/news/health/... The Public Health Agency of Canada's immunization guide says COVID vaccines have been shown to be effective at preventing severe disease, including hospitalization and death and can decrease the risk of post-COVID-19 condition, or long COVID.

The Alberta government is trying as hard as it can to ensure ultra rich oil companies can skip out on their promise to clean up their own mess, leaving landowners & taxpayers to pay BILLIONS. We say NO WAY. Join us TOWN HALL! RSVP: www.cleanupyourmess.ca/oct2-townhall #PolluterPay #abpoli #ableg

This point hasn’t been given nearly enough attention. If you applied actually existing research principles to genAI, it would never be allowed anywhere near a university, research project or classroom.

This series launches next Tuesday, September 30, Orange Shirt Day and the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. Based on the positive response to the call, we've decided to have an open submission process. Please get in touch if you are interested in contributing to the series.

After three years of drought, the City of Dawson Creek has reached a dangerous tipping point as the Kiskatinaw River, its only drinking water source, falls to levels never before seen. Ben Parfitt reports.

What to do when your mine is closing? Why, open a mine of course! Living with the mining cycle in Northern Ontario 🇨🇦 thenarwhal.ca/critical-min...

Less than a week now until this exciting panel at The Nexus Centre @memorialu.bsky.social! Our book The Price of Gold is featured as part of the series, HSS Understanding Our Worlds. This is a hybrid event: connection details on poster. We're honoured to have such a great panel comment on our work.

Canada could be cleaning up in the global competition for highly qualified personnel, were it not for NIMBYs, cowardly city councils and Conestoga having ruined it for everyone.

Great little feature on the amazing research of @miskoaki.bsky.social and its growing Northern focus. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Decades of austerity have left Memorial’s buildings crumbling and its people sick, but beneath the mould and rats is a deeper story of land and labour... Read MUN Assoc. Professor Dean Bavington's new piece for The Indy's State of the University series #nlpoli theindependent.ca/commentary/c...

2/ Victoria Gold's Eagle Mine "will be leaking cyanide, possibly for decades": www.miningwatch.ca/blog/2024/8/...

Darkness is falling across much of US academia. Some of the most urgent and relevant fields of study (Jewish studies! Statistics!) are being 'paused' or shuttered at many institutions. When this wave of closures crests, will it break on our shores as well?

"With dismay we witness our university leadership making soulless choices that hollow out our institutions from within and erode the critical and self-reflective fabric of academia". [from Guest et al., 'Against the Uncritical Adoption of "AI" Technologies in Academia']

Kneecap’s response to Carney government banning rap group from entering Canada. #cdnpoli #kneecap

This lady apparently caught a bad case of Alberta Brain after living out there for so long—now she thinks housing problems are immigrants fault in a province with effectively no population growth. Hope they find a cure for this terrible condition. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

I'm sorry, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness? For what now? In any manner for any purpose??? This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.

It’s out! The Price of Gold is available NOW to order through @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social and fine retailers online. Will be frantically peeking in bookstore windows soon!

This is pretty appalling—a failure to take responsibility for the “errors” (fake citations) and dismissing legitimate concerns as coming from people “outside education.” Please stop digging this hole and think about how to get out of it. @memorialu.bsky.social

Massive anti hate crowd in the pits. Small Canada first group is on the run.

Digital asbestos at work. Major report on provincial education policy advocates for AI. Major report on provincial education policy cites 12+ hallucinations. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

On the brightside, this has provided a "teachable moment" for those of us actually in the classroom. Had a great chat with my students @memorialu.bsky.social about this another issues with LLM "bullshit machines"

Historian of science here: it’s worth pointing out that getting paid for doing research is a fairly recent thing. William Harvey did his research as a hobby, as it were. So did Charles Darwin.

Guess there was no good guy with a gun handy, huh?

Another perspective on the history and legacy of mining and pollution at Yellowknife, focusing on both Con and Giant mines, from myself and John Sandlos. Our book, The Price of Gold, comes out in two weeks with MQUP. www.canadianminingjournal.com/featured-art...

NiCHE Yellowknife’s Giant Mine: Canada downplayed arsenic exposure as an Indigenous community was poisoned niche-canada.org/2025/09/03/y... @nichecanada.bsky.social @arnkeeling.bsky.social #cdnenv

This is an excellent article that brings an empathetic eye to an escalating crisis in higher education 👇👌

There are tens of thousands of old gas wells across Ontario. Despite disasters like the Wheatley explosion, the province still doesn’t have the funds to safely remediate them, and isn’t asking companies for enough money should it have to plug new ones. thenarwhal.ca/old-gas-well...

Come meet the St. John's city council candidates running for the at-large seats "under the whale" tomorrow. They'll be serving up their visions for the city.

My Edmontonian friend, how is there NOT a berry pie in this list?!? 1. Strawberry-rhubarb 2. Apple 3. Blackberry (wild BC berries!) 4. Pumpkin 5. Pecan (nod to my Yankee background)

Can somebody please tell Carney, Smith and Hogan that investing in fossil projects likely means stranded assets (and public liabilities) in about a decade’s time?

Less than 20% Inuit employment and a nine year life span for the mine. I hope the royalties are good… www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

If anyone is interested in speaking about the impact Joy Parr’s work has had on their own research over the next couple of days, please let me know! Currently making a film about this for the upcoming #SHOT25 meeting in Luxembourg and a spot has opened up unexpectedly. #histSTM #EnvHist

EXTRACTION is hitting the road this fall. Thrilled to be in conversation with @dharna.bsky.social @bentarnoff.com @dwallacewells.bsky.social @earthworks.bsky.social and others. Stay tuned for more events in the winter and spring! @wwnorton.com

“AI comment not a political one.” 🙄 This is the kind of tech-bro nonsense that passes for insight in the AI world. No surprise these guys all end up as technofascists.

Intent on producing the last barrel in the face of a global energy transformation greedy cons might tell you they are the best, most ethical producers. THEY ARE LYING. Don’t care about the environment, the people or the future, you would do this #EconomicTerrorisim www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Quick rundown for non-US academics of whether you're likely to be eligible for the Anthropic payout: 1. you have works published in or before 2022 2. which are registered for US copyright (most likely if you had a US publisher, not otherwise): check here publicrecords.copyright.gov 1/2

Attention #AcademicSky Everyone is talking about books, but thousands of academic journals were also pirated and are entitled to up to $3,000 *per pirated volume!!!* if editors submit titles to join the suit. Incredible opportunity for underfunded journals to get some $$! #SkyStorians #MedievalSky

What I wish we would say more often is "students need to learn how to use and apply logic, how to think critically and how to validate the information before them to prepare for the jobs of the future."

Today on our site we have "Yellowknife’s Giant Mine: Canada downplayed arsenic exposure as an Indigenous community was poisoned" by @arnkeeling.bsky.social and John Sandlos niche-canada.org/2025/09/03/y... #envhist #mininghistory #cdnhist #indigenoushistory