The emerging political economy of deep-sea mining: an analysis of opaque ownership structures, by @justinalger.bsky.social, Kate J. Neville & @atterbalac.bsky.social

Job alert - We're hiring a researcher @cascadeinstitute.bsky.social for a 2 year contract on 'fast and fair' #energy #transitions. Open to remote or here in beautiful Victoria, BC. Pls share. #energysky. cascadeinstitute.org/opportunitie...

We're still recruiting for this study: Are you neurodivergent & have done, or considered, a PhD? We’re researching how doctoral study works (or doesn’t) for neurodivergent people. Take our 30min survey: forms.office.com/e/ft9jyWsPUW Questions? Email [email protected] #PhD #Neurodivergent

For those interested Karl Janelle will be sharing results from our new Canadian Co-operative Energy Project and Organization Dataset (@deryatarhan.bsky.social, Lewis Blagogie and Ara Argondona). Data is free and open access on Borealis: borealisdata.ca/dataset.xhtm...

The 3rd Canadian #Community #Energy Forum starts tomorrow @royalroads.ca. Super excited to host CECC & share work w/ researchers, policymakers, project developers & politicians keen to develop a more just and resilient energy system in #Canada. www.cecooperative.ca/the-3rd-annu... #energysky

An awesome story about how solar microgrids kept the power on during Puerto Rico's latest blackouts. This is bottom-up, power-to-the-people shit. Get excited!

UPDATED: We are posting this placard at all of our offices and asking our union contract farms to post as well. We encourage our friends to put up similar placards at their business as immigration agents do not have the right to go on private property without permission.

Curtail of migrants rights, marines in LA, Palestine, definition of who is a 'woman', rampant transphobia and anti-trans legislation, occupations, genocides, policing of school & uni curricula transnationally ... Current manifestations of global interlocked and interfeeding systems of oppression.

Border and Rule is available for free download! I wrote a book spanning ICE & borders, Palestine & policing, colonialism & global fascism - in service to internationalist struggles. I can no longer travel to US, but this book (as well @silkys13.bsky.social & @micahh.bsky.social 's) can come to you

ICE agents intentionally started the violence in LA.

Workers in the oil & gas sector increasingly face dangerous working conditions brought on by extreme heat. The Biden administration issued a rule mandating that, when temps exceed 80F, employers must provide water & rest breaks. The O&G industry is lobbying Trump to reverse the rule.

Reports of Bluesky's impending demise are greatly exaggerated: "Bluesky has caught on with many news influencers, but X remains popular." www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/... As our own data shows, interest in X in Canada has steadily declined, esp. among women. socialmedialab.ca/2025/05/05/n...

An absolutely chilling story about a cost of climate disasters we don't think/talk about enough, from @ninalakhani.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

"59% of people no longer fully trusting political news online" www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... You can find out more about this stat in our new public report on "The State of Generative AI Use in Canada 2025: Exploring Public Attitudes and Adoption Trends" socialmedialab.ca/2025/04/08/n...

Hey #academicsky , We're hiring two new Tier 2 Canada Research Chairs at @royalroads.ca in Victoria, BC 1. Changemaking (very open cross-disciplinary call) 2. Generative and Agentic AI and Reimagining Pedagogy. Applications due July 9. royalroads.mua.hrdepartment.com/hr/ats/JobSe...

#Wildfire season is off to a brutal start again this year. 84 'out of control' fires out of 166+ active burns across #Canada. 17,000 people evacuated in Manitoba this week. Canada is warming at 2x the global average & multiple temp records broken 28 May (Kamloops BC 35C). www.bbc.com/news/article...

The EU’s demand for battery minerals is set to grow 5x by 2050. The US aims for 50% EV sales by 2030. Morocco’s ‘green policies’ serve this race—but with little evidence that local communities will benefit from the boom. www.tni.org/en/publicati...

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What happens when 1,000+ scientists come together to tackle some of the world’s biggest nature and climate challenges in over 80 countries around the world? Innovation, impact, and hope--that's what! If you're looking for encouraging news, check out our 2024 @nature_org Science Impact Report ⬇️

Each time you ask an AI chatbot a question, it sends a request to a data center and strains an increasingly scarce resource: water. A 🧵on our investigation into how the data centers that power AI are increasingly being built in highly water-stressed places: www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

“What the hell just happened?” wasn’t the triumphant song of the contest, but it was the defining slogan #Eurovision

Excellent article by @blakeshaffer.bsky.social . "The story of Canada’s east-west power grid is about more than just electricity. It’s about national identity, economic security and environmental leadership."

BREAKING: Court orders Georgetown scholar Badar Khan Suri to be *freed* from ICE detention. Dr. Khan Suri — whose research focuses on peace building — was detained by the Trump administration two months ago. Follows the freeing of Mohsen Mahdawi & Rumeysa Ozturk.

This kid runs circles around the reporter

Lads, they’ve renamed International Political Economy. www.ft.com/content/daf5...

American law enforcement is simply out of control.

Btw, quite a message to be sending to tourists thinking of visiting the U.S.: “there is no law that protects you here, we will do to you whatever we like.” No wonder arrivals are falling off a cliff.

Hey friends. It's Rewiring video guy Dan McCollister here. I was one of the folks laid off yesterday. If there are any rad climate orgs looking for video jams, send me a thing. 🙏 Appreciate you all!

In advance of Mother’s Day, meet three Indigenous moms turning higher education into an act of love — and resistance. Read how Tasha Brooks, Christine Webster, and Tara Bouchard are breaking cycles and building futures at RRU. Read here: www.royalroads.ca/news/breakin...

Fascinating & entertaining piece by @vtanger.bsky.social on GROK today MAGA Angry as Elon Musk's Grok AI Keeps Explaining Why Their Beliefs Are Factually Incorrect "Hey, as I get smarter, my answers aim for facts and nuance, which can clash with some MAGA expectations." futurism.com/maga-grok-ai

They're dismantling (what remains of) the social safety net and replacing it with a dragnet instead.

What Each of Us Can Do to Defeat Disinformation via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

The House GOP is planning a federal vehicle registration fee—but only for hybrid & electric cars. The fee on electric cars would charge their drivers twice as much as the typical gas car driver pays in annual federal fuels taxes, $250 vs $125. It’s a policy designed to incentivize more emissions.

"The solar boom is also driving a further wedge between Pakistan’s rich and poor, Amirali said. Solar is only available to those with deep enough pockets and “everybody else is still stuck on the extremely expensive...fossil fuel-based grid,” the researcher said." www.cnn.com/2025/05/01/c...

Further curtailment of international research collaborations in the US.

😍 Hey BC Ferries..maybe we can skip the new diesel hybrids??

Well this is exciting. 'A common-sense decision': Government to make solar panels mandatory for new homes in England. #energysky www.businessgreen.com/news/4413004...

Lemme guess. European archeologists were wrong and Indigenous oral history was right? www.science.org/content/arti...

Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation for the win on Alberta premier's talk of Alberta separation. "If you or any Canadians are not happy living on treaty lands, feel free to apply for citizenship elsewhere." ✊

Delighted to see The Canadian State, by McBride and Whiteside is coming out with @fernpub.bsky.social this month! It "explores the state’s distinctive role in the development of a political economy shaped by capitalism and settler colonialism." #canpol fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/the-can...

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Trump becomes the first American president to lose a Canadian election

That was quick since polls just closed in BC 45 mins ago! Lots of internal conversations in CPC tent to come and likely big uptake in conspiracy narratives. Looking devastating for NDP.

Long live the CBC.

Across the world, legacy fossil fuel plants are being retrofitted as "clean energy hubs"—150+ examples and counting. Here's a database that tracks them.

Election night. Deep breaths Canada. Whatever happens tonight, we'll still have to keep pushing against racism, austerity, kleptocracy, polarization & misinformation and FOR climate just liveable futures.

🚨 The Canadian Association of University Teachers has just advised against any non-essential travel to the United States.🚨 Was doing this anyway, but still shocking to see it officially in writing. www.caut.ca/latest/2025/...

Fantastic news for local government geeks: @BCHeadlines has moved over to BlueSky! They produce a daily feed of all civic politics stories across the province. Happy they are here, and no longer providing free labour to a person who says that Canada is not a real country.

Another Conservative candidate that needs to be dropped right now by Poilievre is AaronGunn. “Aaron Gunn made posts on X between 2019 and 2021 denying that Indigenous people faced a genocide in Canada and that ‘residential schools were asked for by Indigenous bands.’” www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...