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Anna Soer

@annasoer.bsky.social
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🇫🇷 🇳🇱 🏳️‍🌈 PhD at uOttawa School of Political Science - energy and resource development in Greenland and Nunavut. Interests in colonialism, conflict and security, sustainable development, and Arctic affairs Avid crocheter, knitter and sewist.

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CIPS / CÉPI @cepi-cips.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
🟣 How Arctic Residents Think: Results From the Second Annual Canadian Arctic Survey 📝 This online conference will make public the results of a survey conducted with 650 residents of the Canadian Arctic. Join us September 21 for this online only event 💻>>> bit.ly/4gyRcPi
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Victoria Seabrook @seabrookclimate.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
'Immense irony' as Iran conflict fuels 'boom' in renewable power - UN climate chief EV sales surging, solar installs soar in UK, govts cite the crisis in clean power announcements Crisis is accelerating trends, but they are "not universal"- @adambell.bsky.social news.sky.com/story/immens...
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'Immense irony' as Iran war fuels 'boom' in renewable power - UN climate chief
Oil and gas prices have soared as the conflict in Iran chokes off about a fifth of global oil and liquefied natural gas (LNG) supplies and spreads misery.
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Daniella M. @farsouthhistory.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Check out my new article! It argues that the rise of continental drift should be understood within the context of the geopolitical shift that came from decolonization. lmk if you can't access! #histsci #STS www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Geology as geopolitics: continental drift and the southern hemisphere
This article argues that the mid-twentieth-century acceptance of continental drift cannot be understood solely as the result of new geophysical eviden…
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
"You wouldn't know it if you live in the USA or consume US media and politics, but the fight between EVs and ICEs is basically over. Internal combustion is on it's way out. First it'll look slow, then fast. Fleet turnover will lag sales. But ALL the growth globally is in EVs." - @jessedjenkins.com
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Arn Keeling @arnkeeling.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Disturbing instance in Yukon of mining approval granted without consent of Kaska First Nations. The Kaska have a good record in the courts, tho, so don’t count them out yet. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Kudz Ze Kayah mine project in Yukon approved again, while First Nation blasts decision | CBC News
The Yukon and federal governments have given the go-ahead to a contentious mine project near Ross River, despite strong opposition from local First Nations.
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Yale Environment 360 @yalee360.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
In a first last month, renewables supplied more power to the U.S. than natural gas, a milestone in the shift to clean energy.
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In a First for the U.S., Renewables Generate More Power Than Natural Gas
In March, for the first time, renewables supplied more power to the U.S. than natural gas, a milestone in the transition to clean power. However, rising power demand is complicating the shift away from fossil fuels by extending the lives of many aging coal power plants.
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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
How has your scholarship been impacted by a decision not to travel to the United States? Want to write about it for our Tracking the Effects: Environmental History and the Current United States Federal Administration series? niche-canada.org/2026/02/26/p... #envhist #envhum #cdnhist
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Pushing Back, Building Bridges - A Renewed Call for "Tracking the Effects"
Collecting stories of resistance, both historical and actual, that relate to environmental history or environmental historians.
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The Northern Review @thenorthernreview.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
#newarticle Multi-Level Governance for Renewable Energy Development in Nunavut: The Role of Community Consultation and Inuit Knowledge, by Anna Soer @annasoer.bsky.social doi.org/10.22584/nr5... #RenewableEnergy #CommunityConsultation #InuitKnowledge #EnergySecurity #ContentAnalysis #Nunavut
Image displaying front cover of The Northern Review 59 as well as text announcing special issue, New Frontiers in Northern Economic Development. The cover photo features the beautiful "Nàagàii Ddhah (Bead Mountain)" by Yukon artists Copper Caribou: collage of many pieces of colourful beadwork, nàagàii (beads), and Vadzaih ch’ijì (caribou antler) on hometan vadzaih dhòh (caribou hide).
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The Northern Review @thenorthernreview.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
#NewIssue No. 59 is a special issue: New Frontiers in Northern Economic Development, with partial support from #CanNor #CanadianNorthernEconomicDevelopmentAgency Thanks to Yukon artists Copper Caribou for the gorgeous cover, "Nàagàii Ddhah (Bead Mountain)" doi.org/10.22584/nr5... coppercaribou.com
Front cover of The Northern Review 59 featuring the beautiful "Nàagàii Ddhah (Bead Mountain)" by Copper Caribou: photo of a collage of colourful beadwork, nàagàii (beads), and Vadzaih ch’ijì (caribou antler) on hometan vadzaih dhòh (caribou hide)
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Climate Disconnect @climate-disconnect.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Andrew Coyne in the Globe and Mail lays it out. "Annexation may not be on the table. But the idea that Canada must be tamed, subdued, brought to heel – reduced, in other words, to a vassal state – is very much part of MAGA thinking. We have become a problem, in need of a solution."
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Opinion: MAGA’s plan for Canada: not annexation, but dismemberment
A new defence think tank argues we are a problem in need of a solution – and the solutions are insane
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Jennifer Koshan @jenniferkoshan.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
So true. And in Alberta, this policing has led to young women refusing to confirm their "biological sex" as a precondition to playing sports. Which has led to - guess what? Decreased participation of girls in sport, completely undermining the purported objective of the UCP. #abpoli
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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Declassified files expose RCMP's secret surveillance of Indigenous people "Newly declassified documents obtained by CBC Indigenous confirm that the RCMP infiltrated and sought to disrupt legitimate political Indigenous organizations in the 1970s..." www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MvU... #cdnhist
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Declassified files expose RCMP's secret surveillance of Indigenous people
YouTube video by CBC Indigenous
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Ryan Katz-Rosene, PhD @ryankatzrosene.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
"Poor countries may lose 10 times more people to deaths from high temperatures than rich ones, according to an analysis by Climate Impact Lab." (Bloomberg Green Newsletter)
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Ryan Katz-Rosene, PhD @ryankatzrosene.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
However, as Zeke notes, 2023 started off similarly, yet it far exceeded warming expectations (and broke the record at that time). That could have been the result of a strong El Niño coming after a triple-dip Niña, but there is still uncertainty around this. Where will 2026 end up?
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Natalia (娜塔莉) @wrycritic.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
This woman is a QUEEN. But also, did you know. A lot of Natural History scientific illustrators in the 19th century, were usually partners and wives of famous male academics. Buckland, Lyell, Mantell, Murchinson, Gould etc. Their academic output was carried by their (invisible) wives.
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We Need To Stop With The "Women Didn't Work" Myth
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Justin Ling @justinling.ca · 07/03/2026
Local Massachusetts weekly says it's confirmed that the Pentagon was relying on Claude for strike targeting, which is how they came to bomb a girls' school. thisweekinworcester.com/exclusive-ai...
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Exclusive: AI Error Likely Led to Iran Girl's School Bombing
Pentagon investigators believe a bombing of a girls' school in Iran on Saturday likely resulted from inaccurate information provided by AI.
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Gabriella Gricius @ggricius.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
I'm happy to share a recently published article with Will Greaves, where we present an original dataset of 164 public opinion polls across the Arctic from 2007-2024 that illustrates the fragmentation of the Arctic into two distinct blocs. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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The fragmented Arctic: Comparing Arctic security public opinion in Russia and the A7 | Polar Record | Cambridge Core
The fragmented Arctic: Comparing Arctic security public opinion in Russia and the A7 - Volume 62
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Ryan Katz-Rosene, PhD @ryankatzrosene.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Can't Stop, Won't Stop. Renewables generated what is equivalent to more than a QUARTER of US Electricity needs last year.
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Irene Quaile @iceblogger.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
"Greenland should be in the news because climate change is disrupting the key role it plays in the world’s climate system and in influencing sea level, with consequences for the livelihoods and lives of billions of people around the globe."
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
It should be against the law to operate a business and not have a clear mechanism to talk to a real human being when you need to.
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
"But he didn't know" okay, great, but did he speak out against an overtly sexist, racist power broker, or did he accept the invitations and the money? Because this culture doesn't just happen. It's created by the consent of the people who have access to those spaces. 19thnews.org/2026/02/epst...
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The boys’ club: How Epstein’s influence shaped the exclusion of women in STEM
In one email, an AI researcher suggested it’s “hard to be brilliant if you are worrying if you look fat or why another woman hates you.”
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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
🚨🚨Biggest #EU news of today: #Iceland looks to fast-track vote on joining EU as referendum on EU accession could come as early as August, departing from original plan for 2027 ref. 🧵 www.politico.eu/article/icel...
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Iceland looks to fast-track vote on joining EU
A referendum on resuming membership talks had been expected in 2027, but could come as early as this August.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
i've decided not to listen to the audio of a teacher reporting a kindergartender because frankly I don't want to become the person that that event would turn me into. but one thing I hope we are collectively coming to grips with is what it meant that we have lived among such people this whole time
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Ntina Tzouvala @ntinatzouvala.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Yet Gaza and Venezuela also demonstrate the intrinsic instability of such a coercive order. The Trump doctrine seeks control in a world that resists domination. By substituting coercion for consent, it multiplies the very crises it ostensibly aims to end. www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
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The Path to the Trump Doctrine
From Syria to Lebanon to Gaza, the coercion central to the new regime has been incubated in the Middle East.
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IPSO - International Programme on the State of the Ocean @oceanipso.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
The #BBNJ Agreement could strengthen biodiversity protection in the Central Arctic Ocean. However, scientists warn that existing legal frameworks, weak enforcement and competing national interests may limit its impact in one of the ocean’s most politically complex regions. @annasoer.bsky.social
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The Central Arctic Ocean and the BBNJ Agreement: potential and limitations
The signature of an international agreement to manage biodiversity beyond national jurisdictions (BBNJ Agreement) raised questions about its applicability in the Arctic region in general and the Ce...
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Ryan Brook, PhD. Chairman of the Boar @ryankbrook.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
New paper just dropped. I helped out a bit. Polar bear visits to human infrastructure increase with sea ice loss, not poor body condition. cdnsciencepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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Chatham House @chathamhouse.org · 18/01/2026
The US wants to establish supply chains for critical minerals free of Chinese control. Threatening Greenland will isolate the US from the very partners it needs to achieve this.
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If Trump wants 2026 to be a year of critical minerals collaboration, he must stop imperialist rhetoric on Greenland
The US wants to establish supply chains for critical minerals free of Chinese control. Disrespecting sovereignty and international law will isolate the country from the partners it needs to achieve th...
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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
"I argue that this visual regime of Arctic melt itself is performative. It produces a kind of slow violence—not through physical destruction, but through infrastructural oversight and the erasure of context and nuance." - Audrey Medaino-Tardif niche-canada.org/2025/10/27/v... #envhum #arctic
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Violence of Melt: Visual Infrastructures and Erasure in the Arctic
The Arctic is melting. In the visual culture of the Arctic and environmental research, melt is affective. It is treated as an object of aesthetic and study, a symbol of urgency. Most prevalent images ...
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Dave Keating @davekeating.substack.com · 14/01/2026
It's finally happening. The Swedish prime minister just announced that a pan-European force is arriving in #Greenland as we speak. No word yet on whether UK forces are among them.
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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Danish newspaper @politiken.dk opens ENGLISH LANGUAGE section of its coverage of Greenland. Resource to understand local coverage, analysis, politics, and public opinion ⬇️ politiken.dk/tag/main/gre...
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Greenland
Get the latest news about the tensions between United States, Denmark and Greenland from Politiken Edition. US President Donald Trump is causing tremors with his statements about Greenland. He calls...
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 12/01/2026
Trump is ready to grab Greenland. The EU should move first – and offer it membership | Robert Habeck and Andreas Raspotnik
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Trump is ready to grab Greenland. The EU should move first – and offer it membership | Robert Habeck and Andreas Raspotnik
The US president’s threats to the territory show Europe needs a new strategy for its far north: one based on cooperation, not domination, say Robert Habeck, former German vice-chancellor, and Andreas Raspotnik of Nord University
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Robert Way @labradorice.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Queen's University is recruiting through the Canada Impact+ Research Chairs program. Geography and Planning is a particularly great option for international scholars seeking to do northern or climate change research. Feel free to reach out if interested. www.queensu.ca/vpr/recruitm...
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International Research Recruitment | Vice-Principal (Research)
Join Canada’s next generation of research leaders  In response to the federal government’s suite of international talent attraction initiatives, Queen’s University is actively recruiting outstanding i...
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Louis Römer @lromeranth.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Greenland’s next.
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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
At 7:10 or so the winner of the 2025 Nobel peace prize praises Tr*mp & condones extralegal killings in service of regime change. At 14:15 she tells Biz Forum that Venezuela will be the “energy hub of the Americas,” & the “new global frontier of innovation and wealth creation.”
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
French authorities to investigate Grok nude deepfakes www.politico.eu/article/fran...
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France to investigate deepfakes of women stripped naked by Grok
Hundreds of women and teenagers have reported their photos published on social media have been “undressed” by Grok.
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dr Katarzyna Nowak @katzyna.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
31. Fascinating article about use of social media to evaluate how war affects dolphins & porpoises in the Black Sea with data on 2500 corpses compiled in just 3 months attesting to how #CitizenScience can be leveraged even during wartime. #TabClosed2026 royalsocietypublishing.org/rsbl/article...
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The use of social media in assessing the impact of war on cetaceans
Abstract. War has always brought millions of silent non-human victims but the scale of this suffering is often either unknown, neglected or difficult to qu
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Thea Riofrancos @triofrancos.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Why are minerals so central to geopolitics? How green are electric cars? Why is anti-mining protest increasing? Can the inequalities of the global economy be transformed? I tackle these topics in my book EXTRACTION: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism 👀 September 2025 @wwnorton.bsky.social
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ZoeSTodd (Dr Fish Philosopher Todd) @zoestodd.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
My take on AI is straightforward: the machine learning plagiarism industrial complex is not sentient. But the fish who have lived on earth continuously in one form or another for half a billion years & who are threatened by AI’s water consumption & climate change impacts are. I choose the fish. 🐟
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Marc Lanteigne (林晏) @marclanteigne.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
overthecircle.com/2025/12/27/t... A new @overthecircle.bsky.social story about the renewal of American interests in 'acquiring' #Greenland , and its possible rationales. @uitnorgesarktiske.bsky.social
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The Unwelcome Return of US Zero-Sum Policy in Greenland
Nuuk skyline [Photo by Marc Lanteigne] by Marc Lanteigne Initial assessments of US foreign policy as the first year of the second Donald Trump administration drew to a close have included growing c…
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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 15/12/2025
Grading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things
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Rob Botterell @robbotterell.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
The ink is hardly dry on this court decision, and yet the folks who unanimously passed the Declaration Act are already threatening to repeal or amend it. How is that good government? #bcpoli www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Eby says B.C. may revise DRIPA legislation, worries court is 'in driver's seat' | CBC News
B.C. Premier David Eby says he is open to revising the province's Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (DRIPA). His comments come after B.C.'s Court of Appeal found that the legislation...
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mat marques, ph.d. @mdmarques.com · 07/12/2025
In 2015, Heydens, a Monsanto scientist, suggested that he and colleagues “ghost-write” another scientific paper. Monsanto could pay outside scientists to “edit & sign their names” to the work that he and others would do, Heydens wrote. “Recall that is how we handled Williams Kroes and Munro 2000.”
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Science journal retracts study on safety of Monsanto’s Roundup: ‘Serious ethical concerns’
Paper published in 2000 found glyphosate was not harmful, while internal emails later revealed company’s influence
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Energy transitions can happen faster than we think: In 2000 almost 90% of Denmark's electricity was from fossil fuels. In 2024 less than 10% of Danish electricity was from fossil fuels.
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Erin Elkin @shadell.itch.io · 01/12/2025
So, an OU student a shitty reaction paper in a psych course, got failed by a grad student TA for not following directions and threatened legal action, while also getting her uni TPUSA chapter to post the essay. Her mother is on X saying trans people must not be allowed to be professors. This is…
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OU puts graduate instructor on leave after student claims discrimination on Bible-based essay grade
OU placed a graduate student instructor on leave after a student publicly contested a grade and filed an illegal discrimination claim after she received a failing grade on an essay
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Antonia Juhasz @antoniajuhasz.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Yesterday,Trump opened new areas of Alaska's North Slope to oil & gas reversing Biden-era protections. For @rollingstone.com in August,I spoke with Iñupiat Rosemary Ahtuangaruak for who lives there."For me, all of this has been a nightmare in continuous motion.” www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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Anthropologica Journal @anthropologica.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Current Issue Published! Vol. 67 No. 1 (2025) Narratives and Temporalities of Infrastructure: The Canadian Experience Thematic Section editors: Philipp Budka, Giuseppe Amatulli cas-sca.journals.uvic.ca/index.php/an... @alexandrinebf.bsky.social @philbu.bsky.social @gamatulli.bsky.social
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
The Canadian Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science and Research is launching a US-style attack on EDI in Tri-Council funding. As part of this attack, they are demanding disclosure of confidential demographic info + reviewer comments of all Canadian researchers who have applied b/w 2000-2025.
Maxime Blanchette-Joncas:
  I'm tabling the following motion:
That the committee request the three funding councils, namely the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), as part of the study on the impact of federal funding allocation criteria on research excellence in Canada, to provide it with the disaggregated data of all submitted applications, whether funded or not, for all student and faculty funding programs from the master's level onwards for applications made between 2020 and 2025. That this data include (1) demographic data of applicants and collaborators, including applicants' responses to the equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) questionnaire, (2) the institutions and departments of applicants, including the institutions of collaboration, (3) the language of the application, (4) all data regarding the type of application and project content (application year, grant program, discipline, title, summary, amount requested by the applicant), as well as (5) the identity of the evaluation committee, comments, opinions, scores assigned to applications for each criterion, and (6) the outcome of the application and the amount awarded. That the three funding councils submit all this data to the committee within 15 days following the adoption of this motion, in an Excel spreadsheet format.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/10/2025
Carney: "We can't control the trade policy of the US. We recognize it has fundamentally changed from the policy in the 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, & it's a situation where US has tariffs against every trading partner... what we we can control is developing new partnerships, including w/econ giants of Asia"
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 24/10/2025
built on theft and at massive environmental cost and most importantly, numerous studies keep demonstrating that genAI tools often work a little better than by chance. how is it that we can’t expunge these slop machines out of our institutions and communities www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...
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Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory
An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC
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