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Chenoa

@chenoamatthews.bsky.social
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🫎Anishininew–settler (she/her) 👩🏻‍🏫Assistant Professor (public health) 🎨Beader, reader, runner, skier, sometimes biker 🏔️Unceded Coast Salish territory 🐌Embracing slow

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Anti-Colonial History @anticolonialhistry.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Born on this day in 1949, scholar, poet, and champion of Hawaiian sovereignty, Haunani-Kay Trask. anticolonialhistory.com/event/265/
Haunani-Kay Trask at the ʻOnipaʻa Peace March on Jan. 17, 1993. At this speech she famously said “We are not American! Say it in your heart, say it when you sleep! We are not American, we will die as Hawaiians, we will never be Americans!”
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Chenoa @chenoamatthews.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I’ve become so terrible at taking photos of the cool things I get to do. I went canoeing in one of those big tradish Tseil-Waututh ocean-going canoes today, and this is the only pic I took:
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Chenoa @chenoamatthews.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
It’s been a sad time for the Vancouver+ running community, and for my partner’s hometown network, having grown up knowing Kalie and her family. May everyone find peace 🫂
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Raywat Deonandan 🍁🇨🇦 @deonandan.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I never knew about this fucking bad-ass woman. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Bla...
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Ada Blackjack - Wikipedia
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Yellowhead Institute @miskoaki.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Join us on National Day for Truth & Reconciliation. In less than one year, the largest archive of Survivor testimony is set to be destroyed. What is at stake if we lose Survivor records? Register for online and in person participation: therighttotruth.eventbrite.ca
Text reads: "A National Day for Truth & Reconciliation conversation with Connie Walker, Kimberly Murray, Marie Wilson and Stephen Kakfwi, hosted by Hayden King

The Right to Truth: Protecting Indian Residential School Records"


Artwork by Hal Cameron is displayed. It shows an Elder leaning down towards a youth kneeling on grass reaching their arm upward. 

"A Yellowhead Fire event" Link: "therighttotruth.eventbrite.ca"Text reads: "A Yellowhead Institute x Indian Residential Schools Records Project Event"

"In less than one year, the largest archive of Survivor testimony on residential schools is set to be destroyed. What is at stake if we lose Survivor records?" 

A photograph by Yumi Numata is displayed which shows a plaque with the names of former residential schools.Featured Speakers are displayed: 

Stephen Kakfwi
IRS Survivor & Former Premier,
Northwest Territories (2000-2003)
Dene

Marie Wilson
Commissioner on Canada’s
Truth & Reconciliation Commission (2009-2015)

Connie Walker
Investigative Journalist, Assistant Professor
& Velma Rogers Research Chair (TMU)
Okanese First Nation

Kimberly Murray
Lawyer, Independent Special Interlocutor for Missing Children
Kanehsatà:ke, Mohawk Nation

Hayden King
Executive Director, Yellowhead Institute
Anishinaabe, Beausoleil First Nation

Yellowhead Institute logo is displayed and the link to the registration: therighttotruth.eventbrite.ca
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Chenoa @chenoamatthews.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
minesweeper is my zen garden
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Chenoa @chenoamatthews.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I’ve been working long days out of the house for the first time in a long time, and my doggo has been extra clingy when I get home.
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Chenoa @chenoamatthews.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Bad Indians Book Club (2025). I feel a kindred spirit in Patty Krawec through her writing. I always appreciate a relational worldview that emphasizes kinship, anti-colonial thought, and the connection between histories and futures. “Bad Indians know that we survive together or not at all.” #BookSky
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Chenoa @chenoamatthews.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
A beautiful translation by Emily Wilson, 2023. “I have often felt like the poor mortal horse, Jumper, harnessed alongside the immortal horses of Achilles: like him, I struggled to keep up, always knowing that the original poem, my model and constant companion, would always gallop ahead.” #Booksky
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Walking Eagle News @theeagleist.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
BREAKING: sucks to have stuff renamed by white people, doesn’t it?
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Chenoa @chenoamatthews.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dolly embodied my dearest principles: everyone should get to read, go to school, and have access to preventative medicine. All while being absolutely fabulous. Rest in peace, DP. The good ones always go too soon.
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NEJM.org @nejm.org · 21/08/2026
In a new NEJM Voices blog post, Dr. Kemi Doll argues that the death of the British professor underscores the different standards and systemic stresses on Black academics. Learn more and sign up for email alerts: nej.md/4x4qovY
A quote from an NEJM Voices blog post reads as follows: “Black academics know that we will always be held to a different standard, and it will look ‘fair’ to most until perhaps we are dead.” The author is Kemi Doll, M.D. The background color is yellow and includes the NEJM Voices logo.
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Chenoa @chenoamatthews.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
We’ve really gone from “learn to code if you want to be competitive for a job” to “showing illiteracy for AI use and/or coding may be an asset” in a lightning fast transition. I would not be surprised if this grows in popularity.
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Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
People who associate em dashes with AI have clearly never read Agatha Christie
I remember my mother and father, of course, and I remember leaving home suddenly—being taken to the country. I remember the pigs and a nice fat farmer's wife—and everybody being very kind—and I remember, quite clearly, the funny way they used to look at me—everybody—a sort of furtive look. I knew, of course, children do, that there was something wrong—but I didn't know what. 

"And then I went on a ship—it was exciting—it went on for days, and then I was in Canada and Uncle Simon met me, and I lived in Montreal with him and with Aunt Louise, and when I asked about Mummy and Daddy they said they'd be coming soon. And then—and then I think I forgot—only I sort of knew that they were dead without remembering anyone actually telling me so. Because by that time, you see, I didn't think about them anymore. I was very happy, you know. Uncle Simon and Aunt Louise were sweet to me, and I went to school and had a lot of friends, and I'd quite forgotten that I'd ever had another name, not Lemarchant. Aunt Louise, you see, told me that that was my name in Canada and that seemed quite sensible to me at the time—it was just my Canadian name—but as I say I forgot in the end that I'd ever had any other."

She flung up her defiant chin. She said:

"Look at me. You'd say—wouldn't you? If you met me: 'There goes a girl who's got nothing to worry about!' I'm well off, I've got splendid health, I'm sufficiently good to look at, I can enjoy life. At twenty, there wasn't a girl anywhere I'd have changed places with."
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CeeJay Johnson-Yellow Hawk @adriftalchemist.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
the tundra when it melts #climatechange
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Chenoa @chenoamatthews.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
The fervour with which Jason Arday’s story has been feasted upon by settler colonial discourse is at once jarring and entirely unsurprising to those of us who find ourselves—willingly or otherwise—in the DEI narrative. The alleged plagiarism is entirely beside the point.
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Dheepa Sundaram, PhD (she/her) @themodsisyphus.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
249 articles in 10 days. That’s how much ink has been spilled on Jason Arday including a particularly racist piece in The Times Sunday paper from a former student claiming he was a bad teacher and they didn’t like his class. white Cambridge prof found to have plagiarized didn’t get this scrutiny.
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Chenoa @chenoamatthews.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Can someone ELI5: how does AI detection software work? If LLMs themselves have learned by scraping the work of human writers, wouldn’t AI detection then always flag writing as probable AI? For example: I’ve had to stop using em dashes since I’ve been told it flags AI, despite their centuries of use
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 15/08/2026
Vaccines were once so uncontroversial that McDonald’s restaurants put the childhood immunization schedule on their tray liners. Now, as the U.S. government sows doubt, preventable diseases could come roaring back. (Published March)
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How Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Vaccine Agenda Risks a Resurgence of Deadly Childhood Plagues
The health secretary is spreading doubts about vaccine safety and considering changes that could prompt manufacturers to flee the U.S. market. History has shown how plagues from the past can roar back...
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Chenoa @chenoamatthews.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I may not ‘look like’ a professor, but now I know I belong | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
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I may not ‘look like’ a professor, but now I know I belong
The key, this researcher writes, was unlearning the subtle messages telling her she didn’t look the part
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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I think this is an especially important dynamic
“ Our beliefs tend to start cautious and become confident. Saying or hearing something again and again makes it feel true. Voiced support for “mass deportation now” likely did start as going along with a group, or being edgy, for many Republicans. But over time it became a passionately held and actionable commitment. We become who we pretend to be.”
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Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
We've updated a guide — initially published in response to the now-blocked CDC vaccine schedule changes in January — that explains what the vaccine-preventable diseases in question actually are.
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What to Know About the Vaccines Targeted by Trump’s Executive Order (Gift Article)
The order, whose legal power is unclear, recommended narrowing the use of vaccinations against several diseases that can be life-threatening.
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
"The vilification of Anthony Fauci by Senate Republicans will erode trust in science, curtail international research collaborations, and deter scientists and health experts from entering public service" @gavinyamey.bsky.social @boghuma.bsky.social @bmj.com www.bmj.com/content/394/...
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Fauci’s Senate hearing riled up the MAGA base—but at the cost of damaging public health
The vilification of Anthony Fauci by Senate Republicans will erode trust in science, curtail international research collaborations, and deter scientists and health experts from entering public service...
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Chenoa @chenoamatthews.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
"Wildland firefighters in Canada are classified as forestry workers, not first responders. They lack the benefits, wages and pensions afforded to municipal firefighters, and the mental health impacts of their frontline jobs are often not accounted for." #publichealth thenarwhal.ca/wildfire-fig...
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Alberta wildfire fighters band together for support | The Narwhal
Facing hazardous work, low wages and no paid sick days, Alberta wildfire fighters take their mental health into their own hands
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Chenoa @chenoamatthews.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
All My Dead Cats, SE Smith (2026). I have a weird relationship with death and loss; I guess we all do. I am grateful for this book arriving at a time when I really need it, even if my impression of the book is lukewarm. It’s nice to practice *going there* and I love the accessible framing. #BookSky
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Chenoa @chenoamatthews.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
It’s a special disenfranchised grief that I carry as my ancestral homelands are ravaged, due to government negligence in the face of climate change; knowing full well that they have bought themselves more time by leaving our communities to face the dangers first and worst. www.nan.ca/news/first-n...
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First Nations Paying the Price as Ontario Ignored Warnings on Wildfire Preparedness - Nishnawbe Aski Nation
THUNDER BAY: First Nations are paying the price as the Ford government’s performance on the implementation of recommendations on wildfire and emergency management preparedness will once again be exami...
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Chenoa @chenoamatthews.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
One day I will talk fully about the year that I’ve had. It’s been a difficult time for our little family unit. We recently took a much needed break on beautiful Galiano Island.
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Chenoa @chenoamatthews.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Ahhhh I love when the arc of coffee research turns back in favour of coffee lovers. ☕️
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Chenoa @chenoamatthews.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
The Black Angels by Maria Smilios (2023). Public health history is probably my favourite genre (🤓), especially when it’s steeped in the sociopolitical context of the era. The Black Angels were black nurses working at Sea View, a TB sanatorium on Staten Island, NY, under Jim Crow. #BookSky #EpiSky
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Chenoa @chenoamatthews.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
This is a favourite among my non-academic friends, sharing the latest absurd acronym or backronym that crosses my desk
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Chenoa @chenoamatthews.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Panic reading The Iliad so I can read The Odyssey so I can see the movie
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Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute @vchresearch.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Kudos to VCHRI researcher Dr. Chenoa Matthews on joining the UBC School of Population & Public Health as a tenure-track assistant professor. She will continue supporting Indigenous health research that translates into meaningful changes: buff.ly/JTAhfHN @chenoamarie.bsky.social
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Chenoa @chenoamatthews.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Be my friend on Goodreads! #BookSky www.goodreads.com/friend/i?inv...
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See what your friends are reading
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Chenoa @chenoamatthews.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Odessa, by Gabrielle Sher (2026). An emotionally intense horror story steeped in Jewish folklore. Odessa does it all: culturally interesting—I learned a lot; a horror story that doesn’t hold back—jump scares! guts! gore!; and a cruel but beautiful allegory about what gives life meaning. #BookSky
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Chenoa @chenoamatthews.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Decluttering my office and found this quote on a sticky note that I wanted to preserve somewhere: “The underlying purpose of AI is to allow wealth to access skill while removing from the skilled the ability to access wealth.” I don’t know who to attribute this quote to, but it seems ubiquitous now
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Chenoa @chenoamatthews.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This, Omar El Akkad (2025). “Forget pity, forget even the dead if you must, but at least fight against the theft of your soul.” #BookSky
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Chenoa @chenoamatthews.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
#AcademicSky
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Chenoa @chenoamatthews.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
I am beyond excited to finally share some big news: I am joining @ubcmedicine.bsky.social in the School of Population and Public Health as an Assistant Professor in September!! 📚 #PublicHealth #EpiSky #Academia #BookSky (I will still mostly post about books on here) spph.ubc.ca/spph-welcome...
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SPPH Welcomes New Assistant Professor, Dr. Chenoa Matthews    - School of Population and Public Health
We are excited to announce that Dr. Chenoa Matthews will be joining the School of Population and Public Health as an Assistant Professor, tenure-track, on September 1, 2026.
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Chenoa @chenoamatthews.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
my entire personality in one photo
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Chenoa @chenoamatthews.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
I haven’t been reading much this month as I have been busy with ✨exciting new things I will share soon✨ but I have a fun pile in front of me ready for summer! In lieu of more #TBR pile book reports, enjoy this photo of my dog’s unbridled joy rolling in the grass.
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Chenoa @chenoamatthews.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
From the #TBR pile: The Jungle by Upton Sinclair (1906). A stunning exposé of the squalor and dangerous working conditions of the Chicago meatpacking industry at the turn of the 20th century. Many parallels remain, 120 years later, in today’s industrial worker conditions under late stage capitalism.
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Peter Tennant @pwgtennant.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Does engaging with the arts help to slow the aging process? According to this new paper from Fancourt et al the answer is yes! Alas, the paper is actually unsuitable for such claims. Let’s examine by discussing how you'd establish whether arts engagement actually caused future health! 1/18 🧵
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Does leisure activity matter for epigenetic ageing? Analyses of arts engagement and physical activity in the UK Household Longitudinal Study
AbstractBackground and Objectives. Over the past decade, ageing clocks have become widely adopted as important tools for understanding biological ageing an
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Microbes.Info @microbesinfo.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
🦠 Most #Hantavirus #infections are linked to exposure to infected #rodent droppings or #urine — not person-to-person spread. #Microbiology #Virology #PublicHealth #Epidemiology via @pbs.org
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Medical epidemiologist explains what to know about the cruise ship hantavirus outbreak
A medical epidemiologist explains what you need to know about the hantavirus virus and how the outbreak is playing out.
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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
#VaccinesWork. Needed: more equitable access. Study: Substantial increases in cervical cancer inequalities worldwide www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... High income countries could eliminate cervical cancer by 2048 LMICs would decrease disease by only 23%.
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Substantial increases in cervical cancer inequalities worldwide without enhanced human papillomavirus vaccination and screening efforts: a global modelling study
Worldwide inequalities in cervical cancer have been projected to increase dramatically without enhanced HPV prevention strategies. Reaching WHO vaccination and screening elimination targets or introdu...
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Remmelt 🛑 @artificialbodies.net · 30/04/2026
“the data center fight, with farmers and environmentalists and indigenous and working class people side by side, is an opportunity to grow and catalyze working class power. Fighting data centers is where good AI governance begins, not ends.” — @bcmerchant.bsky.social
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The data center rebellion is only the beginning
And it's precisely what democratic governance of AI looks like.
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Chenoa @chenoamatthews.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
I needed a button, so kokum goes into her closet and comes back with “grandma Matthews’ button bag” and ladies and gents, this is what 120 years of intergenerational button collecting looks like.
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The BMJ @bmj.com · 24/04/2026
Should doctors speak of their concerns about the mental health of a president? While heads of state are entitled to medical confidentiality, their decisions can have life or death consequences, say @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social and @drdavidnicholl.bsky.social
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Should doctors speak of their concerns about the mental health of a president?
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Chenoa @chenoamatthews.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Just finished Yesteryear, by Caro Claire Burke (2026–just released this month, in fact; I feel so hip!) A tradwife influencer wakes up one day in the 1800s in the life she romanticizes online, told from her perspective. Creative, original, and a truly relevant social commentary. #booksky
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Chenoa @chenoamatthews.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
I took awhile to decide how I feel about this book. Flesh by David Szalay (2025), follows István throughout his life in which he seems to be carried along by luck & chance encounters. I left a rare review on Goodreads - I included a screenshot of in case any of you nerds want to read it :) #Booksky
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