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Daniel Rück @danrueck.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Toronto Star 1978

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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.

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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

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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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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

He’s accused by the Times of using AI to write his resignation letter—who wouldn’t, in his shoes?—which I’m wondering about, besides the fact that this is just a racist pile-on at this point

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Chenoa @chenoamatthews.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

(Yes this is another chance for me to complain about the em dashes, as a lifelong tangentialist and em dasher—but the topic is coming up for me again as I catch up on what happened to Jason Arday)

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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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Chenoa @chenoamatthews.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Just want to thank you for your book, I posted about it a little while ago but it came to me in a time of fresh grief, even though this wasn’t the case at the time I pre-ordered it! 🫂

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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 · 15/08/2026

For me today, the word was “ultimately.” I’m the only author so far, so. It was me.

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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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Chenoa @chenoamatthews.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Thanks for this! I’m a new prof and eating up any and all relevant resources. Can I add @academicaunties.com? They focus on gendered and racialized experiences in academia. As an Indigenous woman (and the first one in my dept 🫣) I lean heavily on these shared experiences from other places.

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Chenoa @chenoamatthews.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Fair— I have less exposure to that audience. Joking aside, I do feel for my new colleagues who are adapting courses and preparing the increased workload that will come with deciphering handwritten work.

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Chenoa @chenoamatthews.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Respectfully, and as an incoming professor, I don’t think anyone other than professors have ever cared that much about methods of assessment 😆

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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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Chenoa @chenoamatthews.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

"Young scientists and public health academics watch these hearings closely and witness the worsening rhetoric. They see a career servant portrayed as a criminal, subjected to harassment, and public health leaders requiring security protection." As an incoming professor, I think about this daily.

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Chenoa @chenoamatthews.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Lol “disappearing” those books literally exist, we can fill our boots with all the Dostoyevsky, Herbert, and Sanderson and the like at any library and most bookstores. It’s not like we’re running out of Russian lit or sci fi/fantasy … 😂 it’s like saying, “nobody writes books from the 90s anymore!”

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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 · 18/07/2026

Incredible! And whoa it’s not that different from what I pictured in my head while reading. Kudos to the author’s descriptive writing

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