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We're a feminist, anti-colonial laboratory, which means our methods foreground values of humility, accountability, and good land relations. We’re working to do research differently. Memorial University civiclaboratory.nl

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CLEAR lab @clear-lab.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The Technoscience Research Unit is excited to continue the 2026/7 Technoscience Salon Series: Indigenous Science and Ethical Grounds, an open forum for entangling intellectual and political questions about technoscience. RSVP at techscisalon-liboiron.eventbrite.ca
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CLEAR lab @clear-lab.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
"Community Peer Review: A Method to Bring Consent and Self-Determination into the Sciences" is up for an award based on public voting. Ten years ago, we struggled to have it published so we "published" it in preprint.org. Now, it's one of the top 30 of the decade. Public Voting: Sept 1 - Nov 30.
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Max Liboiron @maxliboiron.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
In 2016, we couldn't get anyone to publish our weird paper on Community Peer Review (a method for community to adjudicate research that impacted them). So we stashed it as a pre-print. 10 years later, it's short listed as one of the top 30 preprints.org. There's a voting award thing if you want:
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CLEAR lab @clear-lab.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Come see Dr. Liboiron give a talk! July 20 @ 2:30pm in the McDonald Engineering Building at McGill; They'll talk about how infrastructural interventions (rather than mutual or integrative ones) can prove to be a more effective theory of change for addressing colonial power imbalances in academia.
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CLEAR lab @clear-lab.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
‼️ DEADLINE JUNE 1 ‼️ CLEAR is seeking a Research Coordinator to lead the day-to-day coordination of a horizon scan on Indigenous approaches to contaminant monitoring. More info: civiclaboratory.nl/2026/04/27/p...
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CLEAR lab @clear-lab.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
⭐ JOB OPPORTUNITY ⭐ CLEAR is seeking a Research Coordinator to lead the day-to-day coordination of a horizon scan on Indigenous approaches to contaminant monitoring. More details: civiclaboratory.nl/2026/04/27/p...
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Position: Research Coordinator (Contract or Employment) - CLEAR - Civic Laboratory for Environmental Action Research
CLEAR is seeking a Research Coordinator to coordinate a horizon scan on Indigenous approaches to contaminant monitoring. This project involves the design and administration of a survey as well as a sy...
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Max Liboiron @maxliboiron.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
We’re in Nunatsiavut this week to share results in the final year of a nine year plastic monitoring project! And it’s good news: we’re not concerned about plastics as a contaminant in the region. If you’d like a copy of the final report, let us know!
CoverOver 250 people were involved (inside page with names and photos)Page from report: most of the time when we look for plastics, we find nothing (English and inuttitit)Data viz showing plastics are very small, comparing size of plastics to common items like a grain of rice, Tylenol pill
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Max Liboiron @maxliboiron.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
I'm giving two talks in London-- one today, one tomorrow! Research is a Land Relation 3 February 2026, 5-6.30pm, LSE, OLD 3.24 www.lse.ac.uk/geography-an... Counting across worlds IAS Common Ground, G11, South Wing UCL Wednesday, Feb 4 from 5 pm to 7 pm www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/counting-a...
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Social Life of Climate Change
Attend research seminars in Social Life of Climate Change in the Department of Geography and Environment at LSE.
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Tim Waterman @tim-waterman.co.uk · 21/01/2026
Upcoming talk at LSE! "Research is a Land Relation" with the always superb @maxliboiron.bsky.social. 5pm 3 Feb LSE room OLD 3.24. See website SLCC.online for details!
Poster with the text from the message above and an image of Max Liboiron, wearing glasses and a t-shirt.
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CLEAR lab @clear-lab.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
New paper! "Struggling with Citational Politics as a Pathway to Unlearning and Relearning for Collective Action" on the material challenges of trying to cite ethically. We did a citation experiment. We found there were specific stages, and they didn't advance linearly. kula.uvic.ca/index.php/ku...
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CLEAR lab @clear-lab.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
As part of the Nunatsiavut plastic monitoring project, one of my (Lana’s) thesis chapters is on the analysis we (community members and researchers from Nunatsiavut and academics at Memorial University) did examining ice for plastics.
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CLEAR lab @clear-lab.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
The IndigeLab Network is hiring a Social Media and Content Creator!! Swipe to read the job description ➡️ To submit an application reach out to Veronica Madsen, IndigeLab Network Coordinator, at vlmadsen@mun.ca or check out our official job post here: www.indigelabnetwork.com/employee-opp...
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CLEAR lab @clear-lab.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
The IndigeLab Network invites researchers, artists, makers, and community storytellers to submit work for the Indigenous Data Communications Exhibit, a curated online exhibit celebrating Indigenous data shifters and re-makers. Submit an application here: www.indigelabnetwork.com/call-for-ind...
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CLEAR lab @clear-lab.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Congratulations to Riley Cotter, MSc! He officially completed his degree. His thesis, “Toward Place-based plastic monitoring in the Arctic,” received stellar reviews from examiners. Riley will be joining CLEAR as a full time researcher in the New Year!!
A happy person in a ballcap holds a bouquet of flowers. Two happy people stand side by side. One is older and wears all black. The other is younger, wears a ball cap, and holds some flowers. A room full of people around a table. One waves at the camera.
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CLEAR lab @clear-lab.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
A quick intro to the person behind this week's postings. I'm Paul (he/him), a white settler researcher working with CLEAR on the Nunatsiavut Plastics research. I'm based in Old Crow, Yukon, the traditional and self-governing territory of the Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation.
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CLEAR lab @clear-lab.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
In June this year, a group of us from the CLEAR Lab and the Natural History Museum went to Rigolet, Nunatsiavut to hold an on-the-land workshop to discuss plastics research. We also ran eBird to gather observations of a huge variety of seabirds, waterfowl, and shorebirds during a day on the ocean.
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CLEAR lab @clear-lab.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
I (@paulmccarney.bsky.social) am listening to @biidaasamose.bsky.social & Robin Maynard narrate their powerful book "Rehearsals for Living," which highlights Indigenous and Black feminist struggles for justice & liberation & discusses the colonial & patriarchal foundations of policing in Canada!
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Max Liboiron @maxliboiron.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
If you're in London in February and want to get your geek on with me: "This presentation outlines the rocky efforts of 2 Indigenous researchers to collaborate through an extremely relational form of Western knowledge: statistics." www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...
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Counting across worlds (or, how to love a zero)
This presentation outlines the rocky efforts of two Indigenous researchers to collaborate across incommensurability through an extremely relational form of Western knowledge: statistics.
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CLEAR lab @clear-lab.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
This week we’re continuing to wake up our social media presence with… ME! 🌊 Hi everyone, I’m Riley Cotter. Right now, I'm a Research Specialist and MSc student (almost finished!) at CLEAR. ⬇️
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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
The Weekly Read is "Fear of a Dead White Planet," by the More Worlds Collective (Joseph Masco, Tim Choy, Jake Kosek, and M. Murphy), which asks: How does one study when the planet is on fire? Read this book now for free! buff.ly/86Bikuh
Cover of Fear of a Dead White Planet by the More Worlds Collective. The cover art features an undulating curtain of smog against an otherwise clear sky. The texture of the smog has a sketch-like quality. The smog covers most of the page, with the relatively thin strip of blue sky at the bottom of the page. The top of a tree can be seen peeking out from the bottom left-hand corner of the cover.
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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Apply for this free PhD course on Energy Humanities in Stavanger, Norway! Please pass the opportunity on to students you know. Students from anywhere are welcome. #envhum #envhist
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CLEAR lab @clear-lab.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
I (Max) highly recommend this book. The ethnography is beautiful. The methods of an activist/researcher are exceptional. The theories of change are poetic and grounded. The case study is holy shit.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 01/10/2025
In my latest 🧪⚛️ column for @newscientist.com for subscribers (including libraries): beautiful non-binary mesons! "the particles oscillate between being mesons and antimesons. In other words, neutral B mesons are spontaneously non-binary." 🏳️‍⚧️🥰 www.newscientist.com/article/mg26...
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Why 'beauty factories' could solve two massive cosmological mysteries
Facilities that make particles called B mesons may seem obscure, but they could help explain why there is more matter than antimatter and what dark matter is, says Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
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Teen Vogue @teenvogue.com · 01/10/2025
“Dr. Goodall’s discoveries as an ethologist revolutionized science, and she was a tireless advocate for the protection and restoration of our natural world,” a statement from the Jane Goodall Institute read.
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Celebrated Conservationist and Chimpanzee Expert Jane Goodall Is Dead at 91
“Dr. Goodall’s discoveries as an ethologist revolutionized science, and she was a tireless advocate for the protection and restoration of our natural world.”
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CLEAR lab @clear-lab.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
We’re waking up our social media presence!🌱Every week, a different CLEAR member will share what life looks like in the lab, from wet lab work to community authorship. Each perspective is unique, showing the diff ways we think about what we do and *how* we do it. Stay tuned! 1/8
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Max Liboiron @maxliboiron.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
My piece echos Lynn Jacobs', but focuses on how even the best version of the Treaty includes Indigenous knowledge, but not Indigenous Peoples. Meaning, it's not a rights-based model like the one outlined by the UN Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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How to incorporate the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) in the Global Plastics Treaty | Cambridge Prisms: Plastics | Cambridge Core
How to incorporate the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) in the Global Plastics Treaty - Volume 3
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Max Liboiron @maxliboiron.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
.@konwaiatanonwes.bsky.social (Lynn Jacobs) has a great piece on "Indigenous rights, knowledge, and participation in the global plastics treaty" that details how Indigenous Peoples have been systematically blocked in the creation process www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Indigenous rights, knowledge, and participation in the global plastics treaty | Cambridge Prisms: Plastics | Cambridge Core
Indigenous rights, knowledge, and participation in the global plastics treaty - Volume 3
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Max Liboiron @maxliboiron.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
"The petrochemical historical bloc: Exposing the extent and depth of opposition to a high-ambition plastics treaty" identifies a bloc of petrostates, industry & their allies to ferret out disingenuous rhetoric and identify potential counter-alliances. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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The petrochemical historical bloc: Exposing the extent and depth of opposition to a high-ambition plastics treaty | Cambridge Prisms: Plastics | Cambridge Core
The petrochemical historical bloc: Exposing the extent and depth of opposition to a high-ambition plastics treaty - Volume 3
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Max Liboiron @maxliboiron.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Today there's a public briefing on the collection, "Act boldly or fail: academic perspectives at a pivotal moment in global plastics treaty negotiations," where 60+ experts outline the consequences of delayed or diluted action 1/ www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
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Call for bold action at upcoming Global Plastics Treaty Talks (INC-5.2)
As the world prepares for the final round of negotiations on a legally binding global plastics treaty (INC-5.2), from 5-14 August 2025, over 60 academic experts have stepped forward to outline exactly...
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Max Liboiron @maxliboiron.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
You can still register for tomorrow & Wednesday's workshops on promotion & tenure files for community-based research. Day 1 is CVs & Day 2 are dossiers. The team includes @arnkeeling.bsky.social @rosiealegado.bsky.social & Letitia Henville 1/3 cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/for...
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Encrypted Form
CryptPad: end-to-end encrypted collaboration suite
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Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
A short blog post with @maxliboiron.bsky.social for @clear-lab.bsky.social on the ethics of summary stats and why choice matters. It might seem obvious, but these problems still appear in papers when summarizing plastics data civiclaboratory.nl/2025/06/30/t... #PlasticPollution #ornithology
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The Problem With Averages: What Plastic in Birds Teaches Us About Statistical Ethics - CLEAR - Civic Laboratory for Environmental Action Research
By Max Liboiron and Alex Bond
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Dr. Jessica M. DeWitt @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
This piece by Alex Flynn is brilliant! Very happy to work with him and @clear-lab.bsky.social to bring more attention to it.
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Max Liboiron @maxliboiron.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
See the handy-dandy chart that converts articles in the United Nations Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) to articles in the draft Global Plastics Treaty. This chart and the paper are open access.
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Max Liboiron @maxliboiron.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
The draft Plastics Treaty has 3 sets of “Principles & Approaches, only 1 of which includes “knowledge of Indigenous Peoples. Even then, it includes Indigenous *knowledge* to the marked exclusion of Indigenous *Peoples*. A better way starts with Indigenous rights. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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How to incorporate the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) in the Global Plastics Treaty | Cambridge Prisms: Plastics | Cambridge Core
How to incorporate the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) in the Global Plastics Treaty - Volume 3
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CLEAR lab @clear-lab.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
A story of Indigenous researchers across the US-Canadian border moving our data so it's safer. www.theverge.com/features/664...
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Indigenous scientists are fighting to protect their data — and their culture
They’re worried about the loss of their research.
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CLEAR lab @clear-lab.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
CLEAR member Bridget Kakooza shared results about plastics in Ringed seals from around Rigolet, Nunatsiavut. While some seals ate plastics, the plastics were tiny and easily passed through the animals: "we are not worried about the negative impacts of plastics in them." www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
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© CBC/Radio-Canada 2025. All rights reserved.
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CLEAR lab @clear-lab.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Congratulations to all the authors of "Fragilities: Essays on the Politics, Ethics, and Aesthetics of Maintenance and Repair," published yesterday, open access! Our chapter is a choose-your-own-adventure through lab training at CLEAR. direct.mit.edu/books/oa-edi...
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Contamination Chores
CC BY-NC-NDThe open access edition of this book was made possible by generous funding and support from MIT Press Direct to Open
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CLEAR lab @clear-lab.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Join us for a two-day workshop this July on crafting your promotion and tenure file for community-based research. www.indigelabnetwork.com/test-worksho...
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IN Workshop: Promotion and Tenure packages for community-based research
July 16-17, 2025
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Dr. Jennifer Glass (she/her) @methanojen.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Yes!!! Finally a university leader standing up publicly for what is right. No to anticipatory compliance. Thank you UMich Dean Carlos F. Jackson: may you be an inspirational for many others. mailchi.mp/04bd06b0c03c...
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DEI will Continue at the Stamps School
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CLEAR lab @clear-lab.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Join Taryn on a tour of CLEAR! Why are our lab coats pink (spoiler: it's for scientific)? What senses do we use to identify plastics (hint: more than our eyes!)? What kind of people work at CLEAR (awesome people, obv)! @munlgeog.bsky.social #WomenInSTEM #QueerScience youtube.com/shorts/CVKwx...
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CLEAR Lab Tour
YouTube video by Drmaxlib
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CLEAR lab @clear-lab.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Because we work with sensitive data and that belongs to Indigenous governments, we're making the switch to cloud-based storage and collaborative suites outside of the US.
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Arn Keeling @arnkeeling.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Great to see the work of geographer Rosemary Collard featured, challenging the industry canard about red tape killing mining projects. Most times, it’s just the market. But also: it’s imperative we have rules and that they’re followed… www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Economics, not politics, main reason mines fail to materialize in B.C., researcher suggests | CBC News
A Simon Fraser University research survey indicates that fast-tracking projects is no guarantee of success.
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CLEAR lab @clear-lab.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
We are hiring a Research Associate to deepen research & education in Indigenous approaches to math, statistics & quantitative methods. See the link for details: civiclaboratory.nl/2025/01/18/p...
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Position: Research Associate in Indigenous approaches to quantitative research
We are looking for two experienced researchers who are fluent in Indigenous approaches to quantitative methods. Experience can come from community research, graduate degrees, and/or research positi…
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Max Liboiron @maxliboiron.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Really looking forward to working with someone on Indigenizing quantitative methods! The position is very flexible (FT or part time, remote or in person, can be made a postdoc) anticipating a range of researchers. #IndigeousSTEM civiclaboratory.nl/2025/01/18/p...
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Position: Research Associate in Indigenous approaches to quantitative research
We are looking for two experienced researchers who are fluent in Indigenous approaches to quantitative methods. Experience can come from community research, graduate degrees, and/or research positi…
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Max Liboiron @maxliboiron.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
If you’re in Nain, join us for science and songs this coming week. We’re so excited to share five years of research data about plastics in Nunatsiavut, which involved over 200 people!
Call the research centre for details 922-2380
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Lydia Jennings, PhD @1nativesoilnerd.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Exciting fellowship with the USGS for graduate students on diverse knowledgr systems in climate adaptation. Just make sure your projects include Indigenous data sovereignty ! www.usgs.gov/programs/cli...
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Diverse Knowledge Systems for Climate Adaptation Fellowship | U.S. Geological Survey
The Diverse Knowledge Systems for Climate Adaptation Fellowship supports graduate students for one year as they use their diverse experiences, viewpoints, value systems, and cultural knowledge to stre...
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Zoë Schlanger @zoeschlanger.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
"The smoke is a toxic soup. It’s not just the brush that’s burning, but homes are burning and homes contain plastics that are built from petrochemical compounds." - California Professional Firefighters president on CNN today.
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Climate Desk @climatedesk.org · 09/01/2025
Reposting our list of climate reporters, producers, and editors who are providing live updates on the fire on social media, as well.
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CLEAR lab @clear-lab.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Deadline Jan 10!
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CLEAR lab @clear-lab.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
A good time for this post by Dr. Alex Zahara about what you can do when your research is attacked. Each step has great citations (& caveats) 1. Identify an Attack 2. Ignore the Attacks 3. Enlist help from support networks 4. Fight back 5. Apologize when Necessary civiclaboratory.nl/2025/01/03/w...
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When your research is attacked
Attacks on justice-oriented research (rather that valid criticism of research) is escalating. What is your plan if it happens to you?
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