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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
View the shortlist and vote. Our paper is in the Social Science section. There are a lot of other great papers there; preprints are awesome on their own, making research more accessible beyond paywalls! www.preprints.org/activity/awa...
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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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CLEAR lab @clear-lab.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
We won't be at the UArctic congress, no. We'll send the final version of the report your way, and post on here as well. Should be finalized in a month. :) Thanks for asking!
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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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CLEAR lab @clear-lab.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
It's a book talk based on "Pollution is Colonialism."
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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!
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CLEAR lab @clear-lab.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Part of a special issue in KULA on Citational Politics. Lots of really interesting pieces here! Check it out! kula.uvic.ca/index.php/ku...
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Vol. 9 No. 1 (2026): Special Issue: Citational Politics and Justice | KULA: Knowledge Creation, Dissemination, and Preservation Studies
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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
6. Saw the ice core into 10 cm intervals.
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CLEAR lab @clear-lab.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
5. Chat while the thermometer completes the reading inside the drill hole.
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CLEAR lab @clear-lab.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
4. Drill into the ice core.
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CLEAR lab @clear-lab.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
3. Collect ice core using auger.
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CLEAR lab @clear-lab.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
2. Travel from the rattle back towards Nain following Manasse, who is bear guard.
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CLEAR lab @clear-lab.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
1. Collect mussels and take pics of each other.
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CLEAR lab @clear-lab.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
This is how we (Riley Cotter, Manasse Pijogge, Darrel Lyall, Frédéric Dwyer-Samuel, Debbie Lyall, Liz Pijogge, Paul McCarney, Lana Vuleta, Max Liboiron) collected ice cores in April 2024.
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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
Right now, I spend most of my time in the lab doing a mix of wet and non-wet lab work. So this week, you’ll get a look into what’s going on in the CLEAR lab space. Maybe on this channel, but more action is on our insta page ;) (6/6)
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CLEAR lab @clear-lab.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
This (prospective) project feels like a full-circle moment. It connects my interests in community-based research and environmental plastic through place-based methods in rural Newfoundland (one of my favourite places to be, ever). (5/6)
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CLEAR lab @clear-lab.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
My interest in research processes has really guided what I enjoy most at CLEAR. Now, I’m preparing for a PhD project focused on developing a community-based monitoring program in my hometown on the Bonavista Peninsula, NL. (4/6)
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CLEAR lab @clear-lab.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
I love thinking critically about how we do research and how research norms shape what we learn. One example: some of my master’s thesis is a literature review on the scale of plastics research, born from wondering why surface water studies often report results at oceanic scales. 3/6
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CLEAR lab @clear-lab.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
I’ve been at CLEAR since 2022, working on all kinds of projects and in all kinds of roles: sample processor, lit reviewer, plastic identifier, working group coordinator, and student (plus a few others I’ve probably forgotten). 2/6
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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
I hope you find our work useful! One of my core goals as a (publicly-funded!) intellectual is to make a lot of resources that can be applied beyond my own work. The greatest thing ever is when someone else uses them. :) 8/8
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CLEAR lab @clear-lab.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
... since we do a lot of research with people who aren't academics, but who certainly contribute to research in foundational ways. So we now have a Community Researcher Co-Authorship and Attribution Working Group. 7/8 civiclaboratory.nl/2025/02/26/c...
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Community Research Authorship and Attribution in Nunatsiavut: First Steps - CLEAR - Civic Laboratory for Environmental Action Research
Community members are speaking out or joining the conversation about attributing their knowledge and recognizing their roles in research.
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CLEAR lab @clear-lab.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
3. Our third most popular web page is on our equity in author order protocol for consensus-based decisions about what work is most important and how we credit people for it. But we've actually updated this recently... 6/8 civiclaboratory.nl/2016/05/23/e...
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Equity in Author Order - CLEAR - Civic Laboratory for Environmental Action Research
How do we assign author order in a way that is humble, equitable, and accountable to the different types of labour that go into collaborative publications? What process can address the power dynamics ...
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CLEAR lab @clear-lab.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
2. A short introduction to what we mean by "anticolonial science". It includes a primer on how all science is political, whether you want it to be or not. And a list of sibling labs that do similar value-based, anticolonial research. 5/8 civiclaboratory.nl/2017/12/29/f...
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Anti-colonial science - CLEAR - Civic Laboratory for Environmental Action Research
CLEAR is a feminist and anti-colonial laboratory. But what does that mean?
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CLEAR lab @clear-lab.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
We make a lot of resources about our research processes. Our post popular: 1) The Lab Book, a Living Manual of our values, guidelines & protocols. We wrote this collectively. It outlines day to day lab life. We're working on publishing an update this winter! 4/8 civiclaboratory.nl/clear-lab-bo...
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CLEAR Lab Book - CLEAR - Civic Laboratory for Environmental Action Research
Our Lab Book is a living manual of our values, guidelines, and protocols. Part manifesto and part 'how to' guide, it outlines how the lab works socially and scientifically.
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CLEAR lab @clear-lab.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
At CLEAR we study plastics while rethinking *how* science is done. Our work is values-based: community-led, anti-colonial, & committed to justice. How do you run an equitable lab meeting? Which scientific materials are best for the environment? 3/8 meopar.ca/portfolio/ma...
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Max Liboiron and the power of the ‘how?’ - MEOPAR
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CLEAR lab @clear-lab.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
This week, I'm taking over our socials! My name is Max Liboiron and I direct CLEAR. Lately, I focus on plastics pollution + Indigenous quantitative methods. The question driving my work is, how do we do statistics in ways that align with Indigenous ethics and relations? 2/8
Text over a biopix of a person in black clothes with short dark hair. It reads: Taanishi! I’m a Professor in Geography at Memorial University, where I direct CLEAR. I’m the author of Pollution is Colonialism (Duke University Press, 2021) and co-author of Discard Studies: Systems, Wasting, and Power (MIT Press, 2022). Interests and expertise:  Indigenous & anticolonial science
Community-based plastic pollution methods
Science & technology studies
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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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