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Max Liboiron

@maxliboiron.bsky.social
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Author: Pollution is Colonialism (2020), Discard Studies (2021) CLEAR lab at @clear-lab.bsky.social

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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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Places Journal @placesjournal.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
What can plastic fragments found in an animal’s digestive tract tell us about the geographies it has traversed? For Places, @maxliboiron.bsky.social wrote about the different world animals reveal through their appetites. “The heart of gut forensics is not classification, but learning how to see.”
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Through the Guts
What can plastic fragments found in an animal’s digestive tract tell us about the waters it has traversed?
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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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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Re-reading @maxliboiron.bsky.social’s Pollution Is Colonialism & this sentence from the introduction really leapt out at me in this technofascist neocolonial moment: “You can’t make & hoard capital without stealing Land first.”
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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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Max Liboiron @maxliboiron.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Day after tomorrow in Oxford, UK. A workshop on theories of change for folks who try to move the mountain with their research, writing, teaching, etc.
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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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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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Max Liboiron @maxliboiron.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Hello London-ish people! I will be there doing a book talk on Pollution is Colonialism week after next! Feb 3. Free and open to all!
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Max Liboiron @maxliboiron.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Very excited for Homesick by Nick Shapiro. It tells a story of formaldehyde exposure from prefab trailers, which does some heavy, complex lifting itself. But what I love most is how it chronicles multiple approaches to activist research & how to let the research lead you. @dukepress.bsky.social
Holding up a book, whose cover shows a White House with ‘homesick’ written underneath.
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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 · 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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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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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Our editor @historiamagoria.bsky.social chose "Catching an Authentic Lake Trout: Knowledge Legitimization in Academia" by Alex Flynn, with Rui Lui, @maxliboiron.bsky.social, Kaitlyn Hawkins, and Molly Lahn Rivers as our latest Editor's Pick! niche-canada.org/2025/06/12/c... #indigenous #academia
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Catching an Authentic Lake Trout: Knowledge Legitimization in Academia
Drawing from my lived experience with Lake Trout as a member of NunatuKavut who grew up in southern Labrador and a student at a colonial university, I discuss how citation practices are used to influe...
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UBC IRES @ires.ubc.ca · 07/08/2025
🎙️ This snippet offers a glimpse into Verena's comprehensive Seminar in our Series, which is full of strategies, tactics and tools related to the science of policy making and changing. And there's even more to explore— join our Seminar Series in September! ires.ubc.ca/news-and-events/
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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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Venus Bivar @vbivar.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Teen Vogue really does have some of the best reporting. This collection is great and includes a piece from @maxliboiron.bsky.social . Will definitely be using this entire list for teaching. www.teenvogue.com/tag/plastic-...
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plastic planet
Get the latest on Plastic Planet from Teen Vogue. Find articles, slideshows and more.
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Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Last day in Nunatsiavut with this fantastic crew - Jacquelyn Winters, @maxliboiron.bsky.social, Katrina Anthony, @paulmccarney.bsky.social (and Liz Pijogge, who was back in Nain). 📸: Dillon Shiwak
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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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Max Liboiron @maxliboiron.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Squeeeee! Outlining a paper with @thelabandfield.bsky.social & @paulmccarney.bsky.social about community-based metrics & measure for contaminants research. Spoiler: they aren’t the usual Western science metrics.
A bunch of yellow post it notes on a desk with two computers showing graphs in the background.
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Max Liboiron @maxliboiron.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Good morning! It’s a mild and foggy start to the day here.
Two black dogs look to the right in a foggy, slightly hilly landscape.
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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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Max Liboiron @maxliboiron.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Good morning!
Pinkish cloudy sky over a calm ocean with two juts of land
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Max Liboiron @maxliboiron.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Good morning! It’s really cold today but nice and damp for the plants.
Grey sky over grey water with darker grey islands in the middle ground
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Suresh Venkatasubramanian @geomblog.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
There's a lot of chatter around the proposal being inserted into a budget bill that would put a moratorium on any AI legislation being passed by the states for the next 10 years. I thought I'd say a bit about why this is an absolutely disastrous move. www.404media.co/republicans-... 1/n
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Republicans Try to Cram Ban on AI Regulation Into Budget Reconciliation Bill
Republicans try to use the Budget Reconciliation bill to stop states from regulating AI entirely for 10 years.
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Max Liboiron @maxliboiron.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Great coverage of our mutual aid network across the US-Canadian border moving Indigenous 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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Max Liboiron @maxliboiron.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Good morning! Frosty but bright.
A stone wall falls down in the middle, where a black dog gets ready to step through. There’s soft orange sunrise in the background behind pine trees.
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Max Liboiron @maxliboiron.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Good morning! It’s a chilly, foggy start to the day.
A dirt track path curves to the fog. A dark green pine on the left.
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Adrift Lab (Marine Science) @adriftlab.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
THIS was inside the stomach of a baby #shearwater - can you help us identify the brand/source? #CitizenScience #SeabirdSaturday #IngestedPlastic
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Max Liboiron @maxliboiron.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
This is the funnest piece I've ever written. It's a choose-your-own-lab-adventure w/ multiple endings based on contamination training in our lab- based on true stories. There's also some theory about purity and fragility. ;) Thanks to editors @jrmdns.bsky.social Fernando Rubio & David Pontille
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Fernando Domínguez Rubio @fdrubio1977.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Today is publication date for our Fragilities volume! "At a time when it may be easy to fall into a defeatist melancholia, if not outright pessimism, the book is an invitation to think from fragility to build life-affirming politics and ethics" It's got an amazing line-up & it is open-access! 🤓
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Fragilities: Essays on the Politics, Ethics, and Aesthetics of Maintenance and Repair
An original essay collection that explores the generative dimensions of fragility, which can help reveal new life-affirming politics and ethics.At a time w
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Max Liboiron @maxliboiron.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Join us for a two-day workshop on preparing your promotion and tenure file for community-based research! July 16 & 17 2025, free, and probably a little bit fun. Sponsored by CLEAR and the IndigeLab Network 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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Max Liboiron @maxliboiron.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Good morning. We’ve had a weather hiccup.
Snowy scene with a black dog running towards the camera
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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
As the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues continues this week, discussions focused on financing Indigenous Peoples' work. But delegates say before that can happen, states must hold up to their commitments to implement UNDRIP.
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Delegates at UN forum say states must hold up commitment to implement UNDRIP | APTN News
YouTube video by APTN News
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Max Liboiron @maxliboiron.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Good morning on this cost and frosty start to the day.
Dark hill in the foreground with an orange horizon over grey water in the background
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Max Liboiron @maxliboiron.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Good morning. So far so good.
A band of orange light on the horizon with grey skies above and grey sea below
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Max Liboiron @maxliboiron.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Good morning! It’s a frosty start to a beautiful day
Two black dogs stand over frozen shrubs with an orange sunrise in the background
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Max Liboiron @maxliboiron.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Join us for a two-day workshop on preparing your promotion and tenure file for community-based research! July 16 & 17 2025, free, and probably a little bit fun. Sponsored by CLEAR and the IndigeLab Network 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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Tay (Antonio J. Osuna Mascaró) @biotay.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
NO, they did not "resurrect" the dire wolf (Aenocyon dirus). They have only edited 14 genes of the gray wolf to resemble it. Apparently, all the changes are focused on its appearance (color, size and shape of the ears) It is pure propaganda. (blog) www.newscientist.com/article/2475...
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Max Liboiron @maxliboiron.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Good morning! Bit of freezing rain and ice fog this morning but pleasantly fresh.
Two short plants encased lightly in ice with white-grey sky in the background. Snow in the foreground
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Max Liboiron @maxliboiron.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Good morning!
Cloudy skies with yellow light shining through over grey ocean. Snowy hills in the foreground
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Max Liboiron @maxliboiron.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Good morning from the start of a new day.
Snowy path through pine trees covered in snow.
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Max Liboiron @maxliboiron.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
ACLU has a very helpful summary of rights (very few) and set of strategies around data on devices when you’re crossing in2 the US www.aclu.org/news/privacy...
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Can Border Agents Search Your Electronic Devices? It’s Complicated. | ACLU
We’ve been getting a lot of questions about when border agents can legally conduct searches of travelers’ electronic devices at international airports and other ports of entry. Unfortunately, the answ...
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IPEN: toxics-free @toxicsfree.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
April 9 – The Hidden Plastic Waste Exports, the Case for Basel Convention Controls on RDF and Textiles www.genevaenvironmentnetwork.org/events/the-h... April 10 – Establishing a Global Alliance on Highly Hazardous Pesticides fao.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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The Hidden Plastic Waste Exports, the Case for Basel Convention Controls on RDF and Textiles | Road to 2025 BRS COPs
This event, co-organized by the International Pollutants Elimination Network (IPEN) and the Geneva Environment Network takes place within the framework of the Road to 2025 BRS COPs organized in the ru...
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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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Pride in STEM @prideinstem.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Today is International Transgender Day of Visibility. There’s much to do everywhere so that trans and non-binary people can live without fear. Our single point of reflection is this: what’s your organisation doing to support trans+ people?
Digital drawing of The trans flag as painted stripes.
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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 27/03/2025
Here are two pie charts that show the baseline differences in sharing behaviour for research items on the two platforms. There seems to be a higher proportion of original posts on Bluesky than X. 7/11
Bluesky sharing pie chart. Posts and quote posts dominate most of the pie chartX pie chart. Dominated by reposting
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