carrie karsgaard, phd
@carkar.bsky.social
asst prof of education @ cape breton university - settler - social/epistemic/climate justice, climate change and education, counter-colonialism, social media activism - unama’ki https://cbu-ca.academia.edu/CarrieKarsgaard
No one should be surprised. EPSTEIN FILES.
Scott Horton@robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 4mo agoFor the first time in decades, consensus broke at the UN Commission on the Status of Women. The United States cast the lone “no” vote on a document aimed at improving justice systems for women and girls worldwide. Misogyny is the official policy of the US under Trump.
What if academic life is carbon-coded? Mobility. Speed. Output. AI. Prestige. Growth. We question the fossil-fueled assumptions organizing scholarship itself. open.substack.com/pub/edforpla... @carkar.bsky.social
What If the Climate Crisis Is Already Built into Academic Life?
Across universities worldwide, an expanding constellation of scholars, centers, laboratories, and initiatives is emerging to study planetary crisis, social transformation, and the limits of modern way...
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Excited this piece exists. Honored to be included! @theguardian.com Want to learn more and get involved? Get a copy of my book Let’s Move the Needle. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
‘Weapons of mass construction’: the US ‘craftivists’ using yarn to fight back against Trump
Fiber artists across the US are using their craft to protest against everything from national guard deployments to rollbacks on abortion rights
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🔥 Every crisis has its curriculum—and young people are refusing this one. What if the climate crisis is also an education crisis—and the lesson is to unlearn? #EducationFutures #Youth @norrag.bsky.social @arizonastateuni.bsky.social @carkar.bsky.social www.norrageducation.org/when-educati...
When Education Is the Problem: Lessons from Youth Climate Activism - NORRAG -
In this blogpost, which is part of NORRAG’s blog series “Provocations for education from youth climate activism,” Iveta Silova, Jeremy Rappleye and Hikaru Komatsu argue that the crisis we face is educ...
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YES! THIS on GenAI! Please read this absolutely splendid piece of writing that had me cheering, a little bit weepy, and writing in the margins: "An extraordinary amount of money is spent by the AI industry to ensure that acquiescence is the only plausible response. But marketing is not destiny."
Large Language Muddle | The Editors
The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the ...
nplusonemag.com
When Europeans arrived to the Pacific Northwest, they spread smallpox to the Indigenous people, plundered salmon, hunted down deer, and erected sprawling cities. New research details the profound impact, in numbers.
Research Details Devastating Toll of Colonization on Pacific Northwest Wildlife
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“I absolutely disagree with Carney that the economy and market forces need to be used because the economy itself is driving us into the ditch. It’s based on the creed of cancer — steady growth — and you can’t have endless growth in a finite world.”
Glendon Mellow@flyingtrilobite.com · last yr.Sobering and powerful interview with David Suzuki by @davislegree.bsky.social .
This rural community fought one of the country’s biggest gas-powered data centers — and won. Inside the grassroots opposition that fended off a 2,200-acre data center campus in southern Virginia, and why their struggle isn’t over yet. grist.org/energy/this-... #Climate #Energy #DataCenter #AI
This rural community fought one of the country’s biggest gas-powered data centers — and won
Inside the grassroots opposition that fended off a 2,200-acre data center campus in southern Virginia, and why their struggle isn’t over yet.
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Funding announced for Mi'kmaq climate change initiatives in Cape Breton
Mi’kmaw knowledge and tradition will spearhead the development of a climate change action plan over the next two years based on action priorities identified by five Cape Breton First Nation communitie...
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Happening Monday, May 26 - in Edmonton and online: Roundtable on Relational Research Methods in the Face of Climate Crisis. Register: www.eventbrite.com/e/roundtable...
Roundtable on Relational Research Methods in the Face of Climate Crises
Hybrid Event: Join our May 26 roundtable in person or online to explore how relational research methods can help tackle Climate Crisis!
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Victory! After farmers, represented by Earthjustice, filed suit, the USDA agreed to restore climate information to its webpages after the Trump administration took it down. This is a significant win for farmers and other Americans who rely on this scientific data.
Farmers win legal fight to bring climate resources back to federal websites
“It feels good to win one, right?”
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First, Carney named Evan Solomon as the first-ever minister of artificial intelligence and digital innovation. It beggars belief that AI has its own dedicated minister while workers get little more than a passing mention.
Canadian Dimension@canadiandimension.bsky.social · last yr.Mark Carney has made it clearer than ever that he will be a conservative prime minister, governing on behalf of the rich and powerful to maintain their grip on Canadian society. Many progressive voters were misled into thinking otherwise. NEW from @christoaivalis.bsky.social:
We are alarmed by Tim Houston's attempt to control academic research in Nova Scotia. This sets a dangerous precedent, posing a danger to current and future research. Long-term research should not be impacted by partisan issues of the day. researchns.ca/2025/05/01/n...
New Research Priorities for Research Nova Scotia
In keeping with changes to the legislation under which RNS operates, the Minister of Advanced Education has identified new priorities for RNS, effective May 1, 2025. Research supported by RNS must …
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Universities in Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union thought that complying with authoritarian demands would protect their independence. It didn’t—and history is warning us again. 🔗 theconversation.com/universities... #AcademicFreedom #HigherEd #Authoritarianism #DEI #TheConversation
Universities in Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union thought giving in to government demands would save their independence
Before the Nazis, German universities were among the best in the world. Step by step, the universities gave up their independence until they were instruments of the state.
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This! I’ve never seen this many people in the streets in this many places in the U.S. in my lifetime. It’s inspiring, dammit.
ashley fairbanks@ziibiing.com · last yr.people being in the streets means something. never let your cynicism convince you otherwise.
Over 2000 protest in wake of student detainment at Tuft's www.tuftsdaily.com/article/2025...
Over 2000 protest in wake of student detainment - The Tufts Daily
Students and local activists gathered on Wednesday evening at Powder House Park to protest the detainment of Tufts graduate student, Rumeysa Ozturk, by federal authorities on Tuesday. The protest...
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Georgetown Scholar Badar Khan Suri Remains in Immigration Jail After Masked Agents Snatched Him in D.C.
Georgetown Scholar Badar Khan Suri Remains in Immigration Jail After Masked Agents Snatched Him in D.C.
Badar Khan Suri is one of the many pro-Palestine scholars being targeted by the Trump administration. Suri, originally from India, is a Georgetown University professor and postdoctoral scholar on reli...
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International students are being hunted on their campuses. For raising their voices for justice. This is pure evil.
Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · last yr.Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying. They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks. From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
Using pigments made from ash and charcoal collected at Altadena burn sites, artists Eddie Rodolfo Aparicio, David Solnit, and dozens of volunteers created a painting to hold oil and gas companies accountable.
Protest Painting Calls Out Fossil Fuel Industry’s Role in LA Fires
The collaborative artwork made by Eddie Rodolfo Aparicio, David Solnit, and dozens of volunteers at a rally this week urges lawmakers to hold oil and gas companies accountable.
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NEW! Our all-ages colouring book about extraction is now available in French, Spanish & Portuguese. You can find all versions of 'What It Takes' (with instructions on how to print!) on our website: www.beyondextraction.ca/what-it-takes #DisruptPDAC
Time for NS universities to speak up against this legislation and take a stand with faculty. “CBC News contacted all 10 universities in Nova Scotia requesting an interview, but none put someone forward.”
Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁@minibubbly.bsky.social · last yr.With all the people angry with Houston lately, you would think he would get the hint that his policies are garbage. University sector concerned about Houston government's 'short-sighted' education bill increasing govt control #NovaScotia #HoustonFail www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Nova Scotia has proposed legislation increasing political interference in universities. Political interference in education isn’t just an American phenomenon. It’s alive and well in Canada too. Politicians should not dictate the priorities of universities.
Check out “Research as Solidarity,” where a collective of youth researcher-activists share how research can be a form of solidarity in the face of climate change and systemic inequities. By Research for the Front Lines for the SI of Youth on “Politics of Disruption.” www.mdpi.com/2673-995X/5/...
Research-as-Solidarity, with Youth Leading the Way
Through the lens of youth engaged in the grassroots network Research for the Front Lines (R4FL) in Turtle Island, this essay explores how youth use research as a form of solidarity with marginalized c...
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The Patriotic Divide: while 90% of Canadians may still believe that we're a sovereign country, the elites and their mouthpieces know better. That divide is why the "51st state" discussion is so weird. My latest.
The positives and negatives of US annexation
Or, how Canada's elites sold out Canada's sovereignty over four decades of neoliberal economic policies.
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“Dismantling Democracy” is now its own category of ongoing reporting in the Halifax Examiner. @halifaxexaminer.ca
Tim Bousquet@timbousquet.bsky.social · last yr.The Halifax Examiner is responding to Tim Houston’s bid to Dismantle Democracy www.halifaxexaminer.ca/dismantling-...
Manifesto for decarbonizing scholarship - please read, share, sign, and best of all, try some things out. Let’s shift academia towards a different world. #climatesky educators-for-climate-action.com/researchers/
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Join usManifesto for Decarbonizing Scholarship and ResearchWe are scholars committed to decarbonizing academia. We call on colleagues to reduce emissions, realign research priorities, and transform hi...
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Fossil fuel companies are funding misleading #education in #schools. We must demand that students receive accurate, evidence-based information that is free from industry messaging. @albertateachers.bsky.social #abed
Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment@cape-acme.bsky.social · 2y agoBREAKING: New report reveals fossil fuel companies funding misleading #ClimateEducation in schools across Canada, downplaying fossil fuels’ role in the climate crisis and the urgent need to transition away from them. Read the joint press release and report from CAPE & For Our Kids: loom.ly/WhY0TbM
some critical learnings from curriculum development grounded in Indigenous knowledge - among our team of Indigenous and non-Indigenous folks. Free e-prints: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/5GFGE...
The “gift” of Indigenous knowledge and critical, place-based curriculum development through ethical relationality
Formal education in Canada has historically been a tool of cultural assimilation and deep harm. Change in education is needed not only to address historical wrongs and the cultural erasure of Indig...
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