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.”

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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⭐ 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...

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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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.”

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!

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...

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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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.

Venus Bivar@vbivar.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Very excited to be hosting @maxliboiron.bsky.social next week! Come join us for what promises to be a very cool workshop. No registration required and a light lunch will be served.

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...

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...

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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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!

Tim Waterman@tim-waterman.co.uk · 7mo ago

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!

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

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...

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.

ucl.ac.uk

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.

Duke University Press@dukepress.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Among October's many exciting new titles is "Homesick," by Nicholas Shapiro. Check out all of our #newbooks coming out this month on the blog! buff.ly/oH4sMaj

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

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

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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🎙️ 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/

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...

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...

Encrypted Form

CryptPad: end-to-end encrypted collaboration suite

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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-...

plastic planet

Get the latest on Plastic Planet from Teen Vogue. Find articles, slideshows and more.

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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

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

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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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.

Good morning! It’s a mild and foggy start to the day here.

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...

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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Good morning!

Good morning! It’s really cold today but nice and damp for the plants.

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

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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Great coverage of our mutual aid network across the US-Canadian border moving Indigenous data so it's safer. www.theverge.com/features/664...

Indigenous scientists are fighting to protect their data — and their culture

They’re worried about the loss of their research.

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Good morning! Frosty but bright.

Good morning! It’s a chilly, foggy start to the day.

THIS was inside the stomach of a baby #shearwater - can you help us identify the brand/source? #CitizenScience #SeabirdSaturday #IngestedPlastic