Fiona Polack

We’re at Congress! Come visit us upstairs at Expo.

A poster that reads Memorial University at a Crossroads: 100 Years later, with a QR code that leads to a petition to protect Memorial University as a comprehensive university.

Some folks at MUN have started a petition to raise the issue of chronic de-funding of education with the government. Sign it!

St. John’s friends, if you want to vote early head to:

Bally Rou Place
370 Torbay Road, Suite W310

Monday to Friday: 9 am - 9 pm
Saturday: 9 am - 6 pm
Sunday: 12 pm - 4 pm

You can vote at this Elections Canada office until April 22. I dropped by today and the process was very straightforward.

Academic Publishers Braced for Slowdown as Trump DEI Purge Bites Defunding of diversity-related research may deter American university libraries from buying titles in contentious topic areas, publishers fear.

Good to see the current @aupresses.bsky.social Pres, Anthony Cond, Dir of Liverpool UP, reiterating UPs’ commitment to bibliodiversity. Tho also noteworthy that no US UPs are quoted. UPs don’t just sell books to uni libes but are at unis being targeted. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

Easy to lose this in the noise of the day, but the prime minister of Canada just said the US president, leader of the global hegemon, wants to soften us up economically so he can annex us.

That is one of the most remarkable statements, and realities, in our history.

As promised, here are the slides I shared with students to convince them to NOT use chatGPT and other artificial stupidity.

TL;DR? AI is evil, unsustainable and stupid, and I'd much rather they use their own brains, make their own mistakes, and actually learn something. 🪄

This is happening, right now.
The great "arribada" (arrival) of mother Olive Ridley sea turtles on the Odisha coast, where they dig sand-nests & lay their eggs, driven by ancient instinct.
Heart-lifting, magnificent, moving: part of a geography of hope.
🎞️ by Bivash Pandav via my friend Yuvan Aves.

Next time you walk into your favourite Canadian indie bookstore, we invite you to seek out a book (or two or three, or...) published by a Canadian-owned press. There are so many excellent Canadian-owned presses publishing incredible books. You can't go wrong!

Book*hug Press is proud to be an independently owned & operated Canadian company. We're also proud to be part of Canada's vital indie publishing community. Like our indie publishing colleagues, we champion Canadian voices & stories and produce & print our books in Canada. 🇨🇦

YouTube video by CBC News Trudeau: Canada will retaliate with 25% tariffs on $155B of U.S. goods

Here's the speech if you haven't heard it. 13 minutes of your time. Share it with your American friends and neighbours, because they won't see it otherwise. Circulate it in Mexico and Denmark, France and the UK, Panama and Germany, Poland and Estonia, and especially -- especially -- Ukraine.

Cut Off U.S. Energy and Resources Now: No Electricity, No Critical Minerals, No Oil and Gas  | Canadian Labour Congress WINNIPEG – Bea Bruske, President of the Canadian Labour Congress, issued the following statement today:  Donald Trump’s reckless tariffs are an attack on Canadian workers and our economy. With 2.4 mil...

Canada’s biggest labour organization is calling on the federal government turn off the taps, “cutting US access to critical Canadian resources—including electricity, lumber, critical minerals, oil, and gas—until the tariffs are lifted”

75% of Canadians support restricting US access to our resources

Such an exemplary literary biography.

I've got 3 funded studentships for oustanding applicants to join Acadia University's 12-month MA in Political Science program for 2025-26. Students will write a thesis on Canadian political leadership. Apply by February 1!
#Leadership #CanadianPolitics #MAProgram #GraduateFunding #AcadiaUniversity

Tonight (January 10) is the deadline! #environmentalhumanities #academicsky

2 tenure track jobs in #envhist and #histsci in lovely Stockholm:

www.kth.se/lediga-jobb/...

Calling all editors! University of Manitoba Press is hiring an Acquisitions Editorial Assistant. If you have excellent research and communication skills, familiarity with scholarly writing, and experience in book publishing, we want you on our team!

Wondering how this has played out in all those abandoned settlements around the coast of Newfoundland.

The great abandonment: what happens to the natural world when people disappear?

The fight to prevent Tasmania’s Franklin River from being dammed in the 1980s inspired the composition of songs including “Let the Franklin Flow.”

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Here’s a terrific looking tenure-track job in environmental literatures

universityaffairs.ca/search-job/?...

Call for Deputy Editor — ICEHO Environment and History is Seeking a New Deputy Editor Field-leading environmental history journal, Environment and History , seeks a new Deputy Editor to work alongside Dr Leona Watson, the curren...

Call for deputy editor! 𝘌𝘯𝘷𝘪𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘏𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 is Seeking a New Deputy Editor.

#EnvHist @whitehorsepress.bsky.social

we are also now hiring a professor in environmental media studies! open rank! please share, please apply. I am so thrilled at the prospect of having another colleague---> jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...

Thanks for this. Please add me.

Two large trapunto paintings of colourful underwater life

The Pacita Abad underwater trapunto work at the AGO is mind blowing.

This is rather wonderful. poetry.arizona.edu/blog/dear-bo...

Tenure-track position in Black Atlantic Decolonial Literatures available at Memorial University.

accute.ca/2024/01/15/j...