Courtney Robichaud

@cdrobich.bsky.social

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ecologist, Liber Ero postdoc fellow/former academic/Support Our Science co-founder. sometimes here, mostly not. unceded Algonquin Anishinaabe land/ottawa CA

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · Jun 15

Masks are under serious threat at being banned widely due to politicization. This would be a public health disaster. If you are only wearing a mask at protests, please consider also wearing them elsewhere. The more people mask, the more we normalize masks and protect them against bans.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · Jun 14

People are being arrested for wearing a medical mask in Savannah, Georgia #NoKings

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HiveGeist.us @hivegeistus.bsky.social · Jun 11

This is bunker logic.
Let the floods come—as long as the wealthy are sealed in.

Naomi Klein calls it End Times Fascism:

Governance by abandonment.
Collapse as strategy.
Relief dismantled, suffering privatized.

#EndTimesFascism #DisasterCapitalism #NaomiKlein

The rise of end times fascism | Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor

The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them

www.theguardian.com

Courtney Robichaud @cdrobich.bsky.social · May 25

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Andy Fraass @fraass.bsky.social · May 22

🚨 New Paper 🚨
Coauthors and I just published our work in PLOS One on Canadian graduate funding. We found that Canadian graduate funding falls _well_ below cost of living.
On average, $10kCAD below cost of living.

journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · May 22

A HAPPY UPDATE! Mahmoud Khalil was allowed a "contact" visit—without plexiglass divider—with his wife and newborn son this morning before his immigration hearing, ACLU tells me, so I think we can safely assume that he was finally able to hold his child for the first time.

Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · May 21

NEW: Mahmoud Khalil's attorneys urgently ask Judge Farbiarz to order ICE to permit Khalil to hold his newborn son today "for the most elementary human reasons." ICE has so far denied the request, despite his wife and child having made the 1,500-mile trip. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Dear Judge Farbiarz:
Petitioner respectfully writes with an urgent request for this Court's intervention regarding his ongoing detention. Specifically, and for the reasons set forth below and to aid in his habeas and proceedings, Petitioner requests that this Court issue an order: (1) requiring the LaSalle Detention Facility to permit Mr. Khalil to have a private contact visit with his wife, Dr. Abdalla, and newborn child today, May 21, 2025, for two hours' and/or (2) at a minimum, permit Dr. Abdalla to join a contact visit currently scheduled with immigration counsel at LaSalle so the legal team can discuss legal strategy and facts known collectively between Dr. Abdalla and Mr. Khalil and which is relevant to his pending habeas case and for pending motions in his immigration proceedings. One of the first orders issued in this case was to direct the U.S. Attorney's office to ensure that DHS would provide regular access to counsel, Khalil v. Joyce, 1:25-cv-01935, ECF 29 (S.D.N.Y.), which is an equitable power this Court retains and authorizes the relief requested modest as it is as compared to the painful costs of denial.
As the Court is aware, the Khalil family welcomed their first child one month ago, on April 21, 2025. In order to provide the most indispensable human connection and to help Mr. Khalil prepare for his ongoing habeas proceeding and for the upcoming immigration hearing, Petitioner's wife and his newborn baby have traveled over 6 hours and 1500 miles to visit Mr. Khalil in detention, which will be the first time he will be able to see or hold his family since his arrest and transfer to Louisiana, over 10 weeks ago. As this Court well knows, Mr. Khalil is purportedly in civil immigration detention, where he cannot be subject to punishment or retaliation; yet currently, routine legal or family visits only occur in a confined space permitting muffled communication through a full plexiglass window that permits no human touch.

Petitioner's counsel have made repeated requests for a contact visit to occur between Mr.
Khalil and his wife and baby to the relevant ICE and GeoGroup administrators at the LaSalle Detention Facility in Jena. Such a visit is necessary for the most elementary human reasons and given the ongoing strain of his pending habeas petition, this visit is critical to ensure Mr. Khalil, who is an active participant his legal case, can continue to meaningfully contribute to the proceedings before this Court.

The relevant administrators have responded that they are unable to accommodate this request, including a confirmation of this refusal this morning. (Email correspondence attached as Exhibit A). ICE policy authorizes contact visits between detained individuals and family members, subject to the reasonable discretion of DHS officials? The refusal to permit a contact visit is not reasonable and is further evidence of the retaliatory motive behind Mr. Khalil's arrest and faraway detention as well as the ongoing punitive nature of his detention. Petitioner, his wife and infant son are, as all the evidence in this case demonstrates, the farthest thing from a security risk It is the government who chose to detain Mr. Khalil and send him 1500 miles from his family rather than detain him, as they could have (and as we have requested in seeking a transfer there), in Elizabeth, New Jersey, where counsel confirmed with an EDC official that family contact visits are ordinarily provided on a daily basis and where a parent is permitted to hold their child. 3
In addition, a legal contact visit has been authorized for today between Mr. Khalil and his counsel, from 11-3pm CT. It thus appears the facility can accommodate contact visits absent a plexiglass barrier. Thus, the facility should make accommodations during or after this time for a private in-person visit where the family can be alone together for the first time. In addition, and at a minimum, counsel needs to meet with Petitioner …

Courtney Robichaud @cdrobich.bsky.social · May 22

An excellent reflection on our societal response to climate change mirroring our response to COVID.

"We can “follow the science” even when it scares us, instead of insisting that “we have to live our lives” until those lives go up in flames.”

yaleglobalhealthreview.com/2025/05/18/a...

A Chronically Ill Earth: COVID Organizing as a Model Climate Response in Los Angeles

BY VIOLET AFFLECK I spent the January fires in Los Angeles arguing with my mother in a hotel room. She was shell-shocked, astonished at the scale of destruction in the neighborhood where she raised…

yaleglobalhealthreview.com

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · May 13

When someone dies of a disease like Covid or measles, the first question is often “did they have any pre-existing conditions?”

People want to blame the victim. They want to believe they were vulnerable & therefore expendable.

No one is expendable. Demand better from governments & public health.

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.bsky.social · May 8

Impossible to communicate to people that once you decide that a group more vulnerable than you can be sacrificed in the name of your own safety or interests that you have already entered into an tacit agreement that you can also be sacrificed in the interests of a group less vulnerable than you.

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Sweet Daniel @dansheehan.bsky.social · Apr 22

Gonna be real with you, this feels like an advertisement for spiritual death

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Conor Browne @brownecfm.bsky.social · Apr 14

1. Absolutely outstanding article on the increasing prevalence of Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) diagnoses amongst patients with Long Covid.

This possibility is the primary reason I avoid infection with SARS-CoV-2.

www.wsj.com/health/welln...

Is Covid Rewriting the Rules of Aging? Brain Decline Alarms Doctors

Millions of long-Covid patients continue to struggle with cognitive difficulties.

www.wsj.com

Courtney Robichaud @cdrobich.bsky.social · Apr 9

Thank you for sharing, I love reviews of Hadestown 🫡

Courtney Robichaud @cdrobich.bsky.social · Mar 31

A few other places- in the Glebe, Beandigen (www.beandigen.ca) and if in Hintonburg, Bread by Us (www.breadbyus.com) and Little Jo Berrys (www.littlejoberrys.com)

beandigen

www.beandigen.ca

Courtney Robichaud @cdrobich.bsky.social · Mar 31

Besides museums, if you’re at Carleton University you’re by the Ottawa River and Rideau canal, and near the arboretum/wildlife garden. The Glebe, Hintonburg, and Little Italy are fun neighbourhoods and also close & walkable! Umbrella Bar at Dows lake is very good

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · Mar 29

h/t @earthlyeducation.bsky.social

only caring about your own rights is
exactly how you lose them

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · Mar 29

All anti-mask laws—even those with so called “medical exceptions”—stigmatize mask-wearing.

Fewer people wearing masks increases the spread of infectious diseases.

No matter how lawmakers try to spin it, any law that criminalizes wearing a mask endangers public health. Period.

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Andrew Simon @simongandrew.bsky.social · Mar 29

One of many moments in Omar El Akkad’s new book, “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” that will stop you in your tracks.

There is an impulse in moments like this to appeal to self-interest. To say: These horrors you are allowing to happen, they will come to your doorstep one day; to repeat the famous phrase about who they came for first and who they'll come for next. But this appeal cannot, in matter of fact, work. If the people well served by a system that condones such butchery ever truly believed the same butchery could one day be inflicted on them, they'd tear the system down tomorrow. And anyway, by the time such a thing happens, the rest of us will already be dead.
No, there is no terrible thing coming for you in some distant future, but know that a terrible thing is happening to you now. You are being asked to kill off a part of you that would otherwise scream in opposition to injustice. You are being asked to dismantle the machinery of a functioning conscience.
Who cares if diplomatic expediency prefers you shrug away the sight of dismembered children? Who cares if great distance from the bloodstained middle allows obliviousness. Forget pity, forget even the dead if you must, but at least fight against the theft of your soul.

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Ryan Tennant @ryantennant.ca · Mar 27

Grateful to everyone who helped coordinate our Long COVID awareness event at #UWaterloo today and to the Faculty of Health Dean's Advisory Committee on Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Anti-Racism for supporting us! It was so nice gathering with everyone on campus.

www.ctvnews.ca/kitchener/vi...

Long COVID Awareness Silent Walk

A group is taking steps to make the community aware of a condition called Long COVID. CTV’s Jeff Pickel explains.

www.ctvnews.ca

Courtney Robichaud @cdrobich.bsky.social · Mar 10

He gets the dust jacket so he can feel included when I read

Courtney Robichaud @cdrobich.bsky.social · Mar 10

The River Has Roots by @amalelmohtar.com was everything I’d hoped for. Brimming with love, it felt like a story that’d been passed down for generations before landing in my lap.

And the acknowledgments - “…I am here to tell you they made a difference to me” - that call us to act with that love

A grey cat looks back at the camera, one paw on the dust jacket of The River Has Roots.

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · Mar 9

Tbh i don’t know how you walk onto that campus and teach on Monday

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Good Squiddance @squidfromspace.bsky.social · Mar 5

Instead of using ChatGPT, why not just get a family member to lie to you while they set fire to a tree?

Courtney Robichaud @cdrobich.bsky.social · Mar 4

I tried to bribe the good folks at Perfect Books yesterday to give me a copy early and they just laughed and laughed. Can't wait to read it!!

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Boze the Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · Feb 23

Ursula le Guin, on the accusation that fantasy is an escape from reality

[“Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisoned by the enemy, don’t we consider it his duty to escape? The moneylenders, the know-nothings, the authoritarians have us all in prison; if we value the freedom of the mind and soul, if we’re partisans of liberty, then it’s our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can.”]

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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · Feb 23

I appreciate this response from Ed Yong on why he requests that people mask at his events. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/m...

You’ve been clear in saying that Covid has not gone away. You ask people to wear masks at your events. But that attitude is not necessarily where the rest of the world is. How do you think about continuing to take precautions and advising others to do so when it feels as if society has moved on? I do it for a bunch of reasons. Firstly, I have learned that I enjoy not being sick. I know that the cost of long Covid is real and substantial, and I don’t want to run that risk lightly. I also know that I have many friends and people I’m close to who are immunocompromised. So for the sake of the people around me, I also don’t want to get sick. When I do events, I wear a mask for those reasons, and because I know that every time I do a talk, while the vast majority of people in the audience have probably moved on, there are going to be other people who haven’t. I think it makes a huge difference to them to have the person at the front of the stage wear a mask. It tells them, It’s not weird. So I do it for that reason, too. In terms of holding this line at a point when a large swath of society has moved on, I have written a lot about the panic-neglect cycle.

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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · Feb 22

Haymarket Books for Fighting Fascism

Haymarket stands in solidarity with all those organizing to fight against fascism and for a world free of oppression and exploitation. We’ve put together a list of Haymarket Books on the history and p...

www.haymarketbooks.org

Courtney Robichaud @cdrobich.bsky.social · Feb 21

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Allison Chapman (she/her) @alli.gay · Feb 13

‼️ The National Park Service has REMOVED mentions of transgender people being involved with Stonewall. Not only did the remove the world "Transgender" but changed "LGBTQ+" to "LGBQ+".

The federal government is attempting to erase us and take away our history.

This pride, we riot.

A national park service webpage about Stonewall.

"Before the 1960s, almost everything about living openly as a lesbian, gay, bisexual, or queer (LGBQ+) person was illegal. The Stonewall Uprising on June 28, 1969 is a milestone in
the quest for LGBQ+ civil rights and provided momentum for a movement."

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Marco Festa-Bianchet 🇨🇦 @marcofesta.bsky.social · Feb 13

American Eco-Evo types! Looking for a conference where Equality Diversity and Inclusion are celebrated, not hidden? Interested in opportunities for collaborations, grad studies, postdocs, faculty jobs in Canada, a functioning democracy? THIS IS IT: event.fourwaves.com/scee2025/pages

2025 Annual Conference of the Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution

Fourwaves - 2025 Annual Conference of the Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution

event.fourwaves.com

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adrienne maree brown @adriennemareebrown.bsky.social · Feb 12

a blessing

adriennemareebrown.net/2025/02/12/a...

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