Fiona Polack
@fmpolack.bsky.social
Oceans, islands, oil. English prof at Memorial U. Academic Editor Memorial University Press. Tasmanian/Newfoundlander.
We’re at Congress! Come visit us upstairs at Expo.
May 31, 2025 at 7:04 PM
We’re at Congress! Come visit us upstairs at Expo.
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Some folks at MUN have started a petition to raise the issue of chronic de-funding of education with the government. Sign it!
April 3, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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.
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.
March 30, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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.
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.
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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...
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.
www.insidehighered.com
March 21, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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...
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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.
That is one of the most remarkable statements, and realities, in our history.
March 4, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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.
That is one of the most remarkable statements, and realities, in our history.
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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. 🪄
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. 🪄
February 23, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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. 🪄
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. 🪄
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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.
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.
February 19, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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.
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.
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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!
February 5, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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!
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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. 🇨🇦
February 5, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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. 🇨🇦
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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.
Trudeau: Canada will retaliate with 25% tariffs on $155B of U.S. goods
YouTube video by CBC News
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February 2, 2025 at 4:38 AM
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.
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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
75% of Canadians support restricting US access to our resources
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...
canadianlabour.ca
February 2, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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
75% of Canadians support restricting US access to our resources
Such an exemplary literary biography.
"She follows in her aunt’s footsteps, blending erudition and a gift for crafting a riveting story"
For the 100th issue of Atlantic Books Today, Carol Bruneau sat with Margot Duley to talk about Extraordinary Passages and the legacy of NL's first internationally acclaimed novelist, Margaret Duley.
For the 100th issue of Atlantic Books Today, Carol Bruneau sat with Margot Duley to talk about Extraordinary Passages and the legacy of NL's first internationally acclaimed novelist, Margaret Duley.
Breaking Paths on the Rock: Q&A with Dr. Margot I Duley - Atlantic Books
By Carol Bruneau Extraordinary Passages: The Life and Times of Margaret Iris Duley, Newfoundland’s Pathbreaking Novelist is the extraordinary story of Newfoundland’s first internationally renowned nov...
atlanticbooks.ca
January 28, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Such an exemplary literary biography.
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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
#Leadership #CanadianPolitics #MAProgram #GraduateFunding #AcadiaUniversity
January 13, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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
#Leadership #CanadianPolitics #MAProgram #GraduateFunding #AcadiaUniversity
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Tonight (January 10) is the deadline! #environmentalhumanities #academicsky
Get your proposals in by 11:59 PM EST tomorrow for the 2025 ASLE Biennial Conference,
Collective Atmospheres: Air, Intimacy, and Inequality
July 8-11, 2025
University of Maryland, College Park, ancestral lands of the Piscataway People
www.asle.org/conference/b...
Collective Atmospheres: Air, Intimacy, and Inequality
July 8-11, 2025
University of Maryland, College Park, ancestral lands of the Piscataway People
www.asle.org/conference/b...
January 10, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Tonight (January 10) is the deadline! #environmentalhumanities #academicsky
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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!
December 9, 2024 at 5:15 PM
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 great abandonment: what happens to the natural world when people disappear?
November 28, 2024 at 11:00 AM
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 great abandonment: what happens to the natural world when people disappear?
Here’s a terrific looking tenure-track job in environmental literatures
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November 20, 2024 at 3:31 PM
Here’s a terrific looking tenure-track job in environmental literatures
universityaffairs.ca/search-job/?...
universityaffairs.ca/search-job/?...
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Call for deputy editor! 𝘌𝘯𝘷𝘪𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘏𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 is Seeking a New Deputy Editor.
#EnvHist @whitehorsepress.bsky.social
#EnvHist @whitehorsepress.bsky.social
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...
www.iceho.org
November 19, 2024 at 3:47 PM
Call for deputy editor! 𝘌𝘯𝘷𝘪𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘏𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 is Seeking a New Deputy Editor.
#EnvHist @whitehorsepress.bsky.social
#EnvHist @whitehorsepress.bsky.social
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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...
jobs.colorado.edu
October 28, 2024 at 8:44 PM
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...
The Pacita Abad underwater trapunto work at the AGO is mind blowing.
November 13, 2024 at 11:33 AM
The Pacita Abad underwater trapunto work at the AGO is mind blowing.
This is rather wonderful. poetry.arizona.edu/blog/dear-bo...
February 14, 2024 at 2:50 PM
This is rather wonderful. poetry.arizona.edu/blog/dear-bo...
Tenure-track position in Black Atlantic Decolonial Literatures available at Memorial University.
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January 16, 2024 at 11:25 PM
Tenure-track position in Black Atlantic Decolonial Literatures available at Memorial University.
accute.ca/2024/01/15/j...
accute.ca/2024/01/15/j...