Technoscience Research Unit
@tru-uoft.bsky.social
The Technoscience Research Unit at the University of Toronto is a home for critical and creative research on technoscience.
https://www.technoscienceresearchunit.org
https://www.technoscienceresearchunit.org
We are hiring! 📣
Join a large, Indigenous-led community-research based, multi-institutional project @utoronto.ca @ires.ubc.ca & others on “Transforming Chemical Risk Management with Indigenous Expertise"
Candidates with experience working in organizations or communities are welcome to apply!
Join a large, Indigenous-led community-research based, multi-institutional project @utoronto.ca @ires.ubc.ca & others on “Transforming Chemical Risk Management with Indigenous Expertise"
Candidates with experience working in organizations or communities are welcome to apply!
December 11, 2025 at 8:03 PM
We are hiring! 📣
Join a large, Indigenous-led community-research based, multi-institutional project @utoronto.ca @ires.ubc.ca & others on “Transforming Chemical Risk Management with Indigenous Expertise"
Candidates with experience working in organizations or communities are welcome to apply!
Join a large, Indigenous-led community-research based, multi-institutional project @utoronto.ca @ires.ubc.ca & others on “Transforming Chemical Risk Management with Indigenous Expertise"
Candidates with experience working in organizations or communities are welcome to apply!
Our first Technoscience Salon of 2025-26 series titled "Ethical Grounds" is happening November 12th from 4-6PM with Dr. Kelsey Leonard and Canada Research Chair on Indigenous Waters, Climate and Sustainability 🌊
Please register here: technosciencesalon-kelseyleonard.eventbrite.ca
Please register here: technosciencesalon-kelseyleonard.eventbrite.ca
2025-26 Technoscience Salon Series: Ethical Grounds with Dr. Kelsey Leonard
Join us for the first 2025-26 Technoscience Salon with water scientist Dr. Kelsey Leonard.
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November 4, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Our first Technoscience Salon of 2025-26 series titled "Ethical Grounds" is happening November 12th from 4-6PM with Dr. Kelsey Leonard and Canada Research Chair on Indigenous Waters, Climate and Sustainability 🌊
Please register here: technosciencesalon-kelseyleonard.eventbrite.ca
Please register here: technosciencesalon-kelseyleonard.eventbrite.ca
Join us on Nov 12th from 2-4PM as we launch our new Indigenous Science, Technology, and Environments Studies Research Hub 🌱
The new hub recognizes & supports Indigenous science techniques from arts-based methods to computation @utoronto.ca 👾
www.technoscienceresearchunit.org/events/launc...
The new hub recognizes & supports Indigenous science techniques from arts-based methods to computation @utoronto.ca 👾
www.technoscienceresearchunit.org/events/launc...
Launch of the Indigenous Science, Environment, and Technology Hub — TECHNOSCIENCE RESEARCH UNIT
Wednesday, November 12, 2025 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. Seminar Room #10031 700 University Ave, Toronto, ON University of Toronto Register via Eventbrite → On November 12, 2025 , the Technoscience...
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October 27, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Join us on Nov 12th from 2-4PM as we launch our new Indigenous Science, Technology, and Environments Studies Research Hub 🌱
The new hub recognizes & supports Indigenous science techniques from arts-based methods to computation @utoronto.ca 👾
www.technoscienceresearchunit.org/events/launc...
The new hub recognizes & supports Indigenous science techniques from arts-based methods to computation @utoronto.ca 👾
www.technoscienceresearchunit.org/events/launc...
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Join us for a two-day workshop on preparing your promotion and tenure file for community-based research! July 16 & 17 2025, free, and probably a little bit fun.
Sponsored by CLEAR and the IndigeLab Network
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Sponsored by CLEAR and the IndigeLab Network
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IN Workshop: Promotion and Tenure packages for community-based research
July 16-17, 2025
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April 10, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Join us for a two-day workshop on preparing your promotion and tenure file for community-based research! July 16 & 17 2025, free, and probably a little bit fun.
Sponsored by CLEAR and the IndigeLab Network
www.indigelabnetwork.com/test-worksho...
Sponsored by CLEAR and the IndigeLab Network
www.indigelabnetwork.com/test-worksho...
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#UofT’s Technoscience Research Unit announces $22M grant from New Frontiers in Research Fund for Indigenous and community-based approaches to pollution risk with partners across Canada and Aotearoa.
Read more: bit.ly/43Fwmrm
Read more: bit.ly/43Fwmrm
April 8, 2025 at 3:25 PM
#UofT’s Technoscience Research Unit announces $22M grant from New Frontiers in Research Fund for Indigenous and community-based approaches to pollution risk with partners across Canada and Aotearoa.
Read more: bit.ly/43Fwmrm
Read more: bit.ly/43Fwmrm
Look at this setup! 💐 We are thrilled to be in Kambri on Ngunnawal and Ngambri lands for the Global Indigenous Data Sovereignty Conference #GIDSov25 #Indigenousdata #IndigenousSTS
March 31, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Look at this setup! 💐 We are thrilled to be in Kambri on Ngunnawal and Ngambri lands for the Global Indigenous Data Sovereignty Conference #GIDSov25 #Indigenousdata #IndigenousSTS
Wish you were here to celebrate! 🎉
March 25, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Wish you were here to celebrate! 🎉
We are humbled to announce that we will be stewarding an incredible $22M from the #NFRF 2024 Transformation competition for Indigenous & community-based approaches to pollution risk with our partners across Canada & Aotearoa ✨
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TRU to Steward $22M New Frontier in Research Fund Transformation Grant — TECHNOSCIENCE RESEARCH UNIT
Stewarded by the Technoscience Research Unit at the University of Toronto, this collaborative research initiative seeks to re-envision chemical risk management in a time of environmental crisis.
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March 24, 2025 at 5:20 PM
We are humbled to announce that we will be stewarding an incredible $22M from the #NFRF 2024 Transformation competition for Indigenous & community-based approaches to pollution risk with our partners across Canada & Aotearoa ✨
www.technoscienceresearchunit.org/tru-new-fron...
www.technoscienceresearchunit.org/tru-new-fron...
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Joy for days! I was so happy and honored to give a lecture and workshop research in the @tru-uoft.bsky.social. Meeting and engaging with Dr. Murphy was as joyous as it was intellectually generative. Toronto owes me not a single thing. Thank you dearly for the invitation.
March 6, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Joy for days! I was so happy and honored to give a lecture and workshop research in the @tru-uoft.bsky.social. Meeting and engaging with Dr. Murphy was as joyous as it was intellectually generative. Toronto owes me not a single thing. Thank you dearly for the invitation.
Our Technoscience Salon is back! Join us this Tuesday from 4-6PM for a lecture by Dr. Jayson Maurice Porter
(@roguechieftan.bsky.social) on arsenic, race and empire 🤓
www.eventbrite.ca/e/2025-techn...
(@roguechieftan.bsky.social) on arsenic, race and empire 🤓
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2025 Technoscience Salon: Jayson Maurice Porter
Join us for a lecture by Dr. Jayson Maurice Porter on arsenic, race and empire for the 2025 Technoscience Salon: What is a Chemical?
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March 2, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Our Technoscience Salon is back! Join us this Tuesday from 4-6PM for a lecture by Dr. Jayson Maurice Porter
(@roguechieftan.bsky.social) on arsenic, race and empire 🤓
www.eventbrite.ca/e/2025-techn...
(@roguechieftan.bsky.social) on arsenic, race and empire 🤓
www.eventbrite.ca/e/2025-techn...
We are beyond excited to be hosting the book launch + panel of ✨ A Woman Is A School ✨ with author & Slow Factory founder Céline Semaan in conversation with @smohyeddin.bsky.social from On The Line Media and Tai Salih from The Red Ma’at Collective on Feb 17th, 12-2PM 🌱
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Book Launch & Panel: A Woman Is a School
Join us for the Toronto launch and book panel of A Woman is a School with Céline Semaan, founder of the Slow Factory.
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February 4, 2025 at 9:04 PM
We are beyond excited to be hosting the book launch + panel of ✨ A Woman Is A School ✨ with author & Slow Factory founder Céline Semaan in conversation with @smohyeddin.bsky.social from On The Line Media and Tai Salih from The Red Ma’at Collective on Feb 17th, 12-2PM 🌱
awomanisaschool.eventbrite.ca
awomanisaschool.eventbrite.ca
Come over for lunch 🥗
January 27, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Come over for lunch 🥗
Tomorrow from 4-6PM our #TechnoscienceSalon on “What is a chemical?” is back with Andrew Barry from @uclgeography.bsky.social who will be talking how the politics and #geography of #chemicals revolve around accumulation, scale, and sensing. Register below ⬇️
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Andrew Barry: The Geography of Chemicals
Join us the 2025 Technoscience Salon for a public lecture with Dr. Andrew Barry, a leading scholar of chemical geographies.
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January 27, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Tomorrow from 4-6PM our #TechnoscienceSalon on “What is a chemical?” is back with Andrew Barry from @uclgeography.bsky.social who will be talking how the politics and #geography of #chemicals revolve around accumulation, scale, and sensing. Register below ⬇️
www.eventbrite.ca/e/andrew-bar...
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"Polluters on Indigenous territories must respect
Indigenous jurisdiction over their activities and
lands, including providing pollution data and
environmental information."
Read the report here: yellowheadinstitute.org/data-colonia...
Indigenous jurisdiction over their activities and
lands, including providing pollution data and
environmental information."
Read the report here: yellowheadinstitute.org/data-colonia...
Data Colonialism in Canada's Chemical Valley: Aamjiwnaang First Nation and the Failure of the Pollution Notification System
This report is about the relationship between the petrochemical industry in Ontario’s Chemical Valley and Aamjiwnaang First Nation. Central to this relationship is pollution: the spills, flares, air r...
yellowheadinstitute.org
January 24, 2025 at 3:00 PM
"Polluters on Indigenous territories must respect
Indigenous jurisdiction over their activities and
lands, including providing pollution data and
environmental information."
Read the report here: yellowheadinstitute.org/data-colonia...
Indigenous jurisdiction over their activities and
lands, including providing pollution data and
environmental information."
Read the report here: yellowheadinstitute.org/data-colonia...
"Over and over, Indigenous communities state
the need for access and control to better data
and information about industry disruptions to
land and life, but this call goes unanswered."
the need for access and control to better data
and information about industry disruptions to
land and life, but this call goes unanswered."
January 24, 2025 at 3:00 PM
"Over and over, Indigenous communities state
the need for access and control to better data
and information about industry disruptions to
land and life, but this call goes unanswered."
the need for access and control to better data
and information about industry disruptions to
land and life, but this call goes unanswered."
Concerningly, these companies also govern the Bluewater Association for Safety, Environment, and Sustainability (BASES), which is responsible for real-time air monitoring and emergency response in Chemical Valley—this is part of why we call it #DataColonialism.
January 24, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Concerningly, these companies also govern the Bluewater Association for Safety, Environment, and Sustainability (BASES), which is responsible for real-time air monitoring and emergency response in Chemical Valley—this is part of why we call it #DataColonialism.
Who is most responsible for these pollution events?
Just FIVE companies are responsible for 71% of pollution notifications: Shell Canada, Imperial Oil, Nova Chemicals, Suncor, Ineos Styrolution. These are the biggest companies in the area 🏭🏭🏭🏭🏭
Just FIVE companies are responsible for 71% of pollution notifications: Shell Canada, Imperial Oil, Nova Chemicals, Suncor, Ineos Styrolution. These are the biggest companies in the area 🏭🏭🏭🏭🏭
January 24, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Who is most responsible for these pollution events?
Just FIVE companies are responsible for 71% of pollution notifications: Shell Canada, Imperial Oil, Nova Chemicals, Suncor, Ineos Styrolution. These are the biggest companies in the area 🏭🏭🏭🏭🏭
Just FIVE companies are responsible for 71% of pollution notifications: Shell Canada, Imperial Oil, Nova Chemicals, Suncor, Ineos Styrolution. These are the biggest companies in the area 🏭🏭🏭🏭🏭
Spring, a time of renewal and rebirth, when fish are spawning, animals are born, and plants are reawakening and budding, is the most dangerous time in Chemical Valley 🌱⚠️
January 24, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Spring, a time of renewal and rebirth, when fish are spawning, animals are born, and plants are reawakening and budding, is the most dangerous time in Chemical Valley 🌱⚠️
The most commonly reported pollution event notification type is an airborne event 😷
January 24, 2025 at 3:00 PM
The most commonly reported pollution event notification type is an airborne event 😷
There have been 645 pollution notifications over the past ten years, which means that community members have received a notification about “unusual” pollution events every 5.65 days for a decade 🤯
Check out the notifications on this interactive map: www.landandrefinery.org/projects/pol...
Check out the notifications on this interactive map: www.landandrefinery.org/projects/pol...
Pollution Notification map — The Land and the Refinery
www.landandrefinery.org
January 24, 2025 at 3:00 PM
There have been 645 pollution notifications over the past ten years, which means that community members have received a notification about “unusual” pollution events every 5.65 days for a decade 🤯
Check out the notifications on this interactive map: www.landandrefinery.org/projects/pol...
Check out the notifications on this interactive map: www.landandrefinery.org/projects/pol...
This means that members of Aamjiwnaang First Nation have been collecting data for 20 years! Generations of community members have been living next to companies in Chemical Valley and are the experts of the effects.
This is #IndigenousEnvironmentalDataJustice
Here is some of what the data reveals:
This is #IndigenousEnvironmentalDataJustice
Here is some of what the data reveals:
January 24, 2025 at 3:00 PM
This means that members of Aamjiwnaang First Nation have been collecting data for 20 years! Generations of community members have been living next to companies in Chemical Valley and are the experts of the effects.
This is #IndigenousEnvironmentalDataJustice
Here is some of what the data reveals:
This is #IndigenousEnvironmentalDataJustice
Here is some of what the data reveals:
Collecting pollution notifications, Vanessa & Beze followed in the footsteps of activist & researcher Ada Lockridge, who logged notifications in her calendar from 2003-2013.
Check out Ada's data here: www.landandrefinery.org/projects/ada...
Check out Ada's data here: www.landandrefinery.org/projects/ada...
Ada's Data — The Land and the Refinery
www.landandrefinery.org
January 24, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Collecting pollution notifications, Vanessa & Beze followed in the footsteps of activist & researcher Ada Lockridge, who logged notifications in her calendar from 2003-2013.
Check out Ada's data here: www.landandrefinery.org/projects/ada...
Check out Ada's data here: www.landandrefinery.org/projects/ada...
The data in this report was collected by EDJ Lab members Vanessa & Beze Gray between 2013-2023.
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Environmental Data Justice — TECHNOSCIENCE RESEARCH UNIT
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January 24, 2025 at 3:00 PM
The data in this report was collected by EDJ Lab members Vanessa & Beze Gray between 2013-2023.
www.technoscienceresearchunit.org/environmenta...
www.technoscienceresearchunit.org/environmenta...
In 2023, we partnered with @yellowhead.bsky.social on this #DataColonialism report about how companies operate in Ontario’s Chemical Valley, where 40% of Canada’s petrochemicals are processed and which sits on the territory of Aamjiwnaang First Nation.
yellowheadinstitute.org/data-colonia...
yellowheadinstitute.org/data-colonia...
Data Colonialism in Canada's Chemical Valley: Aamjiwnaang First Nation and the Failure of the Pollution Notification System
This report is about the relationship between the petrochemical industry in Ontario’s Chemical Valley and Aamjiwnaang First Nation. Central to this relationship is pollution: the spills, flares, air r...
yellowheadinstitute.org
January 24, 2025 at 3:00 PM
In 2023, we partnered with @yellowhead.bsky.social on this #DataColonialism report about how companies operate in Ontario’s Chemical Valley, where 40% of Canada’s petrochemicals are processed and which sits on the territory of Aamjiwnaang First Nation.
yellowheadinstitute.org/data-colonia...
yellowheadinstitute.org/data-colonia...
We are excited to be here 🦋!
We are an Indigenous-led lab at @uoft.bsky.social where we do #environmentaldatajustice #Indigenousdatasovereignty #AI #Indigenousfeminisms #queer #anticolonial & #justice-based research ✊🏽🍉🐢
We are an Indigenous-led lab at @uoft.bsky.social where we do #environmentaldatajustice #Indigenousdatasovereignty #AI #Indigenousfeminisms #queer #anticolonial & #justice-based research ✊🏽🍉🐢
January 22, 2025 at 3:41 PM
We are excited to be here 🦋!
We are an Indigenous-led lab at @uoft.bsky.social where we do #environmentaldatajustice #Indigenousdatasovereignty #AI #Indigenousfeminisms #queer #anticolonial & #justice-based research ✊🏽🍉🐢
We are an Indigenous-led lab at @uoft.bsky.social where we do #environmentaldatajustice #Indigenousdatasovereignty #AI #Indigenousfeminisms #queer #anticolonial & #justice-based research ✊🏽🍉🐢