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Anna Soer
@annasoer.bsky.social
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🇫🇷 🇳🇱 🏳️‍🌈 PhD at UOttawa School of Political Science - socio-economic impacts of renewable energy development in Nunavut, Canada
Interests in (historical/contemporary) colonialism, security, susdev, and Arctic affairs
Avid crochet-er and sewist
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janrosenow.bsky.social
Energy transitions can happen faster than we think:

In 2000 almost 90% of Denmark's electricity was from fossil fuels.

In 2024 less than 10% of Danish electricity was from fossil fuels.
December 1, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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shadell.itch.io
So, an OU student a shitty reaction paper in a psych course, got failed by a grad student TA for not following directions and threatened legal action, while also getting her uni TPUSA chapter to post the essay. Her mother is on X saying trans people must not be allowed to be professors.

This is…
OU puts graduate instructor on leave after student claims discrimination on Bible-based essay grade
OU placed a graduate student instructor on leave after a student publicly contested a grade and filed an illegal discrimination claim after she received a failing grade on an essay
www.oudaily.com
December 1, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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antoniajuhasz.bsky.social
Yesterday,Trump opened new areas of Alaska's North Slope to oil & gas reversing Biden-era protections. For @rollingstone.com in August,I spoke with Iñupiat Rosemary Ahtuangaruak for who lives there."For me, all of this has been a nightmare in continuous motion.”
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
November 14, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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anthropologica.bsky.social
Current Issue Published!

Vol. 67 No. 1 (2025)

Narratives and Temporalities of Infrastructure: The Canadian Experience

Thematic Section editors:
Philipp Budka, Giuseppe Amatulli

cas-sca.journals.uvic.ca/index.php/an...

@alexandrinebf.bsky.social @philbu.bsky.social @gamatulli.bsky.social
November 13, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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nkalamb.bsky.social
The Canadian Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science and Research is launching a US-style attack on EDI in Tri-Council funding.

As part of this attack, they are demanding disclosure of confidential demographic info + reviewer comments of all Canadian researchers who have applied b/w 2000-2025.
Maxime Blanchette-Joncas: I'm tabling the following motion: That the committee request the three funding councils, namely the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), as part of the study on the impact of federal funding allocation criteria on research excellence in Canada, to provide it with the disaggregated data of all submitted applications, whether funded or not, for all student and faculty funding programs from the master's level onwards for applications made between 2020 and 2025. That this data include (1) demographic data of applicants and collaborators, including applicants' responses to the equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) questionnaire, (2) the institutions and departments of applicants, including the institutions of collaboration, (3) the language of the application, (4) all data regarding the type of application and project content (application year, grant program, discipline, title, summary, amount requested by the applicant), as well as (5) the identity of the evaluation committee, comments, opinions, scores assigned to applications for each criterion, and (6) the outcome of the application and the amount awarded. That the three funding councils submit all this data to the committee within 15 days following the adoption of this motion, in an Excel spreadsheet format.
October 31, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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atrupar.com
Carney: "We can't control the trade policy of the US. We recognize it has fundamentally changed from the policy in the 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, & it's a situation where US has tariffs against every trading partner... what we we can control is developing new partnerships, including w/econ giants of Asia"
October 24, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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abeba.bsky.social
built on theft and at massive environmental cost and most importantly, numerous studies keep demonstrating that genAI tools often work a little better than by chance. how is it that we can’t expunge these slop machines out of our institutions and communities

www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...
Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory
An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC
www.bbc.co.uk
October 24, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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alannawrites.bsky.social
The language of non-consent around AI is really telling. "It's too late to be scared." "It's here whether we want it or not." "You'll have to learn to work with it." "You can't fight the inevitable."

All just variations of "you're not allowed to say no." Creepy technology made by creepy people.
October 1, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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giubresearch.bsky.social
Prof. @lisaschipper.bsky.social is PI of the new project “Path Dependency: Unpacking the Colonial Roots of Vulnerability to Climate Change” on #colonialism & #ClimateChange. Funded through the 2nd phase of the Cluster of Excellence @dependencybonn.de @unibonn.bsky.social

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September 19, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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triofrancos.bsky.social
Read here! heatmap.news/energy/thea-...
Why Mining Is the Dirty Underbelly of the Clean Energy Transition
Thea Riofrancos, a professor of political science at Providence College, discusses her new book, Extraction, and the global consequences of our growing need for lithium.
heatmap.news
September 17, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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jagolinzer.bsky.social
"What is really important I think here is that Mafia State leaders are not reliable partners."

www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWFt...
September 17, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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katestarbird.bsky.social
We are witnessing a swift and sweeping consolidation of media (traditional and social) into the hands of a small number of billionaires who are actively aligned/aligning (both via free will and coercion) with Trump and his right wing political party. This is (I’ll say it) a fascist project.
September 17, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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jamesgdyke.info
Plans to refreeze the Arctic have a snowball's chance in hell of succeeding. Authoritative analyses that conclude "needs further research" isn't likely to change that.

www.technosphere.earth/new-report-c...
New report concludes polar geoengineering is dangerous
But curiosity-driven stupidity may take us there
www.technosphere.earth
September 12, 2025 at 6:19 AM
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cepi-cips.bsky.social
Did you miss Tuesday's event titled "Perceptions of Canadian Northerners about Arctic Issues"? Watch it here 📽️⬇️

Avez-vous manqué l'événement de mardi intitulé « Perceptions des résidents du Nord canadien à propos des enjeux arctiques » ? Regardez-le ici 📽️⬇️

youtu.be/QNbVhE8WO04?...
Perceptions of Canadian Northerners about Arctic Issues
YouTube video by Centre for International Policy Studies uOttawa
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September 12, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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cepi-cips.bsky.social
Join us tomorrow at 10am for an event titled "Perceptions of Canadian Northerners about Arctic Issues".

Featuring Mathieu Landriault of @opsarctique.bsky.social & Mirva Salminen of the University of Tromsø. Chaired by @annasoer.bsky.social.

New webinar link >>> bit.ly/4g0hyI2
September 8, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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ryankatzrosene.bsky.social
Part 2 of my deep dive examining how and why many parts of North America used to have greater wildfire burn rates... and how climate factors in:
thetradeoff.substack.com/p/part-2-man...
[Part 2] Many of North America’s forests used to burn more than present…
So, is climate change really making wildfires worse today?
thetradeoff.substack.com
August 25, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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ggricius.bsky.social
Check out my recent post with Nicolas Jouan on losing the dividends of #neutrality in the Arctic with @arcticinstitute.bsky.social
arcticinstitute.bsky.social The Arctic Institute @arcticinstitute.bsky.social · Aug 19
📨 This week’s publication by TAI’s Gabriella Gricius and Nicolas Jouan: “Losing the Dividends of Neutrality in the #Arctic” ❄️

🔗 Find the full article, that is part of TAI’s NATO series, below! ⤵️
www.thearcticinstitute.org/losing-divid...
August 25, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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dpcarrington.bsky.social
For climate action, let's pick the low-hanging fruit of wealthy polluters first, say Jürgen Karl Zattler and Adrian Severin Schmieg

- Eliminating fossil fuel subsidies, which primarily benefit the rich, would significantly reduce emissions

#climatecrisis
www.weforum.org/stories/2025...
When it comes to climate action, let's pick the low-hanging fruit of wealthy polluters first
Climate policy should target the richest cohort responsible for the largest share of global CO₂ emissions. Eliminating the fossil fuel subsidies that primarily benefit them would be a good start
www.weforum.org
August 19, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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grist.org
Tribal nations scramble to save clean energy projects as federal support vanishes.

As federal programs are frozen or eliminated, Indigenous communities are seeking new ways to fund and finish urgently needed renewable energy plans.

grist.org/indigenous/t...

#Energy #Tribal #Climate #Indigenous
Tribal nations scramble to save clean energy projects as federal support vanishes
As federal programs are frozen or eliminated, Indigenous communities are seeking new ways to fund and finish urgently needed renewable energy plans.
grist.org
August 15, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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nichecanada.bsky.social
"A mineral rush in the North risks eroding years of consultation on the Nunavut Land Use Plan — and when it comes to protecting the land, time is running out" - @chloewilliams.bsky.social - @thenarwhal.ca

thenarwhal.ca/nunavut-land...

#nunavut #mining
Mining rush won’t wait for Nunavut Land Use Plan | The Narwhal
In Nunavut, the largest land use plan in the world has been in progress for 19 years. The mining industry is moving faster
thenarwhal.ca
August 14, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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canadiandimension.bsky.social
NEW: When Kyrgyzstan seized a Canadian-run gold mine over toxic dumping and unpaid taxes, Ottawa dismissed the concerns as a "pretext" for nationalization. Newly obtained documents show Canada’s real priority: shielding corporate assets, not the environment.
Canada dismissed Kyrgyzstan’s environmental concerns as ‘pretext’ in mine dispute, documents reveal
When Kyrgyzstan nationalized a Canadian-owned gold mine over environmental damage, internal documents show Ottawa prioritized protecting Centerra Gold and investor interests over ecological concerns—f...
canadiandimension.com
August 6, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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bekkaleigh.bsky.social
Nearly all, if not all, coal mines are open pit mines here in Canada.

I laugh every time they say they have a restoration plan for the end of life of the mine.

How do you put back the mountain after you dig it up and ship most of it away?

It’s depressing to drive by the ones around here.
thenarwhal.ca The Narwhal @thenarwhal.ca · Aug 6
Elk Valley Resources has revised its proposal for a new mountaintop coal mine in southeast B.C. Yaq̓it ʔa·knuqⱡi’it and conservationists say the plan is better but still imperfect: “They're still knocking down an entire mountain.”

thenarwhal.ca/bc-elk-valle...
Revised plan for Elk Valley coal expansion submitted | The Narwhal
Critics say the revised plan to expand the Elk Valley coal mine in southeast B.C. is better but still imperfect
thenarwhal.ca
August 6, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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baumlab.bsky.social
Attention Climate Solutions Scholars! @uvic.ca seeks its next Canada Excellence Research Chair 🇨🇦: www.uvic.ca/research-inn...

You: world class scholar, looking to make a move

Us: #5 in world for climate action, collegial, stunning location (B.C.) w award-winning climate policy

Pls share widely!
Canada Excellence Research Chair - University of Victoria - University of Victoria
Find information about applying to be Canada Excellence Research Chair at the University of Victoria
www.uvic.ca
August 5, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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sarahmpicks.bsky.social
If you're an up and coming Arctic researcher/student/independent scholar/museum or library person especially, we want to hear from you reflecting on your work and where you think the field is going! Pieces are short (500-1k ish words), should have a visual focus. Please DM with questions!
August 4, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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arnkeeling.bsky.social
Toxic legacies: the pulp & paper edition. If you thought just mining or oil&gas left billions in unremediated environmental liabilities, think again. Having studied the pulp industry’s history of pollution this is sadly unsurprising. #bcpoli #pollution
thetyee.ca The Tyee @thetyee.ca · Jul 14
Six years and one landfill landslide later, the province has spent over $150 million to address the site’s immediate risks — but dangers remain, including unstable toxic waste landfills perched on cliffs overlooking Neroutsos Inlet, once a spawning site for salmon in the Quatsino First Nation.
The Nightmare Mess Left by One Closed Pulp Mill | The Tyee
Documents expose the huge cleanup BC faces for Port Alice and 11 more shut mills. Will new projects also slip off the hook?
thetyee.ca
July 14, 2025 at 3:15 PM