Right now, I spend most of my time in the lab doing a mix of wet and non-wet lab work.

So this week, you’ll get a look into what’s going on in the CLEAR lab space. Maybe on this channel, but more action is on our insta page ;) (6/6)

This (prospective) project feels like a full-circle moment. It connects my interests in community-based research and environmental plastic through place-based methods in rural Newfoundland (one of my favourite places to be, ever). (5/6)

My interest in research processes has really guided what I enjoy most at CLEAR.

Now, I’m preparing for a PhD project focused on developing a community-based monitoring program in my hometown on the Bonavista Peninsula, NL. (4/6)

I love thinking critically about how we do research and how research norms shape what we learn.

One example: some of my master’s thesis is a literature review on the scale of plastics research, born from wondering why surface water studies often report results at oceanic scales. 3/6

I’ve been at CLEAR since 2022, working on all kinds of projects and in all kinds of roles: sample processor, lit reviewer, plastic identifier, working group coordinator, and student (plus a few others I’ve probably forgotten). 2/6

I hope you find our work useful! One of my core goals as a (publicly-funded!) intellectual is to make a lot of resources that can be applied beyond my own work. The greatest thing ever is when someone else uses them. :) 8/8

... since we do a lot of research with people who aren't academics, but who certainly contribute to research in foundational ways. So we now have a Community Researcher Co-Authorship and Attribution Working Group. 7/8
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3. Our third most popular web page is on our equity in author order protocol for consensus-based decisions about what work is most important and how we credit people for it. But we've actually updated this recently... 6/8

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2. A short introduction to what we mean by "anticolonial science". It includes a primer on how all science is political, whether you want it to be or not. And a list of sibling labs that do similar value-based, anticolonial research. 5/8 civiclaboratory.nl/2017/12/29/f...

We make a lot of resources about our research processes. Our post popular: 1) The Lab Book, a Living Manual of our values, guidelines & protocols. We wrote this collectively. It outlines day to day lab life.
We're working on publishing an update this winter! 4/8

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At CLEAR we study plastics while rethinking *how* science is done. Our work is values-based: community-led, anti-colonial, & committed to justice. How do you run an equitable lab meeting? Which scientific materials are best for the environment? 3/8

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This week, I'm taking over our socials! My name is Max Liboiron and I direct CLEAR. Lately, I focus on plastics pollution + Indigenous quantitative methods. The question driving my work is, how do we do statistics in ways that align with Indigenous ethics and relations? 2/8

My piece echos Lynn Jacobs', but focuses on how even the best version of the Treaty includes Indigenous knowledge, but not Indigenous Peoples. Meaning, it's not a rights-based model like the one outlined by the UN Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

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.@konwaiatanonwes.bsky.social (Lynn Jacobs) has a great piece on "Indigenous rights, knowledge, and participation in the global plastics treaty" that details how Indigenous Peoples have been systematically blocked in the creation process

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