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Sabine LeBel
@sabinelebel.bsky.social
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Artist, academic, & sometimes activist
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Queer mycologies dedicant
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nichecanada.bsky.social
This conversation was based on @sabinelebel.bsky.social's NiCHE article, "'Capsize the Rich': Orca Memes and Anti-Capitalist Interspecies Solidarity" - niche-canada.org/2025/08/13/c...

#envhum #envhist #orcas #memes #animalstudies
"Capsize the Rich": Orca Memes and Anti-Capitalist Interspecies Solidarity
Orca memes humorously depict anti-capitalist, interspecies solidarity, framing yacht attacks as environmental resistance, blending cultural narratives, activism, and ecological critique.
niche-canada.org
December 3, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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junlper.beer
i’m genuinely so convinced all of this has been a planned operation by the student and her mother (who is commenting on this publicly, and associated closely with the republican party), and big far right propaganda account going all in on it. this is designed to oust trans people from public life
December 1, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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massimovl.bsky.social
Please, take a listen. 🇸🇩

youtube.com/shorts/yORJq...
Hind Rajab’s mother opens Doha film festival with emotional plea
YouTube video by Middle East Eye
youtube.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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nichecanada.bsky.social
Our next NiCHE Conversation will be on Monday, November 24th at 10am EST on Instagram Live.

@sabinelebel.bsky.social will join @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social to chat about orca memes and anti-capitalist interspecies solidarity.

Follow NiCHE on Insta here: www.instagram.com/niche.canada

#envhum
November 21, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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desmondcole.bsky.social
The Trudeau Liberals cut 10,000 public sector jobs beginning last year. PM Carney's plan to axe 30,000 more jobs will impact access to access pensions, Employment Insurance, and passports

The latest from my colleague Harrison Samphir for @breachmedia.ca

breachmedia.ca/canada-publi...
‘Devastating and demoralizing’: public service braces for wave of cuts ⋆ The Breach
Carney’s austerity plan risks hollowing out government and hurting service delivery
breachmedia.ca
November 14, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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mikkibrock.bsky.social
Maybe it’s just the Humanities professor in me, but let it be noted that events of today (ahem) have demonstrated the value of being able to assess a large volume of qualitative data and do careful textual analysis with deep attention to context.
November 13, 2025 at 12:24 AM
sabinelebel.bsky.social
Anti EDI & anti science motion related to Tri-Council funding (major Canadian academic funding body) in the House of Commons. Please consider signing & sharing: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Open Letter to Protect Tri-Council EDI Data
Why do we need urgent action to protect our data? The mandate of the House of Commons Standing Committee on Science and Research is to review and report on topics relating to science and research in ...
docs.google.com
November 1, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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donmoyn.bsky.social
The professor has been fired and senior administrators removed from their post. No mention of this in the New York Times, The Free Press, The Atlantic or other outlets who drove the campus speech moral panic.
houstonchronicle.com Houston Chronicle @houstonchronicle.com · Sep 10
Texas A&M University System orders audit of all courses after gender identity lesson goes viral

Details: bit.ly/42jauQZ
September 10, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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olivia.science
Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
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Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece, we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to relevant work to further inform our colleagues. Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI (black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf. Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al. 2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA). Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe. Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles
September 6, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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parismarx.com
Silicon Valley’s alliance with Donald Trump was a mask off moment and showed the world we can’t depend on US tech companies.

For the past few months, I’ve been trying to get off US tech and I put together a guide so you find alternatives too. I hope you find it helpful!
Getting off US tech: a guide
I’m in the process of dropping US tech services. Here’s how I did it, and options you should consider.
www.disconnect.blog
July 18, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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arstechnica.com
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
August 27, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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justpeaceadvocates.bsky.social
The Davis Cup has scheduled Team Canada to play Team Israel on September 12-13, 2025 in Halifax. Join the call for No Sports Washing of Genocide, War Crimes & Apartheid: No Team Israel at the Davis Cup - they are not welcome in Kjipuktuk! !! Send a letter buff.ly/QgtJ7qY
August 13, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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authorsguild.org
A federal court ruled that ANTHROPIC illegally copied MILLIONS of books to train its AI.

All authors and publishers whose books were downloaded by Anthropic from pirate websites are subject to receiving compensation. This could involve your work.

For more info: authorsguild.org/news/anthrop...
"Graphic with 'Anthropic' logo on left, circuit-like design. Right text reads: 'Authors: You May Be Part of This Class Action Lawsuit. Anthropic AI Lawsuit Explained.' Modern, tech-themed design."
August 19, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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nichecanada.bsky.social
Today we have "'Capsize the Rich': Orca Memes and Anti-Capitalist Interspecies Solidarity" by @sabinelebel.bsky.social

This is the 3rd post of the Finding Humour in the Environmental History of the Climate Crisis series edited by @nulybranch.bsky.social

niche-canada.org/2025/08/13/c...

#envhum
"Capsize the Rich": Orca Memes and Anti-Capitalist Interspecies Solidarity
Orca memes humorously depict anti-capitalist, interspecies solidarity, framing yacht attacks as environmental resistance, blending cultural narratives, activism, and ecological critique.
niche-canada.org
August 13, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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anniesprinkle.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/toc/wjls20/2...

The earth is a Badass Butch Dyke in Menopause. Check out the piece Beth and I wrote, it really fun and sexy.
www.tandfonline.com
July 19, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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nbmediacoop.bsky.social
Kim Dubé, a criminology professor at l’Université de Moncton, said the City of Moncton made the right call by cancelling the performance, noting that hate crimes have risen over the past five years. Full interview:
July 23, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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gammarae.design
Call Parks Canada today. They're keeping track of how many calls they're getting about the hate rally in HRM they gave a permit to during Pride week
July 22, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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nkalamb.bsky.social
Francesca Albanese's most recent report has profound implications for higher ed.

None is more serious than this: administrators are *personally accountable* under international law for complicity in genocide for institutional entanglements w/ Israel and military-industrial companies.

We explain:
Canadian universities too should be in Francesca Albanese’s report
Canadian university administrators should remember that they too can be held accountable for genocide complicity.
www.aljazeera.com
July 13, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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aljazeera.com
Two Palestinian journalists were killed in Israeli airstrikes today, bringing the number of media workers killed since the war on Gaza began to over 230.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/nr2igp
July 14, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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abeba.bsky.social
NO. AI. FOR. WAR. CRIMES!!!
July 8, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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nkalamb.bsky.social
If you are a faculty member, researcher, postdoc, or staff at a university in Canada, please sign this letter demanding Canada issue study permit to Gaza students to be delivered to the Minister of Immigration by tomorrow afternoon.

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Tell Minister Diab to Issue Study Permits for Students at Risk
Please sign this letter urging Minister Diab to take action on delayed student study permits! Students in Gaza do not have the luxury of time. Two incoming PhD students at the University of Waterloo w...
docs.google.com
July 9, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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rachelgilmore.bsky.social
Canadian Manuel Tapial, who is leading a delegation of the March to Gaza, is still missing after being dragged away by Egyptian police.

Latest update from @yipengge.bsky.social:

“Manuel Tapial’s whereabouts are currently unknown. It’s been almost 24 hours since he’s been detained.”
Screenshot of a message from Yipeng Ge: “More info I’ve confirmed. Yesterday, on June 14 at 2:30pm, there was a meeting between a few delegates of the Canadian group on the 11th floor terrace of Hotel Amin where Manuel Tapial was a guest and staying at. Around 3:24pm when the meeting wrapped up, and people began to leave the meeting, Baya who is Manuel’s wife was the first one to leave and shrieked, followed by both of them being dragged away by Egyptian police. This took place on the 11th floor of Hotel Amin. For the other witnesses who saw this happen and tried to take photos/videos with their phones, their phones were confiscated by the Egyptian police. The phones were eventually returned but factory reset and not working properly. Manuel Tapial’s whereabouts are currently unknown. It’s been almost 24 hours since he’s been detained. His wife Baya was deported and put on a plane and is now already outside of the country. 4:07 AM”
June 15, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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desmondcole.bsky.social
Mark Carney: The relationship of security cooperation with the U.S. is over

also Carney: I can't stay mad at you bb let's work this out

my latest for @breachmedia.ca on Canada-U.S. cooperation to stifle refugee claims

breachmedia.ca/carneys-bord...
Carney’s border bill is a gift to Trump—and a roadmap to ‘mass deportation’ ⋆ The Breach
Mark Carney promised to stand up to Trump. His new bill continues the two countries’ long-standing pact on restrictive immigration policies
breachmedia.ca
June 14, 2025 at 12:59 PM