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Advancing #OpenEducation, spotlighting innovative #UVic research, and decoding scholarly info policies. Follow for academic insights, news & updates.

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UVic Scholarly Communication @uvicscholcom.bsky.social · Aug 28
✨ Taylor and Travis might be saying “I do,” but at UVic Libraries, we’re saying “I do not pay for textbooks.” 💸📚
Check the link in our bio for the full list.

#WeSaidYes #ZeroTextbookCosts #UVicLibraries
Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce are pictured in a tender moment, with their foreheads touching and smiling at each other. Text is overlayed on the image: next to Travis Kelce, the words "UVic students" appear, and next to Taylor Swift, the phrase "zero-cost textbooks from the library" is displayed.
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This is so neat! McPherson may change, but the fluorescents remain our constant companion in scholarship 🔆
uvicgeography.bsky.social UVic Geography @uvicgeography.bsky.social · 3d
Your Monday just got a bit brighter with Archive Adventure #6 ✨

We made our way to the McPherson to compare today's layout with the 70s! The building might have been upgraded but those florescent overhead lights never left 💡

#GeoLife #GeographyAtUVic #UVic #ArchiveAdventures #ExploreLearnGrow
November 26, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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🎓 Do you work with Canada #StudentJournals? The Canada Student Journal Forum happening the week of February 17 2026 @canadasjf.bsky.social might be the perfect opportunity to share with #StudentEditors!

The Call for Proposals is open until November 18 2025: pkp.sfu.ca/2025/11/04/c...

#AcademicSky
Canada Student Journal Forum Call for Proposals now Open - Public Knowledge Project
The Student Journal Forum Call for Proposals is now open to Canadian students involved with or interested in student journal publishing.
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November 14, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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According to @theglobeandmail.com, the latest book from Eric M. Adams and Jordan Stanger-Ross (@uvichistory.bsky.social) is "essential reading."

Read the review: www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/book...

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Challenging Exile is essential reading for history buffs
The book tells the story of Japanese Canadians who were deported to Japan after the end of the Second World War
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November 14, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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📣 Calling all University of Victoria Fine Arts grad students 📣

Apply now for the 2026 ONC/UVic Fine Arts ArtScience Fellowship — a paid opportunity bridging art and science to explore the environment, technology, oceans, and culture.

⭐ Apply: bit.ly/ONCJobs

#KnowTheOcean
November 12, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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🕯️ Join us next week 🕯️

Vigil & Visit
Trans Day of Remembrance
Thursday, Nov. 20, 2025
5:00 - 5:45 PM @ Cridge Park
5:45 - 6:45 PM @ Tre Fantastico

🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵

Click on "Upcoming Events" in linktree for more info

#uvic #trans #tdor #transdayofremembrance
November 13, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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Congrats to $100K Sobey Art Award winner & #uvicvisualarts alum Tania Willard. Also a 2025 Distinguished Alumni Award recipient @uvic.ca, she's clearly having a big year! Seen here at the DAAs in April with Dean Allana Lindgren (right) + Visual Arts alumni Rose Spahan & Crystal Clark.
November 13, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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🚨 New issue alert! Anthropologica Vol. 67 No. 1 (2025) is out now.

#Infrastructure is no longer invisible. This issue traces the stories, timelines, and tensions embedded in #Canada’s roads, grids, and extractive projects. 🔗 buff.ly/pPmrwX6

#Anthropology #ClimateJustice
Promotional graphic from UVic Publishing Services announcing a new issue of Anthropologica, Volume 67, Number 1 (2025), titled “Narratives and Temporalities of Infrastructure: The Canadian Experience.” The journal cover features an aerial photo of a rural highway interchange, emphasizing infrastructure complexity. Text reads: “NEW FROM UVIC PUBLISHING SERVICES — Narratives and Temporalities of Infrastructure: The Canadian Experience — Vol. 67 No. 1 (2025) — ANTHROPOLOGICA.”
November 13, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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The IJCYFS Special Issue is here—guest edited by James P. Anglin, Shemine A. Gulamhusein & Alexander Schneider. Featuring papers from the FICE-International 35th World Congress, Split, Croatia (Oct 2024).
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#IJCYFS #ChildYouthFamily #GlobalCare
Graphic for a 2025 special issue of International Journal of Child, Youth & Family Studies, featuring papers from the FICE-International 35th World Congress in Split, Croatia. Theme: “Shaping Tomorrow’s Care for Children And Youth.” Crumpled paper background, bold colorful text, UVic ePublishing branding.
November 10, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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Borders in the 21st century—Vol. 2025 of The BIG_Review explores policy, poetry, and resistance. From EU–Ukraine relations to the US–Mexico wall, this issue is packed with critical insight.
🔗 journals.uvic.ca/index.php/bi... #BIGReview #MigrationPolicy
Cover and promotional graphic for Borders in Globalization Review, Volume 6, Number 2 (2025). The journal cover features a desert landscape bisected by a long border fence, emphasizing territorial division. A red box displays the journal’s logo. Text highlights the issue’s theme: “Academic and artistic explorations of borders in the 21st century,” with a special focus on Europe, Russia, and borders with Ukraine.
November 5, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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Drawing on critical race and postcolonial feminist scholarship, Vol. 7 of Migration, Mobility, & Displacement offers urgent analysis of anti-Asian racism. Guest edited by Xiaobei Chen & Jiyoung Lee-An.
🔗 journals.uvic.ca/index.php/mmd
#UVicResearch #OpenAccess #CriticalRaceTheory
Promotional graphic for Migration, Mobility, & Displacement, Volume 7, Number 1 (2025), themed “Analyzing and Resisting Anti-Asian Racism.” The journal cover shows a collage of protest photos with signs reading “Stop Asian Hate,” “We Belong,” and other messages advocating racial justice. The right side includes publication details and UVic ePublishing branding
November 4, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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New article looks at the history of tuna fisheries along the west coast.
Into the Deep: Origins and Evolution of Northeastern Pacific Ocean Tuna (Thunnus spp.) Fisheries. Fish and Fisheries
doi.org/10.1111/faf....
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Into the Deep: Origins and Evolution of Northeastern Pacific Ocean Tuna (Thunnus spp.) Fisheries
People have had a profound influence on Earth's biodiversity for millennia, culminating in Anthropocene environmental degradation and the modern biodiversity crisis. While the scale and extent of peo...
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September 22, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Revolutions, Noriega, Hypatia, and airborne invasions—Volume 4 of The Ascendant Historian is stacked. @uvic.ca history undergrads dig deep into turning points that shaped the world. Read the full issue here: journals.uvic.ca/index.php/co... #UVic #HistoryJournal
Promotional image for "The Ascendant Historian, Volume 4," UVic's Undergraduate History Journal. Two hands hold the journal against a green background. The cover shows a black-and-white photo of a pyramid under a dramatic sky. A blue banner on the left reads "New from UVic Publishing Services," followed by the journal title and description.
September 12, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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✨ Taylor and Travis might be saying “I do,” but at UVic Libraries, we’re saying “I do not pay for textbooks.” 💸📚
Check the link in our bio for the full list.

#WeSaidYes #ZeroTextbookCosts #UVicLibraries
Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce are pictured in a tender moment, with their foreheads touching and smiling at each other. Text is overlayed on the image: next to Travis Kelce, the words "UVic students" appear, and next to Taylor Swift, the phrase "zero-cost textbooks from the library" is displayed.
August 28, 2025 at 3:22 PM
uvicscholcom.bsky.social
✨ Taylor and Travis might be saying “I do,” but at UVic Libraries, we’re saying “I do not pay for textbooks.” 💸📚
Check the link in our bio for the full list.

#WeSaidYes #ZeroTextbookCosts #UVicLibraries
Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce are pictured in a tender moment, with their foreheads touching and smiling at each other. Text is overlayed on the image: next to Travis Kelce, the words "UVic students" appear, and next to Taylor Swift, the phrase "zero-cost textbooks from the library" is displayed.
August 28, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Looking to make global connections in your field of work or study? 🌎 🤝

Collaborate with like-minded scholars and professionals from around the world through the BIG Lab Summer Institute program. #Borders #BIG_Lab

Learn more and register: tinyurl.com/ybds6jme
June 13, 2025 at 7:03 AM
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Curious what open science looks like in practice? UVic's Monique Grenier introduces the new Open Science Community of Victoria (OSCV)—a space for researchers to connect around openness, collaboration & reproducibility.
🧪 Read more on the #ScholCom blog: rb.gy/ea8i6w
#OpenScience #OSCV #UVic
Logo for the Open Science Community Victoria (OSCV). The design features a stylized peacock feather on the left and a circular icon resembling three abstract human figures in blue and green forming the letter "O" in "OSCV." Below the acronym, the full name is written: "Open Science Community Victoria."
June 23, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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What does #resistance look like now?
What does #justice owe the past?

The new issue of #OnPolitics dives into power, identity, and inheritance—six standout essays from UVic undergrads.

📖 journals.uvic.ca/index.php/on...
#StudentJournals #PoliticalScience #GlobalPolitics
Promotional image for the Spring 2025 issue of On Politics, UVic’s undergraduate political science journal. On the left, text reads: “New from UVic ePublishing Services. On Politics (Spring 2025) – UVic Undergraduates of Political Science.” On the right, a person holds the journal, which has a blue and white cover featuring a hand cradling the Earth. The issue is labeled Volume 18, Issue I, Spring 2025.
June 12, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Stories That Shape Us shares the voices of Chinese Canadian families, exploring how resilience is carried across generations—through memory, story, and community.

📖 Free to read on UVicSpace
📚 Print via UVic Bookstore

🔗 shorturl.at/Gf8qR

#OpenAccess #Resilience #ChineseCanadian
Promotional graphic for a new open-access book from UVic ePublishing Services. The book cover, centered in the image, features hand-drawn yellow ginkgo leaves against a pale background. The title of the book is Stories That Shape Us: Narratives of Intergenerational Resilience and Chinese Canadian Families. Authors listed are Fred Chou, Carmen Huang, Mikaela Chia, and Wendy Ma. Above the book cover is a yellow banner with white text that reads: “New from UVic ePublishing Services.” Below the cover, the book title and subtitle are repeated in large yellow and white text on a textured green background. Beige background with a soft, floral line drawing in pale gold behind centered text. The text reads: “This book holds stories of resilience—passed down, rediscovered, and re-shared within Chinese Canadian families. ——— Four family dyads. Four journeys through memory. Each story developed through collaborative research—with care, consent, and kinship. ——— Memory is more than the past. It’s something we tend. Something we carry together.” At the bottom: Stories That Shape Us
June 12, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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Exciting news from the UN Ocean Conference + One Ocean Science Congress in Nice, France!

ONC has been named as an Implementing Partner of the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (2021-2030).

Learn more 🌊 bit.ly/43RvH4J

@uvic.ca #OceanDecade #KnowTheOcean #UNOC3 #UNOceanDecade
ONC receives UN Ocean Decade Implementing Partner status
ONC attending 2025 UN Ocean Conference as implementing partner
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June 5, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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Snowy owl numbers in Canada have dropped nearly 40%. A new blog post explores why, and how UVic’s Dr. Louise Blight is helping raise the alarm. 🦉

Read more: onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca/scholarlycom...

#SnowyOwl #ArcticConservation #OpenAccess #UVicResearch
June 4, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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💡🌿 UVic math professor Mark Lewis has been named a Fellow of the Royal Society UK—joining the ranks of Newton, Hawking, Darwin, and Einstein—for his work developing new mathematical methods to solve ecological problems.

Learn more: news.uvic.ca/2025/uvic-ma...
UVic math ecologist elected to Royal Society - UVic News
Mark Lewis is being recognized by Royal Society in the UK for his work developing new mathematical methods to solve ecological problems.
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June 4, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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This Indigenous People's Month, @big-lab.bsky.social is hosting a series of sessions led by Indigenous leaders, scholars, and policy-makers. If you're interested, the sessions are available both online and in person! You can register here: biglobalization.org/summer/indig...
Image shows people at a march for Indigenous rights. Text reads: Summer institutes. Indigenous Internationalisms and Border Crossings. Explore how Indigenous nations are expressing their relationships to land and waters through complex diplomacies and forms of engagement. Register now to attend online or in person at the University of Victoria, BC. 28-30 Jul 2025. Borders in Globalization.
June 3, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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Join us for the next CFGS-BIG Talk featuring Dr. Andrew Burridge!

📍 Online via Zoom or in person at UVic (SED C168)
📷 June 4th, 2025, 10:30am-12:00pm PST

Register to attend on Zoom: tinyurl.com/CFGS-BIG-Tal...

More details: tinyurl.com/CFGS-BIG-Tal...
May 28, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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Professional Development Opportunity 🚨

Discover the latest in border research and policy through one of our Summer Institutes exploring contemporary border issues 🌎

Learn more and register: tinyurl.com/ybds6jme
World map with text overlaid / title: Exploring Borders in the 21st Century / text: Learn from top academics and policy readers to develop a comprehensive understanding of contemporary border issues / register now to attend online or in person at the University of Victoria, BC / July 2025 / Borders in Globalization
April 22, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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Another fantastic issue of @philosophyinreview.bsky.social
—open access, freely available, fueling philosophical discourse worldwide!

We’re proud to support journals that keep scholarship accessible to all. Check it out & join the conversation! ⬇️ #publishing #openaccess
philosophyinreview.bsky.social Philosophy in Review @philosophyinreview.bsky.social · May 29
📰 Hot off the (digital) press: Philosophy in Review Vol. 45, No. 2!
From 🔤 semantics to 🌌 cosmotechnics—something for every armchair (or real) philosopher.
Free to read, no paywalls, no paradoxes 👉 journals.uvic.ca/index.php/pi...
#philosophy #bookreviews #openaccess #philsky
A promotional graphic for the publication Philosophy in Review. The background features an illustration of a person reading a book at a table, alongside several stacked books and an hourglass. The text on the image announces: "PHILOSOPHY IN REVIEW Vol. 45, No. 2 May issue out now! uvic.ca/pir" A small green square in the bottom right corner displays the letters "PIR."
May 29, 2025 at 6:19 PM