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!
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
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...
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...
Left to Right: M. Murphy and Kristen Bos.
#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
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! 🎉
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...
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...
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
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 ⬇️
www.eventbrite.ca/e/andrew-bar...
"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...
"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."
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 🏭🏭🏭🏭🏭
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 😷
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...
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:
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...
The data in this report was collected by EDJ Lab members Vanessa & Beze Gray between 2013-2023.
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...
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 ✊🏽🍉🐢