Maia Foster-Sanchez
@maiapapaya.bsky.social
Sometimes emergency manager, sometimes public historian.
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Israel to ban MSF from working in Gaza over refusal to provide staff list
MSF said it would not share the list as it had not been able to ensure staff would remain safe.
MSF said it would not share the list as it had not been able to ensure staff would remain safe.
February 1, 2026 at 1:24 PM
Israel to ban MSF from working in Gaza over refusal to provide staff list
MSF said it would not share the list as it had not been able to ensure staff would remain safe.
MSF said it would not share the list as it had not been able to ensure staff would remain safe.
"Environment and Climate Change Canada’s latest global mean temperature forecast indicates that 2026 will likely be among the hottest years on record, comparable to 2023 and 2025 and approaching 2024, which remains the warmest year ever observed."
www.canada.ca/en/environme...
www.canada.ca/en/environme...
Canada forecasts 2026 to be among the hottest years on record - Canada.ca
The Government of Canada has released its annual global mean temperature forecast, providing early insight into expected global temperature conditions for 2026.
www.canada.ca
January 26, 2026 at 1:27 AM
"Environment and Climate Change Canada’s latest global mean temperature forecast indicates that 2026 will likely be among the hottest years on record, comparable to 2023 and 2025 and approaching 2024, which remains the warmest year ever observed."
www.canada.ca/en/environme...
www.canada.ca/en/environme...
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🕵🏿♂️ Canada can't release it's list of Nazis because it might....harm Ukraine. You can't make this stuff up.
January 25, 2026 at 8:00 PM
🕵🏿♂️ Canada can't release it's list of Nazis because it might....harm Ukraine. You can't make this stuff up.
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Bolsonaro supporters protesting and demanding that he is set free got hit by a lightning bolt, 3 persons are in hospital now.
🚨⚡ Um raio atingiu bolsonaristas em Brasília nesta tarde. Eles estavam aguardando Nikolas Ferreira no Memorial JK para um protesto pela soltura de Bolsonaro quando um raio atingiu a praça. Três bolsonaristas foram para o hospital.
January 25, 2026 at 4:53 PM
Bolsonaro supporters protesting and demanding that he is set free got hit by a lightning bolt, 3 persons are in hospital now.
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A crazy amount of heat has accumulated in the Equatorial Pacific Ocean over the past two months.
Hold on to your hats when this reaches the surface with the next El Niño.
Y-axis shows depth, X-axis shows degree longitude (one degree equals 111 km) and colors temp anomalies.
@noaa.gov PMEL data
Hold on to your hats when this reaches the surface with the next El Niño.
Y-axis shows depth, X-axis shows degree longitude (one degree equals 111 km) and colors temp anomalies.
@noaa.gov PMEL data
January 17, 2026 at 4:10 PM
A crazy amount of heat has accumulated in the Equatorial Pacific Ocean over the past two months.
Hold on to your hats when this reaches the surface with the next El Niño.
Y-axis shows depth, X-axis shows degree longitude (one degree equals 111 km) and colors temp anomalies.
@noaa.gov PMEL data
Hold on to your hats when this reaches the surface with the next El Niño.
Y-axis shows depth, X-axis shows degree longitude (one degree equals 111 km) and colors temp anomalies.
@noaa.gov PMEL data
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Dr. Kanatase Horn and I have just published an article with Social Science & Medicine: doi.org/10.1016/j.so...
Our article looks at abolitionist discourse and Indigenous peoples own conceptions of justice. If that sounds up your alley give it a read!
Our article looks at abolitionist discourse and Indigenous peoples own conceptions of justice. If that sounds up your alley give it a read!
November 11, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Dr. Kanatase Horn and I have just published an article with Social Science & Medicine: doi.org/10.1016/j.so...
Our article looks at abolitionist discourse and Indigenous peoples own conceptions of justice. If that sounds up your alley give it a read!
Our article looks at abolitionist discourse and Indigenous peoples own conceptions of justice. If that sounds up your alley give it a read!
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I don’t think people quite understand that the occupation by ICE in the Twin Cities has more or less erased non-white people from public life. They cannot safely exist in any space accessible to the public and moving between private places leaves folks vulnerable to kidnapping by armed masked goons.
January 16, 2026 at 10:15 PM
I don’t think people quite understand that the occupation by ICE in the Twin Cities has more or less erased non-white people from public life. They cannot safely exist in any space accessible to the public and moving between private places leaves folks vulnerable to kidnapping by armed masked goons.
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Please join us on 4 February 2026 at 2:30pm GMT for a workshop with Dr Gemma Sou, the author of “How to Translate Research into a Comic: Examples from Disaster Scholarship” paper, recently published in JDS. Registration and more information here: www.lboro.ac.uk/research/ias...
How to Translate Research into a Comic: Examples from Disaster Scholarship
Hybrid - International House & Zoom Webinar, 4 February 2026, 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
www.lboro.ac.uk
December 5, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Please join us on 4 February 2026 at 2:30pm GMT for a workshop with Dr Gemma Sou, the author of “How to Translate Research into a Comic: Examples from Disaster Scholarship” paper, recently published in JDS. Registration and more information here: www.lboro.ac.uk/research/ias...
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we need to stop normalizing things
April 19, 2025 at 8:05 PM
we need to stop normalizing things
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You all need to treat Harry Potter IP like we’re treating the Tesla brand.
April 17, 2025 at 1:47 PM
You all need to treat Harry Potter IP like we’re treating the Tesla brand.
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@amyshawanda.bsky.social and I just had a report published by the Yellowhead Institute on pretendians in the academy. Many thanks to the Yellowhead team that helped get this out!
yellowheadinstitute.org/pretendians-...
yellowheadinstitute.org/pretendians-...
Pinasunniq: Reflections on a Northern Indigenous Economy
What is the relationship between Inuit self-determination and prosperity in the North?
yellowheadinstitute.org
April 2, 2025 at 9:27 PM
@amyshawanda.bsky.social and I just had a report published by the Yellowhead Institute on pretendians in the academy. Many thanks to the Yellowhead team that helped get this out!
yellowheadinstitute.org/pretendians-...
yellowheadinstitute.org/pretendians-...
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Who belongs in Indigenous academia? Amy Shawanda and Gabriel Maracle explore this question in the newest Yellowhead Institute Special Report, Pretendians and Publications: The Problem and Solutions to Redface Research.
Read the full report on our website -
yellowheadinstitute.org/pretendians-...
Read the full report on our website -
yellowheadinstitute.org/pretendians-...
April 1, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Who belongs in Indigenous academia? Amy Shawanda and Gabriel Maracle explore this question in the newest Yellowhead Institute Special Report, Pretendians and Publications: The Problem and Solutions to Redface Research.
Read the full report on our website -
yellowheadinstitute.org/pretendians-...
Read the full report on our website -
yellowheadinstitute.org/pretendians-...
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it's wild taking privacy law training while watching this stuff unfold. I know the whole, "laws don't matter, enforcement does" thing but still, damn
NEW: A government employee for Notify. gov, a system used by agencies to send mass texts to the public, has resigned in protest after an Elon Musk ally demanded root access to it. They said the system contains the public's phone numbers & private info:
www.404media.co/musk-ally-de...
www.404media.co/musk-ally-de...
Musk Ally Demands Admin Access to System That Lets Government Text the Public
A worker resigned in protest rather than giving Thomas Shedd access to Notify.gov, which they said would allow him to see "all personally identifiable information moving through the Notiy system, incl...
www.404media.co
February 19, 2025 at 1:57 AM
it's wild taking privacy law training while watching this stuff unfold. I know the whole, "laws don't matter, enforcement does" thing but still, damn
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When we say disasters aren’t natural this . . .
Hundreds of Federal Emergency Management Agency employees were fired as part of a wave of terminations of federal workers over the weekend. The cuts, which come in addition to the firing of over 200 last week, target probationary and contract employees.
FEMA is losing scores of employees. That could slow disaster response.
Cuts at the Federal Emergency Management Agency could affect people across the country who are struggling to rebuild and prepare for disasters.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 19, 2025 at 12:16 AM
When we say disasters aren’t natural this . . .
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JUST IN: ICE van reportedly set on fire in Philadelphia
February 18, 2025 at 7:01 PM
JUST IN: ICE van reportedly set on fire in Philadelphia
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Serious question: Could something like DOGE happen in Canada? We have the "Canadian Digital Service", I know it's not a direct equivalent to the U.S. Digital Service (restructured to "DOGE"), but these bros are getting inspiration from the madness down south and they probably want something simillar
Canada's tech broligarchs have A GROUP CHAT??
Yup, they sure do -- that's according to a great scoop from The Logic: thelogic.co/news/the-big...
But this is just one part of a broader story about Canada's tech bros deciding they want to play (right-wing) politics.
Let's talk about it:
Yup, they sure do -- that's according to a great scoop from The Logic: thelogic.co/news/the-big...
But this is just one part of a broader story about Canada's tech bros deciding they want to play (right-wing) politics.
Let's talk about it:
Canada's tech broligarchs have a GROUP CHAT?
YouTube video by Rachel Gilmore
youtu.be
February 11, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Serious question: Could something like DOGE happen in Canada? We have the "Canadian Digital Service", I know it's not a direct equivalent to the U.S. Digital Service (restructured to "DOGE"), but these bros are getting inspiration from the madness down south and they probably want something simillar
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Capitalism is eating itself right now and it's horrifying to watch.
February 8, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Capitalism is eating itself right now and it's horrifying to watch.
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Storytime.
In 2005, my mom died from cancer, but the real cause was the actions taken by an insurance company 12 years earlier. What happened to her was evil, hard to identify or fight, and hidden from the public by legal mechanisms. Because of that, I have no idea how often it has happened.
In 2005, my mom died from cancer, but the real cause was the actions taken by an insurance company 12 years earlier. What happened to her was evil, hard to identify or fight, and hidden from the public by legal mechanisms. Because of that, I have no idea how often it has happened.
December 8, 2024 at 1:45 AM
Storytime.
In 2005, my mom died from cancer, but the real cause was the actions taken by an insurance company 12 years earlier. What happened to her was evil, hard to identify or fight, and hidden from the public by legal mechanisms. Because of that, I have no idea how often it has happened.
In 2005, my mom died from cancer, but the real cause was the actions taken by an insurance company 12 years earlier. What happened to her was evil, hard to identify or fight, and hidden from the public by legal mechanisms. Because of that, I have no idea how often it has happened.
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Meta is ‘reckless’ in ‘need-to-know situations’, Canada warns Australia as it braces for early bushfire season
Meta is ‘reckless’ in ‘need-to-know situations’, Canada warns Australia as it braces for early bushfire season
Heritage minister says Facebook made ‘room for misinformation’ after turning news off in 2023 as Australia mulls actions that could lead to Meta doing the same
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November 23, 2024 at 7:18 PM
Meta is ‘reckless’ in ‘need-to-know situations’, Canada warns Australia as it braces for early bushfire season
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November 23, 2024 at 7:23 PM
Ehníta chiquita
November 23, 2024 at 7:19 PM
Ehníta chiquita
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Fully 83 percent of the entire contiguous US is currently in some form of drought conditions, and that's *better* than the week before, when it was 88 percent.
November 16, 2024 at 12:56 PM
Fully 83 percent of the entire contiguous US is currently in some form of drought conditions, and that's *better* than the week before, when it was 88 percent.
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The preliminary sequence from the H5N1 human case in British Columbia has been posted and it is not good news. The virus potentially has a quasispecies at HA residue 226 (H3 numbering). This is bad news because we know that mutations at residue 226 can increase binding to human receptors. 1/
November 16, 2024 at 3:19 PM
The preliminary sequence from the H5N1 human case in British Columbia has been posted and it is not good news. The virus potentially has a quasispecies at HA residue 226 (H3 numbering). This is bad news because we know that mutations at residue 226 can increase binding to human receptors. 1/