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Technoscience Research Unit
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The Technoscience Research Unit at the University of Toronto is a home for critical and creative research on technoscience.

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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
2025-26 Technoscience Salon Series: Ethical Grounds with Dr. Kelsey Leonard
Join us for the first 2025-26 Technoscience Salon with water scientist Dr. Kelsey Leonard.
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November 4, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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 👾

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Launch of the Indigenous Science, Environment, and Technology Hub — TECHNOSCIENCE RESEARCH UNIT
Wednesday, November 12, 2025 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. Seminar Room #10031 700 University Ave, Toronto, ON University of Toronto Register via Eventbrite → On November 12, 2025 , the Technoscience...
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October 27, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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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
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IN Workshop: Promotion and Tenure packages for community-based research
July 16-17, 2025
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April 10, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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#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.

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April 8, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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
March 31, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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 ✨

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TRU to Steward $22M New Frontier in Research Fund Transformation Grant — TECHNOSCIENCE RESEARCH UNIT
Stewarded by the Technoscience Research Unit at the University of Toronto, this collaborative research initiative seeks to re-envision chemical risk management in a time of environmental crisis.
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March 24, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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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.
March 6, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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 🤓

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2025 Technoscience Salon: Jayson Maurice Porter
Join us for a lecture by Dr. Jayson Maurice Porter on arsenic, race and empire for the 2025 Technoscience Salon: What is a Chemical?
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March 2, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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 🌱

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Book Launch & Panel: A Woman Is a School
Join us for the Toronto launch and book panel of A Woman is a School with Céline Semaan, founder of the Slow Factory.
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February 4, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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 ⬇️

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Andrew Barry: The Geography of Chemicals
Join us the 2025 Technoscience Salon for a public lecture with Dr. Andrew Barry, a leading scholar of chemical geographies.
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January 27, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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.

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Data Colonialism in Canada's Chemical Valley: Aamjiwnaang First Nation and the Failure of the Pollution Notification System
This report is about the relationship between the petrochemical industry in Ontario’s Chemical Valley and Aamjiwnaang First Nation. Central to this relationship is pollution: the spills, flares, air r...
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January 24, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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 ✊🏽🍉🐢
January 22, 2025 at 3:41 PM