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Venus Bivar
@vbivar.bsky.social
Historian of capitalism, pollution, Marseille, farming, land use, plastics, climate, and economic growth; misanthrope; hockey player; expert baker; amateur gardener; works at St Anne's College at Oxford 🇨🇦; lives in York
I mean, yours truly lived on Cambie in 2000. Coincidence????
November 21, 2025 at 7:32 PM
November 19, 2025 at 2:44 PM
I tried to go once and the line was INSANE.
November 19, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Thanks to some fact-checking from @anjakrieger.bsky.social, a couple of corrections were made: 1) a false prediction about the amount of ocean plastic by 2050; and 2) a link to a study published last week questioning the methods of the plastics-in-your-brain study: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Challenges in studying microplastics in human brain - Nature Medicine
Nature Medicine - Challenges in studying microplastics in human brain
www.nature.com
November 17, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Fun fact: my dad built two of the houses on the hill in the background of this CBC photo.
November 17, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Effing nightmare. What a sick f&*ker.
November 17, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Love this Pope so hard.
November 17, 2025 at 8:53 AM
The Pope just keeps getting cooler and cooler.
November 17, 2025 at 8:51 AM
This is amazing, and more fodder for my 'Finland is the best place on earth' campaign.
November 17, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Thank you Matthew! And bleak is how I've felt since starting these research last summer.
November 17, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Thanks. And yes, I’ve been in the shit since I started researching this stuff.
November 15, 2025 at 9:14 PM
I figured you'd know it - couldn't think of anything else! Though wait, @markhealy.bsky.social has this:

www.dukeupress.edu/the-ruins-of...
The Ruins of the New Argentina: Peronism and the Remaking of San Juan after the 1944 Earthquake
www.dukeupress.edu
November 15, 2025 at 10:27 AM
I love Carey’s In the Shadow of Melting Glaciers.
November 14, 2025 at 11:12 PM