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Brian e Noble, PhD, dark & light in living relation
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Anthropology, Relational terran futures, ethoecology, anti-racism, activism, Indigenous resurgence, decoloniality, treaty of all beings, animal-human + Indigenous-Settler relations, degrowth alteconomies @ArticulateDinos 2024 Fulbright Chair U.Hawaii Manoa
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Honoured to write in Fieldwork & thinking of #JaneGoodall transformed #Primatology
Opening worlds of possibility for Human-Chimpanzee understanding, grounded in women’s immersive counter-knowing

Cf my piece “Politics, Gender, & Worldly Primatology: The Goodall-Fossey Nexus”
Primate Encounters
A provocative collective reflection on primatology and its relations to broader cultural, historical, and social issues, Primate Encounters brings together both scientists and those who study them to ...
press.uchicago.edu
October 1, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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#Trans, Trans-Identifying students being denied their rights are rights-bearing citizens

Institutionalizing oppression is a cog in the authoritarian machinery
As deadline for Trump's colleges compact looms, schools signal dissent
Of the original nine schools that received the Trump administration's Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education, the majority have indicated they are not planning on signing.
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October 21, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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“In one of the essays in Burning Questions, Atwood recalls advice on how to escape a crocodile: zigzag…. You have to be wary of the teeth and the tail”
‘It is the scariest of times’: Margaret Atwood on defying Trump, banned books – and her score-settling memoir
At 86, she’s a literary seer and saint – and queen of the Canadian resistance. So what does the writer make of our dystopian world?
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November 1, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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Table of contents… amazing range of contributors… leading thinkers in Primatology, Science Studies (Bruno Latour, Donna Haraway) , Philosophy, History of science, Animal ethology, more
October 1, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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Support dissenting Colleges & Universities

If yours is not 1, urge your decision makers to refuse & push back

#Trans, Trans-Identifying students being denied their rights are rights-bearing citizens

Institutionalizing oppression is a cog in the authoritarian machinery
As deadline for Trump's colleges compact looms, schools signal dissent
Of the original nine schools that received the Trump administration's Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education, the majority have indicated they are not planning on signing.
www.npr.org
October 21, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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“A United Nations agency said on Wednesday that heat-trapping carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere jumped by the highest amount on record last year, "turbo-charging" the climate and making weather more extreme.”
Judge dismisses activists' lawsuit against Trump, but concedes 'very real' climate harm | CBC News
A federal judge on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit from young climate activists seeking to block U.S. President Donald Trump's executive orders promoting fossil fuels and discouraging renewable energy.
www.cbc.ca
October 16, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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Seems a bit weird that a position held by about 2/3 of american jews (israel is committing war crimes against palestinians) can get you fired for antisemitism
October 4, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Good question, except he forgets that it’s all stolen Indigenous land, and that taxes are drawn from an economy built on growing layers of resources extracted from the fruits of that land. Another “thought pretzel”
October 6, 2025 at 2:10 AM
She’s losing the battle of working hard at trying not to lose
October 6, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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NEW: Extraordinary scenes in Amsterdam this afternoon (Sunday, Oct 5).

An estimated 250,000 bring the city to a standstill; people all wearing red to show solidarity with Palestine 🇵🇸

(🎥 Ahmed Zantac)
October 5, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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So Trump is imposing new tariffs on Canadian lumber & on films produced outside the US.

*Notice that the one industry he is leaving unharmed is oil & gas?*

It's a tell...🧵

www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...
Canadian softwood producers hit with new 10% tariff on lumber shipments into U.S.
Trump issued a proclamation Monday night, imposing a new tariff on imports of softwood from Canada and other countries, effective Oct. 14
www.theglobeandmail.com
September 30, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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Climate Emergency? Absolutely No doubt
Western Canada / Indigenous Territories are on Fire & we’re past summer already

The very lands where Carney, Poilievre & their parties are demanding accelerated oil & gas extraction ramping up carbonization of the planet

cwfis.cfs.nrcan.gc.ca/interactive-...
September 30, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Honoured to write in Fieldwork & thinking of #JaneGoodall transformed #Primatology
Opening worlds of possibility for Human-Chimpanzee understanding, grounded in women’s immersive counter-knowing

Cf my piece “Politics, Gender, & Worldly Primatology: The Goodall-Fossey Nexus”
Primate Encounters
A provocative collective reflection on primatology and its relations to broader cultural, historical, and social issues, Primate Encounters brings together both scientists and those who study them to ...
press.uchicago.edu
October 1, 2025 at 9:29 PM
“…coming at a time when many tour operators and hospitality industry workers are reeling from the dearth of Canadian travelers, a significant number of whom are vowing to stay away as long as President Trump is in office”

#ElbowsUp has consequences
What a federal government shutdown might mean for travelers | CNN
IThe US is on the brink of a possible government shutdown. The travel impact would be felt in longer airport lines, muddled itineraries and US National Park closures.
www.cnn.com
October 1, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Climate Emergency? No doubt.
Western Canada / Indigenous Territories are on Fire. And we’re past summer already

cwfis.cfs.nrcan.gc.ca/interactive-...
September 30, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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Then leading to re-election of a conspiracy-ridden party in USA with a narcissist, autocratic leader dismantling its science-based institutions, undermining media sources that rely on meticulous science & social science to verify news, defunding universities, militarizing against public who disagree
September 29, 2025 at 8:45 AM
The character of political discourse and the cast of actors exchanging racist / anti-racist barbs gets more and more dystopic by the day

Le declin de l’empire americaine
Musk calls Anti-Defamation League ‘hate group’ for documenting Christian extremism
Organization earlier this year came to the tech mogul’s aid over his widely criticized salutes at Trump’s inauguration
www.theguardian.com
September 30, 2025 at 1:41 AM