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Collective Listening: CLEAR Soundscapes

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Collective Listening: CLEAR Soundscapes

This project involves critical listening to reflect on our positionality within our lived environments. The project was conducted as part of CLEAR’s Artist-in-Residence (AIR) program, facilitated by Prakash Krishnan.

Posted on July 27, 2021January 21, 2025 by clearstaffIn Blog19 Minutes Read

The researchers that search engines make invisible

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The researchers that search engines make invisible

I went to the university’s article database but finding this paper again wasn’t as easy as I thought it would be.

Posted on June 10, 2021January 21, 2025 by clearstaffIn Blog, feature, Projects8 Minutes Read

Waking up to the politics of citation

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Waking up to the politics of citation

I found myself shocked by the importance of citation, and particularly by my lack of awareness of the impact my citing could have on others.

Posted on June 10, 2021January 21, 2025 by clearstaffIn Blog, feature, Projects, Uncategorized5 Minutes Read

CLEAR mini-documentaries

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CLEAR mini-documentaries

CLEAR has worked with Couple3 Films to make a series of short documentaries about the lab and our processes. We’ve also brought those processes into the filmmaking.

Posted on May 10, 2021January 21, 2025 by Max LiboironIn Blog, Projects2 Minutes Read

Choosing lab values

Choosing lab values

How do we choose which values and goals we align with as researchers?

Posted on April 29, 2021January 21, 2025 by Max LiboironIn Uncategorized4 Minutes Read

Join us for ‘Laboratory Life’ film launches

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Join us for ‘Laboratory Life’ film launches

The Lab Life series investigates what seem like mundane lab practices, but are critical to scientific humility, accountability and equity.

Posted on March 18, 2021May 3, 2021 by Max LiboironIn Blog, Uncategorized2 Minutes Read

Citational politics bibliography

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Citational politics bibliography

A bibliography on the politics of citation and references

Posted on February 25, 2021March 7, 2022 by Max LiboironIn Blog2 Minutes Read

Firsting in Research

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Firsting in Research

Declaring that a research project is the “first” to discover something is not only rarely correct, given the myriad local knowledges operating since time immemorial, but is also imperialist and colonial.

Posted on January 18, 2021January 21, 2025 by Max LiboironIn Blog, feature, Uncategorized13 Minutes Read

#Collabrary: a methodological experiment for reading with reciprocity

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#Collabrary: a methodological experiment for reading with reciprocity

How can we change academic reading relations that tend to be extractive into something more reciprocal, humble, generous, and accountable?

Posted on January 3, 2021January 21, 2025 by Max LiboironIn Blog8 Minutes Read

Research on the relationship between EPR and shoreline plastics

Research on the relationship between EPR and shoreline plastics

Does extended producer responsibility (EPR) reduce marine plastic pollution? Perhaps not.

Posted on November 19, 2020February 5, 2021 by Max LiboironIn Blog, feature, Research Results1 Minute Read

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