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Animal respect guidelines

Animal respect guidelines

What are anticolonial ways of respecting animals in research that include but exceed institutional values of replacement (of animals with non-animals), reduction (of the number of animals needed), and refinement (of studies)?

Posted on December 14, 2016January 22, 2025 by Max LiboironIn Blog, Projects, Uncategorized2 Minutes Read

Sign the letter to keep plastic tags out of our food web

Sign the letter to keep plastic tags out of our food web

DFO is panning to implement a licence and tags management regime for the food fishery in the Newfoundland and Labrador. These tags will be plastic. DFO invites public consultations. Make your voice heard.

Posted on October 31, 2016January 22, 2025 by Max LiboironIn Blog1 Minute Read

CLEAR’s guidelines for research with Indigenous groups

CLEAR’s guidelines for research with Indigenous groups

CLEAR has guidelines for research with Indigenous groups

Posted on September 28, 2016January 22, 2025 by Max LiboironIn Blog, Tools + Protocols2 Minutes Read

How to collect guts for science

How to collect guts for science

Posted on July 24, 2016January 22, 2025 by Max LiboironIn Blog, Projects, Tools + Protocols2 Minutes Read

Equity in Author Order

Equity in Author Order

How do we assign author order in a way that is humble, equitable, and accountable to the different types of labour that go into collaborative publications? What process can address the power dynamics that exist in all labs and collaborations?

Posted on May 23, 2016January 22, 2025 by Max LiboironIn Blog, Resources, Tools + Protocols8 Minutes Read

Public Meeting: Plastics in NL (1/21/15)

Public Meeting: Plastics in NL (1/21/15)

A team of research at MUN will present their findings on plastic ingestion in cod at this public meeting and collect input from attendees about the types of concerns they have around plastic pollution in Newfoundland to direct future research.

Posted on January 13, 2016January 22, 2025 by Max LiboironIn Blog1 Minute Read

Classification of marine debris by citizen scientists

Classification of marine debris by citizen scientists

This project tests three different ways of classifying marine waste to determine how different methods of affect dimensions of data quality and highlight different areas of common knowledge and concern for citizen scientists.

Posted on November 8, 2015January 22, 2025 by Max LiboironIn Blog, Projects2 Minutes Read

Participatory Citizen Science on Marine Plastics

Participatory Citizen Science on Marine Plastics

How can we do research in environments suffering from pollution that is difficult to see, wide spread, will last in geological timescales, and is affecting human and ecological health in unpredictable ways?

Posted on July 21, 2015January 22, 2025 by Max LiboironIn Blog2 Minutes Read

#BabyLegs at Sea

#BabyLegs at Sea

On the 5 Gyres SEA Change expedition, I’ll be testing #BabyLegs and other DIY scientific instruments to see how they measure up with the ones used by most marine scientists.

Posted on June 7, 2015January 22, 2025 by Max LiboironIn Blog4 Minutes Read

Heat Leaks as Public Commons

Heat Leaks as Public Commons

By locating heat leaks, we unveil the potential for a Public Commons within the outdoor urban infrastructure of Churchill Square in St. John’s, Newfoundland.

Posted on May 26, 2015January 22, 2025 by Max LiboironIn Blog4 Minutes Read

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