Carissa Brown

Paris Marx Poster with a picture of a smiling person looking off camera with a microphone and wearing a black shirt. DATE: November 21st 2:30 to 4pm, Room AA 1043. TITLE: Becoming an AI critic ABSTRACT: Since 2022, generative AI has taken the world by storm. Tech leaders promised it would change everything, mostly for the better, but as the technology matures the drawbacks are becoming ever more apparent. In this talk, Paris Marx will discuss how he developed the critical perspective he uses to assess new technologies and the companies that deploy them. In the process, he’ll break down how he understands the impacts of generative AI and offer some ideas for where Newfoundland and Labrador, and Canada more broadly, might go from here on tech and economic policy. BIO: Paris Marx is a tech critic based in St. John's and host of the critically acclaimed Tech Won’t Save Us podcast. He speaks around the world about the politics of technology and recently co-authored a white paper called Reclaiming Digital Sovereignty. Paris also writes the Disconnect newsletter and is the author of Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation. Paris is a graduate of Memorial University, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science, then went on to complete a Master of Arts in Geography at McGill University. He’s now working on his second book, which focuses on the growth and costs of hyperscale data centres.

In St. John's? Interested in AI?
The Department of Political Science is honoured to host alumni @parismarx.com!

Becoming an AI Critic
Friday November 21st, 2025
2:30-4pm
MUNL, Arts and Administration Bdg, Room AA 1043,
Co-sponsored with @munlgeog.bsky.social

CLEAR Lab Tour YouTube video by Drmaxlib

Join Taryn on a tour of CLEAR! Why are our lab coats pink (spoiler: it's for scientific)? What senses do we use to identify plastics (hint: more than our eyes!)? What kind of people work at CLEAR (awesome people, obv)!

@munlgeog.bsky.social #WomenInSTEM #QueerScience

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A photo of a laptop screen displaying a presentation titled “Assessing post-wildfire forest resilience in coastal, subarctic forests in Labrador”

Had so much fun today representing @munlgeog.bsky.social at the virtual ACAG conference! I discussed some preliminary results from a project with @carissabrown.bsky.social, where we’ve found unusual post-fire black spruce recruitment patterns at the south coast of Labrador 🌱

Photo of a PowerPoint slide titled “Climate change in NL and beyond” with a meme showing Johnny Cash that reads “How’s the weather in St. John’s? I ain’t seen the sunshine since I don’t know when”

Photo of a PowerPoint slide with four photos, each of tree seedlings growing in pots.

ACAG*’s 2024 conference has kicked off, and the first #NorthernEDGELab @munlgeog.bsky.social talk was from MSc candidate Pierrette James-Bourque. Great science, baby trees, and memes - what else could one ask for?

*Atlantic Division of the Canadian Association of Geographers

Rocky oceanside cliff in Newfoundland, Canada.

Hi everyone! To introduce myself on BlueSky after moving over from the bad place: my name is Graydon (he/him), I’m a grad student currently in Newfoundland, and I’m interested in plant ecology, species’ distributions, and range limits.

I’d love to connect with other #ecoevo folks on here!

Made a little starter pack for Geographers at Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador! @munlgeog.bsky.social

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We are here! Help us reconnect with any and all allies of the LGBTQ+ community in Plant Science!

Wow, things are really picking up over here! Guess we’d better dust off our account and start to #ThinkOutside under this sunny BlueSky (okay, we are in Newfoundland in November, so outlook for actual blue sky is … uncertain). Stay tuned for some content from the last few months!

Dan Duda and other librarians show a child some ocean related maps at a large display from the Map Library.

Spotted at Memorial University’s #WhaleOfADay 👀 👀
Some favourites from the map library!

@ethanfreedman.bsky.social May I have an ecology feed add, please?

Huge congrats to @maxliboiron.bsky.social & collabs on their SSHRC Partnership Grant! “…IndigeLab Network brings together 18 researchers…to innovate ways to bring gendered, Indigenous ways of knowing & doing into lab cultures & other research collectives”
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Students apprehensively walking into a bog.

Students enthusiastically loving their time in the big, surveying plants.

Close up of red Sphagnum moss and bright green plants. A big bog cranberry sits in the middle of the photo.

A small pitcher plant leaf within a bog plant community.

We love to #ThinkOutside at MUNL Geography! @carissabrown.bsky.social took #GEOG3140 Biogeography students out to a good ol’Newfoundland boreal bog to talk about adaptations and species-environment matching. Nothing makes those undergrad memories like a boot full of bog.

It’s a bumper sundew year here in Newfoundland! I’m still just as excited every time I see one.

Pride and trans flags flying in the wind in front of the Confederation Building.

It was a great day to make #NoSpaceForHate in St. John’s.