Brandon Cordeiro

A Brief History of Things Were Better 50 Years Ago 🧵

Nuclear power plant leaked 1.5M litres of radioactive water in Minnesota globalnews.ca/news/9559326/n…

The Wilson Institute's Visiting Speaker Series presents Lianne C. Leddy Associate Professor, Department of History, Wilfrid Laurier University Cold War Uranium Mining: New Technologies and Reconciliation in Historical Perspective Wednesday, 5 April 2023

THREAD: Photos, videos, and news reports about the train derailment and toxic chemical release in East Palestine, Ohio. This may be the largest environmental disaster in U.S. history. 🧵👇

It is now #90SecondsToMidnight. Read the 2023 #DoomsdayClock Statement: bit.ly/3j5iDoP

BREAKING NEWS: This is an announcement that has been decades in the making.   On December 5, 2022 a team from DOE's @Livermore_Lab made history by achieving fusion ignition.   This breakthrough will change the future of clean power and America’s national defense forever.

@mica_amy @NiCHE_Canada @McMasterU Thanks Mica! I hope you’re well in Europe!

Today on our site we have "Between a Rock and a Hard Place: The Nuclear Waste Issue in Northern Ontario" by @bcordeir15 This is the 2nd in a series on environmental histories of Radiation in Canada edited by @JoshuaMcGuffie & @M_BlakeButler niche-canada.org/2022/05/31/bet… #envhist

Are you looking for some Friday morning reading? Check out issue 2 of Syndemic Magazine at bit.ly/36aangP and read the thread for summaries of the three incredible articles now available!

The latest edition of Syndemic Magazine is now available! Our topic this month is “Labour in a Treacherous Time”, focusing on subaltern groups’ experiences in the workplace during Covid-19. It is guest edited by Ed Dunsworth, assistant professor of history at McGill University!

Exciting news🎉! We've just launched the first edition of Syndemic Magazine online at syndemic.ca! Over 6 editions, we treat Covid-19 as a "syndemic": not just a natural disaster, but contextualized within a socio-economic order which shaped its genesis and impact.

This first edition is edited by @macksmilkshakes, with articles, reviews, and interviews from @mica_amy, Matt Sparke and @luciavitale_, @bcordeir15, Ian McKay, Nancy Fraser, and Andreas Malm! Please share widely, and we hope you enjoy!

Happy 130th birthday to basketball! Invented on December 21st, 1891 by Canadian James Naismith 🏀🇨🇦 📹: @HistoricaCanada

The Wilson Institute is proud to host, as part of its ‘Syndemic Series,’ Nancy Fraser of the New School for Social Research. “The Covid Pandemic: A Perfect Storm of Capitalist Irrationality and Injustice.” Thursday, November 4, 2021 7:00 PM Eastern Time

On July 15, 1946, thousands of Stelco steelworkers walked off the job. The strike is seen as one of the most significant labour-management battles in Canadian history #HamOnt #Spec175 torstar.co/yxyx50FVs9g

Did you miss the third article in our series on Neoliberalism in Canada? Check it out here! @NickFastMA @macksmilkshakes thenewcanadianhistory.com/2021/02/15/neo…

All that is solid melts into air.

“Today, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists leaves the Doomsday Clock unchanged. It is 100 seconds to midnight,” — @RachelBronson1, President & CEO, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists #DoomsdayClock bit.ly/DoomsdayClock_…