ZoeSTodd (Dr Fish Philosopher Todd)

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Anti-imperialist prairie fish science. Artist. Writer. Proud citizen of the Manitoba Métis Federation. Fish are the future. The Institute for Freshwater Fish Futures (2018-present). https://freshwaterfishfutures.ca/ https://fishphilosophy.org/

video of water being drained into a ditch in Nanoose Bay for three months to test whether it is a suitable site for managed aquifer recharge storage technology.
A local Nanoose Bay resident (name redacted) wrote: "Looks like the RDN has decided it is a good idea to pump the water from the aquifer at Claudet community park into the ditch during a stage three water restriction. They started yesterday morning June 18 and it will continue 24 hours a day for three months. They say they want to see how far the aquifer will drop so they can use it for storage. Other instances of this procedure has destroyed aquifers and they never rejuvenated. There are many acreages in the area that rely on this aquifer. Instead of dumping it straight into the ditch they are now laying pipes so it won’t be so noticeable to people using the park. Out of sight out of mind. It is illegal to waste water like this." Images include video footage of the aquifer being pumped out into the ditch, and piping. You can see the dead grass the pipes are running along.
A digital drawing shows an olive green and pale yellow walleye swims in front of a deep hot pink background with a word bubble emerging from its mouth that states "You can't eat data. #FishFutures"
a screenshot of the 'Welcome! Everythis is fine.' sign from the hit television show The Good Place.
Ottawa's decision to roll back federal climate rules for Alberta's AI industry comes after intense lobbying efforts by Capital Power, an Alberta electricity company building a gas-powered AI data centre. And Evan Solomon, Canada's AI minister, has only met with mining and energy companies about the environmental impacts of AI data centres — but so far has ignored environmental groups.
screenshot of last title slide from INDG 322: Intro to Critical Indigenous Fish Philosophy. Featuring images powerpoint pulled from the internet: from the top left -- a 'pause AI' rally, an image of the quantum mechanics of photosynthesis in the reaction centre of the chloroplast, and a landscape view of the Klamath River.
Page from Deloria’s chapter ‘Spacetime’ in Metaphysics of Modern Existence’: “ are mirrored—in other words, the Cartesian ditterence between res cogitans and res extensa—is no longer a suitable starting point for our understanding of modern science."2 So we begın our scientific inquiry at precisely the point where the non-Western peoples began. We refuse to allow artificial divisions of subject-object, mind-mat-ter, and space-time to lead us astray. Heisenberg was thus correct in insisting that "the scientific worldview has ceased to be a scientific view in the true sense of the word."l3 Experimentation is participation; knowledge is an expansion of our ability to formulate and comprehend our relationships with the kosmos. Perhaps the major remaining assumption that science retains while experiencing this transformation in its understanding is the belief that nature is orderly, that is, that it can be described in fairly precise mathematical terms. This idea originates in theological beliefs yet undergirds scientific inquiry. "Clearly it is not a formal presupposition or a logical premise," lan Barbour notes, "and it is never mentioned in scientific research itself; it is simply taken for granted in the scientific community and in the culture of which it is a part."14 This assumption continues to control the manner in which scientists interpret their data and postulate the expansion of theories. Thus Werner Heisenberg, identifying two common constant factors that all physicists use to interpret their data—the speed of light and the quantum of action-assumed the orderliness of nature as the basis for suggesting that yet a third constant could be discovered: This is obvious for purely dimensional reasons. The universal constants determine the scale of nature, the characteristic quantities that cannot be reduced to other quantities. One needs at least three fundamental units for a complete set of units. 's We need not concern ourselves …”
softly lit photo of an opened tin of Danish butter cookies (yes, the ones the tins are turned into sewing boxes for).
Someone dressed in a cherry red blow up Koolaid Man costume tries to squeeze past the vending machines on the Horseshoe Bay-Departure Bay Ferry on Halloween
Fanon closes The Wretched of the Earth with these words: “ Moreover, if we want to respond to the expectations of the Europeans we must not send them back a reflection, however ideal, of their society and their thought that periodically sickens even them. For Europe, for ourselves and for humanity, comrades, we must make a new start, develop a new way of thinking, and endeavor to create a new man.”
Screenshot of an Instagram post from Greenpeace, reposted from username “edmondb1967” that says: “Someone at a community meeting asked why the city still invested in public libraries. “People can google anything now,” he said. “why keep paying for buildings?” The librarian answered, “Because not everyone has WiFi, and not every kid has a table to work at”. No one had a reply. Libraries aren’t outdated. They’re the answer for people everyone else forgets.”
Article on decline of bull trout featuring Wayne Emerson Roberts, April 1983z
Screen shot of a story from April 1983 in the Red Deer Advocate about ‘Vanishing Bull Trout’. The story features the late Wayne Emerson Roberts, who was passionately calling for government and scientists to address the decline of the species in Alberta.
A wonderfully vivid and unflattering portrait of billionaire coal baron Gina Rinehart by Indigenous artist Vincent Namatjira). A large, pink forehead with brown horse-like mane hanging from it reveals two startled blue eyes and a frown above her chin. She wears a white top.
Oil painting of a Red and white stern of a boat in metal scaffolding between old port buildings in North Van.
Oil painting of a red black and yellow ship against a Vancouver coastal background
Screenshot of a May 2025 article in the Nanaimo News Bulletin titled “Vancouver Island mayors plead with the province to harvest more wood”
“ The situation clearly calls for the construction of new theory that encompasses both Newtonian physics and the new discoveries. Although physicists insist that this task calls for new language and immensely complicated theoretical conceptions, in fact the requirement is simply that we banish predetermined ideas about space, time, and the other concepts we have used in science and philosophy. Poetry has once again entered the field as a means of communicating experience, and perceptions of reality demand primacy over conceptions of the mind. Mathematics continues to play an important role in discussing the experiments to be considered, but an adequate explanation of things cannot depend upon the ultimate status of traditional concepts.” Vine Deloria (1979), The Metaphysics of Modern Existence
“ Most of Western society remained Newtonian in outlook while thinkers and philosophers abandoned the belief that nature existed “out there.” In effect, Western science was having to take into account the perceptions it had earlier eliminated from consideration.” Vine DeLoria (1979), The Metaphysics of Modern Existence
“ When Newtonian physics established a priori that space, time, matter, energy, and causality were inherent in the structure of the universe, and when Newtonian formulas proved immensely successful in exploring the solar system, Western thinkers forgot that these concepts were definitions generated in Newton’s mind, and they came to believe that they were accurate descriptions of ultimate physical processes.” Vine DeLoria, The Metaphysics of Modern Existence
Shot of Lorne Fitch’s book ‘Streams of Consequence: Dispatches from the Conservation World’, which features a herd of chocolate brown bison walking towards the viewer across a snowy expanse.
Sad plants (some small purple lettuce, green and yellowing onions, and invisible arugula seedlings) in a cedar planter, refusing to grow after two months of unacceptable working conditions.
A square of abstract water colour blues and greens floats above a series of multi-coloured squares and rectangles connected by thin golden lines
Close up of a yellow frame bike with green tires and a black leather saddle. A white sticker that says ‘BIKEGIRL’ is plastered on the top tube.
Musician Corb Lund announcing he will be on the Ryan Jespersen show to discuss coal mining in the Crowsnest Pass
"Oct 2-6, 2025 Fish as Storytellers: Intangible Knowledge and Lived Practices With Zoe Todd and Courtney Chetwynd Book now and get 10% off accommodation prices. Offer valid until Jul 3, 2025" Text below an abstract image of neon and dark green seaweed floating in front of an abstract hot pink curvilinear shape. The seaweed is anchored in textured mint green muck. The background is mustard yellow. Abstract circular and ovoid light effects wash across the image.
screenshot of a promotional email for the clinic in question: "We couldn’t be more excited about this next chapter in Victoria! Thank you all for your continued support as we continue to grow and improve healthcare in our community. Stay tuned for more updates! Early Sketch Of Our Private MRI Clinic Concept! Coming To Central Vancouver Island "
an image of deep grey blue broken ice streaked with lines of ghostly white is traced with vibrant fluorescent digital outlines inpink, orange, yellow, aquamarine, and green.
sun setting over a vista somewhere between california and utah. Golden light in the left centre of the image is filtered through a roiling sky of grey and white clouds touching on a green and sandy brown lanscape in the foreground.
Cover of the Finspan game featuring a grey, red, and blue flying fish against a turquoise watercolour background
An image of a light skinned hand against a rich brown table holding a blue card-deck sized board game box featuring a blue and white origami wave with a small red and white origami boat riding the wave’s crest. The words ‘Sea Salt & Paper’ are written in white at the top of the box.
Tall deciduous trees with vibrant neon green leaves stand against a cerulean blue sky with the sun shining through to the right lower corner of the image
Screenshot of images of the cover of ‘Waves in an Impossible Sea’; as well as thumbnails of the author; and a thumbnail of an endorsement of the book by Martin Rees. The book has a stylized depiction of four strips of watery blue waves laid horizontally across a white background. The author’s name (Matt Strassler) is at the top and the title stretches across the waves.