Join Data Fabrics, an art-based learning series that explores Indigenous Data Sovereignty and Governance through creative, relational, and hands-on approaches. The series creates spaces to think critically about data beyond colonial and institutional frameworks and toward Indigenous ways of knowing, governing, and caring for data.

As part of the TRU and our “Transforming Chemical Risk Management with Indigenous Expertise' (CMITEx) project, the Communications and Events Coordinator will develop and implement communication plans to support outreach goals, including content creation, editorial oversight, and coordination of online updates, publications, and promotional materials. The role also includes coordinating event and program logistics while building and sustaining collaboration, outreach and capacity.

Stewarded by the Technoscience Research Unit at the University of Toronto, this Indigenous-led and multi-institutional research project seeks to re-envision chemical risk management in a time of environmental crisis.  

The TRU is offering two Post-Doctoral Fellowships; one in the area of Weaponization, Justice, and Self Driving Labs and another in Indigenous Environmental Justice / Indigenous Science and Technology Studies.

Applications are due Feb. 2nd, 2026.

Join us Feb 5, March 5 and April 2 for beading. All supplies, including new and antique seed beads, will be provided plus lunch and tea.

On January 14, 2026, Dr. Jessica Kolopenuk (University of Alberta) and Ricky W. A. Smith (George Mason University) joined us on for a discussion on the coloniality of research ethics.

On November 12, 2025, TRU launched the Indigenous Science, Technology, and Environments Studies Research Hub (the ISTES Hub) at the University of Toronto.

On November 12, 2025, we held our first Technoscience Salon of 2025-26 ft. Dr. Kelsey Leonard is a water scientist, legal scholar, policy expert, writer, and enrolled citizen of the Shinnecock Nation. Her work focuses on Indigenous water justice and its climatic, territorial, and governance underpinnings for our shared sustainable future. She holds the Canada Research Chair in in Indigenous Waters, Climate and Sustainability.

On November 1, 2025, Another Story Bookshop and the Technoscience Research Unit presented the Toronto launch of On Wholeness: Anishinaabe Pathways to Embodiment and Collective Liberation (House of Anansi) by Quill Christie-Peters, with special guests Al Hunter and Jana Rae-Yerxa.

M. Fernanda Yanchapaxi and M. Murphy have co-authored “Indigenous Environmental Data Justice: Confronting Colonial Data and Activating Indigenous Sovereignty.” This article describes what is Indigenous Environmental Data Justice (IEDJ) and elaborates on data practices (including our lab’s work) that Indigenous communities have developed in response to structures of colonial environmental datafication. Their work highlights the work of communities toward Indigenous data governance and alongside the principles of Indigenous Data Sovereignty.

The Environmental Data Justice Lab (Vanessa Gray, Beze Gray, Joel Piche, and Layla El-Dakhakhni) have brought forward two new publications that share some of the environmental and chemical relations of those who live in Aamjiwnaang First Nation. OPINION: Understanding Our Surroundings – Tanks and COMMUNITY VOICE: Suncors’ Crude Oil Spill on the Gchigami-Ziibii (St.Clair River)

Our staff scholar, Dr. Reena Shadaan, draws on arts-based research approaches with her latest single-author paper, “‘It’s a mixture of emotions’: Nail technicians’ visual storytelling of work and health.” This publication centers participants' own imagery and narratives, shifting chemical relations from the laboratory to where people encounter them in their daily lives.

The tenth anniversary of Catalyst: Feminism, theory, technoscience marks a significant milestone in critical scholarship at the intersection of feminist studies, science and technology studies (STS), and critical theory. Catalyst invites scholars, activists, and artists to contribute to the anniversary in a myriad of ways.

A collaborative effort with the Yellowhead Institute, this special report describes the permission-to-pollute system in Chemical Valley, explains how industry manipulates data, and looks to community members of Aamjiwnaang First Nation for alternatives to data colonialism. 

The Pollution Reporter 2.0 App translates and connects government, industry-reported, and peer reviewed sources of data into accessible information about the known health effects of pollutants. You can search by polluter, by chemical pollutant or by health category or symptom. The app assists in attaching responsibility for health harms to chemicals and the corporations that make them.

Listen to our co-director speak on “AI, Tech, and Social Justice” and about the research that we are conducting in the field of Indigenous Science, Technology & Environment Studies (ISTES).

Dr. Jayson Maurice Porter delivered the final lecture for the 2025 Technoscience Salon: What is a Chemical? His talk on arsenic, race, and empire was part of our ongoing inquiries into what a chemical is and how it might be recognized, apprehended, and manipulated.

In February, we hosted "A Woman is a School" Toronto book launch and panel with author and Slow Factory founder Céline Semaan, in conversation with Samira Mohyeddin from On The Line Media and Tai Salih from The Red Ma'at Collective.