John Currie, PhD

❶ Sustainability Communications Specialist
❷ Copywriter/Editor/Content Magician ... +Professor

[John Currie, PhD @_johncurrie]

LOVED Red Tide: a macabre maritime misadventure
A musical! Book & Lyrics by Nam Nguyen, Music by Wilfred Moeschter. In April 2016, fishermen in central Vietnam wake up to the disturbing sight of 115 tons of fish carcasses washed up along 200 km of their shores. @TheatreSheridan

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Kudos to @GeddyLee3's brilliance, writing a music memoir with a chapter on the horrors of the holocaust, including moving first-person family accounts of near death and romance in the camps, to be read by an audience (I assume) that’d not normally do so.

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An article about my #climatecommunication course at @iccitutm @UTM, WRI 375, by Alisa Samuel. Looking forward to teaching it next term! @utmTLC https://t.co/yYKKACtMOj

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The Global March to End Fossil Fuels https://t.co/teyBbBZ7sX

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@marielasthwith her book, My ABCs: #Argentina, #Brazil, #Canada: #Stories, #Letters, and #Poems about #Identity and #Belonging. Hear the #podcast she did in my class at https://t.co/txVlUCX0br @utm @iccitutm @utmTLC

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Fresh Roma tomatoes from a #neighbour

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It’s the small things: finally being able to #lock up my #bike at the store. ...and there are no small things... @Misscyclingnow @SustainSauga @citymississauga @fietsprofessor

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12 new writers launch their books, made in 1 term in #guyallen WRI 420 Making a Book course @iccitutm @UTM @utmengdrama Curious about PWC? Join us! Arrive early!

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The 2023 editions of @iccitutm's student journals, Compass (10th ed.) and Mindwaves (17th ed.), launch this Friday. The journals are written, edited, designed, and published by ICCIT students in the Professional Writing and Communication (PWC) program.

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Thank you @elenahasacamera of @mediagfs and @cbc @IQ_Podcast for regaling our final WRI 483 #podcastingclass with the story of your #mostexcellentcastingjourney
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Thank you Mya Moniz for speaking to my WRI 380 #podcastingclass about the casting you do for @Restcentre and on the issue of #hiddenhomelessness in Peel Region. @iccit @UTM @utmTLC

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Thank you @EmmaMci of @thenarwhalca for visiting my WRI 375 Writing about Environment & Ecology class. A great discussion! #solutionsjournalism #climatecommunication @iccitutm @utm @utmTLC

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Thank you Mya Moniz for speaking to my Podcasting class about the podcasting you do for @Restcentre a black-led, BIPOC-serving organization on a mission to end youth homelessness in Peel Region. @utm_engage @utmTLC @iccitutm @utmhccwellness @utm https://t.co/j1SpvHFnUl

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@iccitutm @steveszigeti @UTM Congratulations Steve!

[John Currie, PhD @_johncurrie]

Shannon Terrell's The Guest House has won the Whistler Independent Book Award for #nonfiction. I now use the book she wrote in my class with my class. Congratulations Shannon! @utmTLC @iccitutm @utm @WhistlerBook @shandalaa

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Tagging and releasing monarchs with my son Mateo at @yourriverwood in his 1st day of @JrNaturalists.

[John Currie, PhD @_johncurrie]

@MidnightOil. Nobody moves like you Peter Garrett. The band sounded fantastic. Thank you for your music and lyrics. I remember talking to you at an airport in 1993, when I toured Canada with the Oils and @thehipofficial raising money to plant trees in Africa for @CPAR.

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Shannon Terrell, PWC alumnus and Dean’s Award winner, has had her #makingabook title #theguesthouse shortlisted for the 2022 Whistler Independent Book Awards. It is required reading in my WRI 483 class.
@whistlerwriters @shandalaa @a_journal @utm @iccit @ICCITCouncil @utmTLC

[John Currie, PhD @_johncurrie]

In awe of the 13 writers who can now add #publishedauthor to their resumes after launching their books at @Gladstone_To upon completing WRI420H5 Making a Book @iccitutm @utm @utmTLC

[John Currie, PhD @_johncurrie]

Dear Prof. Currie: "I wanted to thank you for sharing job postings. I ended up applying and was offered a job within the same week. I will be writing company policies and grants, which is something that's exciting to me. My first day is today!" @utmtlc @utm #pedagogyofkindness