September 12, 2025 by A&S News

From snapping turtles to speed cameras, experts from a range of disciplines across the Faculty of Arts & Science are sharing their expertise on a variety of issues in the media.

Here’s some of what they had to say this week.

September 5

  • Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology associate professor Njal Rollinson and student Claudia Lacroix talk to CBC Quirks & Quarks about their fieldwork on snapping turtles in Algonquin Park.

September 6

  • Department of Philosophy professor Mark Kingwell advises Toronto Star (paywall) readers on how to use one’s phone less without straining relationships.

September 8

  • Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work professors Esme Fuller-Thomson and Raza Mirza talk to The Globe and Mail (paywall) about their intergenerational class based at the Faculty of Arts & Science that is focused on aging and health, with comments from A&S students Marion Gommerman and Ava Airnes.
  • Department of Computer Science University Professor Geoffrey Hinton shares with the Financial Times (paywall) and NVTV online his thoughts on the future of AI.
  • Department of Political Science professor and director of the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy’s Citizen Lab Ron Deibert writes in The Globe and Mail (paywall) about AI and disinformation.

September 9

  • School of Cities research assistant Aniket Kali and senior research associate Jeff Allen share with The Walrus research on the shifting political attitudes in Canada’s suburbs.
  • Department of Political Science PhD candidate Étienne Cardin-Trudeau writes in La Presse (paywall) about the portrayal of the working class in film and media.
  • Department of Geography & Planning professor and School of Cities Infrastructure Institute director Matti Siemiatycki talks to Bell Media radio about the removal of some speed cameras in Toronto.

September 10

  • Department of Chemistry professor and Acceleration Consortium director Alán Aspuru-Guzik reflects in Nature on his experience relocating to the university from the U.S.
  • Department of Sociology PhD candidate Jillian Sunderland talks to CBC News online about masculinity in the media and political violence following the shooting of Charlie Kirk.
  • Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy founding director and University Professor Janice Stein discusses on CBC The National Israel's strikes on Qatar.

September 11

  • Department of Earth Sciences and School of the Environment professor Miriam L. Diamond talks to The Globe and Mail (paywall) and CBC News about toxic PFAS chemicals contaminating water in Newfoundland.
  • Department of Philosophy professor Mark Kingwell advises Toronto Star readers on charitable donations.
  • Trinity College professor Arne Kislenko writes in the Toronto Star (paywall) about Russia’s drone invasion of Poland.
  • Department of History professor Timothy Sayle explains on CityNews podcast: The Big Story Poland’s activation of NATO’s Article 4.

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