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Caption: Visitors sniffing the Scent of the Afterlife card during a guided tour at the Museum August Kestner, Hannover, Germany Credit: Ehrich SC, Calvez C, Loeben CE, Dubiel U, Terp Laursen S and Huber B (2026) From biomolecular traces to multisensory experiences: bringing scent reproductions to museums and cultural heritage. Front. Environ. Archaeol. 4:1736875.

A June 22, 2026 article by Daniel Chai for the Daily Hive announced the second protest being organized by Torin Laroque and fellow organizers against AI data centres in Vancouver, Note: Links have been removed, A second large-scale demonstration against the proposed cluster of AI data centres in Vancouver is slated for Saturday, June 27, [2026] and traffic will be impacted throughout downtown and Fairview.

A June 22, 2026 Metacreation Lab newsletter landed in my email box and here are some of the items that caught my attention, … In February [2026], Metacreation Lab Director Dr. Philippe Pasquier was invited as one of the opening speakers for the SIAT Graduate Research Colloquium Spring Speaker Series.

Interesting question, who’s responsibility is it? Mine or ours? A June 25, 2026 Canadian Science Policy Centre (CSPC) announcement (received via email) announces a virtual panel addressing that question in the context of dementia prevention, June 29 [2026]: Dementia Prevention in Canada: Individual Risk, Collective Responsibility Join us on June 29 [2026] from 11:00–12:30 PM EST for an engaging virtual panel on dementia prevention in Canada.

This November 7, 2025 news item on Nanowerk highlights research into memristors from Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST), Note: Links have been removed, A research team at DGIST in South Korea has taken a major step toward building chips that work more like the human brain.

Before getting to the symposium, here’s a little about (Re)Create Art Projects from its About page, (Re)Create Art Projects started working as a residency program in 2016. Since then, artists have had the opportunity to work, experiment, write, or study, in the beautiful location of Casa Bianca in Castelnuovo Calcea. ​Residencies combined different purposes, in the aim to respond to artists’ practices and needs.

As has been noted many place, the field of artificial intelligence (AI) is dominated by men. So, Zoe Kleinman’s November 4, 2025 article for the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) offers a slight adjustment to that story, The ‘godmother’ of AI, Professor Fei-Fei Li has told the BBC that being the only woman amongst seven pioneers of artificial intelligence being presented with a top engineering prize by the King today makes her “proud to be different”.

A June 15, 2026 notice (received via email) for Vancouver’s next AI community meetup promotes an upcoming June 2026 meeting on this event page, Wednesday, June 24 [2026] 6:00 PM – 10:00 PM H.R. MacMillan Space Centre Vancouver, British Columbia [$60 CAD standard tickets available until 12 am PT June 25, 2926] This is a monthly room to swap notes, demo work, and argue productively about the future. Thirty months in a row. That still sounds kind of fake to me, but here we are.

This is not exhaustive but here’s a list from a June 11, 2026 Canadian Science Policy Centre (CSPC) announcement (received via email) of upcoming events and more (i.e., a call for editorials), … The launch of the federal government’s renewed National AI Strategy, AI for All, signals a bold ambition to position Canada as a global leader in artificial intelligence at a time of profound technological, economic, and geopolitical change.

This brain-free robot reminds me of a (battery-powered) toy I loved, A November 18, 2025 University of Oxford press release (a similar version is also on EurekAlert but published November 4, 2025) announces a new type of soft robot, Note: Links have been removed, A team led by the University of Oxford has developed a new class of soft robots that operate without electronics, motors, or computers – using only air pressure.