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Assistant Professor @ StFX Sociology & Research Fellow @ BMIG 🏳️🌈 Nalikitquniejk/Antigonish
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We're Hiring! The Department of Sociology at StFX University in Antigonish, NS invites applicants for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position starting July 1, 2026. Areas of specialization: work // environment // family. Review of applications begins Jan 1st
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Tressie McMillan Cottom
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Ding ding ding
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Merriam-Webster
11 days ago
Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
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Jeet Heer
14 days ago
It's fitting that the cover on AI mindlessly apes an earlier creation and also displaces workers while elevating Silicon Valley plutocrats.
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StFXAUT
20 days ago
Today, December 6, marks the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women.
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Sexual Violence Prevention Education Coordinator KR Gowry created a display in the SUB to honor the 14 women whose lives were stolen in the 1989 École Polytechnique massacre.
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Canadian Sociological Association
23 days ago
We are very excited to work in partnership with Dalhousie University’s Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology to host our Conference. Approximately 250 sessions have been planned, so submit your abstract by January 26 to present your work!
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We're Hiring! The Department of Sociology at StFX University in Antigonish, NS invites applicants for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position starting July 1, 2026. Areas of specialization: work // environment // family. Review of applications begins Jan 1st
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âpihtawikosisân
about 1 month ago
The real problem with pretendians is the way discussions around them are driven by mainstream colonial narratives about Indigeneity. Non-indigenous folks believe themselves experts on Indigenous identity and end up muddying the waters even more. Seeing this discussed by non-Indigenous folks is...
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Louise Seamster
about 1 month ago
I had to see for myself: it really says that Canada’s stablecoin initiative will “benefit men and youth". there’s no reason given why that is or why they care to specifically benefit men here. I am telling myself this is a typo or ended up here by accident because 🤯
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Alan Elrod
about 2 months ago
I honestly don’t get the value of this company. They hoover up energy and water. Their product constantly gets things wrong and, in extreme cases, coaches people into suicide. And it’s all built on what seems to be malicious and vast intellectual property theft. What does OpenAI offer the world?
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StFXAUT
about 2 months ago
On behalf of the StFXAUT, Dr. Michael Follert, Department of Sociology (right), presents a $1,000 cheque to Katerina Allan, Vice-President Mount Saint Vincent for
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StFXAUT Support for CUPE 3912
On behalf of the StFXAUT, Dr. Michael Follert, Department of Sociology (right), presents a $1,000 cheque to Katerina Allan, Vice-President Mount Saint Vincent for CUPE 3912. Read our earlier post to…
https://www.stfxaut.ca/stfxaut-support-for-cupe-3912/
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J Escobedo Shepherd
about 2 months ago
MAMDANI CAME OUT TO JA RULE "NEW YORK" AND IMMEDIATELY QUOTED EUGENE DEBS
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Cooper Lund
about 2 months ago
A New Yorker cover shouldn’t make me feel like this, but here it is, making me feel like this
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StFXAUT
about 2 months ago
The St. Francis Xavier Association of University Teachers is pleased to stand with our colleagues at CUPE 3912 by making a donation of $1000 to support their ongoing efforts to achieve a fair and equitable agreement.
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Sheila Liming
2 months ago
BREAKING: economist discovers “second shift,” a concept coined by sociologists almost 50 years ago; gives it new, stupider, and less explicitly labor-oriented name
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Jason Koebler
2 months ago
So for-profit AI companies have trained on the world's largest collaborative volunteer project and a precious free resource, to make money for their for-profit enterprises. They have crushed traffic to the volunteer project, starving it of donors and volunteers
www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...
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Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors
“With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”
https://www.404media.co/wikipedia-says-ai-is-causing-a-dangerous-decline-in-human-visitors/
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UNRWA
2 months ago
Only UNRWA can deliver lifesaving aid at the scale
#Gaza
needs. We have the network, the experience, and the trust of the community. The State of Israel must let UNRWA bring in the huge amount of aid that has been blocked in our warehouses in Jordan and Egypt since 2nd March. Let UNRWA do its work.
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Kim TallBear
3 months ago
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He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him
Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/immigration/article312442984.html
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The Guardian
3 months ago
Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead
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Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead
The children’s names below appear on a list of victims of Israel’s offensive in Gaza, maintained by health authorities in the territory. As of the end of July it ran to 60,199 names, of whom 18,457 were under 18s. Far from comprehensive, the list does not include the thousands still buried under the rubble of destroyed buildings, as well as the war’s many indirect victims As of the end of July there were 18,457 children named on the long official list of Palestinian victims of Israel’s war in Gaza. Over almost two years, that is equivalent to bombs, bullets and shells killing a boy or girl every hour of every day. In reality the deaths are not spaced out so evenly. Siblings, cousins and playmates are often killed together, by an airstrike or artillery shell. Even children shot by snipers or quadcopters are sometimes brought into hospitals in groups, doctors say. Continue reading...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2025/oct/08/young-lives-cut-short-on-an-unimaginable-scale-the-18457-children-on-gazas-list-of-war-dead?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky&CMP=bsky_gu
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Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)
3 months ago
MSF strongly condemns the killing of Omar Hayek by Israeli forces this morning in
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. Our thoughts are with his family and colleagues. Omar is our fourteenth colleague to be killed in Gaza since the war started. We call yet again for an end to the genocide.
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3 months ago
Uh oh. Is someone upset he might be stopped from overriding basic constitutional rights to life, liberty, and security of the person in accordance with the principles of fundamental justice because he hates bike lanes?
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Jacquelyn Gill
3 months ago
The federal government has censored the work of dozens of scientists, including work by my lab, on the impacts of climate change on Acadia National Park. Signs have been removed from Cadillac and Great Meadow. They’re also removing signs about the Wabanaki’s sacred connections to Cadillac.
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Signs Referencing Climate Change Along with Web Pages Removed from Acadia National Park
The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by The Witham Family Hotels Charitable Fund.
https://barharborstory.substack.com/p/signs-referencing-climate-change?r=emf5h&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true
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Max Kennerly
3 months ago
At the Nuremberg trials, Karl Dönitz was convicted of war crimes for the sinking of civilian vessels. This is not a complicated question, it's been illegal for centuries.
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UNRWA
3 months ago
“We’ve normalised horror” in
#Gaza
, our JulietteTouma tells
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“There's been impunity – and that has been going on for a long, long, long time… This carte blanche has got us, all of us, where we are right now.” This must stop.
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Israel’s mass killing of Gaza aid seekers: An undeniable pattern of escalating atrocity crimes
The nearly 200 attacks we recorded contribute to the growing evidence that Israel is committing war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide.
https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/investigations/2025/09/15/israels-mass-killing-gaza-aid-seekers-undeniable-pattern-escalating
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CAUT in solidarity!
#keepdalstrong
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Moira Donegan
4 months ago
Equality of rights is a baseline precondition for a liberal democracy, and advocating for the end of that condition is not compatible with a commitment to the liberal democratic project.
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Brent Toderian
4 months ago
Don’t forget, for many years
#Uber
insisted loudly that it would reduce traffic in cities. Instead, Uber drivers cruise without passengers 40% of the time. Uber and Lyft no longer claim they reduce traffic. They now admit they increase congestion. So much for “making cities better…” Via
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The Ride-Hail Utopia That Got Stuck in Traffic
Uber and Lyft said they would ease congestion. Instead they made it worse.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-ride-hail-utopia-that-got-stuck-in-traffic-11581742802
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Tressie McMillan Cottom
4 months ago
My mother always told me that if I was feeling bad about myself, I should go help somebody. I’ll have to tell her about these findings.
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The New York Times
4 months ago
Graham Greene, a Canadian actor who belonged to the Oneida First Nation and portrayed Indigenous characters in “Dances With Wolves” and other Hollywood blockbusters, died on Monday in Ontario. He was 73.
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Dr. Lucky Tran
4 months ago
New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!
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Aaron Radney Commissions Closed (For Now)
4 months ago
I will remind folks those images of Nazi book burnings aren't burning just any books. They're burning the library of Magnus Hirschfeld; a gay, Jewish doctor who created an institute dedicated to LGBTQ sex education and healthcare. And a man who pioneered gender affirming care surgeries.
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Ariel Troster
4 months ago
When the Ford government announced that it was forcing the Somerset West Community Health Centre to close its supervised consumption site, they quoted unsourced stats about local crime rates. They lied. Crime actually went down significantly when the CTS was open.
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Crime rate around Somerset supervised consumption site lower than government suggested when announcing closure
The crime rate around the Somerset West Community Health Centre did not rise to the figures put forward by the provincial government last year when announcing the closure of its supervised consumption...
https://www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/article/crime-rate-around-somerset-supervised-consumption-site-lower-than-government-suggested-when-announcing-closure/
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb
4 months ago
“Given the ongoing genocide in Gaza…we call on Sport Canada and Tennis Canada to forbid Canadian athletes to compete against Israeli athletes at the Davis Cup and all other international events.” - 413 🇨🇦 academics, athletes + sports journalists, inc 3 former UN special rapporteurs + an Olympic 🥈ist
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Alan Baxter
4 months ago
Turn off AI in search results. I just did this in Chrome and it works.
tenbluelinks.org#chrome-windows
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How to Turn Off Google AI Overview and Set "Web" as Default
https://tenbluelinks.org/#chrome-windows
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very fun yearbook collection on display at Toronto Reference Library
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Philip N Cohen
4 months ago
This piece in WaPo by
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, "The two reasons Americans aren’t having babies, according to data," has an unusual amount of wrong things, starting with the incorrectly labeled figure at the very top
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Reid Maltby 🇵🇸🍉
5 months ago
BDS Sponsors include Scotiabank (learned nothing from Giller Prize shitshow), Sobeys, Rogers, Merchant of Tennis (some irony for all you Shakespeare fans) and Stella Artois
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Paris Marx
5 months ago
the way western journalists abandoned their palestinian colleagues in gaza leaves a black mark on the profession
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Dylan Freedman
5 months ago
NEW from
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and me: Over three weeks in May, a man became convinced by ChatGPT that the fate of the world rested on his shoulders. Otherwise perfectly sane, Allan Brooks is part of a growing number of people getting into chatbot-induced delusional spirals. This is his story.
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Chatbots Can Go Into a Delusional Spiral. Here’s How It Happens.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/technology/ai-chatbots-delusions-chatgpt.html?unlocked_article_code=1.ck8.cKPT.y8fZxEdwt8Ny&smid=url-share
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The New York Times
5 months ago
For years, Uber has said it is one of the safest ways to travel. But a New York Times investigation found that hundreds of thousands of people reported that they were sexually assaulted or harassed during Uber rides. Listen to "The Daily."
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Every Eight Minutes: Uber’s Alarming Sexual Violence Problem
A Times investigation found that measures to stem the violence were set aside in favor of protecting the company’s business.
https://nyti.ms/45rpU6I
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Charlie Angus
5 months ago
The Farmers Market in Nova Scotia speaks up about the genocide being perpetrated by the Israeli government in Gaza. The world is watching the war criminals and these crimes will not be forgotten.
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Sam Sanders
5 months ago
Always listen to
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cuz she’s always right on time! You find our chat wherever you get your podcasts (or on YouTube!) just search for The Sam Sanders Show
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb
5 months ago
Rashid Khalidi: I can’t honestly teach a course on middle eastern history under the terms of the IHRA definition of antisemitism adopted by Columbia under pressure from the Trump admin. And so he won’t.
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Harlan County, USA (1976)
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Al Jazeera English
5 months ago
French President Emmanuel Macron had been pushing for France and its G7 allies, the UK and Canada, to recognise Palestinian statehood. But London and Ottawa “did not want to face the wrath of the United States”, reports Reuters. 🔴 LIVE updates:
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UNRWA
5 months ago
People are once again forced to be displaced in
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by Israeli Authorities orders. They have nowhere to go. 🚫 No one is safe in Gaza. 🚫 No place is safe in Gaza. 🚫 Not aid workers, not medical workers, not UN staff. Over 650 days of relentless killings, destruction, and despair.
#CeasefireNow
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UNRWA
5 months ago
A few kilometers from
#Gaza
, shops are full. But people in Gaza are being starved and fainting from severe hunger. “We have 6,000 trucks loaded with food, medicines, and supplies in Jordan and Egypt—waiting for the green light to reach Gaza,” UNRWA Juliette Touma tells
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yipeng ge
5 months ago
I’ve been sorting through some of the medicine and supplies on board the Handala freedom flotilla (photo on left). I am reminded of the medicine and supplies we brought into Gaza last year (photo on right). This is important, but not the solution. Liberation is the best medicine.
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