If any faculty out there are wondering if their employer is going to succumb to complete Nous-lead death, receiving an email with this subject line is a good indication that the answer is “yes.”

Side note: I look forward to Chicago and any other schools suspending PhD admissions and hiring also suspending publication requirements for current faculty in those fields since such reqs presuppose the existence of an adequate pool of peer reviewers

*taps the sign*

“Chicago has long helped to keep alive tiny fields & esoteric areas of humanistic study... Without the univ’s support, & the continued training of grad students who can keep these bodies of kn going, entire spheres of human learning might eventually blink out.” www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...

The New England Journal of Medicine and the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy will be publishing regular public health alerts to replace the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, which has been paused due to the federal government shutdown.

Proud to have co-authored this piece with amazing collaborators at the @thewhn.bsky.social. Let me know what you think. whn.global/whn-joins-in...

Imagine winning the World Series. You'd get to visit the ruins that used to be the White House

It’s ok to take a break. It’s ok to unplug. It’s ok to not keep up with the news 24/7. It’s ok to prioritize your health, your down time or whatever you need to survive. Rest is resistance, especially when you’re living with chronic illness. Don’t feel guilty. You’re worth protecting.

Nothin else for it

Parents trust teachers a hell of a lot more than they trust the Ministers lying about them

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Elections Calgary is reporting unofficial election day turnout is 202,424. Combined with advance vote, unofficial turnout is 33.36%. If that holds, it will be the lowest municipal voter turnout in Calgary since the 2007 election.

I consider this a win for the Expos.

India's denial of entry to Prof Francesca Orsini is another marker in the grave threats to academic freedom globally.

The only person more excited than George Springer on his home run was the guy in the Springer jersey who caught the ball. #WANTITALL

I thought the Blue Jays were up Schitt's Creek but now we're off to game 7!

Make your jokes about Faculty Senate meetings (we do!) but governance structures prevent costly fad-chasing! Small-d democratic procedures esp union workplace democracy *should* deflate overinvestment in the latest "innovation"

Change is inevitable. Sometimes it’s good change. ospe.on.ca/advocacy/pol...

Huge shout-out to trans men, you guys are the coolest mother fuckers I've ever met, always feel myself standing up a little taller and feeling better about the world knowing we're lucky enough to share a gender with you.

A useful way to have this conversation is to talk about clean water. We don't rely on boil-water advisories as our only tool. We clean the water at source. Why wouldn't we do the same with air? Mask mandates are boil water advisories: stop gaps while we upgrade HVAC, upper room UV, etc. Why not?

Every public health expert - “We need to reduce barriers to entry for vaccines and increase availability!” UCP - “So you’re saying we should open up a month and a half window to rebook vaccines for a year from now?” Experts - *Sob uncontrollably* #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

"But when the team looked at the employees’ actual work output, they found that the developers had completed tasks 20% slower when using AI than when working without it. Researchers were stunned. “No one expected that outcome. We didn’t even really consider a slowdown as a possibility.” 🎁link

the Muppets have been real quiet since the Louvre heist

Just when I’m on the verge of giving up on humanity, people have the nerve to go out there and be creative, funny, brave, and beautiful.

A whole lot of red states are actually just highly gerrymandered and/or voter suppressed states. Not all, of course -- places like North Dakota and Wyoming exist -- but enough that people should be more conscious of it than a lot are.

5 yrs after the start of the worst health crisis in memory, there is a national conversation waiting to be had about the roles of the individual, society and the state in such a crisis. What is my responsibility to myself and to my community, and what is the responsibility of the state towards us?

We don’t need a new compact for American higher ed. Many institutions are flourishing, even in this environment. Academics & academic leaders who argue we do need a new compact are often arguing from their own troubled institutions. They need to get out more & see what’s happening at other schools.

The right wing labeled the Warren court that expanded civil rights an “activist court“. “Originalism” - look it up:/ infiltrated legal & constitutional scholarship, their attorneys & judges were groomed by Heritage for this moment. The fight ahead is long. I won’t quit though. No can do.

I’m not always proud of my alma mater. But today I’m very proud y of them. Wahoowa, or whatever. www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

HOLY FUCKING SHIT GUYS GUYS THIS IS IS SEISMIC GUYS I CAN'T EVEN TELL YOU OPUS DEI IS THE SCIENTOLOGY OF CATHOLICISM THEY ARE THE ONLY THING "THE DA VINCI CODE" GOT RIGHT THEY ARE AWFUL AND THEY ARE EVIL AND THEY HAVE ENORMOUS POWER AND THEY ARE INTEGRAL TO TRADFASH CATHOLICISM

Between this and watching that epic Max Scherzer performance tonight, I’m way too excited to sleep tonight.

“When you have a disability people can’t see, you don’t get the same level of empathy. It feels like the world has moved on.” It’s shameful how society is gaslighting people who are experiencing chronic illness and ignoring an ongoing public health crisis.

With Alberta students not in class, future teachers are left in limbo. Roberts was to begin a nine-week practicum the day teachers walked off the job. In her program, they need 10 weeks of practical experience in order to graduate. Many questions, excellent reporting from @journosousa.bsky.social

Don’t say I didn’t warn you. “We may be witnessing the emergence of a population-level acquired immune deficiency — not sexually transmitted, but airborne.” That line isn’t from a tweet. It’s from a peer-reviewed paper in AJPM Focus (2025).

🐸 Portland Frog has spoken! 🐸

"We are not being unreasonable to expect freedom from infection with a pathogen that will certainly further disable us when we step into a public space. We are not being unreasonable when we expect solidarity from nominally progressive people."

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

An excellent thread, after a soul crushing day on this site.

even the smartest folks whose takes i otherwise appreciate, who otherwise want to resist fascism themselves & encourage others to, find wearing a mask in, at least, public indoor spaces—to prevent the harms of this administration from impacting others—to be a bridge too far; it’s shameful, frankly.

“Able-bodied” may sound like a medical determination, but, as disability activist @imanibarbarin.bsky.social says, it’s really just a vague way “to signal this idea that disability can be seen.”

one of my takeaways from this great piece is that weiss just doesn’t…sound like an intelligent person? or at least, not someone who has thought even a little bit about how and why they think the things that they do. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gieT...

It’s really disheartening to see people who admit this regime is doing eugenics fail to understand the ways in which chronically ill, disabled, and immunocompromised people are just absolutely fucked by Long Covid

Study: Air purifier use at daycare centres cut kids’ sick days by a third Yle November 27, 2023 stillcoviding.ca/en/news/stud... #COVID #CovidIsNotOver #ItsAirborne #HEPAFilters #AirQuality #IndoorAirQuality

Terrified he died but delighted that it’s just him talking about cocaine

This week in 1988: 1,000+ ACT UP demonstrators shut down the FDA headquarters, demanding (and eventually winning) action on developing HIV/AIDS treatments. ACT UP's militant and creative actions always included powerful visual artwork, and paved the way for movements in the decades to come.

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

Denial of Long Covid is rooted in denial of Covid-19 itself. #COVID19 #LongCovid

“the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

If you wanted to script a scenario to perfectly vindicate the work of Jean Baudrillard, it would be Trump II. A simulacra of a president running a simulation of a presidency, based on simulacra of news broadcast by simulations of news media. Baudrillard is to Trump II what Foucault was to GWB.