The brother of the Heated Rivalry casting director is now leader of Canada’s left party.

what if we got a 100% blockrate on it. what if they designed an AI and we unanimously said "nope"

Avi Lewis has been elected leader of the federal NDP. #canpoli Here's an interview our labour reporter @isaacphannay.bsky.social did with Lewis a few months ago in the lead-up to the leadership election: thetyee.ca/News/2025/11...

Social movement scholar here to comment on No King again. a 🧵: These protests are important b/c: 1.) as sustained image events, protests offer evidence of continued disapproval of the direction the country is going and disavowal of the country's leadership.

In light of today's IOC ban of transgender women athletes in the Olympics, reupping this piece I wrote with @nicolanese.bsky.social last month. www.livescience.com/health/there...

“What was really surprising to me during my initial dive into all of this was how, when you look at the question of superintelligence, it doesn’t take long before you smack your forehead into the low doorframe of race science, because it’s baked into this technology” www.theverge.com/entertainmen...

Maintenant que l’administration US a mis la main sur Alien.gov, difficile de rêver meilleur timing. Nouveau Complorama en ligne : les extraterrestres « parmi nous », entre emballement médiatique, récupération politique et dérives conspis. www.radiofrance.fr/franceinfo/p...

Poilievre appears on Joe Rogan podcast after accidentally polling too well with women

Destruction of cultural heritage is not tangential to other genocidal acts, it is itself a crucial tactic of genocide that seeks to erase the very history of a people on the lands they call home 🏺

Slowly becoming obsessed with these adorable new tealight holders I've started making 😍😭

Me, a First Gen Canadian to parents who immigrated from Germany and The Netherlands, learning from the Western Standard that I'm not the right type of Canadian.

Watched the new manosphere documentary and of course there's a pseudoarch mention (aliens building pyramids) 😫 One thing I liked in the doc was that it demonstrated how a lot of seemingly disconnected YIKES ideologies/worldviews become connected by a shared distrust of mainstream/authority.

In the late February Epstein Files drop, new information came out indicating that Harvard scientist (and Colossal Biosciences co-founder) George Church continued to take money from Epstein long after he knew about Epstein’s crimes.

"While the federal government has taken the initiative to fund positions for researchers outside the country who wish to come to Canada, we do not see similar programs for students trained within the country or precarious colleagues who provide so much teaching at our institutions."

Another interesting Colossal + pseudoarch combo I just learned about - Graham Hancock is on Colossal's Cultural Advisory Board 🤔

If you are unwilling to do the work of a PhD, then don't do a PhD! It's ok to not do a PhD! When you get a computer program to cobble together a document that you don't understand because you don't know how to spend 8 weeks drawing relevant information from those 50+ papers into new knowledge,

Everyday the AI Bros (derogatory) find new ways to intensify their loser levels.

Mark Carney, February 2026: "Let's build a more cooperative, resilient world together. Canada is ready." Mark Carney, also February 2026: "Let's cut 15% of the department responsible for Canada’s environmental policies, including advisors to cooperation programs around the Arctic."

Hey #envhist! Parks Canada is ending its library services+ “decommissioning” its collection. We stand to lose a valuable set of materials that reveal if and how the Agency fulfilled its mandate (or didn’t). Read more here+write the Minister @juliedabrusin.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2026/03/10/c...

Read my commentary on Paranoid Finance by @provokedeconomy.bsky.social open access, and part of a larger discussion forum on financial conspiracy theories, sovereign citizens, and high finance: Who can see the men behind the curtain? www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I can't believe it has been almost 7 years since the BC Ferries Docking Incident (the ferry crashed onto a dock and myself and about 200 other people were stuck on the ferry for 10 hours).

Honestly, I am absolutely disgusted by academics suggesting that AI can do the reading and writing for you. At a certain point, what you're bragging about is fraud. And in a broader sense, what you're contributing to is the erosion of knowledge and the destruction of trust in academic publishing.

This severely kneecaps journalists, archivists, researchers and more from keeping government accountable. This is dangerous.

Increasingly realistic fake images are creating a sense that it's impossible to figure out what's true or knowable, and thus to make decisions. As disinformation scholar Dmytro Iarovyi told me, prolonged, sustained disinfo "changes people’s capacity to participate meaningfully in democratic life."

Naw, dude. Historians will definitely be able to explain how this was possible. Just ask us. We can probably do it now, if you like.

Myself and @mtrc.bsky.social are running a workshop on Games and Archaeological Play (GAP) at FDG 2026! Short papers of up to 4 pages are due by April 5th. We are interested in any work that broadly relates to video game archaeology. See the full CFP here: gapworkshop.org/call-for-pap...

I don't have many photos or videos of myself in the field because I'm usually the one taking the photos/videos. But recently I did film a short video about some historic archaeology and I thought maybe I'll share it here for #InternationalWomensDay! This is part 1: 🏺

The idea that imperfect victims aren’t worth defending is much bigger than me, and is something I had to speak out about. What kind of world does it create when only some of us are deemed worthy of institutional support and safety?

TIL that someone is offering $200k of funding to study Marcell Fóti's claims (who built off Jason Davidovits) that ancient peoples used geopolymer concrete to create stones for building megalithic structures, rather than quarrying stone, to answer questions about Inca sites 🤔

Find out more about America's new Surgeon General, Casey Means, and what she means when she says we need “good energy” in my latest from @religiondispatches.org religiondispatches.org/2026/03/04/c...

It's available for pre-order!

hey all....My research group, @charg-wfu.bsky.social, will be posting our first email newsletter. If you are interested in historical archaeology, public archaeology, and @wakeforest.bsky.social and Winston Salem, this might be for you: charg.beehiiv.com/subscribe

A frightening thing about the right's expansion is the spread of openly fascist messaging across an incredibly diverse online landscape. This can be seen by tracking the # “Revolt Against the Modern World,” a book written by Julius Evola in 1934. (More relevant now than when I wrote it 3/4/23.) 🧵

I've been keeping an eye on reactions to retractions within the pseudoarchaeology realm for a little project-in-planning. Between the YDIH collective's now 3 (!) retracted papers and the retracted Gunung Padang paper, things aren't going well for the pseudoarch folks!

I’m so tired of seeing people bash Bluesky for being an echo chamber when X is an actual intentionally constructed echo chamber that is demonstrably radicalizing people across the political spectrum who still use it

In the face of a double-digit Liberal lead, Pierre Poilievre is rolling out a new political approach that includes respect for his opponents and time for the mainstream media. How long will it last? Grab that head of lettuce and start the clock. #cdnpoli www.nationalobserver.com/2026/03/05/o...

The Younger Dryas Impact folks just suffered two new retractions. Errors ranged from missing data and AI hallucinations to the misidentification of marine plankton as comet dust. Thanks to @boslough.bsky.social for chatting. 🧪🏺 New at @retractionwatch.com

At first I thought the loud boom I heard was thunder, turns out it was a meteor!

Religious scholars who study apocalyptic thought, Christian nationalism, conspiracy theories, and politics, are out here. We have been ringing the siren for decades. Universities are closing religious studies, many scholars who are experts in this are unemployed (including me).

"I listened to 170 hours of Joe Rogan’s podcast – trust me, he hasn’t turned against Trump" We're in The Guardian today, explaining why people can't just believe out of context clips about Rogan breaking from Trump, Joe is still very much on the Trump train. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Head's up, BC folks! This weekend will be our last time change!

Went for a hike yesterday to revisit a historic cabin site for more photos and measurements of a particular area. While looking at what I thought was likely the stove, I noticed this iron piece poking out of the moss just in front of the stove. Turned it over to find a [brand] name embossed on it 😍🏺

Canada would have been better off saying nothing. You can detest the regime in Iran without supporting chaos. www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/stat...

We do not need to support an illegal war.

For anyone who hasn't been following just how extreme the disinformation campaign against fundamental human rights has become, there are 37 BC MLAs who today voted to abolish the entire Human Rights Code.

Speaking of pyramid stuff... The past couple of days I've been watching with intrigue a mini [tabloid] media blitz regarding a new "paper" that claims the Pyramids of Giza were built by a pre-Egyptian civilization over 12,000 years ago. This blitz is odd, even by tabloid standards. The claim is 1/

All the fucking “let’s find the nuance” people are very quiet now that the nuance is that they paved the way for violent authoritarianism while people screamed at them they were paving the way for violent authoritarianism and they called that harassment

It really is either you support trans rights or you support Hitler 2.0

📜If you're over at the University of Leeds, I'll be giving a seminar on the 11th March about the work we're doing at @garstangmuseum.bsky.social on digitisation and reunited the distributed archaeological collection of John Garstang! dcch.leeds.ac.uk/events/recon...