That same Friday, October 3rd, I will be presenting on ethnographic studies of climate mobility. Thanks to @ucalgary.bsky.social Department of Sociology, Dr. Laura Montes de Oca, and Dr. @aducey.bsky.social for the invitation to share some of my newest work. events.ucalgary.ca/arts/sociolo...

Folks in Calgary: I will be presenting new work on climate mobility October 3rd. Feel free to circulate among your networks. events.ucalgary.ca/arts/sociolo...

My department, University of Calgary Sociology, is hiring four assistant professors. Part of our Faculty of Arts renewal plan. Please read all details here: careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1672106...

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

Episode 2 of The Sociological Imagination @UCalgary features Professor Cora Voyageur - listen here: the-sociological-imagination-ucalgary.simplecast.com/episodes/epi... #sociology #coravoyageur #ucalgary @aducey.bsky.social

A veteran US Navy SEAL reflects on Gaza dbarkhuff.substack.com/p/i-should-b...

The mass starvation & killing of Palestinians in Gaza at the hands of the Israeli gov’t is a chillul hashem, a desecration of God. Jewish leaders who criticized Zohran Mamdani for three words he doesn’t use should raise their voices loudly here as well. forward.com/opinion/7575...

Private surgical facilities in Alberta are starving the public system of staff and funding to perform priority procedures, according to a new report that concludes the province has yet to increase surgical capacity or reduce wait times as pledged. #ableg www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber...

International students are being hunted on their campuses. For raising their voices for justice. This is pure evil.

This piece so perfectly captures what I feel as a department head, about my colleagues & the work in public higher ed to provide the highest quality education to thousands upon thousands of students at an “astonishingly fucking low cost”, in these times. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

Budgets are about priorities. Under the UCP, funding for public education and universities remains frozen, resulting in 'cuts by inflation.' Funding for private schools has increased above inflation. In a real way, this means money is flowing from public to private schools. Priorities.

An inspiring article on courageous community college leaders who are *publicly* organizing and standing up against DEI attacks.. www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

Executive wants to frame the NIH indirects cut as $4B in savings. But given that NIH returns $2.5 on every $1 investment, this would actually cost US economy a net $6 BILLION (per year!). Not to mention the human costs of wrecking education and research sectors and the communities they serve.

An excellent and doable plan for using Trump's economic warfare to to get us somewhere safer and fairer than where we are right now. We used to call this kind of thinking The Leap. Still works! It's about Canada but many other countries, in coordination, should respond to this shock in similar ways

New job posting in #sociology & #lawandsociety in #calgary #yyc Sociology/Law and Society Instructor (Three-Year Limited Term) in Calgary, AB, Canada: internal.careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1550763...

ICYMI: Apply for this Assistant Professor (Research) Transdisciplinary Environmental Ethics position at @ucalgary.bsky.social by January 31st! niche-canada.org/2024/12/23/a... #envhist #envhum #envstudies #ethics

Inaugural episode of the new podcast The Sociological Imagination @UCalgary feat Prof Tom Langford! @aducey.bsky.social #sociology the-sociological-imagination-ucalgary.simplecast.com/episodes/epi...

Posting one more time to find some weekend readers. My newsletter on Star Trek and the utopian idea of the future 🖖

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