If we ever want to be at least a semblance of a democracy again, there must be a reckoning with what ICE has been empowered to do, and with all the people who empowered them to do it.

there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...

Today we launch Community of Praxis, a new podcast with Brenna Clarke Gray. Twice monthly Brenna sits down for critical chats about teaching and learning to invite a more care-centred, student-focused approach into classrooms, while still minding structural limitations like time and precarity.

Among all the other things, "The President has screwed things up so badly that the world's other rich countries won't deliver mail to us anymore" really should end it immediately.

Such a difference between "higher" ed and "lower" ed. Higher ed's response ranges from "We can do nothing about ICE" to "How can we help you, ICE?" while K-12 defends their kids and families. Via LA Times www.latimes.com/california/s...

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Completely horrifying.👇 Anti-science monster. RFK Jr. Cancels mRNA Vaccine Research www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08... Reality: Vaccine... - saved millions of lives - < hospitalization - < long COVID - > pregnancy outcomes - < healthcare costs - promising platform for other diseases! - etc, etc!!!

Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.

I just posted a free workbook that aims to help university workers better understand when and how to take risks in the fight against fascism in higher ed. halperta.com/shalperta%20...

From Facebook getting us to assign “friendship” to casual acquaintances, to LinkedIn encouraging us to call a stack of business cards “a network,” social media has completely reshaped how we define and maintain relationships. And not for the better.

Let’s be absolutely clear. This decision, based on fringe conspiracy theories, will kill children. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

The adjunct hustle isn’t your only career option if you can't get a full-time position in academia. This free webinar walks you through how to break free of the sector. #AcademicSky

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy. Details found here👇 www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...

lol that was fast. Even for the TACO.

‘By 2028, AI alone could consume as much energy as 28% of US households’?

For a party professing to hold personal responsibility so highly, the UCP sure want to make sure you can't chose what your kids read. #AbLeg #AbPoli

"There are a growing # of AI bots crawling repositories[; they're] sufficiently aggressive [to] cause service disruptions + outages... As a result, some repositories have started to block machine access to their collections, which is also inadvertently blocking other desired network services..."

Poilievre rushed to safety after actual journalist question makes it past security

Scientists must push back against the threat of rising white nationalism and the dangerous and pseudoscientific ideas of eugenics https://go.nature.com/4jGqiUc

“I dream of a a safe, kind, and clean Canada. A Canada that is not the US.” This video is amazing. Canada will emerge stronger with a leader made for this moment - @mark-carney.bsky.social 💪❤️🇨🇦

Want a job that pays well and respects your time? I’ll help you find one. Register for my free webinar. #PhDSky

This is a *fantastic* response piece, and I urge everyone to read it.

Join us for a session w/ @carolynives.bsky.social @pwmartin.bsky.social & Shaun Longstreet to discuss 'A Framework for Decolonizing Academic Integrity' 28 April @ 18 Cairo | 11 EDT | 15 UTC Register: aucegypt.zoom.us/meeting/regi... Speaker bios & session blurb: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

If you’re Canadian and are still wondering who to vote for this interview with Mark Carney should seal the deal. If you’re an American wondering what it might be like to have an intelligent and thoughtful leader, this interview is worth a listen. youtu.be/V11qNDDElZw?...

Pretty much every Canadian I know has decided that it will be a long time before we feel safe enough to cross into the US again. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

US campaign entices Canada tourists: “Come visit America and also maybe El Salvador!”

What we saw today was two jumped up thugs and their bootlicking sychophants laughing at the US Constitution, the supreme court, and the idea that anyone can stop them from doing anything they want www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

NEW: ALA is going to court to stop the President’s attempts to illegally dismantle the Institute of Museum & Library Services. The President does not have the authority to destroy a federal agency. That's why we're taking action with our co-plaintiff @afscme.bsky.social. #ForOurLibraries (1/3)

AAUP has just published a memo laying out the many legal reasons why universities should not hand over the names & nationalities of their students or faculty, as the Trump admin has asked. Please share freely with your friendly university admin! @aaup.bsky.social www.aaup.org/news/institu...

NEH cancels payments on hundreds of grants already awarded and promised through 2025. This is so petty of them and so devastating. Not sure what kind of action there will be

I Study #Measles. I’m Terrified We’re Headed for an Epidemic, by @michaelmina.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/o... via @nytopinion.nytimes.com

Fantastic student and faculty turnout at the Long Night Against Procrastination tonight at Okanagan College. Here until midnight!

Americans choose most expensive way possible to discover what goods made in Canada

NEWS IN PHOTO: Trump googles "Tariff" for first time

Meanwhile, in Edmonton today…

When librarians fight book bans, the are not just fighting for freedom of expression, but also against hatred and discrimination. #libraries #archives 📚 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

NEW: A searing editorial in the The Kyiv Independent. “It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up. “A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky.” @kyivindependent.com

This is what the resistance looks like. The protesters for Ukraine are the best of our nation. Good Canadians. Every day, they stand peacefully outside the Russian Embassy fence which is strung with barbed wire. Russian staff wear MAGA hats. I stand with Ukraine. I oppose the Putin/Trump gang.

The idea that JD Vance—who has never been to Ukaine and chalks up his knowledge to shit he read on the internet—believes he knows more about the situation in Ukraine than the man who has led it for the past 5.5 years is a perfect encapsulation of the havoc this administration is wreaking worldwide

Fantastic to see the Okanagan College Student Union promoting Open Education Week. Lots of enthusiasm for #OER among students here. #openeducationweek

🚨 We stand with Ogoni people against plans to resume oil production in their lands. 30 years after Ken Saro-Wiwa's execution, Nigeria's government threatens to repeat history of environmental destruction and human rights violations. oilchange.org/blogs/in-sol...

Cc @jwomack.bsky.social

American friends and medical colleagues, spread the word: Canada welcomes physicians without retraining requirements. Come on over! 🇨🇦🩺⚕️ #Medicine #TeamCanada

"By leaning on AI, workers start to lose the muscle memory they’ve developed from completing certain tasks on their own. They start outsourcing not just the work itself, but their critical engagement with it, assuming that the machine has it handled."

It's not a demolition site it's a mass grave. It's not a demolition site it's a crime scene. It's not a demolition site its a homeland. It's not a demolition site it's Palestine. It's not a demolition site it's a genocide.

Let’s not tiptoe around it: Trump just used the plane/helicopter tragedy in D.C. to scapegoat people with disabilities and other minority populations who are served (even if imperfectly) by DEI policies and practices. This is totalitarianism in plain sight.

The president's EOs re: immigrants and deportations are very bad, yes, but they're nothing new. Americans have been trying to exclude people for centuries. Other Americans have also fought those exclusions the whole time. We just keep fighting. Learn this history: immigrationhistory.org/timeline/

HI AMERICA, YEAH, NO. LOVE, CANADA