Great opportunity for a MA Fellowship to start September 2026. The fellowship is $30 000 CAD over twenty months to work on deindustrialization, working-class community and identity, and settler colonialism under the co-supervision of an awesome colleague @fburrill.bsky.social

Finally! Carney actually said Israel's "sustained assault in Gaza has killed tens of thousands of civilians, displaced well over one million people, and caused a devastating and preventable famine in violation of international law” now add resources to end it www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...

We new to develop new language to describe the hubris of people who think it's OK to kill a hundreds of years old being, an age of existing unfathomable to the human mind. globalnews.ca/news/1143565....

Alberta's "Fairness and Safety in Sport Act" form notes "athletes aged 12 and older" who join "a female-only sport division" must prove "sex at birth is female": Shocker, girls don't want their genitals policed so they don't play! TERFS setting ALL women back 50 years nwlc.org/why-arizonas...

every thought that you outsource to a LLM is a wasted chance to develop your own knowledge and voice. LLMs are sold to us as progress and freedom, and used against us to further labour and resource exploitation for the sake of capital accumulation

Anyone who believes fracking is a "win-win" can prove it to the rest of us by moving themselves+family+ friends to a town near a fracking site and just live there for a few decades. Drink the water, prove all those studies about the harms of fracking wrong www.fraserinstitute.org/commentary/f...

Available now in paperback and open access download! Newest from our On Campus series, “What Could a University Be?” by Robert Gibbs identifies new ideas that can help refocus the university on educating its students and having a greater positive impact in society. bit.ly/4nvWDPJ

folks, we're too entrenched in structural yt supremacy to be doing these kinds of AI shenanigans www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

"Stand your ground" alludes to some racialized other enemy who would be a "justifiable" death. Look how well it fits with the "(brown) immigrants are taking over" talk- You get to imagine yourself as a hero in an unlikely situation! To dream a future fuelled by rage! PP was voted out, and yet...

Tennis Canada is serving up these ads on FB. Note that they do not mention the pesky question of who Canada is playing. Spoiler: they are playing Israel.

"Incoherent empty men want to sell me the chance to stop reading and writing and thinking, to stop caring for my kids or talking to my parents, to stop choosing what I do or knowing why I do it. Blissful ignorance and total isolation, warm in the womb of the algorithm, nourished by hungry machines."

Really excited for this talk - the first of a brimming and exciting line-up of 2025-6 events at the @acsc-unb.bsky.social. Stay tuned for more, and sign up to come hear Dr. Adjetey speak!

Here's my interview on the podcast @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social about my new book The Debt of a Nation. Check it out if you're interest in learning about the history of Canada's public debt and the relationship between capitalism and settler colonialism newbooksnetwork.com/the-debt-of-...

This is going to be a good one folks, save the date and please share widely!!

sky's orange, heat warnings, smoke fumes, treaty violations, water's polluted, low-wages, housing crisis, food prices surging= capitalism is working boys, we just need to capitalism harder.

Kill the fascist within you.

Once again, this is a massive public jobs program for fascists. This bill was never just about tax cuts and gutting social services. It's about investing our collective resources in violence and using state power to spread fear and destroy solidarity. We need to resist this with all we've got.

Mamdani must explain his tweet from 1740 BC claiming that Ea-nāṣir had "high quality copper"

In recognition of National Indigenous History Month we have curated a list of recent titles in Indigenous Studies. WLU Press is exhibiting at NAISA next week. Please stop by the booth and talk with series editor Daniel Heath Justice. www.wlupress.wlu.ca/...

I ran in 2022. I lost the NYTimes endorsement and the race to an extremely wealthy white man with 0 experience. I was the legislator and former staffer with 20 years of legislative experience under my belt. So, what this tell me is, we will never be “experienced” enough.

"Sections 21 to 23 of the bill allow the executive branch to bypass... the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, the Indian Act and the Impact Assessment Law," etc without Parliamentary approval. Oh great, colonialism 19th century style, neoliberalism²? www.timescolonist.com/local-news/m...

Connections with caregivers are key for children’s wellbeing, but the prison system is designed to tear families apart.

Economic nationalism, just colonialism? Carney's "One Canadian Economy" claims it'll uphold UNDRIP/"Indigenous rights" (no mention of treaties) and expedite big development projects "with a focus on “how” the project will be built as opposed to “whether” it can be." Hmm www.canada.ca/en/intergove...

If you're in Fredericton on Saturday the 14th, join us from 2-4pm at the Fredericton Public Library for "Debt, Development, and Destruction" a conversation between @agentlazero.bsky.social and Heather Millar about their books The Debt of a Nation and Fracking Uncertainty. All are welcome!

The ACSC Interim Director @agentlazero.bsky.social under the @ubcpress.bsky.social floral archway at #congressh 2025 with her just released book The Debt of A Nation— in it you'll find a chapter about Epekwitk (PEI) and land theft via globalizing financial markets

Hey guess what? Advocating for white supremacy is political activism. I wish we could have a society based on merit, but then how would all these Mediocres get all the positions of power ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ nationalpost.com/opinion/onta...

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Please join us on Sat. June 14th, 2-4pm (Fredericton Public Library) for the launch of two books that feature historical and political analysis of the Atlantic Canada. Dr. Heather Millar and Dr. Angela Tozer @agentlazero.bsky.social will discuss Debt, Development, and Destruction. All are welcome!

We decided to go the non-traditional route and have a "conversational" book launch! If you're in Fredericton on June 16th join us at the public library to hear us discuss "Debt, Destruction, and Development" from a political science and historical perspective. All are welcome!!

Great fellowship opportunity from the The North American Conference on British Studies!

When we feel like we have to strategically vote we have to think seriously about electoral reform. The Conservative Party may have lost yesterday, but progressive politics lost as well

You guys don’t need to try to convince me that any form of AI has merit. It doesn’t. It is boring and half-assed. I am fine getting by with human brain power. If the world nears its end and AI has one hater left, good news! I am still alive.

It’s easier to tell the story of canceled grants, but the impact of the grants that will never be awarded is going to be far more damaging, especially for junior researchers and sustaining research pipelines.

Van Hollen: This case is not just about one man. It's about protecting the Constitutional rights of everybody who resides in the United States of America.

“In imagining the dramatic, disclosive, and disruptive work of civil disobedience as a means of combatting white ignorance and eliciting white transformation, civil rights activists underestimated the depth of white ideological identification with, and material investment in, their own supremacy.”

"woke ideology" is a dog whistle for restoring white supremacy. I have served on adjudication committees for federal grants and the process is rigorous and has a variety of expert oversight. Ideologues controlling research will be the end of research excellence www.science.org/content/arti...

When people tell you who they are, believe them. Poilievre wants to use a mechanism in Canada's charter to override citizens' charter rights as well as supreme court ruling to enact an ideology that understands some people as deserving of extreme punishment, deserving of death. Necropolitics.

Same, Beaker, same

Think of the bond market as the foundation of a nation state's economy, the state borrows capital to pay for *looks around at everything* and can borrow on low interest and continue to borrow because of "good" credit. Well, what happens when you have bad credit? apnews.com/article/trea...

And read as widely as possible! Fantasy, horror, literature, scholarship, whatever, just read. And there's so many audiobooks available now at local libraries

OK SO, 25% book tariffs are set to go live April 2. this is tricky for a number of reasons but the simplest is that most books are published & warehoused in the US, even those by Canadian authors, so this makes it infinitely more complicated than "Buy Canadian Authors" or slapping on a sticker

UNB students are putting on a (modern) rendition of Aristophanes' ancient comedy the Frogs here on campus under the expert direction of Dr. Carolyn MacDonald a professor in our department. All are welcome on March 21st and 22nd in Memorial Hall, see the flyer for more details.

oh, this looks awesome

I gotta say it was nice be present yesterday when the President of #UNB publicly announced the university's commitment to inclusive and diverse excellence and addressing anti-Black racism when he signed the #ScarboroughCharter

York suspending Indigenous Studies and a whole slew of other programs. You can tell what and who is seen as discardable and what knowledge is deemed less valuable www.thestar.com/news/gta/yor...

Wow, some of these paintings #Africville #artist Edith MacDonald-Brown painted when she was 15! www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

SEVEN B.C. BLACK WORKING CLASS HEROES: Fitzclarence St. John, Abe Mortimer, Rebecca Gibbs, Clarence Clemens, Emmitt Holmes, Charles Sager, Fred Wilmot. Throwback to February 2024 newsletter. https://buff.ly/3X279De