light speed we need something revolutionary, to slow things down, keep things livable

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n... Standing for the earth & seas, and against Colonial State presumption… power to them

Honoured to write in <Primate Encounters> Fieldwork & thinking of #JaneGoodall transformed #Primatology Opening worlds of possibility for Human-Chimpanzee understanding, grounded in women’s immersive counter-knowing Cf my piece “Politics, Gender, & Worldly Primatology: The Goodall-Fossey Nexus”

www.cnn.com/2025/10/23/s... #FossilFriday Soft tissue imprints change how to imagine dinosaurs. Phantasms materialized.

www.npr.org/2025/10/20/n... Support dissenting Colleges & Universities If yours is not 1, urge your decision makers to refuse & push back #Trans, Trans-Identifying students being denied their rights are rights-bearing citizens Institutionalizing oppression is a cog in the authoritarian machinery

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n... “In one of the essays in Burning Questions, Atwood recalls advice on how to escape a crocodile: zigzag…. You have to be wary of the teeth and the tail”

www.cnn.com/2025/10/23/s... #FossilFriday Soft tissue imprints change how to imagine dinosaurs. Phantasms materialized.

Table of contents… amazing range of contributors… leading thinkers in Primatology, Science Studies (Bruno Latour, Donna Haraway) , Philosophy, History of science, Animal ethology, more

www.npr.org/2025/10/20/n... Support dissenting Colleges & Universities If yours is not 1, urge your decision makers to refuse & push back #Trans, Trans-Identifying students being denied their rights are rights-bearing citizens Institutionalizing oppression is a cog in the authoritarian machinery

www.cbc.ca/news/world/t... “A United Nations agency said on Wednesday that heat-trapping carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere jumped by the highest amount on record last year, "turbo-charging" the climate and making weather more extreme.”

Seems a bit weird that a position held by about 2/3 of american jews (israel is committing war crimes against palestinians) can get you fired for antisemitism

Good question, except he forgets that it’s all stolen Indigenous land, and that taxes are drawn from an economy built on growing layers of resources extracted from the fruits of that land. Another “thought pretzel”

Wait. So Alberta’s federal income taxes don’t belong to Canada but BC’s coastline belongs to Alberta? What in the When It Suits Us kind of Trumpian thought pretzel is this now?

She’s losing the battle of working hard at trying not to lose

NEW: Extraordinary scenes in Amsterdam this afternoon (Sunday, Oct 5). An estimated 250,000 bring the city to a standstill; people all wearing red to show solidarity with Palestine 🇵🇸 (🎥 Ahmed Zantac)

So Trump is imposing new tariffs on Canadian lumber & on films produced outside the US. *Notice that the one industry he is leaving unharmed is oil & gas?* It's a tell...🧵 www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...

Climate Emergency? Absolutely No doubt Western Canada / Indigenous Territories are on Fire & we’re past summer already The very lands where Carney, Poilievre & their parties are demanding accelerated oil & gas extraction ramping up carbonization of the planet cwfis.cfs.nrcan.gc.ca/interactive-...

Honoured to write in <Primate Encounters> Fieldwork & thinking of #JaneGoodall transformed #Primatology Opening worlds of possibility for Human-Chimpanzee understanding, grounded in women’s immersive counter-knowing Cf my piece “Politics, Gender, & Worldly Primatology: The Goodall-Fossey Nexus”

“…coming at a time when many tour operators and hospitality industry workers are reeling from the dearth of Canadian travelers, a significant number of whom are vowing to stay away as long as President Trump is in office” #ElbowsUp has consequences

Economies of Planetary Demise

Climate Emergency? No doubt. Western Canada / Indigenous Territories are on Fire. And we’re past summer already cwfis.cfs.nrcan.gc.ca/interactive-...

Economies of Planetary Demise

Then leading to re-election of a conspiracy-ridden party in USA with a narcissist, autocratic leader dismantling its science-based institutions, undermining media sources that rely on meticulous science & social science to verify news, defunding universities, militarizing against public who disagree

The character of political discourse and the cast of actors exchanging racist / anti-racist barbs gets more and more dystopic by the day Le declin de l’empire americaine

www.cnn.com/2025/09/24/p... Dog’s Breakfast Diplomacy explained

useful🧵from @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social reminding us of deadly vaccine politics in 1885 & drawing on M. Bliss, Plague: a history of smallpox in Montreal (Toronto 1991) & J.M. Berman, “When antivaccine sentiment turned violent: the Montréal Vaccine Riot of 1885”, Can Medical Assoc Jo 2021: E490–E492

This just confirms for me what me and my academic colleagues have seen with our students: AI helps those who already know what they are doing (e.g., double-checking facts or knowing how and when to implement advanced writing/rhetoric). It does the opposite for amateurs (such as most undergrads).

There's a really nice new study using phone data from Americans who relocated from one city to another to look at the effect of walkable environments on physical activity. E.g., people move TO New York and walk more, they move FROM New York and walk less www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The-responsibility-of-intellectuals…. Chomsky & to this moment

In Australia, the pro-Israel lobby is suing two University of Sydney scholars under racial discrimination laws. If they succeed, anti-Zionism will be legally classified as hate speech and essentially banned. mondoweiss.net/2025/09/will... #Palestine #Israel

Ka’ula “Echoes of Kaho’olawe” Massively militarized, US uses Kānaka Maoli sacred sites for missile training “Oral histories, chants tie Ka’ula to ancient voyaging routes, spiritual kuleana Access prohibited No cultural visitation No stewardship No healing” #demilitarizehawaii @hapahi.bsky.social

ICE's Texas facility locks kids in a fortress masquerading as safety, where "care" means caged boredom and medical neglect. Bureaucrats play god with tiny lives, their empathy a cruel joke. #ImmigrantRights

The-responsibility-of-intellectuals…. Chomsky & to this moment

Ka’ula “Echoes of Kaho’olawe” Massively militarized, US uses Kānaka Maoli sacred sites for missile training “Oral histories, chants tie Ka’ula to ancient voyaging routes, spiritual kuleana Access prohibited No cultural visitation No stewardship No healing” #demilitarizehawaii @hapahi.bsky.social

www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty... The free speech crusade will continue until complete conformity and submission are achieved.

More “war-ravaged” Portland 🤷🏽‍♂️ We control our narrative. We control our reality.

I saw some of the most committed, inspiring, and diverse protest tactics against an aggressive federal invasion into Portland in 2020. The feds have stocked up on cameras, tear gas, and tech since then, but I know like last time other cities will look on us as an example on how to beat them.

I tried to write about empathy and ended up writing about fascism again

The rebranding of reactionary gender and biological essentialism as “heterodox and challenging ideas to which liberal students must be exposed” is one of the greatest achievements of our stupid era. Congratulations to the reactionary centrists who helped make it happen - you dupes, you utter dolts.

Seems to me that it’s very important to keep hammering on this. We feel besieged and that can engender hopelessness. But he is deeply, deeply unpopular. www.economist.com/interactive/...

Glad folks back to classroom, research more! Big Q now: how to genuinely mend relations between faculty & this Sr Admin — & fixing an out-of-touch BoGs. Mutual will? Agreement saw gains in collegial co-governance. Fought for this when I sat on Dal Senate Use momentum to leverage & #keepdalstrong

In addition to scraping your uploads for "generative AI" training, Academia dot edu is going to start claiming rights to your personal info— *including your signature & voice*— for anything they see fit. So now'd be a good time to remove all of your uploaded works, & then delete your whole account.

Ten years after countries promised to cut climate pollution in the Paris Agreement, countries plan to produce more than twice the amount of fossil fuels that would be consistent with that deal. n.pr/46sDnvh

I’m joining @aclu_nationwide and over 400 fellow artists to condemn the federal government’s retaliation against Jimmy Kimmel, along with artists, journalists, individuals, and companies for exercising their right to free speech. Add your name here: www.aclu.org/defend-free-...

Headlines framing the intensification of autocracy…

Headlines framing the intensification of autocracy…

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s... This movement is growing, and must

At last, a #tentativeagreement Hope Dal Board finally awakening to the need to protect & enhance working conditions & relations for its dedicated academic community. Let’s get back to shaping this university into the leading research & educational institution on the East coast #keepdalstrong