I see so many guys like this. They've been raises in racist patriarchy, trained to be selfish & imperious toward other people, but then they reach a stage of life where they have no power & no one *has to* put up with their shit ... so no one does. And they are utterly at sea.

We've spent an estimated $25B on Trump's war on Iran. Now Trump and Co. want even more money to fund the war. But healthcare? Cut. Food stamps? Cut. Education? Cut. Cancer research? Cut. Environmental protections? Cut. And of course, taxes on the rich? Cut. Obscene.

Absolutely remarkable statement from Pope Leo today. One for the history books www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Check out the newest publication from the CHIRP study (headed by the lovely Fiona Kouyoumdjian @macdeptmed.bsky.social). We FINALLY have a clear estimate of how many Canadian children have a parent in prison: 1 in 100,

Exciting news!! The CHIRP team (headed by Fiona Kouyoumdjian @macdeptmed.bsky.social & @marthapaynter.bsky.social & many more including me) has its first publication out. By linking Stats Can data, we FINALLY have a credible estimate of how many Canadian children have a parent in prison. Gift link:

There's one trait where economists clearly outperform the other social sciences: Hubris.

Jailing people increases crime in the long run

On any given day, 1.25 million kids are without their parents because of mass incarceration.

The moment we accept the idea that peace must be purchased with the blood of women and girls, we are no longer speaking of peace. If safety demands their suffering then what we are building is not a better world but a quieter graveyard.

The Epstein files document what many women researchers have long experienced but rarely seen laid bare so starkly: exclusion operating behind closed doors, shaping who gets funded, invited, mentored, and taken seriously. How many of these networks, norms, and gatekeepers remain in place?

Had a grad student submit a lit review on a topic I know about that was pure AI and it wasn’t ‘better’; it was stupid, unreliable and unusable bc a bunch of if the sources and concepts were made up.

It never ceases to confound me just how many folks think the point of essays is to provide teachers with essays. That teachers just like, collect them, or need them for sustenance or something. Rather than the point of them being the *actual fucking act of learning how to think about shit*

Note how Schank also takes credit for his former PhD student's brilliance, saying "she failed to be brilliant when I made her leave Yale; she needed a man in order to be smart; they all do." This is the logic that allows men to justify exploiting women's intellectual labor for their own gain.

If you're looking for the source of academia's leaky pipeline--it's not women's lack of commitment, it's the misogyny of men like this.

In a sea of terrible misogynistic bile, this one put me over the edge. What a pair of absolute assholes. May they rot, and I wish the same on all the other ‘brilliant men’ who’re having these hubristic conversations at this very moment. You’re awful.

Ford says about OSAP that “What we were doing was unsustainable.” I wish the reporter would give the context that the Ontario gov't "provides the lowest per-student funding in Canada.... at only 57% of the national average." ontariosuniversities.ca/news/joint-s....

Getting shown up in the arena of elite impunity by *the British monarchy* is an incredible “America at 250!” achievement

Ill be clear about why I am so angry and critical about it: Im seeing a good portion of my students who have imbibed the notion that they dont have to read, think or write for themselves because ChatGPT/CoPilot will do their thinking for them, and its terrifying. It should scare all of us.

One more way AI doesn't actually save time/effort? Because while it takes 20-30min to grade a paper, it takes 2x that to realize it's AI, check citations & document how they're hallucinated or don't at all say the thing the paper claims, write this up, respond to NONSENSE excuses that come back.....

Gen X Canadians, we're up. Time to put that grittiness to work and get our 90s crush elected so sandwich generation-ing doesn't kill us. lewisforleader.ca

Jill made history as the first Black, queer MPP in Ontario, and she’s fought relentlessly for affordable housing, health care, the arts, and gender & racial justice. She is a principled, courageous leader who knows how move a room — and a movement. I'm delighted to have her support.

Posting for researchers to do paid freelance peer reviews, neat! Except a second glance makes it clear they’re hiring PhDs to train an LLM to do reviews. We’re all screwed. www.linkedin.com/jobs/search/...

Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over and over and over again at work. "Hey check the Syllabus and get back to me if you're still unsure"

My cat is sitting on a neighbour's fence, juuuust out of reach of their little dog who's now yapping himself hoarse, ignoring him and gently enjoying the sun on her face. Reminds me of something...

📢 NEWS RELEASE ALERT – Bill S-208 is a critical step toward ending unjust mandatory minimum sentences, advancing reconciliation, and redirecting resources away from punishment and toward safer, healthier communities. #SenCA #BillS208 #CriminalJusticeReform #EndMandatoryMinimums #JusticeThatWorks

No kids should be in prison, ever. How is that even something that needs saying?! NO KIDS IN JAIL

Ms. Rachel, Greta Thunberg, and Francesca Albanese are heroes. Beautiful bright beings full of love for humanity. They aren’t alone. May 2026 be one of a united message: protect children all over the world at all costs; end the genocides; protect this earth and all species.

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What these goons don't seem to realize is that decades of neoliberal policies have forced the work of care downstream--from the state onto families, and then onto women, who've had to get very good at caring for others through the crises that those same neoliberal policies tend to create.

There’s an assumption that this is designed to justify their violence towards protesters. But I’d worry it has a different goal: they know that an ICE agent is about to be killed any day, and this sets up the narrative-trail - so it’ll be the fault of everyone who criticised ICE

So NOW can we have that conversation that the United States having the world's largest carceral state, the most (and most heavily armed) cops, the most prisoners, and the most cages, has never been about safety and always been about institutional racism and suppressing dissent?

An absolutely masterclass of communications and leadership

This is by far more effective at conveying what the government does than simply standing at a press conference surrounded by emergency personnel.

Here's a time-lapse from yesterday as thousands of people marched through downtown Minneapolis to protest ICE. 📷️: Sydney Lewis/The Minnesota Star Tribune

This is just so evil.

“What is happening here is very ugly and evil. Greenland is not for sale.” (From @channel5bluesky.bsky.social )

Maybe Greenland could invade us instead?

Greenland for Greenlanders 🇬🇱

Statement by five political parties elected to Greenland parliament says island’s future must be decided by its people.

Im in my late 40s, and im just flashing back to every ‘justified’ regime change and invasion for decades, every ‘weapons of mass destruction’ lie, every ‘evil communists’ trope bought and sold by politicians, journalists and people, and all the incredible suffering that followed

The other thing about normalizing gAI use in higher ed is that we are teaching our students that they cannot trust their own creativity, their own thoughts and brains, their own skills without having it reshaped/shellacked/transmogrified by LLMs. We’re setting them up for failure and dependence.

This is obviously untrue, but also it’s weird that this doesn’t know how academic hiring works at all? Like lots of ppl are hired ABD & TT posts aren’t for ‘well established academics’. And ‘preliminary phone interview’ is not a thing. And zero ppl have ever been ‘swamped’ w/ TT job offers.

These pieces really do make it clear that it's not so much that men like this view chatbots as human women. It's that they don't actually view women as humans. We're flattery machines that are defective if we don't sufficiently flatter them.

First Nations children win another key legal decision to stop Canada’s discrimination in Jordan’s Principle. Hands up to Ms Powlesss and her counsel David Taylor

Just horrifying. Sending so much love to Jewish friends and colleagues

At least 11 people were killed by gunmen who targeted a Jewish celebration at Sydney’s Bondi Beach on Sunday. Follow live updates.

This discussion is really annoying for lots of reasons. But it’s also quite insulting to instructors - as if I design & deliver a whole university course but then my tests primarily assess “speed of answering” (vs understanding of course concepts)?? That would be such a stupid assessment!

The more I think about this, the more I don't understand why it's important to discourage people from "taking advantage of accommodations" when they're non-disabled, except insofar as there's some underlying commitment that accommodations are scarce, special stuff, uptake of which depletes the pot