Amnesty International is concerned Canada is backsliding on Indigenous rights under Mark Carney's Liberal government. New laws passed last year fast-tracking major projects and expanding resource development have threatened Indigenous peoples' right to self-determination. www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...

Latest bit of gut stuff writing from me: I wrote this last summer & it's out now in the Springer Encyclopedia of Phenomenology -- "Digestion, as a Theme in Phenomenology." Includes Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche. I've got the preprint up and a link to the Springer site itself. philpapers.org/rec/DRYDAA

Has anyone figured out a way to keep Copilot turned off on Outlook? I keep turning off the little toggle and then sure enough it pops back in the very next time I open Outlook. (If I did not have to use Outlook for work, I would not.)

Liam has reminded me of something I've been meaning to do for a while: Why "Beauvoir" and not "de Beauvoir"? A thread 🧵

Thread detailing Mark Carney’s war on libraries, knowledge, and culture throughout so many parts of society. His deep cuts to the public service are not in line with the vision he presents of a bold and more independent Canada.

1 The arctic environment is extremely vulnerable: disrupting permafrost & living beings from large to microscopic ends its balance. The people of the north are left out while NATO gets space & no one has responsibilities for emissions, environmental damage. ricochet.media/climate/carn...

Sad news.

Here a story Avi shared on facebook last year about his father showing up at a protest against Israel's genocide. Years long into a cancer battle Stephen Lewis still showed up to fight for human rights.

On a daily basis @assignedmedia.org tracks trans news coverage in eight major msm outlets, including right leaning WSJ and CBS, to understand the overall media landscape. Using this tracker as a baseline Assigned further analyzes the work produced by influential sites like The Atlantic. 🧵

there’s nothing complicated about Hegel right

woo migraine developing but planning to give a departmental talk this afternoon on material that is still pretty drafty and half-baked. wooo! my plan is to trust the fact that I’ve been working in this area for a couple of decades and hoping that habit and mental auto-pilot steer me through. ugh

Also we made a really intense website with a LOT of information on it for folks, including a reading list, a huge timeline of events, an some additional explainers. www.tested-podcast.com/learn/ www.tested-podcast.com/timeline/

if you want to know the history of this kind of policy, I made a podcast two years ago that explained why these tests make no sense, how they were already used and eventually abandoned by the IOC in the 80's and 90's, and the devastating impacts they have on real athletes: www.tested-podcast.com

Absolutely horrific. Canada’s massive border bill, C12, has been adopted after third reading at Senate. C-12 will become the country's largest machinery of deportation: deporting refugees without hearings, retroactive bars, and mass status cancellation. A mirror of anti-migrant ICE violence.

In comments of the quoted thread, @fractalecho.bsky.social says: "In my book I call this the Disability Diversion where all criticism of techno fascism is deflected with appeals to technosaviorism." "Disabling Intelligences: Legacies of Eugenics and How We are Wrong about AI" by Rua M. Williams

When a country endorses something like US/Israel illegally starting a war with Iran, as Canada just has, they own a piece of it, whatever the outcome ends up being. And the worst part is we have absolutely no control over that outcome. We just signed onto it anyway.

“Canada supports the United States acting to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon and to prevent its regime from further threatening international peace and security.” Well. For those of us wondering if he’d walk the walk of the Davos speech, this is a pretty big answer. Nope.

2026: we talk up "Canadian Identity" to avoid getting invaded, but we don't understand the icons we use, and can't create new ones, because we've decided culture is a luxury disconnected from economic propulsion, and that luxury itself is a benefit for billionaires, not the public.

"Holt has claimed to reverse course on the STU-UNB merger plans and Mount Allison privatization scheme, but that may be little more than sleight of hand to distract from the real target: a classic neoliberal transfer of wealth from the public sector to the private." NEW piece on NB Holt debacle.

it's 2016: north carolina introduces a bill to ban trans people from using bathrooms safely. there's a national outcry; companies withdraw business up to and including the NCAA cancelling a publicized game. the bill fails. it's 2026: kansas passes a law nullifying trans people's licenses. crickets.

Reminder and suggestions for language shifts. We’re not post-Covid. Covid is ever-present and doing its (not-great) thing. If we are at all interested in being inclusive and accessible in our world and work, we need to remember that we share air.

Catastrophic higher education news in New Brunswick: the Liberal government of my MLA @susanholtnb.bsky.social is potentially going to cut 10% of the budget for universities—$50M across 4 schools when much *more* funding is needed, not less. The impact would be devastating. Please share, NBers.

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Feb 7 Interview for Assigned Media with philosopher Rowan Bell on whether we may be seeing the limits of gender identity as an anchoring concept for trans in courts, legislatures, civil rights, and even trans theory.

For nearly a year, the feds have been quiet about a scathing UN report on Canada's treatment of disabled people, including MAiD expansion and paltry financial supports @spichaksimon.bsky.social presses the government for answers in our latest for @breachmedia.ca breachmedia.ca/canada-sides...

What do you do when your Founder & CEO researches concepts salient to our community of social researchers? Why, run a free webinar, of course! On Feb 24 @ 7pm GMT, join Dr Zara Bain for a FREE webinar: Epistemic Injustice, Oppression & Ignorance: An Introduction for Social Researchers. For info⤵️

Age verification and social media bans are explicitly ways to isolate queer, neurodivergent, and abused kids.

If you're Canadian and shaking your head about the US gov arresting journalists for the crime of doing journalism, well, that happens here too. And instead of just being furious about it, you can donate money to The Narwhal, who are actually trying to stop it from happening here.

every time someone has asked me the last week or so about priorities it is rental assistance. please please please people need rent to stay in their homes. scroll down to rent relief funds and pick something www.standwithminnesota.com

Canadians remember that Canada is also slated to massively ramp up deportations, and these police routinely collaborate with the CBSA, so racial profiling especially of Black folks can easily led to detention and deportation, even for long term residents.

I need Canadians to think about what is happening here at home. Carney is cutting the very agencies we need more than ever as things erode in the US. Wake. Up. 🧵

I've been thinking about this a lot, for months: Gaza was a breaking point between verifiable reality and liberal governance. "AI" sparks fears ppl will believe things that aren't true, but Gaza SHOWED things that WERE true—& western governments, universities & news outlets pretened they were not.

Since a lot of folks have suggested ableist alternative words let’s chat about this: Intelligence is not something that can be measured without employing bigotry and it’s not something that determines a moral compass or good vs bad So any word at all that uses intelligence as an insult is ableist

While the U.S. is actively weakening the FDA, Canada is preparing to stop doing its own drug reviews and defer to foreign regulators. “Public service savings targets” in action.

Ottawa (honourable mention: Rideau).

Having some thoughts about the nature of my fears as a Canadian that I want to try to express in deep solidarity with everyone in Minnesota and elsewhere fighting our common enemy. This thread will not be in the "Canadian asshole" genre. (The opposite, I hope). Still, mute if you want.

Yeah I shouldn't have watched this *after* applying my mascara. (if you need a 3 minute respite from the horrors: this is worth it).

to the tune of “See You In September” — “grading... with a migraine….” the last push of the semester.

Calgary woman says she can't afford doctor's fee to apply for disability tax credit https://calgaryherald.com/news/calgary-woman-says-she-cant-afford-doctors-fee-to-apply-for-disability-tax-credit 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁

I signed this. ProPublica marketed HARD on being the last journalists with integrity standing. I believed them and donated the equivalent of my subscription to the Post two years in a row. They won't see a dime from me if they don't fly right.

Progressive Conservative joins Progressive Conservative party

Dear all, I am happy to share this CFA opportunity for a PhD-level student interested in working with me on the SSHRC-funded Indigenous Stories of Philosophy project. Please spread the word far and wide. #FundedPhD #Philosophy #Academia #IndigenousPhilosophy

Palantir's new neurodivergent fellowship is in fact bad because neurodivergent people participating in technofascism will not save us. Latest for @motherjones.com www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

like i have been saying, if you have ADHD you should be standing with trans people on their medical rights for basic moral and solidarity reasons but also the practical reason that you can fight at their barricade or you can fight at ours but it's the same fight

Sadly, this appears to be AI. There are some tells throughout (hands disappearing, the people in the background staring like collective zombies, some weird configurations on the walls) but overall, this looks pretty real -- it's getting harder to tell what's real and what's not. Which ain't great.

The Girl Guides of Canada say: Be prepared to protect trans rights.

‘Unprecedented’: #Canada’s new border bills pave the way for American law enforcement overreach Human rights advocates warn that new legislation could erode protections and expose Canadians to U.S. investigations and surveillance. New from @opheliedm.bsky.social: ricochet.media/internationa...

In a new publication, Órla Murray, IMH Honorary Fellow, reflects on her diagnosis of ulcerative colitis in the context of a feminist queer crip approach. Read our news article and the access the full article here: medhumsplatform.org/crip-guts-st...

We need to know who is vulnerable among us and how we can protect them so they can continue to do their work with integrity. This is not a "grading essays on controversial topics" problem. This is a "protecting our colleagues from bad actors" problem.

This is just my opinion, but I don't think departments need to change their strategy for reading or grading student work. Departments need a strategy for responding to harassment and attacks.

For my newsletter, I wrote about that college essay scandal that's gone viral and what everyone is seeming to miss: It's about ATTACKING TRANS PEOPLE!!! www.burnsnotice.com/that-viral-e...