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Here's a fun way to deal with the old man's demented musings: Just add "but TACO" to the end of every tariff headline. Trump Always Chickens Out.

It's oddly comforting, as someone prone to anxiety, that I no longer really even register the latest threats that emanate from Trump. They're so frequent, so ridiculous, and so rarely durable. There's no durable trade deal to be made with him, so no point in appeasement. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

When contacted by GuelphToday, city officials declined to comment in detail. Instead, they updated a months-old posting on the municipal website acknowledging changes to the group’s 11-member makeup. www.guelphtoday.com/local-news/c...

One of the delightful things about teaching at UofG is all the little Guelph nuggets and connections that pop up. Usually it’s history-related stuff for me, given my field, but our lovely little city pops up all over the place! Even in the hottest TV shows!

Endorses this *in Canadian historian*.

Well worth watching Mark Carney's speech. Right person, right moment. www.weforum.org/meetings/wor...

Update: I found a place that would put both a Greenland flag and a small Canadian maple leaf, and also I’ve had a rather drastic haircut since I posted the below, so I went for it. I’m still not sure I can pull it off, but if not it’ll be a funny “souvenir” of this weird period in history.

Wrong. Completely wrong. Canada *does* need to be 'performative'. It's called leadership. Upholding democratic norms is done by vocal support and action, not going mute when things get tough out of cowardice and self preservation.

I always get confused by the exchange rates. Which is more prestigious, the FIFA Peace Prize or the Venezuela Peace Prize?

Pleased that the UofG College of Arts has ended its X account, and is now on Bluesky at @uofguelpharts.bsky.social .

Welcome to Bluesky University of Guelph Arts!

Don't. Use. AI. As. A. Search. Engine.

Due to the increase in severity of the winter weather #UofG campus is now closed. All University buildings, labs & facilities will close except for emergency services. If you are currently on campus please use caution to find a safe way home. For updates check the campus status page: uoguel.ph/mk3wb

Dr. Alex Souchen is the UGuelph faculty point of contact for the 2026 Canadian Battlefields Foundation Study Tour. Twelve uni students from across Canada will receive a $1000 bursary towards the tour. Applications are due by 6 March. For more info: www.uoguelph.ca/arts/history...

So, Waterloo, Laurier, McMaster, York, Brock, and UTM are all closed because of the snow, but so far Guelph is holding out…

Every so often some Reasonable Guy posts "AI haters look silly because they haven't kept up with how good it is now" and I just do not care! The only ways it interacts with my life are grift, slop, layoffs and violation. It helps you code faster, OK that must be nice for you, enjoy your groceries

I need a talented musical theatre composer to adapt "Ex-Wives" from SIX into a version about the Canadian Prime Ministers of the 1890s: Died, Died, Died, Resigned, Defeated, Thrived!

"If the Government of Canada can’t be bothered to do the easy things, to preserve the most basic sense of principle and dignity in the face of glaring red line offenses, then we can’t possibly trust it with the more difficult and complex issues." emmettmacfarlane.substack.com/p/is-canada-...

I just sent another request asking my own university to get off X. My department completely pulled our presence there a year ago.

I understand that correlation does not necessarily imply causation but if you look at this graph of when the history channel stopped showing history…

Come work with us! The History Department at the University of Guelph has launched our search for a tenure-track position in the History of the Middle East. careers.uoguelph.ca/job/Guelph-A...

I would add that our national broadcaster, the CBC, should not be republishing the Reuters story that “interviewed” the bot. www.cbc.ca/news/world/x...

Yup. Musk created a CSA image generator, specifically programmed to make this and hate speech allowable, and the appropriate response is not to interview the software

Starting my 5th and final year as department chair. My New Year’s resolution is to do whatever is necessary to stave off the burnout that I was approaching in the last months of 2025. Recognizing my limits, engaging in self-care, saying “no” when necessary & taking all my vacation -including today!

Once again, fascism's requirement that history endorse and reinforce its obscene narratives reminds us of the utter folly of universities that target historical studies in their quest to pinch pennies.

Several years ago, some fool with influence in Canada decided Canadians didn’t want mincemeat or mince pies anymore. And ever since, I constantly hear from people desperately searching for it. I blame President’s Choice/Loblaws for discontinuing their jarred mincemeat (and meat-free version).

I fully agree. I was really upset to learn all the conditions of the Impact+ program - which doesn’t even pay salaries for the faculty who will be brought to Canada. Echoes of the CERC program with the national inferiority complex that seems to underpin it.

Thank you for your message. I am out of the office until January 5 and not checking my email. I will reply when I return. Activate rest mode. There are puzzles to be done. Fiction to be read. Classic Christmas specials to be watched! Naps to be taken. Candied nuts to be scarfed down.

I think everything in this thread is spot on, but the thing that most non-specialists miss is that individual historians are also the ones who decide there's even something to investigate! Based on their deep reading and expertise, they frame new questions to create new knowledge we didn't have!

What historians (and other scholars do) is create knowledge. We should use that phrase more and talk about what it means. I think we don't, and it's part of why AI enthusiasts are confused when we don't readily agree that our work can be replicated/replaced by their products.

When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.

I got today’s Wordle in 3 guesses, and felt like a bit of a boss for doing so, and then found out my husband had as well, so felt a little less self-satisfied. And now, seeing this NYT post, I feel awesome again! Wordle 1,644 3/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Come work with us! The History Department at the University of Guelph has launched our search for a tenure-track position in the History of the Middle East. careers.uoguelph.ca/job/Guelph-A...

We are hiring! The Department of History at the University of Guelph seeks a tenure-track Assistant Professor in History of the Middle East. careers.uoguelph.ca/job/Guelph-A...

I'm delighted to share the news that the University of Guelph History department is recruiting for a tenure-track position at the Assistant Professor level in the History of the Middle East. Come work with us! careers.uoguelph.ca/job/Guelph-A...

I have grown very tired of the "click here to find out what this piece is about" style of headline writing.

Yes please. Why do we have a Crown corporation for rail that employs dynamic pricing more devilishly than private airlines? Part of the public purpose should be getting families off the highways during peak holiday travel.

Congratulations to Tim Liebregt for successfully defending his excellent MA thesis today on "Bust Amid Boom: Automotive Plant Closures in Windsor, Ontario, 1945-1965." Bravo Tim!! @deindustrialpol.bsky.social

Students in Prof. Kevin James's 'Invitation to History' class officially launched a new exhibit: 'Caledonian Correspondence: Scottish Hotels in Postcards', now installed at the @uofglibrary.bsky.social! Congratulations on a successful launch to everyone involved! @uguelphhist.bsky.social

I'm so tired of people telling me to have students critique LLM outputs. I'm just going to print this on little cards and hand them out

Tri-U Graduate History Conference 2026: Local Meets Global - Call for Proposals uwaterloo.ca/tri-universi... Due January 16, 2026.

To “my students and to anyone who might listen, I say: Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write and think when others once risked their lives and died for the freedom to do so.” www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...

I’ve written about the 1979 budget vote (my book MS is currently in peer review) and so feel compelled to watch tonight’s vote live. But I am not willing to jinx it by disclosing my guess as to what will happen.

Another Canadian/Quebec history job posting, this one at UQAM - its been a couple decades since I've seen 6 tenure-track job postings in Cdn history all at once. Very happy to see this. universityaffairs.ca/search-job/?...

It occurs to me now that the discipline of history was not born out of reverence for the past, but rather out of somebody watching the people in charge make the most insane decisions and just being like “if I don’t write this down nobody’s ever gonna believe any of it happened”

“Our research in our book ’No ‘I’ in Team: Party Loyalty in Canadian Politics’ points to a simple, powerful answer: hyper-partisanship has evolved from traditional ‘party discipline’ (voting together) into ‘message discipline’ (speaking together).” Three experts write. #abpoli #canpoli