I know there has historically been a lot of kvetching about the SSHRC standard CV…and now I have met the EUROPASS CV!

Broadly, humans flatten the dimension, the complexity of fish. But @mbolotnikova.bsky.social's latest story traces the contested question of whether fish feel pain and shows how the limits of our imagination shape the limits of their world. Smart piece from @vox.com www.vox.com/future-perfe...

You can sabotage AI with poetry, pass it on

I feel this poignant raw emotional sensitivity and attunement in my body that I have inherited either due to finally letting myself rest after years of PhD related hypervigilance or hitting my mid 30s or some mysterious witchy initiation precipitated by all of the above

Tenure at its fundamental point is that an employer cannot fire you without cause. An investigation needs to occur according to the institutional policies around faculty conduct and then sanctions. They have dismissed faculty before for other reasons: www.forbes.com/sites/rogerd...

Giving away a record amount of money from my checking account to my savings account

And this is why you need to make sure your pension fund invests ethically. It's not just for the good of people, it's for yourself too! (When cloudfare works again I will add a link to a form letter you can use to get your pension fund to divest from Israeli companies)

it is almost as if accommodating and conceding to far right ideas legitimizes them and signals to voters that the far right is a legitimate choice for governance

None of these men can face the fact that certain revelations mean they should quite simply disappear from public life. Yes, that's right, gone. After what's come out, there is no workplace where you would be a positive presence. Go.

As an author whose work was part of the training data, all I have to say is--sucks for them.

So, there’s a bubble, you agree? Then it will burst. It can’t do anything else. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

What Ireland's uplands look like up close due to sheep: molinia deserts, with open wounds of erosion, as the vegetation that holds the soil together is stripped away. This was once all rainforest, and with the sheep gone could be again. In a time of ecological collapse, there is just *no* excuse.

Wildcats - also known as woodcats - were once found throughout Britain including in the Somerset Levels. It would be wonderful to see them return to Devon, and hopefully one day soon to a wilder Somerset too. Restoration and rewilding, hand in hand.

I am on my knees begging climate people and energy people and housing people to just this once pass the puck to where they are skating to, not where they are at. This is the fight, here. The whole game is physical infrastructure. It is car-enforcing land use all the way down.

The university is not a factory.

You know who didn't both-sides the Civil War? Karl Marx. www.marxists.org/archive/marx...

I had really divested from centering the US while living away from North America between 2021-2024 but gosh it’s really weird to be back in that bubble now.

Jamaica more or less out of the news entirely just a few weeks after Melissa hit. It shouldn't be. "Hurricane Melissa changed the life of every Jamaican in less than 24 hours."

why do things like this never happen to me

Some of you point out that the big players have used various tricks to keep their own $ safe. True. That's why we need to think about how to prosecute them for fraud. Those bubble-inflating claims - AI will cure all disease! end climate change! double lifespans! - are essentially Theranos X 1000.

My doctoral dissertation, ‘Chasing flames: Racial capitalism in fire ecology research and praxis,’ is finally online! yorkspace.library.yorku.ca/items/9c832f...

My thoughts this week, for obvious reasons, are with the brave, heroic women who went through hell the last time Harvard let this same problem fester for years on end.

There is an excellent video of the wolf using the trap too, which is somehow both soothing and delightful

The LMU announces the cancellation of a seminar on the topic "the targeting of Palestinian academia". The cancellation announcement is titled "LMU as a place of pluralistic discourse". Couldn't make this up. www.lmu.de/en/about-lmu...

Hard to find a clearer distillation of the gen ai project.

Larry Summers (Nov. 10): The trustees need to investigate the Harvard Crimson! Harvard Crimson (Nov. 16): Mr. Summers, while we have your attention... www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Wondering if funemployment is a good time to return to my shitposting career

A coalition of Jewish groups has condemned the pro-Israel Anti-Defamation League (ADL) for creating the so-called Mamdani Monitor, calling it a "blatantly Islamophobic" and racist targeting of New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani.

1 of #365Minerals 🧪⚒️ Quetzalcoatlite: - Named after Quetzalcoatl, an Aztec and Toltec god of the sea, due to its sea-blue colour - Forms in the oxidised zone of tellurium-bearing hydrothermal deposits #minerals - This below is a co-type specimen (one of the specimens used to define the species)

THIS IS WHY WE NEED THE HUMANITIES IN SCHOOL

Anyhoo, here's a paper about "the centrality of housing concerns in facilitating the Holocaust and the complicity of individuals in the exclusion of Jews for economic, ideological, and geographic reasons." journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

The Greenhouse @unistavanger.bsky.social is launching an international Masters Program in Public Environmental Humanities from fall 2026! Taught in English. Please share with all your students, #envhist #envhum colleagues! Learn more about the program here: www.uis.no/en/studies/t...

The Canadian Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science and Research is launching a US-style attack on EDI in Tri-Council funding. As part of this attack, they are demanding disclosure of confidential demographic info + reviewer comments of all Canadian researchers who have applied b/w 2000-2025.

"Despite repeated assurances to Washington that it would not arm Sudan’s belligerents, the UAE has continued these transfers, as confirmed by the Biden administration in one of its last acts as well as by members of Congress.” www.commondreams.org/news/sudan-a...

not sure if it’s obvious by now but i’ve got orders to monitor ICE activity and, as usual, i’d appreciate any help bsky has to offer. if you gotta tip, my signal account is in my bio. i’m very mechanical. i can track things. data. paperwork. but i could always use help w/ people.

This is why 'polycrisis' is a useful way of looking at the world right now (2023)

"If you destroy the systems that measure harm and appoint corrupt functionaries to invent your desired figures, you destroy the evidence of your responsibility. If you make truth unknowable, accountability becomes impossible." www.thenation.com/article/poli...

This was such a fun way to reflect on and unpack my very meandering PhD journey! Thanks to @tungohan.bsky.social for making space for my interdisciplinary and any-disciplinary ways!

doomscroll break

"Tzefardea Tzedek" (Frog of Righteousness) As soon as the Portland Frog became a meme, Jewish social media blew up with jokes about the 2nd Passover plague - tzefarde'a (frogs) - and the Rabbinical commentary around it. I knew I had to make a calligraphy piece encompassing all of it. (more in alt.)

New on Peatpedia - an attempt to demystify #peatland carbon stores, sinks, and other gassy issues! open.substack.com/pub/peatpedi...

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

And now Brown University has rejected the Trump Loyalty Oath. Two down and seven to go! @aaup.org @aaupbrownchapter.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

I’m listening to the favourite album I had when I was 14 - The Doors by The Doors, because this is who I was at the time and I am cringing through it and I think that’s growth? But I did put myself through it in its entirety. This vulnerable secret is now out. It has no power over me.

James Baldwin to Angela Davis in 1970, discussing white Americans:

This post-phd void is like the summer between high school and university except I have no idea what I will be doing next

You are not seeing this slaughter live-streamed to your devices because Israel has murdered most of Gaza’s most prominent journalists in targeted assassinations.

Everyone needs to take a good hard look at the demographics of everyone writing think pieces and theses and breathless social media posts about how our current situation couldn’t have been predicted in full. Because the demographics are glaring.