The professor in "Imagine Yourself Happy" by Premee Mohamed takes just four minutes to record a message. Take a few to read it and a few more to have a cry afterward:

Ghostly BCS for Halloween! "Where They Sleep" @lectio.bsky.social BCS #419: "the shades would wander out from the empty hills. People we knew. But more we didn't, moving slowly along in search of something, somebody. Then they would mill aimlessly" www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/wher...

You know things are bad when thousands of Albertans are watching the leg livestream at 8:45 in the evening lol #ableg #abpoli #abed #cdnpoli

"Intelligence has indicated that an adversary nation has recently felt emboldened to stake a physical claim within the Canadian Arctic and enforce it militarily. Canada has responded through multiple avenues to dissuade any territorial incursion."

"The DND/CAF is seeking visionary essays in hard science fiction that explore how emerging technologies can empower military forces to defend Canada’s sovereignty and national interests in the Arctic." HARD SCI FI NO FEELINGS ALLOWED

Finally, a contest for @premeemohamed.com and @gianttourtiere.bsky.social... www.canada.ca/en/departmen...

Also I picked up a TA contract to help my department, and the contracts were all signed at the beginning of the October but somebody forgot to process the pay, so I was told I'd get paid in November followed by 'with kind regards' idk but that did not feel like somebody's actual kind regards.

We got an active assailant false alert today, immediately followed by an email that said PLEASE DISREGARD LAST MESSAGE AS IT WAS ONLY A TEST MESSAGE, PLEASE DISREGARD LAST MESSAGE AS IT WAS ONLY A TEST MESSAGE idk but the tone of the email didn't help.

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

This photo accompanying a news story about the heist at the Louvre is perfection.

🚨 This is inexplicable news to share. If in Alberta and you want flu and covid shots for NEXT year (2026-2027), you have only until December 15 of THIS year to order them. This is not incompetence. It’s a deliberate choice to prevent as many people .. bookvaccine.alberta.ca/vaccine/s/pr... 1/2

Had my flu and covid vaccination double header on Friday afternoon. Friday night: fever, Saturday: all day yuck, Sunday: much better!

Oh and the superfecta is that I also go and get my covid vaccine today!

It's a trifecta kind of day: payday, Friday, long weekend ahead. I plunked down my sweet treat allowance on the Ursula K. Le Guin short list, and also Kate Cayley's 'Property.'

We're thrilled to present the shortlist for the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction:

WE'RE BLOGGING

Scholastique Mukasabonga's Our Lady of the Nile (translated by Melanie L. Mauthner) was such a good read. Feels eerily familiar when reading it today and looking at America.

I am supposed to go to the US to give a presentation at a conference...I have just finished cancelling the hotel booking.

Uh... Americans? You, um, okay down there?

Kickstarter has opened for a new Canadian chapbook press! www.kickstarter.com/projects/pap...

One of the ways I'm trying to combat how I feel about <waves hands> everything these days is to set alerts for accounts that post artwork so that they show up in my mentions. @paintingsoflondon.bsky.social and @moma.bsky.social are accounts I really enjoy!

'Best Kebab', Old Street, Hoxton (2003) by Georgia Peskett georgiapeskett.com

Cool. "Solar-powered ‘artificial plant’ purifies radioactive soil by 95% in 20 days" interestingengineering.com/innovation/a...

Jasper Johns, Green Target, 1955 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1134554

Today a classmate unironically described flash mobs as being "a relic of history" and I think my JESUS CHRIST exclamation was worth not being raptured.

Since someone else posted my ai statement from my syllabus on the thread, sharing myself as well. Need to push back… bsky.app/profile/nsou...

Legitimate pitch I received today for a service to promote to my students who want to be authos. Don't worry, they can offer ghaostwriting, too. And a discount! 👻

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After nearly a decade of saying which JWST result I was most excited about, it's here: JWST SPECTRA OF THE HABITABLE TRAPPIST-1 PLANETS! TRAPPIST-1 E!!! IT'S ... A FLAT LINE! BUT NOT AS FLAT AS IT COULD BE!? IS THERE AN ATMOSPHERE?!?!? WE STILL DON'T KNOWWWWW. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/s...

Duke's AI Ethics Learning Toolkit is a great resource, btw. lile.duke.edu/ai-ethics-le...

Reader, I dropped the course.

I have rooted for few things this year as hard as I'm rooting for Premee Mohamed's cat to come home. Edmonton friends, can we get him there?

At least my analysis of dramaturgy class is looking great. The prof today gave us a talk about about how good and thorough citations are a part of service to our field, and how generative AI is not that.

AI is designed to plagiarize everyone.

If you are in the Edmonton area Fiasco is still missing - please check garages and sheds and engines! Let's get him home, please share x

I have been SO excited to take a creative non-fiction writing class with my PhD program until I looked at the syllabus today and discovered this learning outcome: "Critically assess the role of generative AI in shaping nonfiction narrative, authorship, and editorial voice." No. Just no.

Pssst . . . If you don't have work tomorrow, don't forget to turn off your alarm!

"Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married". Adorable distraction in this hellscape.

Pretty Penny would like you to know that screens shall not contain her.

How my candidacy reading is going... I made countdown formulas and a spiffy chart for my reading spreadsheet. That counts, right? #phdstudent #englishphd

Here's the list of eligible medical conditions to receive the COVID 19 vaccine at no cost. www.alberta.ca/coronavirus-... #Alberta #abpoli

‪@skintownboy.bsky.social‬ hoping to have a chat with you about Decentring Everything: A Pedagogical Philosophy for Creative Writing (and also to ask if I might have a copy of the paper)?

@jordanscarroll.bsky.social I added Speculative Whiteness to my candidacy reading list for my PhD. :)

Slightly diminish a band: Sonic Adult.

Holy moly, was this ever a good read! Gothic and creepy in all the right ways.

I'm starting the work of reading for next year's candidacy exams in English literature, and I will take any and all of your candidacy prep advice! #phd