I had a similar experience with an asshole editor and a set of asshole reviewers in a very, very, very major journal in my discipline(s), and I will hold that grudge until the time comes for me to take my revenge.

(Re)-Enacting Academia Otherwise: Cultivating Care-Full Communities of Practice Through Retreats #Free2DownloadAndRead onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #AcademicSky

Until it cleans my apartment and makes me breakfast, lunch and dinner, AI is useless.

As much as I would like to claim this term the honor belongs to @bluelion77.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/blue...

I have tried to delete it from my iPod and I still can’t.

As a Vancouverite, this is the correct take.

I have a weekend in Geneva (the one in Switzerland, not the one in the US!) (2 days). What should I do/see?

It’s weird to feel clarity of mind in a year where things started so fast I have been feeling whiplash.

I’m so sorry to say that this is the correct take.

Montreal bagels are MUCH better bagels than New York bagels. I said what I said.

What would you do if you had a couple of days to visit Vienna?

I always ask of all my students (undergrad, Masters or PhD) to take at least ONE course with me. Taking a course with me enables them to learn more closely how I work, how I think, what my theoretical approaches and methodological tools are.

Best description of the orange man.

Oh, this was his plan all along.

“The history of science is indeed a graveyard of theories, but the fact that science keeps changing is a mark of its strength. It keeps changing because the world is complex and full of wonder. That isn’t a problem; it’s the engine that drives scientific progress.”

WH sources say Venezuela's opposition leader committed the "ultimate sin": She accepted the Nobel Peace prize. “If she had turned it down and said, ‘I can’t accept it because it’s Donald Trump’s,’ she’d be the president of Venezuela today,” one said. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Prominent MAGA figures are making it 100% explicit that MAGA is a neo-imperialist movement that's all about pillage and plunder justified by assumed racial superiority:

🚨NEW PAPER The Logic of Connective Faction: How Digitally Networked Elites and Hyper-Partisan Media Radicalize Politics w/ @yunkangyang.bsky.social & @mikecowburn.bsky.social Online radicalization doesn't just affect the public. It also reshapes how elites & parties behave. doi.org/10.1080/1058...

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Le recours aux banques alimentaires est en hausse de 45% au #nbpoli depuis 2019. Pas mentionné dans l'article c'est le fardeau imposé par la perte fulgurante d'unités de logement locatif relativement abordable. #logement #faim via @iciradiocanada.bsky.social ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/221...

CALL FOR PROPOSALS - Special Issue on Diagnostic Methods in Policy-Making: Abductive Reasoning in Policy Analysis, Practice and Pedagogy Eds. M. Ramesh and Michael Howlett

When I was finishing my PhD at The University of British Columbia I was offered a Leverhulme Trust Fund Fellowship and I have always wondered what my life would have been had I taken it.

on this sunday-est of sundays, syllabus-ing for a new term you're not alone against the oligarch agenda of cognitive deskilling, data capture, surveillance, and bias: we've got assignment ideas, memes, recommended readings, o' captain speeches, syllabus policies, and so much more against-a-i.com

im not joking, i think a huge reason theyre doing this is bc in their minds war is masculine and penis and being against war is feminine and vagina

A deluge of work on regime change after the 2003 invasion of Iraq yielded strong (and rare) agreement in IR: it doesn't work & has terrible consequences. @profdownes.bsky.social's book Catastrophic Success lays it out, but it's right there in the title. www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

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At what point will a brave university simply tell its staff to stop applying for grants, and just fund their research or give them time to write instead. I'm sure it would cost less than all that wasted staff time.

'ok I'll read one article on something before starting on my grant proposal' the article:

Happy New Year 2026. As we step into a new year, I wish you health, clarity, and steadiness in uncertain times. May 2026 bring space for thoughtful work, meaningful conversations, and moments of care, for ourselves and for one another.

This is so true it hurts. #AcademicSky

Policy decisions ALWAYS involve trade offs. How you design your policies will impact target populations. Which projects you prioritize over others, which budget items get cash, which issue areas are given all the money, demonstrate government priorities.

A semi-sentient blob of tissue mass has the nuclear codes of the US of A.

I think a lot about the fact that toilets are such an integral part of societal infrastructure and how vital they are for human survival. And yes, I study the governance of toilets, but I also reflect on their vital functions just about every day.

If you ever want to get into a fascinating rabbit hole, I highly recommend learning about the history of arson investigation and the full century of investigation methods that were mostly guesswork (now they’re led by fire science, mostly) www.texasobserver.org/fire-and-inn...

I once told Chris Potter, of Kung Fu fame, at the Au Bar, “I have a massive crush on you please be gay”. He answered “I’m married with 5 kids”.

"Measuring Administrative Burden: Bringing the State “Back in” as a Reflexive Actor in Burden Reduction" by Pierre-Marc Daigneault, Marc Journeault, Laurent Lauzon-Rhéaume, & Lisa Birch examines how governments measure administrative burdens. doi.org/10.1111%2Fpa...

Thrilled to announce that I haven’t done absolutely anything in 2 weeks other than sleep, swim and eat well, and that I am about to start 2026 well rested and rejuvenated and re energized.

I have decided that it's too much trying to expose all the horrors in the US and in Mexico so I am retraining my Twitter/X algorithm to only show me positive stuff. Delusional? Yes. Pragmatic? Also yes. Better for my mental health? Also yes.

jobs at SFU 2 postings, Geography - Assistant Prof (Landscape Ecology // Urban Geography/Climate Crisis) Applications will be reviewed as they are received until the position is filled, with priority given to completed applications received prior to February 2, 2026. csn-rec.ca/job-postings...

You have two days (Saturday and Sunday) in London (England). What do you do that gives you the broadest overview of the city?

On the market for recommendations on what to do/see/eat while in Vienna.

How do we shape siting in a way that benefits the communities where data centers will be sited, how do we think creatively about the possibilities of economies that arise around or adjacent to these installations, and how do we mitigate health and environmental risks (or begin to understand these).

Good geospatial analysis by @pewresearch.org this year on the siting of data centers. It's not likely that we are setting our phones, computers, and other systems aside anytime soon. As a professor, ask me how I know. 1/2 💡🔌 🏛️ #WestVirginia #rural

Issa Rae has canceled her sold out performance at the Kennedy Center. Pulitzer Prize winner Rhiannon Giddens, Peter Wolf, Low Cut Connie, and the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, D.C., have also canceled. Lin-Manuel Miranda has canceled the entire Kennedy Center run of Hamilton.

what else is there to say

"Never tried therapy before but this is probably it?" 9 words summarising the attitude of Big Tech to all things of which they have no knowledge or experience - with GenAI, they can do [thing] without [thing] experts or even educating themselves on [thing]. My eyes rolled a grand total of 720° 🙄

I assume folks know of the shared intellectual history of the disciplines of planning and public policy. What I did not expect was that social work and public administration would share so many important angles and research avenues.

I have always felt that David Calvey has sort of cornered and monopolized the field of covert ethnography, though I know of other researchers and their projects, but he seems to have capitalized on his time as a bouncer in a Manchester club. #RPVBooks

“It’s so uplifting to see people whose paths might not otherwise have crossed, united in shared purpose, in a belief in our common humanity,” said Noelle Damico, Workers Circle Director of Social Justice, in a new piece from The Guardian. Read it here: shorturl.at/xy315