It's not just signalling; it's a shortcut to claim support for a statement that on its own lacks justification. More broadly, it is the behaviour and the norms of academia that are the fundamental problem rather than AI which is just a technological gimmick.

Terribly sad and shocking news of a former dean of our faculty at Carleton. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Yes, two of the biggest beneficiaries of EU funding should be easy pickings for the Trump/ Russia efforts to convince Poland and Hungary to leave the EU. www.statista.com/chart/18794/...?

Oh the tangled web, etc. www.bbc.com/news/article...

You will be visited by three spirits.

my great-grandparents arrived in the UK in the 1890s with nothing. they sold pickles from the front room window, took in laundry, worked as tailors. their children were nurses, teachers, salesmen. their grandchildren were professors, designers, opticians, doctors, magistrates, entrepreneurs.

Yes, FIFA is a gong show. www.bbc.com/sport/footba...

Congratulations to @carleton.ca's campus radio station which is celebrating its 50th anniversary today. www.ckcufm.com/2025/11/13/c...

Pastries as insults, UK edition, thread.

Future nostalgia? The changing nature of (doing) history? A ‘digital dark age’? All because of the redundant tech of floppy disks. www.bbc.com/future/artic...

And here we go. I never wrote this article, and yet it is cited here. www.liberalbriefs.com/geopolitics/... And of course, it sounds so plausible, I seriously checked whether I had forgotten it, or the footnote was slightly wrong. #AIisnotresearch

Congratulations Alison! It is so good to see former students doing so well. newsroom.carleton.ca/story/carlet...

Regarding the funding gap, etc., this is all true. Still, just the other day, walking home from work, I came across young women from a number of local Ottawa schools playing rugby. The enthusiasm and enjoyment was palpable. Inspiring stuff and wonderful to see. www.bbc.com/sport/rugby-...

Remembering John Groom for all the important work he did (for example, early stages of EISA and WISC) and for the kind person and generous scholar he was. www.wiscnetwork.net/index.php/ab...

For those of you interested in macroeconomic and monetary theory, economics of the everyday, empirical analyses of the Canadian economy, or just political economy generally, WCI (even though it's been largely inactive for a few years now) is a goldmine.

Authoritarianism in the US, beside the anti-democratic implications, there are economic negatives too.

Prominent folks: Millions stay on Twitter because that's where they hear from you. That includes reporters. YOU are giving Twitter viability and credibility. If YOU leave, the people who want to hear from you will go where you are. YOU are making the choice to keep others on Twitter.

Running government like a business is a template for fascism.

Despite numerous other countries (e.g., Finland, Norway, France) condemning or raising serious objections against the move, the Canadian 🇨🇦 government has been completely silent. As @markkersten.bsky.social says, we helped build the ICC; our silence is helping to destroy it bsky.app/profile/mark...

The furthest in Canada: North: Iqaluit West: Dawson City East: St. John’s South: Point Pelee

Trump is making media orgs and universities pay him money like a protection racket and the press is trying so hard to not report this obvious fact.

guys we HAVE to get rid of DEI. it’s about FAIRNESS

If you declare yourself independent, are you thus independent?

Velvet Sundown on Spotify. It’s AI but nowhere does it say that. How is this not fraud?

So Trump left the G7 summit early so he could spend the day rage tweeting against Iran?

Give this a listen those of you interested in International Relations and the history of thinking in IR. Erased is a significant step forward in our understanding as well as a portal to a more open and critical world of IR, what the discipline can/must be. revdem.ceu.edu/2025/05/26/e...

I realize posting this here is preaching to the choir. But after the Grok White Genocide thing & Ye essentially launching an exclusive Neo Nazi single on the platform... I felt motivated to write about X and how bizarre it is that so many people (news outlets, celebrities, politicians) use it

Excellent summary analysis by @fredericmerand.bsky.social of the issues at stake with the on-the-face-of-it ridiculous idea of Canada becoming a member of the EU in response to American threats. The ECSA-Canada blog posts in response are also worth reading. policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/ma...

🌟 🚨 The Conversation Starts Now 🔹 16 leading voices 🔹 16 different visions 🔹 1 provocative question: Can (and should) Canada get much closer to Europe? Read & explore 15 expert takes: shorturl.at/VzPB5 #CanadaEU #ECSACanada #Geopolitics #EuropeIsNotPlanB

This is the latest in a concerted campaign since November to convince Americans that Canada is a major contributor to their fentanyl crisis. Trump, Vance, Navarro, Hassett and now Patel have all “blamed Canada.” Time to start calling it out for the Nazi-style große Lüge that it is.

For many in the arts, humanities and social sciences in the relatively small world of Canadian academia, this is an earthquake: cha-shc.ca/announcement...

I am shocked and saddened by the sudden passing of my colleague Joseph Nye, who recruited me to Harvard a quarter-century ago. He was a highly accomplished scholar, an innovative Dean, and a devoted public servant. Also a very decent and humane man, who will be missed at Harvard and beyond.

Credit: Peter Schrank

NPSIA @carleton.ca MA grad and now Georgetown professor, Nader Hashemi, quoted in this article on what’s happening on US university campuses. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Upcoming event honouring the memory of Professor Ozay Mehmet, Distinguished Research Professor (Emeritus) on April 1 starting at 5.30pm at Carleton University. carleton.ca/npsia/?p=6604

Of course the UK will stand up for Canadian sovereignty in the face of American threats… I just applied for an ETA to enter the UK from Canada and this is what I was told. Er…

Genuine question: does a G7 meeting even take place this spring?

Beastly diplomacy indeed! www.bbc.com/reel/video/p...

Many of the passengers (if not all) got out ok.

I wrote about Martin Niemoller and how his famous poem (“first they came for”) is misleading, since it suggests he was indifferent. But he was an active Nazi who hated Jews and socialists. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/martin-nie...

Found this while tidying the office, a @carletonu.bsky.social floppy disk.

The Corporate Con. Full version here: youtu.be/qj-gAUaUF-4?...

Canada, the 51st state of the US? What sort of crazy person would suggest such a thing? Canadian IR academics: www.isanet.org/ISA/Regions/...

My chart for the Globe. TL;dr - birth rates in Canada rose when we had aggressive income redistribution, high taxation, big infrastructure spending, strong unions, and loads of new housing development. Absent those factors, birth rates have always fallen.