We are watching Thor: Ragnarok, and I caught a movie reference my partner didn't: THE CASTLE! You're dreaming! (Don't spoil this for me)

hey i wrote a history of electronic music in canada from 1945-1985. it's called A Nation of Tinkerers and it's now available to pre-order through @invisibooks.bsky.social! invisiblepublishing.com/product/a-na...

At the blood drawing clinic 5 min after opening - behind about 30 people, and currently getting rick rolled.

A year's round up that is worth a read. www.startribune.com/umn-professo...

Day two of Winter Break: the three cheese pasta the kid is making smells suspiciously of candy cane eggnog.

"An academic discovers a paper attributed to him that does not exist has been cited 42 times" is a sentence with an actual referent in 2025.

434 Canadians have been detained by ICE. Only 6 of them had any criminal records. #DontGo www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...

Winnipeg Leisure Guide Registration Day: clicked on the link the very first second, had under a minute wait, website redirect hung, class was full by 8:01. There has GOT to be a better way to do this.

We have had this problem here - like everybody - and we seem to have mitigated it ok with Anubis and other strategies. To me this problem very much underscores the *necessity* of having a responsive and competent IT structure, which...libraries have been divesting themselves of in rapid pace.

The Librarian and Archivist Lament - a site is neither truly discoverable nor preserved unless you've really really put the work in (or work with those who have).

Don't forget the CJAL CFP is due soon! CJAL special issue on Libraries, Humans, Machines details here: cjal.ca/index.php/ca... Questions? Just lemme know. #lis #libraries #cfp #library

Our poor kid has had defrag explained to them so many times, with real walked to school uphill both ways vibes.

📣 Our friends at the #ScholCommLab have published a preprint, "The Drain of #ScientificPublishing", and are calling for #research communities, funders, governments, and #universities to "re-communalise publishing to serve #science not the market" doi.org/10.48550/arX... #ScholComm #AcademicSky

#Winnipeg made guitar pedals that look like Hilroy Scribblers. :) winnipegelectricalco.myshopify.com/collections/...

I refer to my needs during this time as "winter cheese", and am still sad that the two best winter cheese restaurant options near work have closed.

sorry I'm late! I have at last broken my silence on Pantone's Color of the Year johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/cloud-danc...

Turns out preventative MRIs can save lives.

My favourite part of book ordering is just going through the Fernwood catalogue...

The problem with having an extremely stressful work day is I come on here for a 30 second steam release, and some dude is condescendingly calling a systemic review a literature review, and now I have to practice deep breathing for an hour.

One thing I've learned from my attempt to reread Agatha Christie books chronologically is that, while I have zero in common with her politically or in regard to her racial bigotry and hatred of jobbing gardeners, always look at what the actual outcome is if you want to solve a mystery.

A college student complaining about a grade on a paper is not national news. Not even close. The details have minimal import outside the class itself. Well-funded political activists targeting profs and TAs—in this case because they're trans—with the help of elected state officials? National issue.

If anyone is curious about the current list of search terms being used by right wing activist organizations to harass university professors, here's a public records request I received today from Mike Howell of the Heritage Foundation. Not intimidating or meant to curtail by my speech at all, right?

I just really need to see brain scans of people who intuitively understand Super Smash Bros vs those (of us) who don't.

I will believe in the end of identity politics when steel and lumber (28,000 jobs and 105,000 jobs respectively) stop getting bailouts, while higher education (310,000 jobs) collapses in front of our eyes because it's full of ivory tower elites

The funniest thing to me about this article is the complaint about how difficult it is to get a 36 person Board to agree on anything, after they literally voted to get rid of the President, which is kind of a big deal! www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Truly love when the consultant class takes over. Pure performance art.

We just got an email saying that our Uni Pres is... No longer our Uni Pres. 😳😳😳😳

Mutual aid should be a threat to the state, not a substitute for its “failures.” It is saying “the state does not do this & will not do this because it is built to oppress & exploit.” Mutual aid is a radical act of caring for each other outside of those systems of oppression.

i saw someone lamenting that turning off ai in gmail makes your inbox unusable-- the good news is you can still set up your own filters to do a lot of the same work, and maybe even better support.google.com/mail/answer/...

It is time for my annual "when the hell is American Thanksgiving actually" confusion, because I could have sworn based off a million emails over the last weeks that today *finally* had to be Black Friday.

You can't win against a phallus tree. - me, having a normal one at work

The UN climate change conference (COP30) having rooms shut down both to flooding and an extreme fire is a bit metaphorically excessive.

Nestled in the bad news about the New School, an important point. We aren't seeing the decimation of the actually publicly funded university systems, just the partially (like in Canada) or fully privatized ones....

Sounds fascinating, can't find it for the life of me on PNAS. This is like someone made an AI trapping labyrinth, but it is for me.

I spoke with Nora Loreto and Alex Khasnabish about the state of labour organizing in Canada's universities. What will the university become in this moment of crisis? Will it regress and implode, or move forward and serve a larger social purpose?

Instagram is largely unusable now, but I did check in last night for all the northern lights pics... (So much pink!)

I have legitimately just consulted this to see if I am fully Reviewer 2 (or only 1.5).

succubus - female demon that seduces men incubus - male demon that seduces women vengabus - non-binary demon that likes to party

I really have to stop packing such crunchy lunches for the days I have lunch Zoom meetings.

It sounds like in response to the ridiculous request from the Committee, the Tri Agency submitted data to the SRSR that is in line with the Privacy Act - the already publicly available information about grant recipients, projects, and amounts, as well as *aggregated* EDI information.

Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...

Canada Budget 2025: more on AI than childcare, big public service cuts, also... Eurovision. I think this may be the only time I want something from the real Budget to appear in CCPA's Alternative Budget!

What a day to be teaching classes on Gramsci’s notion of political hegemony. Optimism of the will!! 👊🏻

I know there are bigger things afoot in Politics, and that moving from a Con to a Lib is in most ways barely a move, but I'm a messy binch who loves a good floor crossing. Though it will never be done as well as the Belinda Stronach move. I'm cackling to myself just remembering it.

Long live Guilloteen Vogue

NEW: Common Crawl, the massive archiver of the web, has gotten cozy with AI companies and is providing paywalled articles for training data. They’re also lying to publishers who have asked for material to be removed. “The robots are people too,” CC’s exec director told us when we asked about this.

I wish everyone has a chance to hear Fred Tate from the National Farmer's Union speak. He rouslingly spells out, so clearly, the void of public taxation/ regulation that is filled by corporate taxation and deregulation, all with the farmer's affect of barely moving his mouth.

I have signed up to participate in our Flipped 3MT presentations. Considering just having my standard slide on all the ways public money is injected into scholarly publishing (and siphoned off to private profit), and playing Chris Hannah/ Propagandhi screaming "This system cannot be reformed".

Canadian researchers should be aware the there is a motion before the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science and Research to force Tricouncils to hand over disaggregated peer review data on all applications: Applicant names, profiles, demographics Reviewers names, profiles, comments, and scores