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I moved my money! A @uofcalifornia.bsky.social faculty initiative to divest our retirement savings from state violence, war, fossil fuels is up and running. It's simple: 1) open your retirement portfolio, 2) move your money into UC's Social Equity Fund! Learn more here: www.ucmoveyourmoney.org/home

Okay! This has already inspired a bunch of DMs, so I made a page on the website. If you have 50,000+ Skymiles and would be willing to book flights to get someone home, please fill this out.

Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning. Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

My lab is currently looking for survey participants! We're looking for men in Canada to complete a survey on their hobbies, interests and skills. Please forward this to any men between the ages of 18-29 that you know. They just need to email [email protected] to participate. #psyc #academicsky

Calling published SFF authors! I’m researching the work lives & well-being of science fiction and fantasy authors for my doctoral dissertation, and I'm looking for participants! If you’re a published SFF author interested in participating, then DM me and I can provide details

Cow Tools! We have lived alongside cows for nearly 10,000 years. We breed them and exploit them It is now, only now, that we have discovered THEY CAN USE TOOLS Here I describe our study (paper) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... in @currentbiology.bsky.social with @auersperga.bsky.social

My friends local to Minnesota, whom I trust a great deal, would like to share the following resources that could use support. PowWowGrounds - Native American Coffee Shop doing direct food and supply aid to their communities- Venmo @powwowgrounds www.powwowgrounds.com

As a Minneapolis resident, I’ll explain it this way: they already outnumber all PDs in the metro area, and we’re still not backing down. They have assault rifles and Kevlar vs our phones and whistles, and we’re still not backing down. Their morale is already shit, and we’re just getting started.

it’s up to 126,000 unique visitors now. doing my best to keep my head above water with updates!

Through all the exhaustion and the long road we’ve been through, hope is still alive — because of you.❤️ Your support is what gives us the strength to keep going, even when the road feels endless. Still need (£377) If you’re able to help or share, it truly makes a difference. 🙏

For Ralph Alex Janvier ~ Denesuline 1988

Happy Holidays!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Re-upping this, since it's only available for two days:

I have been perfectly happy since the switch to Tidal, the playlist transfer was pretty seamless and my literal only problem is remembering which icon to use on my phone to get to the music since I can't find the green circle anymore

People often ask: what can ordinary people do to stop populists like Trump and Smith from running roughshod over democratic norms? Populists rely on the widespread perception that their actions are supported by "the majority" and "common people." Anything that punctures that myth helps. +

This week, I withdrew from a speaking engagement at a public university because they sent me a list of prohibited “words & concepts.” I will not humor this censorship. It does a disservice to the stories I’m discussing & the audience, who deserve unfettered access to information & conversation.

Hi Bluesky 👋 Small life update: I’m at the centre of a multimillion dollar lawsuit in Alberta launched by a failed candidate for Jason Kenney’s UCP It may be the longest and most expensive media trial in Canadian history I’m ready to go public about it and I want to share more details with you 🧵

Spotify is crashing HARD because of the boycott. Their stock dropped 11% in value over the last month. Let’s keep this going! Tell everyone you know to boycott Spotify. There are plenty of alternatives that don’t run ICE advertisements and screw over artists. We made it easy at boycottspotify.com.

I recently reflected on the Royal Society Conference on the Future of Scientific Publishing and summarized my thoughts in an ISSP blog post: www.uottawa.ca/research-inn... #OpenAccess #ScientificPublishing #AcademicSky

Epstein Survivor Lisa Phillips: Everyone makes it about Trump and Epstein, but it’s about this whole ring of men. That’s what makes me upset, because we know they were there. We saw them. We know there were royalty, princes, very powerful people in academia and tech, and we saw them at parties.

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

Budgets are about priorities. Under the UCP, funding for public education and universities remains frozen, resulting in 'cuts by inflation.' Funding for private schools has increased above inflation. In a real way, this means money is flowing from public to private schools. Priorities.

🎶Turn the AI off TURN THE AI OFF🎶

"Why would it bow to antidemocratic pressures by placing a professor on leave without their request, consent, or involvement? That any university would do this is beyond comprehension and is cause for alarm about the future of academic freedom in Canada."

Israel has just arrested Greta Thunberg and many others. Statement from the Global Sumud Flotilla: “People of conscience have been abducted. The flotilla broke no laws. What is illegal is Israel’s genocide, Israel’s illegal blockade of Gaza, and Israel’s use of starvation as a weapon.” 1/3

As I’m typing these words, Israel is illegally intercepting the Global Sumud Flotilla that is trying to break the siege on Gaza. This is an illegal enforcement of an illegal blockade. So I reached out to the Canadian government to see what they would do for the six Canadians on board:

Exciting PhD opportunity on parental mental health and early executive function development in the UK and South Africa! www.findaphd.com/phds/project... Please share 😊

I'm hoping to recruit one grad student for 2026-27, in the developmental science area!

"driver's licences are often used as proof of age in many locations, the government would have to demonstrate how any benefit of having that information included on a driver's licence would outweigh the privacy risks” #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

If you need a little hope this morning - the current tween trend involves decorating clothespins with affirming messages, then clipping them on friends' backpacks when they're not looking. Here are a few that my 11-year-old decorated this weekend ❤️

The best time for media, government and employers to actually understand social media and how it can be gamed by bad-faith actors and false outrage was a decade ago. The next best time is right now. Unbelievable how stupidly some of them are responding to blatant hateful opportunism right now.

Come join us at UBC, and flex your pedagogical vision!

Not today, Satan.

Two toddlers are among nearly 150 Canadians held in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody this year, data show From @saramojtehedz.bsky.social, Kathryn Blaze Baum, @mahima-singh.bsky.social, @janicedickson.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...

Join our department! We're hiring an Assistant Professor of Teaching (Tenure-track), located at UBC's Vancouver campus, with an anticipated start date of July 1, 2026. Apply by Oct 1, 2025. Learn more & apply: psych.ubc.ca/jobs. Please share!

It takes only a few minutes & and you can choose other. I used to work in the federal government. These consultations are important and submissions do get read. Plus the opposition and journalists can request to see the results, so even if the government ignores the public will, it'll still get out.

it's wild that R, the ubiquitous statistical computing language, was co-created by a Māori prof (Ross Ihaka) — and yet the vast majority of scientists who use R don't know this is like inventing the toaster. possibly the largest impact of a single member of an indigenous community on modern science

Twin Cities: I have a friend with two children (early teens) who is trying to escape a toxic (maybe even abusive) household. She needs to rent 3 bedrooms ASAP. If anyone has that kind of space for rent, please shoot me a DM. Reposts greatly appreciated!!

Skyline cleanse. Sound up 🥲

Wow, I’ve just found a Bluesky channel that lets you see only posts with links to scientific papers and get a feed that focuses on the science discussions around them. This is transformative!

Welcome to your personalized Paper Skygest, a curated feed showing posts from your network. 📌 To pin this feed, select the pin icon at the top right of the feed. When you pin it, you'll see it up above here! ➡️ Follow this account for Skygest updates!

So attacked right now

Meta’s track record on privacy was already spotty, but the newest web-to-app trick is particularly brazen. Here’s what to do next.

Members of our Department at Convocation yesterday to celebrate and support of Science graduates! Jennifer Passey, Sandra Wiebe, Lauren Guillette, Sandra Ziolkowski, Wendy Hoglund

I just want a global 'turn all 'ai' off everywhere, categorically, no exceptions unless I individually approve them in triplicate' setting for all my devices

Duolingo right now: youtube.com/shorts/hL9pl...