Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

dear @bluejays.com, i'll be in Toronto on Friday and would love to sing our Canadian anthem at game 6. whaddaya say? #BlueJays #WantItAll #WorldSeries ⚾️

The writing / academic-ish / research meme side-quest continues! And with halloween almost upon us, what could be scarier than Reviewer 2? #highered #academicsky #resdev

As a Canadian I resent that when someone was needed to demolish a building at the US White House, our unique 211 year old record of expertise in that was ignored. I trust that in 3 years when it’s time to demolish the Epstein ballroom, Canada’s experience and willingness will be taken into account!

First World Series between two cities threatened with invasion or invaded by a U.S. president.

The Cost of Cutting Anthropology Out of U.S. National Parks www.sapiens.org/culture/nati...

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

Good #Caturday entertainment

“Get Smart” premieres 60 years ago tonight, on NBC. “I was sick of looking at all those nice, sensible situation comedies,” Mel Brooks said. “They were such distortions of life. .. No one had ever done a show about an idiot before. I decided to be the first.”

Also related (or maybe the same): Suspense is not generated by the reader not knowing what happens next. It's generated by the reader CARING what happens next.

Wow. The University of Chicago, a world-class institution whose humanities faculty in the past has included Homi Bhabha & Lauren Berlant & Ralph Ellison & Hannah freaking Arendt, is getting rid of basically every graduate department involving the acknowledgment that other cultures & languages exist.

Watching the US prep for a critically important meeting with Putin in Alaska reminds me of students who realize they had an assignment a day before it is due. Hoping I’m wrong, but concerned about the diplomatic approach & the potential outcome.

i had a job interview for a writing center director position at a university in which i was told you can check for plagiarism by copying and pasting an essay into chatGPT and asking "did you write this" i think my facial expression took me out of the running basically immediately

This from @tressiemcphd.bsky.social hit me over the head like a mallet of truth. This is the thing. This is what I’ve been trying to warn people about perfectly crystallized. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/o...

Hey, you know what policy would decrease overall educational unit costs, while improving student quality and reducing drop-outs in post-secondary institutions? (Re-)introducing Grade 13 and adopting standard three year bachelor's degrees.

Scientific organizations (or any really): please be aware that if you host international conferences in the US, you will be excluding quite a few people from this point on, for whom the risk is just not worth it.

Anyone who's visited the UK knows that the empty shells of monasteries destroyed by Henry VIII still dot the landscape. I've been seeing images of all the U.S. higher ed institutions being financially destroyed now & can't help thinking of what their empty shells might look like a century from now.

“The administration’s attempts to resuscitate scientifically disproven schemes serve a political agenda. Scientific racism has been associated with US social institutions since the country’s founding. Those who have detailed the dynamics of this ideology are not the ones distorting the truth”

The foot of an individual from #medieval Ghazali, Sudan with a tattoo preserved on its surface #NationalTattooDay 🏺 It may depict the Chi-Rho, an important Christian symbol, indicating tattoos could be an expression of Christianity in medieval Nubia. Learn more 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

Indiana Jones and the Concur Expense Report Indiana Jones and Concur Expense Report Returned Indiana Jones III: Corrected and Resubmited

Indiana Jones and the Anthropology Department is Being Cut by the State Legislature Due to Restructuring

Indiana Jones will be played by a rotating cast of three adjuncts who answer to two different associate deans

My student sent me this and I can't unsee it, so I am blessing the bluesky timeline with this so that I will not be alone

I'm delighted to see Prime Minister Carney channelling his predecessor William Lyon Mackenzie King in a quintessentially Canadian way by using variations of the latter's phrase "___ if necessary, but not necessarily ___"

Roses are redde Noble are the manatees Yf we wante a bettir future Teach artes & humanityes

Autistic kids are not broken. Not less. Not damaged. They experience the world differently and that’s not a flaw. The real issue? A world that isn’t built to include them. Change the system, not the child.

An astronomy professor colleague of mine once relayed trying to explain to his students why it was important that they actually write their class reports themselves. “The point is not to teach ME about neutron stars,” he said.

This, from the Holocaust Memorial Museum.

ok, I'm not a historian, but there's a precedent for running science through an ideological lens. It was called Lysenkoism, and between the USSR and Mao's China, it killed somewhere from 15 to 55 million people. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trofim_....

American scientists aren't special. It's the institutions, and willingness to spend on research, that set them apart. Similarly invest here, and you will naturally attract the best talent from *everywhere*. www.politico.eu/article/euro...

You know you're Canadian when you've been kicked out of at least one bar for standing on the chair and leading the crowd in a great anthem about stealing yankee gold. With deep apologies to that nice little club in Jasper. Or was it Halifax? Singing with #elbowsup www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0Cv...

#Greenland 🇬🇱

“The looming crisis in the US is beginning to remind people in Europe of the 1930s, when the UK and the US began to realise that Jewish scientists needed to be rescued from the Nazis.” Trump did this. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

What happens when a small country decides to play Monopoly... with an ENTIRE US state? 🤯 Buckle up:" denmarkification.com?utm=.share.b...

At a press conference on Wednesday, Winnipeg police confirmed the identity of Mashkode Bizhiki’ikwe to be Ashlee Shingoose. Ashlee’s father Albert Shingoose had one request for Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew: sing a song.

On May 1st, I’ll be presenting my research project on health-inclusive pedagogy at the University of Waterloo Teaching and Learning Conference. Looking forward to sharing what I’ve been developing as part of UWaterloo’s Certificate in University Teaching program! 🔗: uwaterloo.ca/uw-teaching-...

Part 2 of the special issue on the secret lives of forager children is here, examining the implications of intangible culture for an archaeology of childhood, articles by @izzywisher.bsky.social @felixthehauskat.bsky.social @mathildevm.bsky.social @rwmp.bsky.social 🔗bit.ly/HGR11-1 @anthropology.net

Canada giving Marco Rubio the tiniest red carpet they could find in a thrift shop somewhere.

I am somehow for the first time ever reviewing for PNAS and their reviewer instructions include this BANGER of a line: "The purpose of peer review is not to demonstrate proficiency in identifying flaws" Print it in eleventy point font and hang it from the hillside. Scream it from the rooftops.

OMG! This image had me laughing out loud. #academicsky #highereducation #HigherEd #teaching

Troll level: epic www.cnn.com/2025/03/08/f...

Sum: Meetings = uuuuugh. Bad meetings can produce a productivity 'hangover,' researchers say www.upi.com/Health_News/... 90% "said they sometimes experience these 'hangovers' – lingering frustration and distraction after unproductive meetings."

Hearing that the Coast Guard is being told to deprioritize and de-emphasize the Search and Rescue mission. That’s right, you know, one of the main missions of the service since the very beginning? There are more than 3,500 lives saved per year by the CG.

Hearing that Elon Musk has demanded a ‘President’s Cut’ of *Raiders of the Lost Ark* with a new ending in which the Nazis win and the archaeology department is replaced with a “School of Totally Rad Tech.”

Anyone who thinks for a second that Canada would snap up American academics fleeing fascism needs to get their heads on straight. Not with this kind of thing happening!