Beautiful - Please Use AI shawnsmucker.substack.com/p/please-use...

"Third Way" liberal politics involves *saying* things that working people love, but *doing* things that sociopathic plutocrats love. It works ...right up until voters notice that you're not *doing* the things. That realisation breeds cynicism and fury and paves the way for fascist strongmen. 2/

Calling all Scientists! Research Administrators! Deans! Fans of Science! No one is coming to save us. Here is your assignment. I have written a step by step, easy to understand "how-to" document to help you comment on the proposed OMB rule. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/what-we-ne...

Assistant Professor position in paleontology @uugeo.bsky.social 🤩 🐚 🌊 🧪 ⚒️

So JP Morgan is behind the Billy Bishop expansion push, but the people it hired to lobby all levels of government didn’t disclose it in the lobbyist registries. From @rwarnica.bsky.social: www.thestar.com/opinion/star...

Kenya’s high court has temporarily stopped US plans to establish an Ebola quarantine facility for Americans in Kenya. From challenging the bilateral global health MOU to this lawsuit, Kenya’s legal system is demonstrating what holding a government to account looks like.

I am an Albertan. I am an Albertan by birth. I was born at the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Edmonton. I am an Alberta by family descent. My paternal grandmother's cousins - the family advance party - arrived in Edmonton before 1905, when Alberta became a province. #ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli 🧵

Kenyan healthcare workers are pushing back hard against reported plans for the U.S. to establish Ebola quarantine/treatment facilities in Kenya for exposed American personnel during the ongoing Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak in Central/East Africa.

Alberta, let this sink in: In Canadian history, only 2 premiers initiated referenda on separating from Canada: - René Lévesque 1980 - Jacques Parizeau 1995 Both Quebec separatists who nearly destroyed Canada. Today, Danielle Smith will join their ranks. #ableg #cdnpoli

Here we show that during the MCO, at Nyakach Fm there were humid conditions supporting a tropical forest with grassy openings as evidenced by the phytolith assemblages and paleosol geochemical proxies. The ecosystem was predominatly C3 with limited C4 biomass! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

You thought the voters list debacle was bad? 20 years ago, Alberta Conservatives wanted our birthdays on it too! albertapolitics.ca/2026/05/you-...

This is more than enough justification to hold a public inquiry.

📢 DID YOU KNOW that the First Circular of 38th International Geological Congress is NOW available, and the Call for Sessions is officially open? 🎉 www.igc2028canada.org/igc-2028-cir... #IGC2028Canada #GeosciencesForHumanity #DidYouKnow #CallForSessions #GetInvolved

So someone made this. And in a time when no one seems to be fighting back against these awful, racist, useless referendum(b) questions, this gave me a glimmer of hope. #ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli #referendumb #Alberta

Hate me today Hate me tomorrow Hate me for all the things I didn’t do to you deadfortaxreasons.wordpress.com/2026/04/21/i...

🧵 The Canadian federal government’s 2025 budget has allocated: More business tax breaks including for fossil fuels sector $925 million for AI $81.8 billion over 5 years for military However, this comes at the expense of cultural heritage.

Hi! I'm not here very often, but I just launched my brand new lab website! I'm also hiring a !!! three-year !!! Postdoc. Interest form link can be found under "The Team" section. (Current domain name is temporary haha. FormorphologyLab dot com coming soon!) badger-mustard-h5jf.squarespace.com

Here's one small trick to save a nation: Invest in the welfare state. Countries exist to serve their people. Canada should remember that. www.davidmoscrop.com/p/one-small-...

From Rakhi Pancholi’s Instagram. Some people are vile and idiots. Anyway, if you’re looking for an HVAC provider in Calgary, don’t pick this guy.

"I want to remind you that the future is yours, and it is not known — not by you, not by Georgetown, not by Sam Altman or Elon Musk, not by the chatbot, not by me. And that is a beautiful thing."

Alberta's children are the lowest funded students in Canada, but sure, let's cut a check for the UCP's friends that run charter schools. #abpoli #ableg Article by @jantafrench.bsky.social www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

I’d happily give up my tax cut in exchange for enforcing the Canada Health Act and giving us the health care we have a right to. I mean, what good is the tax cut if it’s gonna have to be used for private medical treatment?

"AI will let us turn PhDs from 4 year degrees into 6 month degrees!" Literally shitting on the part that makes it intellectual development. It requires things like *reading* for yourself and *writing* for yourself. Those aren't chores, they're part of skills acquisition and critical development.

Canada ‘abandoning’ international law with support for U.S. strikes on Iran, say former diplomats www.hilltimes.com/story/2026/0...

The provincial government has just imposed the largest property tax increase on Calgarians in history. In 2026, Alberta is increasing its share of your property tax bill by 21.05%. Nearly 42% of every residential property tax dollar now goes to Province.

Obituary for a great paleobiologist Richard Karl Bambach (18 May 1934–20 June 2025) who infused the large-scale functional approaches to paleobiology and paleoecology. doi.org/10.1017/pab.... 🧪 ⚒️ #Geology #Paleobio #EvoBio

Getting shown up in the arena of elite impunity by *the British monarchy* is an incredible “America at 250!” achievement

👋👋👋 The University of Calgary told CBC News in November it is facing a $34.7 million shortfall this school year, following a $15.3 million financial hit the year prior.  www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

NEW POST: Danielle Smith is no separatist; she's much, much worse emmettmacfarlane.substack.com/p/danielle-s...

My department at CSU Northridge is hiring a vertebrate functional morphologist! We've got a great EEB group, and we're looking for someone to carry forward a tradition of enriching organismal courses and community-engaged research. App review starts March 15 csucareers.calstate.edu/mob/cw/en-us...

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

American tweeps! About a decade ago one big university, I think in Texas, decided it wanted to remake itself by radically changing its credit system to accomodate lots of nanocourses but the initiative fell apart after millions of $ in IT costs. Which institution was it?

It shouldn't need to be said, but here we are.

Hey, neighbour! I want you to help me choose where the next two pedestrian flashing lights will be installed in Ward 4. You can see more details on the locations that have already been suggested by neighbours over the last month, and how to cast your vote at www.djkelly.ca/guide_djs_vote.

23% of Americans want their State to separate from the USA. Alberta is polling at 19% wanting to separate. It's less separatist than: Alaska, Hawaii, Washington Montana, Idaho, California, Nevada, Colorado, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas, Illinois, Louisiana, Arkansas, Indiana, New York.......

Friends, I’d like to show @ucalgary.bsky.social that @bsky.app is where the cool kids hang out and that they should start posting here more and less/none at TheBadPlace™️. Show them some love by reskeeting this 100000000x. 🧪

I am calling for a complete and total boycott of the Mercator projection in all news stories about Greenland until every member of the American public has seen this

Having just spent 20 minutes scrolling, I'm just going to leave this here for any American academics who might be looking for options: www.canada.ca/en/impact-pl...

Canada’s #Conservative Party is either unable to comprehend international law or UN charters, or they are so lawless in their far right ideology, that they don’t think laws should apply to any lawless act they agree with. #cdnpoli #VenezuelaInvasion #CanadianPolitics #CanadaSky

Perhaps a late Xmas/Chanukah/Festivus/Kwanzaa present for some research hot shot currently not in Canada but who might like to move here - the new Impact+ Research Chairs. Note the strategic areas in Arctic, environment, climate resilience and water security. 🧪⚒️ careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1717054...

An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.

The CUNY Graduate Center Anthropology Department is holding a virtual open house for students interested in the PhD program on Friday Dec 5th at 2pm EST. Register here: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

The NSF Bio Anthro Program DDRIG, Cultural Anthrpology DDRIG, and Archaeology DDRIG have all been archived (as of yesterday afternoon). Please speak with your grad students and plan accordingly. To say I am angry and depressed about this is an understatement.

“Canada was never going to quit the US overnight or outright, and that wasn’t [Mark] Carney’s promise,” writes @davidmoscrop.com. “But our defiant posture raises questions about just how far we’re willing to go along to get along.” thewalrus.ca/carney-promised-...

Foot in door! NPS paleontology seasonal positions! www.usajobs.gov/job/85081670... @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social

Can you teach human anatomy - or know someone who can? CWRU Anatomy is recruiting, and it would be great to have another paleontologist in the department! More info and application: apply.interfolio.com/151831 Please share widely! @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social