NS government hired a US company (Huron) to help do a review of university programs. Cost 400K. It did not bother to check whether Huron's methodology was compatible with local data collection practices (it wasn't). Now Huron is trying to get unis to pay them to improve their data collection.

On the podcast today: my chat with Genome Canada CEO Rob Annan on Science and Science funding (both in Canada and globally). I really enjoyed this one, hope you will too.

Here's the biggest PSE story you haven't heard yet: the Canada Student Grant for low-income students is being cut from $4200/year to $3000/year as of next August. It's implicit in the budget tables but the government is too chickenshit to actually say so directly.

Givin’g ‘em the ol’ razzle dazzle.

Audible damn gasp

Clicked in to see what people were saying on UK HE reform stuff that came out today only to be met by photos of Donald trump tearing down pieces of the White House ....nope

Spent the day at a conference and I left with a burning question: how do men choose their dress socks for their outfits?

Well now this is a heck of a graph

Again, the escalator and teleprompter errors were the result of Trump's people screwing up, so this is a great example of how the right works

Somewhere between 3-5 pm EST, I gained an irrational(?) fear of economic collapse and my full day has been much worse ever since

Yeaaaaaaaah, I'd be willing to bet TWO full coffee that we aren't seeing science research funding directly.

Can't say I disagree with this suggestion

JUST IN: US judge blocks Trump from cutting migrants off from Head Start, other programs reut.rs/46hkgV4

Is the StatsCan website always crashed or do I crash the StatsCan website????????????????????????

fwiw, it's not easy engagement bait like assessing who's speaking at the cabinet retreat, but people who care about Canadian economic policy should be paying more attention to this: www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/back...

Girls gone mild Craftelorette (bachelorette but crafting) Craft #1

I did indeed just find out where the phrase “drinking the kool-aid” comes from and wow folks, that is grim, why do we say that????

Happy Friday

I am actually quite mad about this one - wtf

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And scene. www.opb.org/article/2025...

I’ve been back in Antigonish for 15 minutes and I’m already pricing out houses Uh oh

WeTransfer just changed their TOS giving themselves permission to train AI on any content you transfer and produce derivative works based on content you transfer that they are allowed to monetize and you are not allowed payment for. Stop using WeTransfer.

The real answer to “how is everything going?” Yeah, it’s fine, this is fine

Shout out to my favorite restaurant on earth, the canteen on Portland. I really said “guys I’m in town and I have 50 mins until my plane is boarding and it’s a 30 min drive” and they said “we absolutely got you, what do you want to order?” My people

Honestly, even the Chinese and Russians never made me do this to get a visa. Even the North Koreans, who made me hand over my phone for the duration of my visit, never made this demand.

My calgary bar skill is that I can walk you through the pathway from crude unprocessed oil to mascara. That'll get ya a beer or two from some random folks in 'Berta.

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I am excited for whatever point in my life I get to be a psychometrician because I think I am meant really play in surveys for at least a year or two

The #uoGrad25 spotlight now shines on Alanis Morissette, who is receiving an honorary doctorate. Born and raised in Ottawa, Alanis Morissette has been one of the most influential singer-songwriter-musicians in contemporary music.

Trump administration terminated a key contract to train college officials on how to report data to the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), a move that could further hamper the Education Department’s data infrastructure. www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

oof "For history shows that universities can die, and nations will decay."

Mircodosing imposter syndrome by sitting in meetings with CEOs

NEW: Judge Burroughs GRANTS Harvard's request for a TRO blocking the Trump admin from barring its international students from entering the United States. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Real overwhelmed, but looking real cute and leaning real hard on the local resources

wait, wait, wait, did we (the general we) ever expect that he wasn't?????

This is a big move against accreditors. Expect more to come, as this is a sly way to strip federal financial aid from colleges.

Small news story compared to multi country bans but students on a visa from Harvard can no longer enter the United States due to “national security threats” www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

BREAKING: The Florida higher education system Board of Governors rejects the hiring of Santa Ono as University of Florida president. Vote was 6 yes, 10 no.

🚨 #BreakingNews | Florida Board Rejects Ono for UF Job The Florida Board of Governors decided against confirming Santa Ono as president of the University of Florida in a contentious vote focused on diversity, equity and inclusion. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/43XXGka

Having the scariest Sunday scaries that have ever scaried

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Student mobility is one of my favourite topics and Carley is my one of my favourite collaborators

Free speech! But not against the government and its actions! and definitely not on socials!!!!

CGHE Simon Marginson: “The U.S. has been the premier system. And Harvard’s reputation carries the U.S. system to some extent. For Harvard to be substantially weakened in the eyes of the world is for the U.S. higher education system to be somewhat weakened.” time.com/7288422/harv...

Just did my first live news cast on the impacts of the Trump vs. Harvard fight and oh boy that is a nerve-wracking experience.