Are you experienced with X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, and looking for a new role? Or do you know someone who might be looking? We are recruiting for a Staff Scientist position at UBC. Find out more 👇 Please repost. 🧪🔬 ubc.wd10.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/ubcfac...

Citing frustrations with a growing caseload and insufficient resources, the chair of the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal, Emily Ohler, is stepping down two years before her term ends. thetyee.ca/News/2026/07...

Quintessential Gary Mason. "Mr. Poilievre is a man ill-equipped, intellectually, for the times the nation faces." www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/65d6ffc...

It is eerie flying into Toronto this evening. The smell of smoke has seeped through the plane's air filtration system, as well.

The long war over water between oil/gas folks and ranchers in Alberta gets a new front with the emergence of massive AI data centres requiring enormous amounts of energy and cooling (read "water" for current designs).

This is honestly wild. Not only do I think this was a political decision AND against the Vancouver Charter’s rules of good governance, it’s also a waste of taxpayer money. Dozens of hours have been spent crafting motions that were drafted in consultation with community members

I'm sad to report that Mark Wise, theoretical physicist at Caltech, has passed away. He was my friend and collaborator, a giant of theoretical physics, and just one of my favorite people. RIP. www.pma.caltech.edu/people/mark-...

New from the @ubyssey.ca "How safe is our data?" - which explores some of the longer term repercussions of the Canvas/Instructure data breach. ubyssey.ca/news/how-saf...

No debate by City Council. No real scrutiny of the budget for this extension. No consideration of the impacts on the surrounding neighbourhoods, and no planning or setting of expectations for what the focus of the street activities during this time. Plan: Mayor shows people how to shotgun a beer?

Vancouver approved $4.75 million to make five blocks of Granville Street car free for seven more weeks. But the organizations they gave the money to — the VPD and BIA — can't say what that money will be spent on. Here's our story on a plan being made up on the fly. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

“The department is central to the democratic control over the way that research happens, teaching happens” Dr. Geoffrey Whitehall, President of AUFA Read to the full CBC article on restructuring at Acadia 👇 www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

From yesterday.

McGill is unusual in Canada when it comes to its approach to faculty labour relations.

Is there a serious piece of AI governance legislation anywhere?

11th Circuit: Academic freedom is specially protected by the First Amendment, though university professors are subject to some ordinary employee management. However, the state has no compelling interest in making academics mouthpieces for a government viewpoint consistent with the First Amendment.

Tidy piece of work from @liamnewbigging.bsky.social, who found an eight-plex in Edmonton that was built with CMHC affordable housing financing that's being used exclusively as an AirBnB. edmontonjournal.com/news/hotel-e...

45 years ago today. Buried on page 20 on a holiday Friday just like this one, news that changed the world. www.nytimes.com/1981/07/03/u...

Alberta is a massive beneficiary of brain drain from other parts of Canada. To the tune of $100B. The social and economic union pays immense dividends. Trevor Tombe brings the receipts. thehub.ca/2026/07/02/t...

Here's why a 67-year old suburban tunnel in Metro Vancouver is key to understanding the truce that allowed today's pipeline announcements to go through www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Shaping the Future of Mathematics in the Age of AI www.ams.org/journals/not...

New Faculty Research Published: Basement membrane turnover drives filopodial protease-independent invasion. 💡 Dr. Anotida Madzvamuse and his co-authors explore how cancer cells may spread by exploiting the body's natural tissue repair process. Read the full paper ▶️ tinyurl.com/3u3stv9e

Remembering Alan Turing during Pride Month. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈💗 www.kings.cam.ac.uk/alan-mathiso...

@geronursing.bsky.social 😊

Awful. 😢

Starting this September, CPSC 210 will have an increased emphasis on code fluency, technical skills, and software testing. The course will be transitioned to the TypeScript language. Read more: www.cs.ubc.ca/news/2026/06...

It turns out Vancouver Coastal Health has a very VERY narrow definition of “surgery” — at least when it comes to emergency infrastructure This is a real head scratcher www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...

A year ago this month, Wazhma was imprisoned in Pakistan and shipped through the Khyber Pass to be deported to the Taliban, after four years hiding with her 3 child siblings. Yesterday I attended her graduation from a bridging program that lets her enter full-time undergrad studies this fall

The devil is always in the deails.

Australian. From March 2026. (Recent conversations about the use of consultants in Canadian universities has me re-reading The Consultancy Conundrum, a book on the consultancy scandal in Australian public institutions.) www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...

Hard to argue against this. Joyal is an extremely thoughtful, sharp jurist with expertise in constitutional and criminal law, and tremendous experience on the bench and judicial administration to boot.

What would regulating AI look like, especially given we understand so little about how it will evolve? www.theage.com.au/national/cha...

Lytton just cant catch a break. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

See also the older but continuously developing Sudbury neutrino observatory: www.snolab.ca

There is a real affordability crisis in Vancouver (and elsewhere). Housing is a major driver, but alongside high food prices and other essential living costs, it has pushed the living wage to a level that too few people can earn. The affordability crisis won't be solved by optimism alone.

Writing mathematics is a highly iterative process for me, and one that requires me to think and re-think, to refine my understanding as I refine the mathematical results and the proofs of them. While the process can start with an idea, mathematical proofs demand these ideas be tested and tempered.

Bridges over a troubled President Gordie Howe isn't the only delay by @deAdder Substack: open.substack.com/pub/deadder/...

My friend Bob did this...

I’m grateful I don’t have to work evenings and weekends but today, I’ll join #ScholarSunday to honour my friend, Raul Pacheco Vega. In “Getting Under the Hood” (2014), Sarah Eddy and @kellyhogan.bsky.social show the connection between active learning and inclusive teaching. One of my fav papers.

The commanding heights of universities are not liberal spaces

In 2010 at UBC,vjoint working groups of the UBC Faculty Association and UBC issued reports on gender pay equity amongst tenure-stream faculty at UBC. The reports of these working groups set the standard for analyzing pay equity and responding to it. www.facultyassociation.ubc.ca/tag/pay-equi...