Happening next Tuesday in Vancouver. www.sfu.ca/publicsquare...

🟨 New Publication in #LMT 🟪 Prue Miles, Kylie Boltin, @spoyntz.bsky.social and Jill Willis explored how #videostorytelling could be used to convey students' #affect toward #verticalschools, informing decision-makers in the process. Read more: tinyurl.com/y6s99nu2

Very happy to share a new article with friends in Australia. Schools, space and atmospheres: the value of student videos in negotiating contested spaces in new urban vertical schools www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

God damn. Of course it’s Shakespeare making sunsetting medium stunningly relevant again.

Join SFU CERi in TWO WEEKS for the launch of Critical Futures: Community-Engaged Research in a Time of Crisis and Social Transformation, edited by School of Communication professor @spoyntz.bsky.social, Am Johal and Kari Grain. Register now: www.sfu.ca/ceri/events/...

A Vital Bridge Linking Higher Ed to the Downtown Eastside via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

🔊 Did you hear about SFU's Demshot Challenge yet? If you have an idea that could strengthen trust, participation, or social cohesion in Canadian democracy, SFU wants to hear from you! 📆 Launch event: Tuesday, Jan 27, 6–7 PM (all undergrad + grad students welcome) ✍️ Register: lnkd.in/gYgzKpzN

This should be illegal for a Canadian company www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...

Many of us left the 60,000 or so followers who read & spread the work that is our livelihood (freelancers often drive their own traffic) because we won’t write the content that fuels a hate site. Yet my MP & Prime Minister still post on Musk’s Stormfront lite with integrated CSAM generator platform.

It is to Canada's shame we have not spoken out or supported a Canadian judge being sanctioned by the US Her life is frozen. She cannot use credit cards, travel, move money, or access email. This is not sustainable www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...

The Liberal government’s new immigration levels plan is a disappointing retreat from Canada’s history as a welcoming, inclusive country. Instead of strengthening families and communities, it closes doors and divides people. 1/

Britain's youth clubs have been quietly decimated. What's most revealing is that few seem to care | John Harris

Despite the unending doubtmongering – especially from MAGA / MAHA universe – studies continue to show COVID vaccines have significant benefits & an impressive safety profile. Good sum by ‪@unbiasedscipod.bsky.social‬ of one recent study👇 Study: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Applications are still being accepted for the Postdoctoral position until this Friday!

Congratulations to CMNS professor Fred Lesage, an award recipient of the SSHRC Knowledge Synthesis Grants Competition - Envisioning Governance Systems that Work. His project is on Creating Data Publics for Governance in collaboration with Professor Daniel Ashton (University of Southampton).

Canada has dramatically higher transit modeshare than the US is something people clearly need to hear much more often.

There's still time to apply to this Postdoctoral job opportunity. Don't miss out!

This is a shocking and disastrous development. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Representing SFU proudly at the IAMCR Conference in Singapore! Pictured left to right, front to back: Dr. Anis Rahman, Monica Yousofi, Hoornaz Keshavarzian, Jimena Abreu Fernandez, Diana Limbaga, Dr. Ahmed Al-Rawi, Dr. Taeyoung Kim, Dr. Byron Hauck, Katya Letunovskaya.

Written by my friend, Dr. Rena Bivens, please read: theconversation.com/why-queer-th...

This framing is just malpractice from what was very recently one of the two greatest papers in America

New CJC! cjc.utppublishing.com/journal/cjc

I never thought C-11, which I have always supported, would be easy, but wow the streamers are kicking and screaming on this one. I'm sure other nations with similar policies will be watching closely. www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/article...

This is great to see

Disappointed to see this CBC report on social media age limits contains false information. It says Australia is “using government-issued ID as a form of verification,” but not only has the ban not started, they haven’t decided on the enforcement mechanism yet.

If you aren't already, I suggest following @maxboot.bsky.social and adding him to your Starter Packs. wapo.st/43Fqdd4

Professor Siyuan Yin recently published a new book, "Contesting Inequalities: Mediated Labour Activism and Rural Migrant Workers in China". Learn more about the process of writing this book and her research in our feature story! www.sfu.ca/communicatio...

We are pleased to invite you to the CCA/CJC co-sponsored Roundtable, “The Author Is Dying: AI and The Possible Futures For Academic Publishing” to be held as part of the CCA Conference @ Congress, June 2, 1:30-3:00, Room WF 210 at George Brown College.

There is no hell deep enough to contain the people involved with this

the CBC should step in and give Sesame Street a new home. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/u...

Cultural Mapping as Cultural Inquiry Edited By Nancy Duxbury, W.F. Garrett-Petts, David MacLennan (Available now in a paperback edition) www.routledge.com/Cultural-Map...

Part of the Filipino communities & supporters' week of mourning, a vigil at 6pm Wednesday April 30. Organized by students, at the #SFU #Burnaby campus, in the Student Union Building.

Important message from @christineboyle.bsky.social & Jody Wilson-Raybould 👇 "Rather than fear mongering & promoting ignorance of our shared history, we need to embrace the true foundations of BC & Canada, and respond to real threats together & in true partnership." vancouversun.com/opinion/opin...

Not the source I expected to call for a mass uprising in the States, complete with closing Marx reference. But he's totally right. Your move, America. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/o...

I tuned out this Insurrection Act stuff, thinking it was fear mongering (because of the sources). But no, it’s a real thing. April 20th - Hitler’s b-day by coincidence, I guess Friday the 13th wasn’t available.

"the president defied a Supreme Court ruling to return a man mistakenly sent to a gulag... and spoke of sending Americans to foreign concentration camps. This is the beginning of an American policy of state terror, and it has to be identified as such to be stopped" snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror

Ah yes.

Followup - voter turnout was 15%, compared to 11% in last municipal by-lection. City of Vancouver claims it was overwhelmed by turnout. Really? Or was this the plan?

Wow, City of Vancouver has failed its citizens. See @jmcelroy.bsky.social for details on why. #Vanpoli

I've heard back from the City of Vancouver. They confirmed that they have approximately 265 staff "currently in the field" working the byelection. That's a 79% dropoff from the 2017 byelection. Odd they didn't mention that in their original explanation to media as to why lines were so long.

I've cracked the code of why byelection lineups are so long in Vancouver today. It's not just a turnout question. Compared to the 2017 byelection, the city decreased the number of election workers by EIGHTY PERCENT. From 1,250 in 2017 to 250 this time around. This was a staff recommendation.

"Kidnapped": 1,000+ Protest After Masked ICE Agents Abduct Tufts Ph.D. Student Rumeysa Ozturk

Sharing the Canadian Journal of Communication's statement on the passing of Jonathan Sterne. Please circulate, with thanks. cjc.utppublishing.com

This Thursday 👇

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Chilling report from Brown University. Administration advises all foreign students, staff, and faculty to postpone or reconsider (ie cancel) international travel, due to federal government's crackdown on universities. Brown also warns against *domestic travel* -since it's unclear what ICE will do.

🚨 Join hundreds donating to piss off Elon Musk🚨 We're a small group of volunteers and we don't have tech bros to fund our secret plans, but we've got each other! Chip in to fund new actions in the UK like our viral ads: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/everyone-h...

This is some sick shit. Heritage Foundation lays out their case that slashing higher ed and gutting public K-12 will increase fertility (for certain desirable populations, of course).