I really need all of us to abandon any impostor syndrome. It’s time.

Cornell is cancelling a distinguished professor's classes on Gaza and suspending him because of the complaints of a student who previously served in Israel's military surveillance agency and was literally recording the comments of other students in class and deliberately derailing discussion.

Shocking that a banker who thinks he can simply run a government cannot in fact run a government.

Before I turn on @npr.org again or read another @nytimes.com editorial, because I know exactly how it'll be: This isn't "a threat" to academic freedom. It's not igniting "a debate" about it. The "future" of academic freedom isn't at stake. This is what the end of academic freedom has made possible.

Yeah I've noticed this before and I don't like it... We don't need to discover what causes autism or panic about it. The increase is increased awareness ergo funding and testing. Of course you didn't more bacteria when you develop a better inking method.

In addition to cancelling your Disney accounts, now is also a great time to delete academia.edu

I'm increasingly disappointed in the left's response to traditionally far-right conspiracy theories that vaccines/Tylenol "cause" autism. Our response is usually to deny the association but not the premise, which is that autism itself is pathological.

Worth considering if you’re subscribed.

As usual with conspiracists, if their theories were true the evidence would be overwhelming.

Deleting my Academia.edu account in light of their predatory new terms and conditions. There is no way of opting out. It's a shame because it has been useful over the years, but I'm not prepared to give them these rights. Thanks to @downham.bsky.social for highlighting!

The Alchemy Lecture 2025 Sound—at the Interregnum Glen Coulthard Canisia Lubrin Madeleine Thien Immanuel Wilkins Date: October 30, 2025 Time: 5 - 8 p.m. (Reception: 5 - 6 p.m.) Venue: Tribute Communities Recital Hall, CIBC Lobby (Location) YorkU Event type: Hybrid – in person and online

BCCLA condemns the Liberal government’s unfounded, biased, and authoritarian decision to bar Irish-language rap group @kneecapceol.bsky.social from Canada, preventing them from performing their October shows. Email your MP and tell them to Reverse Kneecap's Travel Ban! bit.ly/ReverseKneec...

The Cinnabon at the Eglinton subway was a tractor beam

This happened the same day Canada announces a new law, Bill C-9 "the Combatting Hate Act", so it's pretty obvious who they are threatening here. I wonder how long until we're all jailed for pointing out the basic fact that all settler colonial projects are genocidal www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/...

All eyes on the Global Sumud Flotilla. Israel is escalating its rhetoric, gearing up for something major. Diplomatic pressure can make a difference. This is the moment to pressure our governments to stand up for the right to deliver humanitarian aid to Palestinians being deliberately starved.

They gave a standing ovation to a guy who advocated for public executions of elected officials among other vile racist and sexist utterances but this, they ban.

I‘m glad I deleted my Academia.edu account already— the writing was on the wall. It’s much less popular with humanities folk, but ResearchGate has twice as many monthly visitors(!) and, so far, none of this fuckery.

Just eight months in and practically every media conglomerate is welcoming a fascist dictatorship

If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.

It has been nearly 7 months since UNRWA aid was allowed into #Gaza. UNRWA has a committed team of 11,000 on the ground. They are providing healthcare, water, sanitation, psychosocial support and learning. But supplies are desperately needed. The siege must be lifted. Let us do our work.

Solemn response to the latest atrocity: “There are no words.” I’m sorry— you’re going to have to get out there and find some words.

Powerful new piece from Ta-Nehisi Coates @vanityfair.com www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...

“We’ve normalised horror” in #Gaza, our JulietteTouma tells @newhumanitarian.bsky.social “There's been impunity – and that has been going on for a long, long, long time… This carte blanche has got us, all of us, where we are right now.” This must stop.

human remains up for sale at a Hampshire auction house — it’s time the trade in body parts is outlawed, as recommended by the All Party Parliamentary Group report Laying Ancestors to Rest www.liveauctioneers.com/item/2146051...

Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, says UN inquiry

If you want to know what the UK government's position is on its obligations under the Genocide Convention in relation to its support for Israel, here's what it argued in court this summer.

It's here!!!

I was listening the Maron this morning on the train. Jamie Lee Curtis was literally in tears(!) over someone who very likely would’ve been happy to see her interviewer machine-gunned in a ditch. Bizarre stuff.

Stuart Hall Essay Prize. Please disseminate: www.stuarthallfoundation.org/foundation/s...

This is such a throwback to 1930s press normalization of Hitler, with trans community in same position, even as other parts have shifted somewhat.

"Capitalist plunder is, therefore, inextricable from racial dispossession and the unequal expropriation structuring state and social formation." —Harsha Walia "Border and Rule" 2021 @harshawalia.bsky.social

Reminder that if you’re still posting on Twitter then you’re monetizing this

Excellent work by colleagues at the University of Berne. www.anthro.unibe.ch/about_us/lec...

◤◢◤試し読み公開！！！◢◤◢ シャオルー・マー著 秋草俊一郎・今井亮一・高橋知之訳 『仲介する日本　ロシアから中国への文化横断とリレー翻訳』 hanmoto.tameshiyo.me/9784867660966

"We reject any process that tramples our inherent and constitutionally protected title and rights, ignores free, prior and informed consent, and sacrifices the climate for foreign corporate profits. True nation-building requires working with us, not against us.” GCSP www.ubcic.bc.ca/first_nation...

Mark Carney continues to use the phrase “decarbonized oil” to try to greenwash a new oil pipeline for Alberta. It’s so shameless and I would argue it even shows contempt for the public to be so dishonest.

Seriously.

Only 1 in 6 victims of sexual assault report the crime because of staggeringly low rates of success in investigation & conviction, but sure, let’s use resources to go after a famous artist for posting on a listed building. This gov’t has so badly lost step. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...

Clue to help spot the difference between serious historical writing and historical propaganda: Is the author a specialist historian or a non-specialist connected with think tanks & lobbying companies? alanlester.co.uk/blog/accusat...

About Nepal: 1. It's not about social media bans, it's about corruption, austerity (incl IMF-imposed) & jobs (~20% unemployment) 2. ~1/3 of economy relies on remittances 3. Biggest gap is not realizing this is ostensibly 'left' govt & context of Left struggles and splits in Nepal, & what's next

The ultimate Reviewer #2.

It’s incredibly expensive and I’m sure terrible but I secretly covet ‘80s Dune manga.

リンダ・トゥヒワイ・スミス『脱植民地化の方法論』は、学問という制度に潜む人種主義や植民地主義を批判した画期的な著作です。ついに日本語訳が出ました〜 Japanese translation of groundbreaking Linda Tuhiwai Smith's Decolonizing Methodologies is finally out!!! comingbook.honzuki.jp?detail=97848...

Such an odd thing to read in the newspaper www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...

One reason I sneer at “Justin was too far left” discourse is just how far to the right he was compared to the not-entirely-repentant former communists, including his dad, who dominated the party for 40 years. Apparently the corrective for this is a central banker possessed by Adrien Arcand’s ghost.

Find me a country that hasn’t made its archeology part of its politics!

A new essay from me synthesizing the rich body of media criticism in Japanese focused on the practice of "August journalism" (八月ジャーナリズム): the tendency for rehearsed, compressed, and hollowed-out coverage of war memory each August. apjjf.org/2025/9/fedman

And yet a trace of the true self resides in the false self

RIP Graham Greene. Every time he popped up on screen when I was a kid, my mom would excitedly point him out for being an actual Native on the screen. Able to be deadly serious and infinitely hilarious (even in smaller roles like Last of Us), he ate up the screen. Nʌki’wah brother.

One of them is a ludicrous, inconsistent map built off insane assumptions that only an uneducated idiot could make that falls apart within minutes of any considered scrutiny. The other is from a children's books with flying brooms and magic potions