4 of 6 stories in the GTA section of the Toronto Star are vehicle collisions, 2 of them pedestrians. Not a great look for the city.

+ women are not a special interest group! We are not homogenous! We are half the population! That seems to be missing from the discourse every single time.

This account is undefeated.

Solidarity to anyone practicing their fake-purple-hair dragon braiding technique tonight.

Excited to share that the Centre for International and Defence Policy at Queen's University is recruiting a Postdoctoral Fellow for our EU #HorizonEurope project AMALTHEA on gender, radicalization & extremism. www.queensu.ca/cidp/call-ap...

Hey @tomflood.bsky.social I had to write about this. - Walking isn’t Toronto’s Problem. It’s our Superpower. medium.com/@lanrickbenn...

🚨 ALERT 🚨 It is now officially babies in tiny jackets with ears on the hoods season. Please be on the lookout for babies in tiny jackets with ears on the hoods at all times.

Shouts out to Max Scherzer, doing it for all the guys over 40 who experience neck, shoulder and back pain because of the violent repetitive movement of their bodies, whether that's Pitching to Major League Hitters or Shifting Slightly in Bed

Weird timing for the Conservatives to announce that they wish Vladdy wasn't a Canadian citizen. www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art...

We are not powerless in the face of rising hate, harassment and violence. If we take the time to learn effective de-escalation and intervention skills, we CAN keep each other safe. Give me 1 hour of your time and I'll teach you how. It's free and open to anyone aged 12+ ✊ zoom.us/webinar/regi...

submit your ideas for topics here: forms.gle/ZTJ4E6nWG6Ua...

As an instructor, I'd rather see your fever dream, No Doze-fueled 4AM essays written at an IHOP rather than anything generated by an LLM. Hope this helps

MW correctly reading the room

How, exactly, do the Canadian Armed Forces deploy on operations with an ally who doesn't respect ROEs?

Quick reminder that fascism is almost always obsessed with the aesthetics of the male body—sculpted, uniformed, disciplined.

You guys, so many Romance girlies are reading "On Tyranny" that they've broken the Goodreads recommendations algorithm. 10/10; no notes. #romancelandia

My headcanon is that this show is now about Evil C.J. Cregg and Evil Josh Lyman www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6UX...

This judgy former conference planner wants all of your events to have: ✅ a protein option at breakfast ✅ coffee urns left out until they’re empty ✅ hot water in a container that’s never held coffee ✅ the dessert from lunch held back until the afternoon so you feel like you had an extra treat

🚨 My department @westernu.ca is hiring up to two TT Assistant Professors in International Politics (IR/CP). I’m not on the search committee, but I’ll be at APSA next week — happy to chat & answer questions! Application info: www.uwo.ca/facultyrelat... #polisky #conflictsky #intsec #IR

installing some “please walk your car or truck” decals in every residential neighborhood in the city

Thank you @lisafalkenberg.bsky.social for this much-needed piece.

One more week left to get chapter proposals in for consideration for our edited volume on Gender and National security. See more info below 😊

As a journal editor, I agree 💯 with @catherinedevries.bsky.social. To me, the lit review is the single most important part of any paper. There are many ways to do one, and it is often hard to do well, but this essay gives some excellent advice: catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/most-liter...

Seeking contributions for a volume on gender & national security. Proposal for July 15 / FFP/WPS & Natsec, mainstreaming, gender backlash, theoretical reflections, country case studies, etc. all welcome. drive.google.com/file/d/14lPN...

Germany (Britain and others too) is closing its embassy and evacuating all diplomatic staff out or Iran. Including my daughter-in-law. With airspace closed, they are travelling as a convoy via the highway east to Turkmenistan. It will be a very long and stressful trip.

🇨🇦 Canadian Network for Security, Extremism, & Society: 2025 Call for Research Proposals -support timely, policy-relevant projects addressing extremism, radicalization, disengagement, or counter-terrorism in CAN -Funding's avail across 3 project scales *deliverables expected w/in 3 to 6 months

Funding alert! Small (<$5K), med (<$10K) & large (<$30K) grands for projects addressing extremism, radicalization, disengagement, or counter-terrorism relevant to the Canadian context. canses.ca/canses-fundi...

Amazing: MIT researchers revealed how ChatGPT etc are destroying our brains and booby-trapped the report to expose those who want to use AI to ostensibly summarize the results. t.co/JXeTALBPds

🧵IR scholars, let's start a thread of what we know that's relevant for a US attack on Iran. Won't change any minds, but might help us teach this crisis and learn new angles. Please add (incl. your own work!), forgive/correct omissions. Nobody can cover everything and it's great to find new work. 1/?

FTR, the RIGHT side of this is a steadfast insistence on upholding the integrity of international law & condemning the indiscriminate targeting of civilians- by anyone, for any purpose. We cannot stand for justice while declaring our "unwavering support" to *any* state that flouts these principles.

I just did 1/2 half hour of the parachute at the local EarlyOn toddler gym & I tell you you feel better about the world after. First time doing parachute since … the Reagan era. Egads. Glad it’s still a thing.

The entire Fulbright board has resigned. The administration is politicizing the Fulbright program and rejecting people whose research is not to its liking. /1 www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/u...

OMG!!!!!

Really interesting story. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

I tell you this is depressing. I have no other word. Compounded by Ford's highwayman bravado. It's depressing.

1/ Something I haven't seen reported on in the extremism beat yet: Last week, at least one US court began grossly mischaracterizating violent attack planners with no connection to abortion politics as "anti-pro-life," despite no targeting of the pro-life movement.

A classic one for Amelia! I’m not kidding. Amelia taught us how meaning changes depending on context, word choice, syntax and context! All important skills when the whole info ecosystem now wants to flatten it all into a meaningless blob.

UK teenager who killed herself was ‘highly affected’ by terrorism arrest, inquest finds

By law, Trump can’t send them in without invoking the Insurrection Act. And there’s noting about these protests that would merit that. But he’s no longer really bound by the law, because there’s no mechanism other than impeachment to hold him accountable for breaking it. So who the hell knows.

THREE 5-year Lectureships in IR at Oxford. One person will have expertise in Historical and Interpretive Methods; another in Qualitative Methods, and a third in Quantitative Methods We're looking for people with substantive expertise in historical international relations, the IR of Africa...

"Terrible things are happening outside. At any time of night and day poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes [...] Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared." -Anne Frank

once again I must tap my own sign

chat is it normal to invite the head of a govt alleged to have been involved in the extrajudicial killing a canadian citizen on canadian soil to canada asking for a diaspora

My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy. Details found here👇 www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...

Nana aba Duncan had the idea, I just made the cards. Find me at #CPSA_ACSP25 if you want one.

@mirya.bsky.social I had occasion to cycle on a commuter route today and thought of you because it turns out there are also CycleBros and you can hear them when you end up behind them if the wind is blowing in the right direction.

Fully agree with Blayne here, this message is tone deaf at best, there is no way the US is a safe venue for many colleagues, particularly trans colleagues & those who require visas, @isanet.bsky.social really needs to reflect on whether it’s the International Studies Association or a national org!

We were so close to eradicating HIV in our lifetimes. I will never get over the cruelty & hate.