Excited to be returning to Birmingham as a plenary speaker alongside the brilliant @aparasram.bsky.social of @dalhistory.bsky.social ! This will be my first time at @astonuniversity.bsky.social ! Looking forward to it!

Congratulations to the @dalfaculty.bsky.social for their steadfast work to secure a fair deal for their members. We were proud to stand beside you every step of the way. Let's hope that the nonsense that was wrought upon you will never be witnessed again.

Israel is targeting children, more than 100 shot in head by sniper rifles and targeted by drones, according to foreign doctors. The West has toppled governments for nothing through the last 100 years, but it continues to sustain this genocidal terror state no matter what they do.

Senate must ask leadership to explain this Aug18 claim: "If a labour disruption is inevitable, then it’s in Dalhousie Univ’s best interest to move to that stage now" Why was disruption "inevitable"? What "interest" does this refer to? Show Senate the evidence for this conclusion. #KeepDalStrong

Students demand tuition back!

Happening now in the quad! The DSU and the DFA are hosting teach ins from 12 to 1! @dalfaculty.bsky.social

Gen Z showing us how it’s done yet again. Nepal’s youth force govt to focus on corruption instead of social media www.ndtv.com/world-news/n...

Today, DFA Exec agreed to amend the complaint filed late Aug with the NS Labour Board. The @dalhousieu.bsky.social Board's attempt to divide the DFA members has backfired. We stand united in the fight to #KeepDalStrong. We welcome productive conciliation meetings on Monday.

@dalhousieu.bsky.social board of governors fall transcript. Not good 😡 @dalfaculty.bsky.social #keepdalstrong

Yes!

Yes! Students were signing the #Solidarity banner on my picket shift this morning as well. Very pleased with their support and Dalhousie Student Union vote in support and solidarity. Hope to see lots of students at our Friday rally! Grateful for our students. #KeepDalStrong

Fantastic news! When students mobilize, great things happen! #KeepDalStrong

@dalfaculty.bsky.social open.spotify.com/track/1gCTPU... Anthem for the academic new year : “Teachers! Stand up! you need to tell us how to flip this system!”

Interesting student post. They are not being given the true story. #keepdalstrong www.reddit.com/r/Dalhousie/...

Nadine Ezzeddine, Nursing, highlights the impact this lockout will have on N.S. healthcare if it’s not soon resolved. @dalhousieu.bsky.social get back to the table!!! “As a locked out nursing faculty member, I need to address N.S. and the leaders of our province.” #keepdalstrong

Matt Numer, Health Promotion, urges the @dalhousieu.bsky.social board back to the table. Let’s save the Fall term. Students need this resolved. #keepdalstrong @ansut.bsky.social @caut.bsky.social @cupe3912.bsky.social @nsgeu.bsky.social

BCITFSA getting ready for a day of picketing in solidarity with @dalfaculty.bsky.social #KeepDalStrong @caut.bsky.social

Today's DFA Daily Bulletin: "DFA Files Bargaining Complaint against the Board--The Board Replies with the Same Misinformation" Don't forget to stop by our Rally at noon in front of the Killam Library, with @caut.bsky.social President @rgwhitaker.bsky.social! @dalfaculty.bsky.social #KeepDalStrong

In the section on academic misconduct, specifically misrepresentation of sources, in my next first-year course, I’ll be using my employer’s “bargaining” documents. For shame. #KeepDalStrong

So pleased to receive my author copy of On Settler Colonialism in Canada. I would have known it was coming and been able to respond to the invitation to participate in the book launch if my employer hadn’t locked me and my @dalfaculty.bsky.social colleagues out of our email and offices!

Been trying to post this all morning but pleased to say we’ve been too busy speaking with students and parents about being locked out and what this means for the semester! Come find us from 1130 to 230 every day of lockout between SUB and McCain! #KeepDalStrong @dalfaculty.bsky.social

A delightful surprise from kiddo as we enter day 6 of lockout. Solidarity to all my comrades on the line from the next generation! @dalfaculty.bsky.social #keepdalstrong

Happening NOW #keepdalstrong - 6225 University Ave, Halifax - in front of Killam Library @ansut.bsky.social

Dalhousie University faculty and staff rally amid lockout, failed negotiations By @mmughees.bsky.social

I love me a mixed tape!!

An overwhelming 82.7% of DFA (Dalhousie Faculty Association) members who participated voted to REJECT the @dalhousieu.bsky.social Board’s offer of August 11, 2025. A clear message from DFA members to #keepdalstrong Keep Dal Strong

All welcome to our first rally tomorrow at high noon!! Let’s #KeepDalStrong

@dalfaculty.bsky.social My parents showing solidarity with the DFA this morning!

@dalfaculty.bsky.social Should read “you have been locked OUT” will contact the admin when they finally ready to bargain, not before!

Moral clarity demands that Halifax not host the Israeli national tennis team Morning File by @timbousquet.bsky.social

For yrs, @dalhousieu.bsky.social has talked about budget restraints. Since 2015, cash/cash equivalents has more than doubled to $420M. Do they value faculty enough to give a wage that keeps pace with inflation? Aug 11 will tell the tale. #KeepDalStrong @ansut.bsky.social @caut.bsky.social

Shaimaa has a scholarship to do a PhD on Palestinian literature with me at @uoe-llc.bsky.social, but she's stuck in Gaza because the foreign office won't help. Please share. www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

Media Release Link ... immediac.blob.core.windows.net/dfa2021/2025...

Let’s be clear: ✔ Faculty want to teach. ✔ Faculty want to bargain. ✖ The Board walked. A lockout in August isn’t leadership—it’s negligence. #KeepDalStrong (link to media release in comment)

www.cbc.ca/news/investi... “Canada destroyed me” “I was a slave for 2 years” The experience of temporary migrant workers in Canada

Trump Appears to Be Targeting Muslim and “Non-White” Students for Deportation theintercept.com/2025/04/08/t...

On Sunday, March 30th, a group of white supremacists held a rally at Sullivan’s Pond. They wore masks and carried the flag of an organization linked to calls for violence against women, immigrants, queer people, and others.

Share widely!!! “Cornell graduate student Momodou Taal is a co-plaintiff… in a lawsuit against Donald Trump, which charges that the latter’s Executive Orders have unconstitutionally targeted the First Amendment-protected speech of international students” chuffed.org/project/1258...

Think Tank Called ‘The Himmler Institute’ Assures Nation This All Legal theonion.com/think-t...

@bdsatisa.bsky.social 🍉On 13th February, the ISA Council will be voting on a motion against #scholasticide & for #BDS. ISA members: please urge your section & caucus chairs to vote in favour of the motion🍉 #BDSatISA

Time for the ISA to take a stand against colonial genocide & scholasticide in Palestine 🍉 #BDSatISA

Call in to challenge your assessment- it's one small thing we can do to push back against high property value and rent increases that get justified by increases made in property assessments. We need to think about the impacts of high assessments on our broader community. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

As the southern fascist moves to suspend and fire all “DEI” hires, let’s remember that no demographic has been the beneficiary of state sanctioned affirmative action than mediocre white men. This isn’t just historical - look at his cabinet. Do you see any “merit” there? Dig in, defend facts.

ON Sovereignty and Trump - a thread: As Trump makes cases for violent colonial and imperial expansionism against Western allies, I think a few things are worth keeping in mind: 1.) modern territorial state sovereignty has been, over the last 400 years, mostly a story of violence and terror.

I am forever grateful to the students and professors who protested and wrote letters so that I could be reinstated. I am forever grateful to thousands of people on this site who helped me when I needed it most.

Lovely discussion of Andean temporality and cosmology. Ideas with Nahlah Ayed: Manuscript Used to Eradicate Andean Thought is Now Key to Revitalizing it www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

Merry Christmas to all