Farewell Maru

YYZ terminal 3 in 2016

As we head into Rosh Hashanah, a very important point of order from Canadian Senate Hansard (1984) :p

Beautiful #Ediacaran fossil light on the E surface at Mistaken Point 🤩

Imagine if, in 1946, President Truman had tried to ban Penicillin and other antibiotics on the basis of conspiracy theories and rumor. That’s where we are today, but for mRNA therapies and vaccines.

Huckleberry harvest time.

#keepdalstrong excellent summation from one of our colleagues of how it is the board who has set the process back with their failure to negotiate within the lawful parameters of collective bargaining. @trishaestabrooks.bsky.social This makes interesting reading. www.reddit.com/r/Dalhousie/...

#TodayinHistory #dataviz #OTD 📊 📅Sep 10, 1885 Francis Galton introduced the idea of regression (toward the mean) (In his presidential lecture to the Anthropology Section of the British Association, perhaps the most influential such in statistical history)

Key point to emphasize - once again midway through the process, the Board and Admin refused to return to discussions and instead resorted to PR. They could have met this AM at 9 to work toward solutions. #keepdalstrong halifax.citynews.ca/2025/09/11/d...

I am beyond excited to announce that ggplot2 4.0.0 has just landed on CRAN. It's not every day we have a new major #ggplot2 release but it is a fitting 18 year birthday present for the package. Get an overview of the release in this blog post and be on the lookout for more in-depth posts #rstats

Join us! Friday September 12 for the Solidarity March starting at the Killam Library on University Avenue. Let's show @dalhousieu.bsky.social Admin and Board a level of solidarity they have not seen before! #keepdalstrong @ansut.bsky.social @cautdefencefund.bsky.social @caut.bsky.social

Live your life in such a way that when you die, people aren’t able to cite thousands of comments you’ve made advocating the deaths of others.

For everyone saying political violence has no place in this country… Remember two Democratic legislators were shot in Minnesota just this year. And America shrugged and moved on.

Some employers seem… worse than others, and, like, bad at what they do. Just an observation.

how tf are we supposed to navigate the information age we are in? i can't find the balance between ignorance and never-ending depressing news

Starting week 4 of an entirely unnecessary lockout initiated and maintained by an entirely inept and ethically—though definitely not financially—bankrupt administration. This week’s theme: eating antacids for breakfast. #KeepDalStrong #WeAreDal

This trend is gonna come for #rstats and that ecosystem is so not ready for it. infosec.exchange/@nmott/11517...

/9 By the way - we should also fight the inclination to abandon the rule of law because bad people are cynically abusing it. First, while bad things happen on a national scale, every day on a micro scale advocates use the rule of law to fight injustice and improve lives.

If *your department head and your dean* can be removed for supporting your colleague in teaching in their area of expertise, then you have no academic freedom. In a functional sense, you don't work at a university at all.

Update: The President of Texas A&M, the largest public university in the US, removed the Dean of the College and Chair of the English Dept just hours after coming under right-wing political pressure because a student recorded herself interrupting a lecture’s class that included topics on gender.

Texas A&M’s President just removed a dean and department head from their positions after they supported a professor whose lesson on gender was challenged by a student. www.kbtx.com/2025/09/09/a...

Trump v. U.S. concerned immunity from criminal prosecution. It did not mean that every utterance of his becomes law.

one thing I have learned from the last six months is that a WHOLE lot of people do not understand that leadership is also about shaping public perception and laying the groundwork for future efforts even if you have no *legislative* power for the moment

the vice president usually only endorses war crimes in secret memos so i feel like this is a big step forward for us

Literally the second meme I've made in my life.

The Faculty of Arts at UWaterloo is pushing through a 'reorganization' plan that will - administratively, at least - collapse a number of its departments into 'schools'. Problems abound with both the process and the plan. A long thread... 1/n

sure, nova scotia power got hacked and the private information of its customers including SINs were stolen, and sure, they’ve been over billing us for the last few months, and yeah, we’re getting a rate increase soon, but at least we have no other option for electricity

Flying pickets from @caut.bsky.social and @cautdefencefund.bsky.social getting ready to hit the @dalfaculty.bsky.social picket lines! #keepDalStromg

My thinking on this is guided by the heuristic that researchers should be reviewing around twice as many papers as they submit, since each paper needs at least two reviewers. There are currently very long delays in the review process because this equilibrium is not being achieved.

AI search results are crazy inaccurate

Gee whiz. Things are going great.

Its so disappointing to work at a university with such unprofessional and irresponsible leadership. They get even the really simple things wrong. #KeepDalStrong

Ren Thomas has a nice blog discussing Nous Group and Dalhousie @dalfaculty.bsky.social @dalhousieu.bsky.social : renthomas.ca/theres-a-nou...

Early climate models by Suki Manabe of NOAA/GFDL in the 60s and 70s laid the groundwork for modern climate science. They predicted key aspects of global warming, such as link to CO₂, stratospheric cooling, Arctic amplification, land-ocean temperature contrast, and delayed Southern Ocean warming.

Leo is looking for the Board. He is ready to bargain. #KeepDalStong

Long Lake (West Dalhousie) burn area as of yesterday morning (2025-09-01). This imagery is from Plant Labs Super Dove small sats and is 3 metre spatial resolution. Showing NIR - Red Edge - Vis Red as the band combination to contrast burn (dark purple - black) and healthy veg (yellow-oranges).

Yesterday the president demanded that evidence about Covid vaccines be shown to the public. Today @apoorvanyt.bsky.social & I run through some of the studies made public over the past 4+ years that show that the vaccines work. Gift link: nyti.ms/46k17Tq

Leo is looking for the Board. He is ready to bargain. #KeepDalStong

Max is too young for university, but she wants us back at the bargaining table. #KeepDalStrong

It’s caturday and Leo is ready to bargain #KeepDalStrong

The @cautdefencefund.bsky.social and @caut.bsky.social Presidents joining force in #solidarity with @dalfaculty.bsky.social #KeepDalStrong !

If you search “Dalhousie University” on posts in LinkedIn then you can get a sense of the institutional harm caused by the president’s decision to lock faculty out on Aug 20—just wall-to-wall outrage. Still locked out btw. No email, no Brightspace, no library resources, no office… #KeepDalStrong

Another day, another head-scratching decision from @dalhousieu.bsky.social … Rather than returning to the table with @dalfaculty.bsky.social, they release another public statement to create more chaos 😳 #keepdalstrong

Want to read a very clear description of what the @dalhousie.bsky.social board's latest "offer" to the @dalfaculty.bsky.social is all just a bunch of PR smoke and mirrors? You can. Here: www.reddit.com/r/Dalhousie/... Don't let their management-consultant fueled bullshit fool you. #KeepDalStrong

The kids are ok. #KeepDalStrong www.reddit.com/r/Dalhousie/...

Day 2 of @dalhousieu.bsky.social lockout of @dalfaculty.bsky.social & a reminder that behind Dal's financial situation is our Premier. Houston withheld funding to Dal last year. I asked a question in Senate about why & here's what Dal Prez Kim Brooks said (p4) tinyurl.com/ycy3au4d #KeepDalStrong 1/2

Something all #cat owners will recognize. 😆🤦