My wife passed away on Saturday. I still can’t find the words for the emptiness she leaves behind, but I’m grateful she went peacefully, surrounded by love. She was an extraordinary mother and woman—the love of my life. Our children will always carry her love in their hearts 💞

Excited to share a new op-ed @insidehighered.com on autism and academic hiring. I argue that sociability and hireability aren’t the same thing, and that universities can take concrete steps to make hiring fairer for autistic scholars. #Autism #HigherEd www.insidehighered.com/opinion/care...

Great essay @theatlantic.com! Too often, when we try to “meet students where they are,” I think we’re really meeting them where we assume they are. In my experience, when we trust students with demanding texts, they rise to the challenge 📚 www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Ça me désole, mais franchement, comment pourrais-je être surprise.

Was reminded of my very favorite tweet of all time today:

Prestige isn’t neutral, but unlearning it can open higher ed to far more voices, paths, and possibilities. I wrote about why that matters. Link to my @universityaffairs.bsky.social piece on the topic 👇🏻 #academia #university #highered universityaffairs.ca/opinion/unpr...

It's Autism Acceptance Month. If you are not already accepted by an autistic person you have 27 days left.

Pour souligner le #moisdelautisme, je signe un article-essai-travail de recherche-témoignage sur la parentalité autistique, soit le fait d’élever des enfants (autistes ou non) en tant que personne autiste. Disponible gratuitement ici (p. 48-50): www.autisme.qc.ca/wp-content/u... #actuallyautistic

My wife was admitted to the hospital on January 1st with advanced esophagogastric cancer. The prognosis is not encouraging, but we’re hoping for a miracle. She’s staying strong, positive, and resilient, and we’d appreciate your prayers and kind thoughts during these challenging times.

Apparently it needs saying, again, as autism is used as an excuse for bullshit, again, but: AUTISM DOES NOT MAKE YOU LESS AWARE OF YOUR ACTIONS AND THEIR CONSEQUENCES. IT MAKES YOU HYPER-AWARE AND ANXIOUS ABOUT THEM.

I love this so much! At the inauguration, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wore a distinctive collar adorned with cowrie shells, which are believed to offer protection from evil in African traditions. This choice mirrors the late Justice Ginsburg’s practice of using collars to convey a message.

Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde is a hero 💙

Vaccines don’t cause autism. But also, autism is not something that needs to be prevented. It’s just a different way to be & the only “problem” is that some neurotypical people are uncomfortable interacting with autistic people who are arbitrarily forced to adhere to the way we do things.

Edmontonians: Live in one of the northernmost cities in the world. Edmontonians on the first snow day of the year: Forget how to drive, like it’s the storm of the century and they were not expecting any of this. In Winter. Even though it happens. Every. Year.

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #booksky #20daybookchallenge #books #bookchallenge 20/20

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #booksky #20daybookchallenge #books #bookchallenge 19/20

You know what we haven’t had in a while? A good ol’ dancing mania. That’s the kind of cultural reset we all need. Let 2025 be the year we bring them back.

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #booksky #20daybookchallenge #books #bookchallenge 18/20

On the 35th anniversary of the École Polytechnique tragedy, the McGill community gathered to pay tribute to the fourteen young women who lost their lives. mcgill.ca/x/wzh

“I would’ve never guessed this person had a disability, they look/act so normal” is not the compliment you think it is, folks.

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #booksky #20daybookchallenge #books #bookchallenge 17/20

Parce que, parallèlement au Jacques Roubaud artsy et au Jacques Roubaud intello, il y avait aussi le Jacques Roubaud sassy, une citation que je trouve délicieuse et hilarante:

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #booksky #20daybookchallenge #books #bookchallenge 16/20

Les Québécois·es aiment vendre l’image d’une province ouverte et progressiste. Or il suffit de déménager dans une province dite conservatrice pour comprendre qu’il n’y a à peu près rien qui distingue le Québec actuel du reste du Canada: mêmes tendances rétrogrades, même rejet des valeurs de gauche.

I’m just a simple man on his way to work, asking you, fellow left-turner coming the other way—why no blinker? Mine’s on, right there in your face, and I’m sitting here waiting, thinking you’re going straight, only to watch you turn left too. Why?

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #booksky #20daybookchallenge #books #bookchallenge 15/20

Tired, flu-ridden me asked ChatGPT to check my class’s oral presentation schedule last week. It completely missed that one student wasn’t on the list and another was there twice. So... I guess our jobs are safe for now! #AIFail #AcademicSky #Scholar

J’adore entendre différents accents, j’ai étudié la sociolinguistique, je suis passionné de dialectes et autres variations de langue. Mais je suis désolé, dire Pâââscal(e) au lieu de Pascal(e) c’est non 🥴

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #booksky #20daybookchallenge #books #bookchallenge 14/20

Social science & humanities people: who’s the one thinker that you just don’t get? For me it’s Jacques Rancière (confusing and boooooring)… #AcademicSky

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #booksky #20daybookchallenge #books #bookchallenge 13/20

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #booksky #20daybookchallenge #books #bookchallenge 12/20

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #booksky #20daybookchallenge #books #bookchallenge 11/20

Ce soir, je serai au Salon du livre de Montréal de 16h à 17h. Venez me voir au kiosque de Poètes de brousse 💛

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #booksky #20daybookchallenge #books #bookchallenge 10/20

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #booksky #20daybookchallenge #books #bookchallenge 9/20

My colleague and I wrote about how harmful Danielle Smith’s new anti-trans policies would be for ALL youth. Don’t think this is only an attack on trans youth—it makes all children more vulnerable.

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #booksky #20daybookchallenge #books #bookchallenge 8/20

Anyone else finds it exciting when interlibrary loans come from a faraway place? This book, which is essential to my research, travelled across international borders to get to me, how special is that! #Books #AcademicSky

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #booksky #20daybookchallenge #books #bookchallenge 7/20

🇺🇸 imperial system 🌍 metric system 🇨🇦 metric for long distances, outside temperature, speeds, gas prices, most liquids; imperial for body/pool/oven temperature, measuring short objects, a person’s height and weight (except for medical purposes), most cooking and baking 🙃

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #booksky #20daybookchallenge #books #bookchallenge 6/20

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #booksky #20daybookchallenge #books #bookchallenge 5/20

The same people who dream of a cure for autism are also scared of big pharma. So how exactly do they think we will “cure” autism without meds or vaccines? What magical non-pharmaceutical treatment are they hoping for? Make it make sense… #Autism #ActuallyAutistic

Thesis advisors and profs: “avoid impressionist declarations, make sure you support all your arguments” Harold Bloom: “the cosmic energy of the cherubs is brought to strong poets through mystical exchanges, but for weak poets, the stars are obscured by evil clouds of doubt”

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #booksky #20daybookchallenge #books #bookchallenge 4/20

«Quelqu’un m’avait dit gentiment: Mais pourquoi écris-tu comme ça? Très gentiment, avec une incompréhension douce, [...] comme si je parlais en poussant des petits cris à la place des virgules ou que je portais une perruque Louis XV pour aller faire mes courses.» — Olivier Cadiot

The autistic urge to undersell yourself constantly until someone tells you to stop downplaying your achievements and then you become cocky and arrogant instead because you have no sense of nuance 🙃 #ActuallyAutistic #Autism