I don't know why it took AI-empowered researchers so long to find the journal I co-edit. I'll always remember 2023 to 2026 as our own "phoney war." A flood of easy-to-reject special issue proposals that barely hinted at what was to come.

The need to challenge segregated model of disability is ‘on all Nova Scotians, all systems in Nova Scotia,’ committee hears By Jaya Condran

I am ashamed to be a faculty member of the university that signed on to this agreement. Read here David Wheeler's overview of Dalhousie's fracking-policy-for-hire arrangement with the government.

I felt left out of things by not having any hallucinated citations yet (as a journal editor, I've only had lots and lots of completely inaccurate citations). But today I finally get to stamp that square on the AI bingo card.

I did not know Vivaldi. I've been using brave but it was work to turn off AI in brave.

I was just followed by the "American Medical Journal". This raises the question for me: can medical communications companies just call themselves "journals" with impunity?

I understand young parents particularly mothers describe themselves as doing "baby jail" time--they can't go out because they can't take their infants out.

I once knew someone who worked for a securities regulator. I used to think about her having a very different life from mine: she spent all day talking to people who were lying to her. (To get away with fraud.) But now, as a journal editor in the AI era, my working life starts to resemble hers.

"These tests that the IOC and a lot of sports federations are now presenting as new cutting-edge technology. They have literally used these before and found that they were, on one hand, inaccurate in creating these false positives, and on the other hand, just in violation of people’s human rights.”

Oh this is HORRIFYING.

This is such a weird thing we did.

Congrats @vmywang.bsky.social on this important publication! #publichealthethics

🗣️In my new @statnews.com op-ed as a Public Voices Fellow on tech in the public interest with The OpEd Project, I write about how AI’s push into health care and its rapid adoption, without rigorous testing or patient and community involvement in decision-making, is deepening a crisis of trust.

Saturday morning mood.

And if all that isn't enough, apparently the end times are coming.

just plainly evil.

I'm hearing this now for the first time

“We’re not starting a war, we’re ending one” was a Russian talking point on Ukraine — four years ago.

It's amazing how many people (and which ones) are claiming not to be experts in international law these days. Generals. Prime Ministers. As though you needed legal expertise to know that theft and murder are illegal.

To take this seriously a sec: when your political-economic system allows massive inequality to explode, it creates a class of people who have no material problems but do have the resources & power to make their trivial irritations the central business of politics—at immense material cost to others.

Health care or arts and culture? It’s not as simple as that: Open letter from a Cape Breton community health centre by Josie Robinson

Nobody: Absolutely nobody: The Tim Houston government in Nova Scotia: “Let’s give the biggest tax cuts to the people who make the most money.”

I'm not sure about this branding but I'm not the billionaire business genius

Of course they are. Decimate the arts and culture sectors, pull funding from Black and Mi’kmaq programs, shut down small museums across the province, and keep funding rich people's hobbies I don't hear our alcohol industry (also, in part, about rich people's hobbies) complaining about cuts...

Mi'kmaw groups oppose cuts to programs #Halifax #NovaScotia #HoustonFail Hundreds of people from the Mi'kmaw community and their supporters gathered at Province House on Tuesday, calling on the Houston government to reverse cuts impacting Indigenous programs. www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

This is it exactly. As @isaacsederbaum.bsky.social and I wrote in a piece out today--even as these states deny the existence of trans identity, they build administrative systems to track us-- an expanding architecture of surveillance and control. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/when-compl...

Mood.

From the NYT: "Mr. Rubio told reporters in Budapest on Feb. 16. “These people make policy decisions on the basis of pure theology. That’s how they make their decisions. So, it’s hard to do a deal with Iran.”" From Jonathan Larsen's Substack:

Absolutely incredible.

This is insane, intention destruction of US Science by Russ Vought. He thought last year wasn't good enough, he didn't destroy it enough. So he's going even harder this year.

I had to dig around on bluesky to get my hit of confirmation bias--most of the discourse assumes the present is like the past, but this ancient war historian is asking the question that's on my mind.

A little nature to help us all breathe. Cape Blomidon, Mi'kma'ki, at low tide.

Please Note Date Change!! Houston is not even trying to hide his grand plan. 1. Run our economy into the ground. 2. Save it by destroying, extracting, exploiting our lands and waters. This is going to be a pivotal legislative sitting.

Fun fact: bridge toll removal and 1% HST reduction cost us appx $300 million. All of the devastating cuts in the current budget? $300 million. Is your 1% HST cut worth the loss of tourism, arts & culture, educational quality and wildlife conservation in NS?

> @covie93.bsky.social

BREAKING: We're suing Kansas for a law that invalidates transgender people's updated driver's licenses and authorizes anyone to sue anyone they suspect of being trans for using the "wrong" bathroom.

A blind Rohingya man survived a genocide in Burma, escaped to the United States, and then died because immigration officers treated him with such callousness. This story is a tragedy www.motherjones.com/mojo-wire/20...

Extremely helpful, as a journal editor dealing with AI. Hallucinated references and plagiarism aren't taking up my time, but surface-plausible claims cited to real papers...that do not support them are taking my time. (Then appearing in print at other journals that aren't investing the extra time.)

Devastating proposed cuts, including to crucial programs at @dalhousieu.bsky.social Medicine

Ethics publication challenge of the week: "Academic work has three principal values: promotion of knowledge and human achievement." Name the author(s) and situate this claim within the argument they are making.

Interesting post about the coordinated anti-AOC smear campaign. It's 2016 again! Fake local news outlets on Facebook getting picked up until eventually it winds up in the Washington Post.

Sue this company out of existence. www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

Yesterday, those who teach Intro to Sociology at Florida colleges (as opposed to universities) received a ready-made curriculum from the state and were ordered to teach it. Yes, you read that correctly. The *state* is enforcing a curriculum on college profs, complete w/ the following restrictions:

Less than 1 year. That’s all it took for many universities to collapse on themselves & wipe away many offices, programs, & positions that expanded knowledge, opportunity, & support for communities excluded from or tokenized on their campuses; to increase restrictions on student agency & voice. 1/4

BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide. This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.

BREAKING: We reached a settlement that requires the Trump administration to permanently maintain medical research that had been erased on a government website. The government doesn't get to censor science.

What are the strategies for addressing "self-Indigenization" in our institutions? Join UMN American Indian Studies for Holding Our Ground, a hybrid symposium on Indigenous Ethnic Fraud. March 18-19, 2026. Minneapolis + Online. Register: cla.umn.edu/ais/news-eve...

“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.” - 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas. Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children. www.propublica.org/article/ice-...