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They should make an international franchise out of Murder She Wrote called Murder She Translated, where Jessica Fletcher's various translators in different countries also happen to solve crimes in their spare time

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I asked the historian, who studies the dark times, how it has come to this and she replied: it’s because we have failed to take care of each other. So I asked her if we will get through this and she replied: if we do it will be because we took care of each other.

You know things are rough when the AAUP's advice on how to use social media is just "set all your accounts to private."

What’s happening to the higher education sector in the States is absolutely shocking and should be a warning to all of us academics across the globe. A warning not to be scared and shut up but to stay alert and ready to uphold and defend our academic freedom.

Today in science methods there was an AHA moment where something they’ve been stuggling with fell into place in an instant and I saw all the lightbulbs turn on. And that is why I do this.

If you don't already teach Dr. Martin Luther King honoring Dr. W.E.B. Du Bois on what would've been his 100th birthday, I recommend it. King discusses Du Bois's scholarship (like Black Reconstruction), his organizing, his love, and defends his communism. credo.library.umass.edu/view/full/mu...

This term has started hard and fast. Thank goodness for my lovely little science methods course

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I’ve gone from “walk-public transit almost everywhere” Montrealer to “you can’t get there from here, need to drive everywhere” more rural resident, and being looked like I’m crazy because “no, I don’t think it’s more wonderful living here when I need 60-90 minutes to take a bus 6km to campus”

I track my unpaid hours

Today’s revelation: I have a reputation on campus for excellent shirt and sweater game

This is excellent news. Reporting by @ari-rabin.bsky.social for @globalnews.ca. #ElbowsUp

Well, I'll be damned. It's royalty free and there's already six, generic manufacturers lined up. newatlas.com/infectious-d...

I never thought I would see this in my life, and that they’re making it immediately generic so it’s affordable is making me want to cry

“Disability justice folks—who emphasise collective liberation—have been naming this for a long time: rights are not justice, and laws and policy cannot replace systemic transformation.”

I keep seeing this circulating, and I'm disappointed in my colleagues in the natural sciences who think if they can "shed" enough of their humanity they will some how be protected from fascism. Scientists who are bending to jingoism to try and protect funding aren't asking the right questions.

the trick is the scientist has to be having secret lunch dates with a poet, where they eat plums and cheese, and he’ll look at the plum, then the poet, then BAM he’ll just know it doesn’t work any other way, everyone knows this

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“Among college graduates ages 22 to 27, computer science and computer engineering majors are facing some of the highest unemployment rates, 6.1 percent and 7.5 percent respectively, according to a report… That is more than double the unemployment rate among recent biology and art history graduates”

People thought I was overreacting when I said Trump’s list of “banned” words meant epidemiology was itself defacto being banned. But this week U Michigan announced they aren’t even accepting applications for the 2026 epi PhD admissions cycle. www.michigandaily.com/news/news-br...

Back on my insurance soap box. The best way to understand climate change is to watch the insurance industry. They are paying very very close attention. www.cnbc.com/2025/08/08/c...

Don’t let this die. Keep elevating this.

This gave me all the feels, perhaps because I’ve just returned from 2+ weeks in a home my family has lived in for 70+ years. It is still full of people no longer living, and it was lovely to visit with them for a while.

When the terror of ICE is so evident that your city’s local street artists do what they can to help spread potentially information. Sign by Emeyewhisky.

Here are places you can donate to right now Please share and post 1. The Sameer Project is a donations-based aid initiative in Gaza led by Palestinians. Their multiple campaigns serve families across Gaza with medical supplies, food, tents, and other necessities. linktr.ee/thesameerproject

One of the things that my graduate school alma mater did right was invite accomplished scholars to share works in progress with its students. A lot of the wips were bad—logically inconsistent, not well organized, needing more evidence, etc.—but contained the germ of what they could become.

I supervise a rather brilliant PhD student. Her dissertation proposal is pure, lifegiving joy

New from Internet Archive Canada: Queen’s University Library has digitized a collection of rare, self-published sci-fi & fantasy fanzines, making long-lost voices from 1940s–1980s more widely accessible. ⚔️ Start your side quest: blog.archive.org/2025/07/15/s... @internetarchiveca.bsky.social

Life in Canada is about to get real shitty for many, many people in order to fund Carney’s military expansion plans.

The world is on fire but a good friend brought a tiny new human into the world yesterday, and I can’t wait to share time with her learning how she sees the world. Worth putting out some fires.

Here's how you can help preserve the historical information now on display at our National Parks. 1. Visit a National Park. 2. Take photos of any signage, including markers and monuments. 3. Upload those images to the #SaveOurSigns archive.

This comparsion in the NYTimes today is pretty stark. China is racing ahead to be a high-tech exporter of 21st century technologies, while the US is doubling down on being a petro-state exporting the technologies of the 19th century: www.nytimes.com/inte...

And remember, 93% have no record of any violent crimes. This facility, then, is comparable to the internment camps for Japanese Americans during the Second World War. But let's call it what it is: a concentration camp. Jesus wept.

The world is a nightmare, but I have just completed the full draft of our program review and people need to clap.

1/Just read through the PricewaterhouseCoopers report on the TDSB used to justify the provincial takeover. Despite insinuations, PwC did not find any evidence of mismanagement, and found executive compensation currently in line with provincial rules. #topoli #onpoli www.ontario.ca/page/toronto...

Second look at strange women lying in ponds distributing swords as basis for government?

Something I think about a lot: I 100% believe there is good teaching and bad teaching and we should always try to be better teachers. But also, learning hurts sometimes. It just does. You’re changing a mental model. You can’t just slip it into a classroom Jeopardy quiz like veggies in pizza sauce.

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It is remarkable that the west is committing to spending 5% of GDP on defence, and almost no one has made the case that the most pressing threat to our security this century is climate change and we should be spending more on tackling that.

The real question is how many other people have died under ICE who were not citizens of fancy ally countries. They will never report the true numbers. May all their memories be for a revolution. We need Canada to make a BIG FORKING DEAL over this and get it to be the scandal that ends ICE plz

Scientists once hoarded pre-nuclear steel, and now we’re hoarding pre-AI content arstechnica.com/ai/2025/06/w...

My God. My God.

I needed to read this today. Thought someone else might need it too.

This. Yesterday, today and tomorrow.

Both “Valerian and the City of a thousand Planets” and “Aquaman” so laughably awful.