Look at this amazing navigable map and guide of Calgary's public art works: so much to explore! www.calgarypublicartguide.com Great website design by #BuiltByField. #YYC #YYCArt

Enjoyed the sunshine and the snow on the walk to the office today in #YYC

Signed.

The #1 lesson from yesterday’s blowout: Humanities majors killed on the job market 1) Mamdani- Africana Studies 2) Spanberger -French 3) Sherill - Global History

I don't understand the government's math in again cutting the number of study permits to Canada. Have they read their own reports? Is slashing the provision of international education really going to get us more places to live? #PSE #HEd www.international.gc.ca/education/re...

Heads up #yycbike: 5 of my family’s bikes were stolen from our garage last night 😔. Please keep your eyes open for these bikes and please repost widely. 2019 Rocky Mountain Instinct 2006 Brodie Fury 2008 Trek 1500 2019 Trek Marlin 6 2022 Trek Marlin 5

story of the boy who played Tadzio in 1971 Death in Venice, angered by sexual objectification. Bjorn Andresen, Reluctant ‘Most Beautiful Boy,’ Dies at 70 www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/m...

🇭🇺 Hungary’s 1956 uprising against Soviet rule began on October 23 with mass protests. 🇵🇱 In this video, 100,000 gather at the statue of Polish General Józef Bem in Budapest—he led Hungary’s revolutionary army in 1849, later crushed by the joint Russian-Austrian imperial forces.

The White House movie theater over the years. In the East Wing, demolition imminent. The first film screened there was D. W. Griffith's racist epic Birth of a Nation in 1915. Jimmy Carter watched 480 films there, the most of any president: letterboxd.com/jfrankenstei...

Lol - nICE agents in Canada. www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1yY...

Holy smokes. "The Faculty of Arts and Sciences slashed the number of Ph.D. student admissions slots for the Science division by more than 75 percent and for the Arts & Humanities division by about 60 percent for the next two years." #HEd #PSE www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

3 hours left to vote in #yyc - the lines have apparently been long all day at my Ward 1 polling station, despite 8 poll clerks working full tilt. So foolish to get rid of the faster system we had, on the basis of unfounded fears. Anyway, go vote! Worth it. #yyccc

#OTD October 20, 1946, elections were held across Soviet Occupied Germany and in Allied Occupied Berlin. These were the last competitive elections in the Soviet Zone and marked a turning point leading to the creation of the German Democratic Republic as a socialist dictatorship.

I'm sure that any #YYC followers already have a plan to vote, but just in case, CBC's guide shows where to vote, what ward you're in, links to info on candidates. #UCalgary students can vote if you have a Calgary address on your driver's licence or taxes #YYCVote #YYCcc www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

If you have kids, I recommend this graphic novel: "Primates: The Fearless Science of Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Biruté Galdikas" by Jim Ottaviani. Jane Goodall's research and global impact are an inspiring legacy.

The first time an Alberta government invoked the notwithstanding clause, public outrage forced a reversal in less than 24 hours. I wish to God Albertans would show the same moral fury now, when school children are outed & bullied by the government that is supposed to protect them. #ableg #abpoli

A compilation of some of movie legend ROBERT REDFORD's best moments thanks to "All The Right Movies" on Twitter.

literature washrooms are underrated

A concise op ed by @malindasmith.bsky.social, with links to evidence, on what many of us know, but is increasingly undermined: diversity drives research innovation and impact. universityaffairs.ca/opinion/the-...

"The rate at which popular AI services amplify or fail to flag falsehoods has doubled in a year, per NewsGuard."

Picked up tickets for #CIFF Calgary International Film Festival, including Petzold's "Mirrors No. 3," Palme d'Or winner "It was just an accident," and "Mr. Nobody against Putin." Check out the great lineup for this year, Sept 18-28 www.ciffcalgary.ca/festival/202...

"Whether it’s in the Soviet Union or whether it is in East Germany or in the darkest places and times, writers have managed to survive. Their work has survived." www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/m...

Alberta introduced policy in July 2025 on disallowing books with "inappropriate sexual content" from school libraries. It's a U.S. playbook. The list of 200 books to be pulled from Edmonton school libraries overlaps considerably with U.S. lists. Background here: opentodebate.org/debate/shoul...

In the CBC story: Beyond the full removal of titles including The Handmaid’s Tale, the K-9 list of books to be removed from Edmonton school libraries includes 1984 and The Great Gatsby. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Alberta school boards are moving aggressively to remove books from school libraries, including Margaret Atwood (Handmaid’s Tale), Margaret Laurence, Judy Blume and more. See Edmonton’s list below.

The precipitous dismantling of humanities - Classics, Religion, Languages and Cultures - is a huge loss for our communities and will limit future grads' global skills. U of Oregon's case makes even less sense than others, since they managed to secure a $25 million donation in 2025. bit.ly/4mjCmwh

teachers! excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone. take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE against-a-i.com

The #HockeyCanada verdict today is no exception. The justice system fails victims of sexual assault on a remarkable scale. Most instances are not reported to police. Of the few that are, 1 out of 19 results in the accused person being sentenced to custody. See the Statistics Canada data:

Fascinating thread about Lohana and #Ismaili migration history

I guess CDU is different in Portugal 🤨

A review by @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social into how their consultation on Modern Languages programmes has been handled last year, found decision-making was unstructured and dominated by finances. The university said it accepted there had been "missteps". www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

🔴 ⚠️ 🔥 😷 After a journey of more than 7000km over the Atlantic Ocean, a new huge smoke plume has reached Europe from #Canada where more than 200 wildfires are burning across multiple provinces, from British Columbia to Ontario. ⬇️ The CO map over Europe with Sentinel-5P data on June 9th.

👇New Nature Cities (@nature.com) paper on the impact of protected bike lanes in getting more people cycling. Comparing 28 US cities over 6 years, it found areas that installed protected lanes saw 𝟭.𝟴𝘅 growth in cycling vs painted lanes alone. And 𝟰.𝟴𝘅 the growth of areas with no bike lanes at all.

Mykola Kuleba, SaveUkraine: “It’s very similar to the gulags, with different goals. In the gulags, they massively killed Ukrainians who did not obey the regime.Today, they massively indoctrinate Ukrainian children to turn them into Russian children.” #Ukraine www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/2d401aa...

Marcel #Orphüls, one of the greats. Known for The Sorrow and the Pity (1969), exposing blind spots of collective memory in wartime France, also made November Days (1990). A master observer, Orphüls talks with with East Germans at a complicated time of reflection, a year after the fall of the Wall.

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

"A quarter-century ago, when the United States was attacked by Islamist terrorists on 11 September 2001, the editor of Le Monde wrote a famous banner headline: “We are all Americans!” Today, friends of liberty the world over should say: “We are all Canadians!”"

Fascinating global migration tracker from Facebook data, New York Times www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

AfD reading German literature through an Orwellian doublethink lens, led by a bookstore owner - book clubs, reviews, and a book fair:

#CanadianStudents too!

New York Times and Center for Global Development estimate lives at risk with halt to USAID funds: unlocked_article_code=1.4k4.Lt7m.D1PrZORIsXpZ&smid=bs-share

I am still planning to attend #SCMS25 in Chicago in April and support research and researchers, but the idea of traveling to the US right now - wow.

Lists of forbidden words, defunding of ideas, have clear precedent that must be named. In Germany 1933, there was banning and public #BookBurning of works deemed "un-German" (using 'wrong' words, ideas, written by wrong people). In 1937, so-called #DegenerateArt was confiscated and destroyed.

Not actually encouraging bobcats to come to my yard, but I kinda love this #YYC #AlbertaWildlife

Dr. Seuss 1941 on #AmericaFirst. One of these cartoons is circulating, so I checked the source - they're the real deal. library.ucsd.edu/dc/object/bb...

This is truly devastating news, not only for scholars and scientists, but also for the United States as a great power with global influence. Senseless, heartless, cowardly, and stupid.

Nuanced thread on the relationship of the AfD rise in Eastern Germany to the shared history of the GDR and transition #Bundestagswahl2025 #wahl2025

On Cardiff’s proposals regarding the teaching of languages and cultures The global examination of culture is not possible without languages at degree level, say Wendy Ayres-Bennett, Charles Burdett and Emma Cayley www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/card...