Our new photovoice paper draws on theories of haunted houses and emotional geographies to explore how settler colonialism, endemic gendered & racialized violence, and systemic neglect shape affective realities of living in single room occupancy housing. authors.elsevier.com/a/1mg0e-CmV9...

Don't miss the chance to submit an abstract to the IEA European Congress of Epidemiology 2026 / 70th Annual Conference of the Society for Social Medicine & Population Health! Deadline: 02 Mar 2026 at 23:59 GMT Submission website: tinyurl.com/ssmeuroepi2026 Location: London, UK Dates: 09-11 Sep 2026

Our new photovoice paper draws on theories of haunted houses and emotional geographies to explore how settler colonialism, endemic gendered & racialized violence, and systemic neglect shape affective realities of living in single room occupancy housing. authors.elsevier.com/a/1mg0e-CmV9...

An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump. n.pr/4qTItsU

The Ford Pinto had a death rate of 85 people for 10 million cars sold. The Cybertruck hasn't sold 10 million, but the fatality rate so far maths out to 1,452 people killed per 10 million sold. The Cybertruck may be the deadliest road car, for the occupants, ever sold. fuelarc.com/evs/its-offi...

This is one of the most heart-breaking & important articles I have ever read - from someone whose voices are so rarely heard, a teenaged girl. If you want to understand online misogyny in all its devastating impact, please read this shattering piece. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Very good sociology job just posted: work and social theory at Wilfrid Laurier. universityaffairs.ca/search-jobs/...

Not for nothing, but the women didn’t party with Kash Patel after they won. 🥇💅🏼

2026 basically

3 on 3*

How many ways can Canada almost but not score, let's watch

Settling a game with 3 on 3 OT is such horseshit

For the record, Canada should have been on the power play when that happened

That was so many men

Happy birthday to this young man, and really to us all

Trying to figure out if I can get a Canadian feed of the game so the commentary doesn't make me vomit.

Just saw that we might get two feet of snow and am contemplating hibernating until Spring.

JD Vance personally invited Pope Leo to the U.S. 250th celebration on the 4th of July. Today the Vatican announced Leo will be spending the day with migrants instead.

Ever wondered how your grant got cancelled? No we know. Some college dropout asked ChatGPT "is it DEI/woke"? www.techdirt.com/202...

good news everyone, supreme court justices are beholden to their corporate benefactors over their fascist overlords

New: A comedian set up a fake ICE tip line as a joke. Then 100 calls flooded in: neighbors ratting on neighbors, a teacher reporting a kindergartener. Fans say the viral TikToks revealed deportation's "banality of evil." Conservatives say he should be in prison wapo.st/4kM4qbF

Thousands of institutions abandoned programs, ended or rewrote scholarships, closed down clubs and publications, all in pre-emptive compliance. And you know why? Mostly because they wanted to do it if they thought they could blame someone else for it.

"Addiction vaccines" have been studied since the 1970s and attracted millions in federal government research dollars. Me and a fellow medical sociologist, Kristin Barker, take a deep dive on the promise and failures of this intervention. Read our 🌶️spicy take in SSM: doi.org/10.1016/j.so...

The drunk uncle theory. You don’t argue with the casually homophobic uncle at Thanksgiving dinner to change his mind; you argue so that the closeted cousin at the kids table knows there’s safe people and better possibilities out there

"Billionaires like thinkers who see their exploitation of the weak as good and natural. Epstein funneled ~$20m a year to academic men who shared his ideology [and got] to hold forth in formal sessions at Harvard, condemning feeding and caring for the poor as if he were making a scholarly argument."

Nice starting the week with a paper accepted at Social Science & Medicine

Now this is a movie plot!!! Someone understands grad school.

How and why police actually support the federal invasions—I have been working on this article for ~6 months, trying to make sense of Trump’s nationwide surge of DHS officers, how it has evolved, what brought us here, and what will remain after it ends.

CURLING BEEF! CURLING BEEF! CURLING BEEF! CURLING BEEF! (I never post Olympic videos bc the IOC will hunt you down but I am taking that risk so that you can hear the Canadian curling cursing)

Call for Applications — Global Health Justice Postdoctoral Fellowships The Global Health Justice Postdoctoral Programme at the Research Centre “Normative Orders,” Goethe University Frankfurt, is offering up to two fellowships for researchers in philosophy/social sciences

ICE activity in New Haven, Connecticut, today, reports the New Haven Independent. www.newhavenindependent.org/2026/02/13/i...

NUDE ELON MUSK: The invisible clothes I'm wearing are a product of xAthleisure, which will roll out self-dressing outfits within two years at the latest THE CREDULOUS PRESS: Fully Clothed Tesla Innovator Does It Again

insane to be reporting this stuff with a straight face. like what are we doing here man

No son, they are not "magically delicious." The workers made them delicious. This is a slogan meant to mystify the social conditions of labor

One of every thousand American residents has been taken into custody by ICE in the last year.

University of Saskatchewan public health researchers are seeking transit users in Canada to complete a questionnaire and participate in a focus group for a study to understand how public transit affects mental wellbeing. #ParticipateInResearch

Successful policies are ‘made’ to fail on political grounds all the time, in the case of drug policy this usually has deadly consequences. I’ve written about the ways governments construct those failures discursively and materially www.ijurr.org/article/from...

Decriminalization worked. B.C. killed it anyway The province’s drug decriminalization experiment lowered arrests and reduced harm—but it failed a different political test breachmedia.ca/decriminaliz...

#jobfairy this is an intriguing one - 18 month research fellowship for an object-focused historian, museums studies person or similar at Chatsworth House! £48k + £11k travel, outreach etc #skystorians www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQK358/d...

The choice to frame this rhetorically as a negotiation *with ICE and DHS* rather than, you know, a decision about their future made by their rightful superiors in the popularly elected legislature is, to me, incredibly grating.

I think collectively, we at least partially wanted the child at the Super Bowl to be Liam because the little boy on stage looked happy and healthy and our hearts want so badly to think these children can somehow magically recover from the evils our government is doing.

Super Bowl viewers Sunday speculated that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos appeared in the halftime show. In fact, he has been in hiding with his family. “He can’t sleep well at night. He wakes up three or four times a night screaming, ‘Daddy, Daddy,’” Liam's father Adrian Conejo Arias, said.

You know what they’re going to store in those warehouses? People

Ok, you can stop texting me, I saw the Ring ad. Troubling things about it 🧵: -The long awaited (much warned about) intro of “AI” recognition. It starts w/ searching for a “brown dog” but means the tech is there for lisence plate reading, face recognition, searching for suspects by description, etc

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

I'm hardly the first person to note this, but it's enormously instructive that our President and his followers saw the message "THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE" and understood it, correctly, as an attack on them

Bless

No Kings includes Draft Kings

Spirit Bear with Silver Stars Alan Syliboy ~ Mi'kmaq n.d.