The president of Cornell hit two students with his car, lied about what happened, and got away with it. The story illustrates an under-reported crisis in higher education: administrators and the trustees they answer to are increasingly hostile to the idea of college itself. I wrote about it here:

We’re all tarred as “radical cyclists” when we come to city hall looking for redress, for some small reflection of our existence in the design of the roads we share. I think city hall is not used to being bound to respect any minority rights whatsoever, and they certainly imagine us a minority.

I feel like part of being a surgeon and why they get the big bucks is being the one who makes the decisions, not a jumped up spellcheck.

How well has Canada learned to survive winter? People live year round in Winnipeg.

Canadians you are not prepared for the temperature he tells you he is experiencing here.

In the 2010s, the Icelandic tv station Channel 2 accidentally added subtitles from a gritty crime drama to an episode of Teletubbies. I have translated some of the highlights

in 2026, may you find the community you need, the projects that fulfill and sustain you, and all the messy salty crunchy cheesy snacks your heart desires

it's a harsh world out there and not everyone is going to give you credit for all the great stuff you do. but Sandal thinks you have done awesome this year. he doesn't know how you do it. he also doesn't even know how to open the refrigerator but that isn't important rn

Always read the fine print.

While trying to convince my nephew of the magic of the Lord of the Rings movies I showed him this LOTR/Mulan mashup AMV, and now I fear his love for it exceeds his love for either property youtu.be/fMiM0O1YiMo?...

Was simply riding his bike to school. What are we doing? Seriously.

Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.

I want them, too, to meet the tiny nine month old baby orphaned by the bike path that vanishes into a shoulder that itself veers over directly into the target of a disappearing lane of traffic. I want them to explain to her that her parents needed to die because there wasn’t budget for a sidewalk.

Wellington Cres and Kenaston are deadly roads. They kill people. They are designed in such a way that it is inevitable that they kill people. You can’t stand next to either of them during rush hour and think “this is safe”. And there are people we elect who could change these places and they refuse.

the post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.

Linguistics.

Do not punish the behaviour you want to see.

She doesn’t need a hero, she is the hero we need. 🤩

When the House Hippo first appeared on Canadian televisions, it seemed that everyone wanted one to appear in their homes. This commercial became a part of the Canadian cultural landscape and even today, the House Hippo is beloved by Canadians. 🧵 1/10

if I may: a total work of art

not sure I've ever seen reddit humour that is so purely my kind of laugh

Yes Gmail, you're so right, I really needed a 'summarize this email with AI' option on a two-sentence out-of-office reply.

I always think of this when someone says they do everything with AI now

Be the scrabbling you want to hear in the walls

Today is World Hamster Day so please enjoy this clip of a worldly hamster going on a great adventure * and if you want more videos like it, check out the Homura Ham YouTube

As it should be 😂👍 #priorities

A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.” Absurd we still need to go through this 🧪👩‍🔬

This is amazing: Pillsbury has finally given up and started pasteurizing the flour in their raw cookie dough because they know people are going to eat it raw even if they say not to

Emotional support dumpster fire (credit: www.reddit.com/r/crochet/co...)

A room booking of one’s own www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-v...

Went to HomeGoods & really REALLY wanted to buy this. No discourse only Disco Horse.

omg a student somehow accidentally wrote an email addressed to a faculty-wide NYU listserv and my inbox is now a master class on who understands the difference between a listserv and an email chain

Parallels among feminism, cycling, urbanism, etc...

Feels like a good morning to tell Bluesky the story about when I overdosed on my underwear, so let’s do this! 🧵

As an editor I have the 'pleasure' of reading multiple clinical manuscripts each week. Content is key, there is no getting around this. But content needs to structured in an easily accessible way for the reader to engage... Is this called a "skeetorial"? Anyway, here we go. 🧪 #medsky #ansky

#medlibs #nursing

It's always worth remembering how academia's reliance on Google Scholar is totally unsustainable, since Google doesn't make a dime on the product and (as such) it's maintained by like two and a half engineers on nights and weekends

Today my 7 year old screamed "YOU HATE LITERACY" at me when I asked her to put a book down and get dressed so yeah she's ready for online discourse

One year, a student fed all of his lab reports through Grammarly to get suggestions on how to avoid over-used words. It told him he used the word "atom" too much and should replace it with "bit" or "morsel." Also the flame-test lab used the word "flame" too much, so it suggested "sweetheart."

My favourite fact about Iceland is that we have many, many crime writers but only one forensic pathologist, and he was so busy answering all of their questions that he decided to have a small seminar for writers to get some peace. It immediately sold out so he had another one that also sold out.

Imagine spending your time on this earth attacking librarians.

hello yes I would like to submit a complaint