Happy New Year from my foster cats. Thanks to a vet assistant who cared enough to call and an overstuffed rescue who found the space, they never found out how close they came to not getting another New Year’s Eve. They are welcome here for as long as it takes to find their forever home 🖤🧡

All of this, and fully funded education

Seems like a hat on a hat until you remember the Alberta has already used the notwithstanding clause to strip trans kids of their Charter rights. Let’s get at it!

Top 3 Scrooges: 1. Alistair Sim 2. Michael Caine 3. Scrooge McDuck

Dear LinkedIn, Words cannot express how much I do not want your LinkedIn year in review. Regards, Me

Poverty is a policy choice. Concentrated wealth is a policy choice. Inequality is a policy choice. None of it is natural or inevitable. Remember: We have the power to build a system that serves the many, not the powerful few.

THIS! I keep hearing we are doing a disservice if we don’t teach AI skills. But even setting aside my personal feelings about it, I am not remotely qualified to teach AI proficiency within my field. It’s not my area, it’s not what I signed up for & this insistence is the real disservice to students.

#academicsky #academicchatter #highered @academic-chatter.bsky.social

Hey #socialscience #sociology #economics #politicalscience folks! I’ve been given the opportunity to return to my roots and teach diploma level intro to social science. Thinking back, what were the memorable classes, lessons, activities, etc. that made you fall in love with the field?

Reminder that the Canadian government had fought this in court. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Canada, let’s get this done!

This is a complex problem with plenty of blame to go around. Chronic underfunding of higher ed in Ontario is a huge part of it. There have been bailouts in plenty of industries shedding jobs. 10k+ HE jobs eliminated this year - why no help here?

In my experience, when I see AI used to bypass the learning to get to the output, I see people who never felt the horrible, wonderful rumble of struggling with difficult learning, followed by the sweet release of comprehension and the explosive victory of a new idea or question.

"Abortion is about bodily autonomy, and the person who is pregnant must have more rights than the fetus; otherwise, being pregnant strips you of personhood"

Just to understand the concept of a trillion. 1 million minutes ago it was October 21, 2023. A billion minutes ago it was 114 CE. A trillion minutes ago it was 1,900,114 BCE

Energy is a huge part of the Albertan cultural identity, but what are they getting out of it? Instead of bending over backwards to kiss the asses of foreign investors, the provincial and federal govts could be investing in making Alberta a global leader in renewables and keeping the money at home.

Life pro tip: you can buy yourself a birthday cake any time you want. You can even get them to write your name (or nearly anything) on it. No one cards you for this.

I left my surprised face in my other jacket.

I think this guy on Threads is correct.

What in the settler colonialism NIMBY hell www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

A few cloudy northern lights shots from the evening in town. Oh for it to be clear and me at the cabin with a huge solar storm. One day those three things will coincide and I will check off a bucket list item. ✅

Hello, nice to meet you. No, I would not like to create an account to read this random article from your site that someone shared on BlueSky. Yes, I like that person. Yes, I see that it is free. Still no, thank you so much. Okay, bye.

The current Liberals are the previous generation’s Conservatives. The current Conservatives are just the dollar store version of Trump’s GOP. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Good morning everyone, and especially New York City!

Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn and caldron bubble.

Congratulations to Dr. Heather Murphy, professor in the Ontario Veterinary College, on being named one of Canada’s Most Powerful Women by the Women’s Executive Network for her work improving global access to clean water and reducing waterborne diseases. Learn more: uoguel.ph/1pt9u #UofGuelph #UofG

Hell yeah.

"too many people have main character syndrome" not me. i love being an npc. just idly standing around, watching the birds. oh you going on a quest? can you bring me back something

Hey @mark-carney.bsky.social please don’t sign us up for this. Let’s invest in our own cloud infrastructure - better yet, make it a crown corporation so our data falls under our legal jurisdiction. Expand Canada Post’s mandate and it’s a win-win-win!

When Ontario cut the spirits tax in half, my first thought was that they would pull it from healthcare and education. It’s always healthcare and education.

The thing is, bright minds are anywhere. Canada has been at the forefront because of opportunities for education and training that other places don’t have. Now, education is woefully underfunded. If we want to continue to be leaders in innovation and win prizes, we need to fund education.

Thinking out loud here: what if Canada does become an energy superpower, but by investing in clean energy innovation instead of just building more ways to move fossil fuels around? www.ctvnews.ca/business/art...

This poor frightened boy is at Queens Animal Care Center if anyone in NYC can help. 💔

Canada really has an opportunity to be a leader on this and I am here for it.

Animal surrenders are way up, adoptions are way down, because people are losing their homes or can’t afford food and care. Shelters and rescues are in crisis. Just one more problem that could be more surmountable with a universal basic income. #ubi

Keir Starmer's attempt to prosecute artists for speaking up against genocide failed. @kneecapceol.bsky.social has been found innocent of all charges. As for Canada? Not a great look to have stood with Orban's Hungary and Trump in targeting this popular Irish group.

"In the span of three days, Disney won five Emmys for Andor (a show about resisting fascism) and then suspended Jimmy Kimmel (for resisting fascism)." – @case.murphy

University professors are being fired for sharing screenshots of direct quotes from Charlie Kirk, but it’s totally fine that Brian Kilmeade wants to execute people for being unhoused. There words for people who are okay with murder as long as they get to choose the victims.

New $44M Pathogen Research Centre at Western University will help fend off viruses - the first of its kind in the world #Canada Thanks to former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for this investment in 2022. /1 thread www.ctvnews.ca/london/artic...

I’m curious what “average Albertans” think of their premier banning books. What’s going on with this that we can’t see in the headlines or echo chambers? (Alt text: photo of LeVar Burton on a rainbow background. Text reads “Read the books they don’t want you to. That’s where the good stuff is.” )

I will never get over how a handful of tech bros set billions of dollars on fire to build a plagiarism machine that doesn't work and will destroy human society when they could have used a fraction of that money to fund a new golden age of creativity and knowledge.

Hello #AcademicSky #EduSky ! Getting ready for #HE semester startup next week and I would love to hear your ideas for building connection in online classes in hybrid programs. They all know each other from f2f classes and I am the outsider. How do you help students feel positive, safe, and seen?

A lot of fans in the comments still can't bring themselves to read it, and that's fine - we all grieve differently. Just don't put it off until it's too late, yeah? It's a beautiful story.

Current climate change mitigation policies.

It took less than an hour for this #UofG prof to get a company's AI chatbot to share sensitive data. “The more connected an AI assistant is, the bigger its attack surface,” warns Dr. Ali Dehghantanha. Read our latest #ExpertAlert: news.uoguelph.ca/2025/08/ai-c...

The latest from the brilliant @thefrankiedlc.news on this latest dumb (and harmful!) "trend" of throwing sex toys at WNBA games. "A man throwing a sex toy shaped like a male anatomy at a women’s sporting event is perpetuating rape culture, plain and simple." andscape.com/features/wnb...

So much to unpack here.

35 hours and $7552 needed to reach our goal. Please help me and @stephwilliams.bsky.social, @salylockheart.bsky.social, @ryanoakleyart.bsky.social, @toshij.bsky.social, @phoebeholmesart.bsky.social @killianfantasy.bsky.social and more publish the first All-Black Women Fantasy graphic novel anthology

I'd say the most common response to universal basic income is some variant of "it will just increase prices!" In response, I frequently find myself explaining how it's not that simple, and there are many variables involved. So here's my summary of 17 of those variables to consider.

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