In other words, we let fake things dictate how their impact on real things and put that in the hands of the state and capital! Can't wait for this book

I’m pleased to share my latest article in @uk.theconversation.com It asks what overheated apartments, flooded rice fields, & invisible policy failures have in common, & how preventable harm becomes the slow violence of necropolitics in the Chthulucene. Here's a short thread on some key points 🧵

new from @criticaltimes1.bsky.social: special issue “Race & Caste: Hierarchy and Universality” on racialized & caste subjugation in Africa, South Asia, the Caribbean as well as anticaste & antiracist archives and scholarship - check it out (open access): read.dukeupress.edu/critical-tim...

Amplifying voices in History and Area Studies with the Cambridge Amplify Fund 📣 “We champion dialogue, welcome diversity of thought, and celebrate representation,” commented Valarie Guagnini, Head of EDIB at Cambridge University Press. Read more about our new grant 🔗 https://cup.org/4rqznEq

That time Ms. Lauryn Hill narrated a documentary on an essay by Frantz Fanon...

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To see how Kirsty Duncan advocated for science, watch her TED talk or read her book, "The Exclusion Effect: How the sciences discourage women & girls and what to do about it" Scientists must be free to learn, to speak, and to challenge, she said -- an even more vital argument now than then.

Une lumière s’éteint ✨It’s hard to fathom a 🇨🇦 without the light that is Kirsty Duncan. With her million$ smile she rebuilt our science + research infrastructure—and most importantly our morale. Always an inspiration. Your lum will lang reek for us dearest Kirsty, here’s tae ya 🥃

Il est encore temps de vous inscrire au webinaire! Rejoignez-nous aujourd'hui à midi!

“We’re governed continuously, and unavoidably, by a complicated, interconnected and deeply enmeshed system of data-intensive platforms… Big Tech companies should take accountability for the outsized role they play in our lives.” Hmm. 1/4 www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

A sophisticated intervention about the greater meanings of Thucydides’s Melian Dialogue, including the strategic value of #justice. Hat tip to Katherine Blouin and Matthew A. Sears for this under-valued context and closer reading. #CarneyDoctrine www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

906 days. That's how long Meta's been blocking news in Canada. Doesn't matter if the outlet is based in Canada, the U.S. or Germany – we can't read it. Small non-profit or legacy newspaper. Can't read it. Posts made before Aug. 1, 2023? Nope. But disinformation, AI-generated spam, that'll pass.

Canada has relied on U.S. science for decades - for health info, drug review, food safety, weather monitoring, and more. As the US dismantles its science ecosystem @ntusikov.bsky.social argues Canada’s civil service cuts will put public heath at greater risk. policyoptions.irpp.org/2025/12/trum...

‘Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy.’ —MLK, 28 Aug. 1963 Derek Russell, painter via @splcenter.org #MLKday⁠2026

A must-read thread for all who care about #democracy in Canada, too. Merci @alondra.bsky.social :

Social science research has shown that policymaking and governance operates through more than formal rulemaking processes. Regulatory power shapes markets through norms, expectations, and material conditions—often before any rule is written.

#JoyeuxNoēl✨ #MerryXmas🕊️ via @klicons.bsky.social (2016)

Maximum light extra important this year.

Brilliant recounting by @willdalrymple.bsky.social + @anitaanand.bsky.social of a great 🇨🇦 story, too: as we fête the #RoaringLion ‘s return to #Ottawa, a gift to share the refugee origins of the great #YousufKarsh —a story of empire, resilience, the power of art, and the promise of #Canada! Merci✨

That Musk and Sachs and other tech billionaires backing and working for Trump are white South Africans who left after apartheid fell is not a coincidence bsky.app/profile/coll...

Good. American excellence in science is the result of decades of federal investment in facilities and in training scientists. NCAR does not belong to the President. It belongs to all of us.

Bravo 👏 Proud to have published with a leader such as @universitypress.cambridge.org. The world’s oldest university press and oldest continuously-operating book publisher certainly knows a thing or two about the market—and the excellence diversity brings #DiversityDividend

« Savez-vous pourquoi vous êtes là ? — Non, répond une étudiante, Nathalie Provost. — Je lutte contre le féminisme. » #6décembre #PolySeSouvient #JeMeSouviens #LestWeForget #16jours #16days via @jlachapelle.bsky.social, @lapresse.ca www.lapresse.ca/actualites/2...

For me, a dream came true: the success of our Senate roundtables « Aviver notre démocratie / Strengthening Our Democracy”; co-hosted with Dr. Anoush Fraser Terjanian. On Nov.5 (co-hosted with Senator Judy White) and 19.

Is Canada finally taking science and the economy seriously? Our science and innovation policy track record over the past 2, 10 and 30 years leaves me skeptical. 🎁 link www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/7ff7d5d...

Tom Courchene est décédé. Un grand économiste et intellectuel canadien. Quand il prenait la parole, il donnait souvent l'impression d'avoir plus d'idées que ce qu'il pouvait formuler dans les circonstances. Un penseur audacieux et bienveillant. www.legacy.com/ca/obituarie...

We need to solve for #democratic resilience earlier in the cycle in 🇨🇦 + research around the world shows #Vote16 is one winning path. At 16, we work, pay taxes, drive, consent. Il est temps que le 🇨🇦 renforce sa #démocratie: #Vote16Canada offre une voie pour le faire, éprouvée par les faits.

Retour sur origines, et sous quelques arpents de neige❄️ Mercis Brian Cowan and Valérie Capdeville for gathering us in resplendent sociability at @mcgillu to work through our upcoming Oxford Handbook on the #Enlightenment and why it matters in our brave new world✨

And in the sky the larks still bravely singing fly scarce heard around the world today 🕊️#WeShallRememberThem #NoublionsJamais #NousNousSouviendronsDEux #LestWeForget 🌺

Thank you Dr Jamal Eltaeb. Another enlightened choice by the #AuroraPrize for Awakening Humanity ✨ կեցցէ!

NO PAYWALL: After pushback from 5,000+ Canadian academics, a federal committee has amended a motion that would’ve exposed personal data of researchers working on race, gender & equity. A win for academic freedom—but DEI-focused research is facing growing scrutiny.

There is no evidence to support that federal research funding is being unfairly allocated to "woke" or "leftist" research. If anything, as @pinglamjoeip.bsky.social and I found, research on structural inequality is underfunded. I will link our original piece below.

How much are MPs entitled to know about research grants? Not as much as they think. A parliamentary committee is asking for researchers' personal information in what seems like an anti-DEI crusade, by @picardonhealth.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... via @theglobeandmail.com

Les #droitshumains, c’est surtout quand ça va mal qu’il faut s’y tenir. Les rendre universels et surtout les rendre accessibles à tous et toutes devrait guider les décisions politiques et les budgets. 🙏 @alexneve.bsky.social et @cbcradiocanada.bsky.social Massey lectures #polcan #budget

A balm in stormy times: Merci @alexneve.bsky.social for concrete steps we can all take to ensure #HumanRights are truly #Universal. Et chapeaux to the brilliant #NahlaAyed + #PaulineHoldsworth who quench our thirst with these #CBCMasseyLectures. May we all be ‘lamps, lifeboats, ladders’ indeed ✨

ICYMI: Drop everything and spend 13 minutes with Amy Sherald--with her singular vision and talent, with her clarity about her central place in the jagged American story. You will be stirred by it all. www.cbsnews.com/video/amy-sh...

Squint a little, and all of that investment in AI starts to look like subsidies to keep an unsustainable service afloat--so they're starting to charge for it. Will they get enough ongoing revenue to pay for all of the server farms burning down the planet, as more and more talk about "AI Slop"?

Well done Shafaq Aftab. When a reviewer stole her work and published it under his own name, she fought for a YEAR to get the journal to retract the paper. Just wondering why it took Wiley a YEAR to do this. 🧪 #academicsky retractionwatch.com/2025/10/03/w...

“Water reserves at an all-time low.” Hydro-Québec imports electricity. Eyes wide open Canada 🇨🇦! N’oublions pas ce que les serveurs informatiques nous coûtent en eau 💦 #PenurieDEau #WaterScarcity

Chair de poule ce matin à #WAVES2025: the great #TomsonHighway on why soeaking many languages is like living in a house with more than one window…#kisâkihitin❤️ Keen to learn next from Dr Lorna Wanosts’a7 Williams! Miigwetch + 🙌 Kukpi7 Dr Ronald E. Ignace + teams + #CCUNESCO #LanguageIsLife

“Because conflict is often justified through historical narratives, and because cultural heritage is tied to identity and homeland, stories around cultural heritage may be purposed to either legitimate or exploit geopolitical aims.” —Mischa Geracoulis, human rights journalist

Yes Scott Stirrett! In 🇨🇦 16=taxes, keys to machines that kill, criminal responsibility, consent. Let’s solve for #DemocraticResilience earlier. La recherche montre qu’étendre le #vote à 16ans assure la participation informée + donc notre sécurité #Vote16Canada www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

Communiqué de la SDJ de l'AFP à propos de ses journalistes à Gaza : "Depuis que l’AFP a été fondée, nous avons perdu des journalistes dans des conflits, [...], mais aucun de nous n’a le souvenir d’avoir vu un collaborateur mourir de faim. Nous refusons de les voir mourir."

Great leadership from the UK. We need to solve for democratic resilience earlier in the cycle, and research shows this is a winning path. C’est le moment pour le Canada de se joindre à cette évolution qui renforcera notre sécurité et notre bien-être! On y va #Vote16Canada 🇨🇦

Over 30 years ago, territory amounting to 20% of 🇨🇦’s land mass was (at last) peacefully transferred to its rightful citizens 🕊️❄️ #Nakurmiik to our Inuit neighbours for their leadership + partnership #HappyNunavutDay! ᖁᕕᐊᓱᒋᑦᑎ ᓄᓇᕗᑦ ᐅᓪᓗᖓᓂᑦ! #BonneFêteDuNunavut!

At noon we’ll sing 🎶 Ce midi comme toujours j’ai entonné #ÔCanada. Remembering those early #CanadaDay fêtes when newcomer families like ours cheered the promise of 🇨🇦. Now we know more about how we must meet that promise. Fière et reconnaissante, je suis au rdv avec vous, miigwetch et #ViveLeCanada!

World Refugee Day: Prolonged refugee separation is harming families — and Canada’s economy

NEW from @eroston.bsky.social: The US is already spending nearly $1 trillion every year on climate damages — we're not even officially at 1.5C of heating yet — according to a @bloomberglp.bsky.social analysis. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...