This paragraph was striking: “A recent study at MIT shows that since the mid-1980s, the student body has grown about 8 percent and faculty about 9 percent, while the number of administrators has increased by 189 percent.”
Albrecht Schulte-Hostedde
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Outraged Evolutionary Ecologist, former Tier 2 Canada Research Chair, LaurentianU survivor, beer/tequila/pastis drinker, squash, soccer, cycling,
how many people think vaccinating their pet will give it autism?
André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 3d agoLetters to the editor in response to my column “Rabies: Coming soon to a neighbourhood near you?” www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/lett... www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... via @theglobeandmail.com
This is kinda scary.... N.S. premier doubles down on complaint to professor over comments on AI data centre - Halifax | Globalnews.ca globalnews.ca/news/1212448...
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Yale Law must be pretty embarrassed that one of their alumni struggles with such a basic concept in politics.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4d agoJD Vance on ranked choice voting: "I don't understand it. It seems to me that you have an election, the person who wins the most votes should win...The fact it's so confusing to a person who pays pretty close attention to politics I think suggests we should do our elections in, like, the normal way"
Parapsychology research methods: "The origin of the human brains were unknown..." - Sounds like something from 1815 but was in fact published in 2015 by Canadian researchers. doi: 10.14704/nq.2015.13.4.886. Certainly makes them sound like graverobbers.
Behavioural diversity is an important, but often overlooked, component of biological diversity. Addressing knowledge gaps is vital in tackling the biodiversity crisis. Check out our new @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social paper led by @ivanjaric.bsky.social here👇 authors.elsevier.com/a/1o0CEcZ3X7...
He's basically daring governments to expropriate at this point.
Scott Robertson@sarobertson.bsky.social · 5d agoCleveland-Cliffs CEO: I bought Stelco because I could not afford anymore having Stelco flooding the market here in the United States to the detriment of my own company. David Cochrane: Am I understanding you correctly there? It was a defensive acquisition?
Th consultants that are feeding at the PSE trough have no expertises and no interest in improving universities. They are capitalist vampires here to maximize profits off a public good.
Eileen Clancy 🧿@clancyny.bsky.social · last wk.Deloitte completely screwed up a feasibility study on merging the Univ of Western Australia, Curtin Univ and Murdoch Univ. The report has AI-hallucinated references and hundreds of millions of dollars in cost discrepancies. Curtin University is referred to repeatedly by a name not used since 2010.
CCLA has written to the Ministers of Industry and Health urging the federal government to reject the House of Commons Science and Research Committee’s recommendations to EDI from the criteria used by CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC. EDI and research excellence are not competing goals.
We need to stop kowtowing to Alberta’s O&G sector
The Watchdog@thewatchdog.ca · 2w agoCanadians want to prioritize clean energy over fossil fuels, Carney government told in internal report New public opinion research commissioned by federal government shows a majority of Canadians want to see Canada become a clean energy superpower
Can someone explain how federalists are supposed to address the complaint about election results from Quebec and Ontario deciding federal elections? They have more people. They're in an earlier time zone. Did you want your votes to be counted first? Count for more? What is it?
Tyler Toney's Frustrated Reaction
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The rotting corpse of Canada's national magazine saw fit to print a first-person account of how a 23-year-old Alberta separatist was radicalized because a mask fogged up her glasses during COVID. Honest to Zeus, this is the dumbest fucking timeline...
I’m 23, and I Support a Sovereign Alberta - Macleans.ca
In Canada, my generation’s prospects look bleak. That’s why I’m voting to leave.
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"Dr Kaine was also critical of consultants' role, describing them as "at best complicit in the crisis" and "at worst architects of it", while benefiting financially from reform programs." www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...
Universities justified job cuts with numbers no-one could check
Universities said staff cuts were necessary to secure their financial futures. But disputed models, alternative plans and changing forecasts suggest other choices may have been available.
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can't let pesky endangered species get in the way of economic development.
CPAWS Southern Alberta@cpawssab.bsky.social · 3w ago⚠️ BREAKING ⚠️ The Government of #Alberta has removed provincial habitat protections for the endangered #GreaterSageGrouse without ANY public consultation or official announcement. This puts one of our iconic, #grasslands species at IMMINENT risk of extirpation 💔 #AbLeg #AbPoli #SpeciesAtRisk
latest out from the lab... Exposure of non-target white-footed mice (Peromyscus leucopus) to second-generation anticoagulant rodenticides in an urban context. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Exposure of nontarget white-footed mice (Peromyscus leucopus) to second-generation anticoagulant rodenticides in an urban context - Environmental Monitoring and Assessment
The pathways of nontarget exposure to anticoagulant rodenticides (ARs) are poorly understood and have yet to be examined in Ontario, Canada. We sought to determine if second-generation anticoagulant r...
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love my PHEV. Get some more charging infrastructure and BEV is in my sights.
John Hanger@jrfhanger.bsky.social · 3w agoFull-EV Surge! Fifteen countries had full-electric vehicles (BEV) at 30% or higher of auto sales for period of 6-months ending in August 2026! Another 10 were at 20% BEV or higher! Those numbers do NOT include Plug-in Hybrids (PHEV). ember-energy.org/latest-insig... #energysky
A Moscow court sentenced Russian ornithologist Sofya Rozenfeld to 3.5 years in a penal colony on 7 October over two small donations to an anticorruption organization proscribed by the Russian government. https://scim.ag/4jUFyQH
New research from Lucy van Haaften. By taking photos of the same flying squirrels over a year, Lucy was able to show that photoluminescence is associated with fresh fur and therefore patterns of moulting. academic.oup.com/jmammal/adva...
In which I lay out why Minister Quinn's decision to suspend all private institutions from OSAP is a desperate effort to distract attention from the fact that it is now clear that he lied about the reasons for the February OSAP cuts (and he knew he was lying). Those cuts need to be reversed. Now.
The Contemptible OSAP Cover-Up | HESA
If you have been paying only casual attention to the Ontario Student Assistance file over the past few months and seen headlines like this one from July, where the province suspended several private c...
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The revised Tri-Agency #OpenAccess Policy affects CIHR, NSERC, and SSHRC | CRSH grants from Jan 1, 2027. Researchers can publish in CSP journals and meet the new requirements. Learn more: https://ow.ly/KFf550ZVskA #YourResearchHome #ScholarlyPublishing
