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Andrew Biro

@andrewbiro.bsky.social

Politics professor & AUFA member at Acadia U. Critical theory, environmental politics, political economy, media/cultural studies. Also dad jokes and TML complaints. Co-author of Organizing Nature (UTP 2023).

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Andrew Biro@andrewbiro.bsky.social · 3d ago

My article about student-designed simulations in a Climate Politics course, “Putting Students in the Simulation Designer’s Seat” is out in the world! LMK if you want to read and don’t have an institutional subscription to JPSE

Journal of Political Science Education@jpseeditors.bsky.social · 3d ago

What happens when students are tasked with designing political simulations as well as participating in them? @andrewbiro.bsky.social tried this in his Climate Change Politics course and assesses the benefits of this kind of assignment. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Andrew Biro@andrewbiro.bsky.social · 3d ago

My article about student-designed simulations in a Climate Politics course, “Putting Students in the Simulation Designer’s Seat” is out in the world! LMK if you want to read and don’t have an institutional subscription to JPSE

Journal of Political Science Education@jpseeditors.bsky.social · 3d ago

What happens when students are tasked with designing political simulations as well as participating in them? @andrewbiro.bsky.social tried this in his Climate Change Politics course and assesses the benefits of this kind of assignment. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Andrew Biro@andrewbiro.bsky.social · 4d ago

“Every new fossil fuel project approved today makes tomorrow’s heatwaves more dangerous & our world less secure.” Tim Houston, are you listening? #nspoli

Caroline Lucas@carolinelucas.bsky.social · 5d ago

As the UN Secretary General says, every new fossil fuel project approved today makes tomorrow’s heatwaves more dangerous & our world less secure. I hope Andy Burnham is listening. Caving in to the fossil fuel lobby as the planet burns would be unforgivable

Andrew Biro@andrewbiro.bsky.social · last mo.

“Uttering syntactically impeccable sentences at regular intervals is not exhibiting an ability to use language.” Alastair MacIntyre’s musings on nonhuman animal intelligence provide a useful preminder (1999, p30) about LLMs

Suzanne Rent@suzannerent.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Consider what workers the Houston government hasn’t supported: educational assistants, long-term care workers, and library workers. No one is getting rich doing these jobs but what they offer is invaluable to all of us.

Andrew Biro@andrewbiro.bsky.social · 2mo ago

We can compare this Executive Order to Sinatra’s lyrical claim that New York is “the city that never sleeps” to understand the difference between laws and norms. In this essay I will….

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 2mo ago

Today, I signed an Executive Order temporarily repealing bedtimes in the City of New York so that kids of all ages can watch our team in the NBA Finals. As Mayor, you’re forced to make many difficult decisions. This was not one of them. Go Knicks.

Michelle Cyca@michellecyca.com · 3mo ago

personally I think it's a very big deal that the Canada bureau chief for the @nytimes.com — certainly one of the highest-paid journalists in the country — asked an unspecified "AI tool" what Poilievre said & published its AI-hallucinated quotes in her reporting.

Editors’ Note: May 1, 2026 This article was updated after The Times learned that a remark attributed to Pierre Poilievre, the Conservative leader, was in fact an A.I.-generated summary of his views about Canadian politics that A.I. rendered as a quotation. The reporter should have checked the accuracy of what the A.I. tool returned. The article now accurately quotes from a speech delivered by Mr. Poilievre in April. He said, “My personal opinion is that when a member of Parliament goes back on the word they made to their constituents and switches parties, constituents should be able to petition to throw them out and have a byelection. That would put the people back in charge of our democracy rather than having dirty backroom Liberal deals by Mark Carney determine our destiny.” He did not refer to politicians who changed allegiances as turncoats in that speech.
Arn Keeling@arnkeeling.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Lessons here, too, for 🇨🇦ian PSE: “Rather than trying to shut down universities, we should be restoring them to their true purpose. That starts by acknowledging that the experiment with marketisation has failed, creating the bad incentives that have led to where we are today.”

Sam Freedman@samfr.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I'm in @theobserveruk.bsky.social today looking at why so many unis are in financial trouble and what the government needs to do to save HE. observer.co.uk/news/columni...

Joan Baxter@joanbaxter.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The Nova Scotia govt under Premier Tim Houston, and its creation, the Independent [sic] Energy Systems Operator (IESO), seem to have drunk enormous amounts of fossil fuel industry Kool-aid. Or they’re just yesterday’s boys with no clue about the climate crisis: www.halifaxexaminer.ca/government/p...

‘We’re terrified': Pictou County residents and councillors have concerns about two fossil fuel-burning plants they see as a ‘done deal’ - Halifax Examiner

"(In Pictou County) we have too much experience with industrial exploits that have gone wrong, and we've paid the price, environmentally, socially, for a long time. Do we want to jump into another one...

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Andrew Biro@andrewbiro.bsky.social · 5mo ago

“the question of what to automate and delegate, what to preserve, what to do slowly and by hand even when faster options exist, that question only makes sense if you have first asked what you actually want your hours and days to feel like, and taken the answer seriously.”

Fulya Felicity Turkmen, PhD@fulyafelicity.bsky.social · 5mo ago

1/ New essay: "The Demon Does Not Use a Keyboard Shortcut, or Science as a Vocation in the Age of the Machine" I work inside AI systems and I have a PhD in political science. I wrote about what it looks like when those two things collide. fulyafelicityturkmen.substack.com/p/the-demon-...