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Eddie Yang@eddieyang.bsky.social · 3mo ago

New paper in Nature. The more a government controls its domestic media, the more it dominates AI training data, the more pro-regime outputs we get from AI. By scraping the open web, LLMs are unwittingly laundering state-coordinated narratives into seemingly objective answers.

Kristen C. Howard explores the ethics and practices of exploitation and labour in the digitization of heritage materials and sources.

Who Digitized Your Sources? Exploitative Prison Labour and the Hidden Costs of Online Archives

Kristen C. Howard In today’s increasingly online world, historians, researchers, and students want and expect online access to historical documents offered by galleries, libraries, archives, and mu…

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CFI is recruiting Programs Officers! Join a team that helps build Canada’s research infrastructure. Support national funding programs for universities, colleges and research hospitals. 📍Ottawa (hybrid) 🗓 April 26, 2026 🔗bit.ly/4vK2Kov

Some interesting research from PhD candidate Andy Lopez and professor Mike Schutz. Using collections of everyday sounds they’ve demonstrated that the beeps that are used for auditory research don’t reflect sounds in the real world – and that has real consequences. news.mcmaster.ca/dont-keep-it...

McMaster has become the first university in Ontario to sign the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment, more familiarly known as DORA, which will allow us to better assess research contributions in terms of societal and community impact. news.mcmaster.ca/mcmaster-sig...

McMaster signs Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA)

McMaster has signed the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) as part of an institutional commitment to advance meaningful ways of recognizing and rewarding research contributions. S...

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Congratulations!

McMaster Faculty of Humanities@mcmasterhum.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Linguistics professor Victor Kuperman has been awarded a 2026 Killam Fellowship to create AI-powered tools for adult literacy. https://news.mcmaster.ca/linguistics-professor-victor-kuperman-awarded-a-2026-killam-fellowship/ #Killam2026

My first ever interview in Turkish for International Women’s Day on the threat of anti-gender policies to democracy. archive.is/jZQi6

New online portal with documents on the post 1945 German far right. radikale-rechte.de

Why do I love teaching at @mcmasteruniversity.bsky.social? Well yesterday a biochem major who’s taking my 18th-century lit class came to my office hours to talk with me about MY BOOK which she IS READING out of SHEER INTEREST ✨

“For authoritarian regimes, internet blackouts are a powerful political tool of repression that conceal state violence,” says Communication Studies and Media Arts PhD candidate Niloofar Hooman. Read her timely analysis in @ca.theconversation.com: theconversation.com/why-iran-kee...

Why Iran keeps turning off the internet during mass protests

By cutting internet access during uprisings, the Iranian regime turns connectivity itself into a mechanism of control.

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Alexis-Carlota Cochrane, PhD candidate in Communication Studies and Media Arts, calls for an “enforceable, survivor-centred, AI-aware online safety framework” in response to new digital tools harming women and gender diverse people: news.mcmaster.ca/ai-generated...

Episode 1 of Generations Ahead, a new podcast series produced by the Wilson College of Leadership & Civic Engagement and The Walrus Lab, is out. Sam Reusch (Apathy is Boring) and my colleague Sara Wolfe discuss youth civic engagement during a critical time for democracy.

The Walrus@thewalrus.ca · 6mo ago

What does it take to spark real change? Generations Ahead is a new podcast series exploring imaginative approaches shaping the future of Canada and beyond. Produced by The Walrus Lab for the Wilson College of Leadership and Civic Engagement at McMaster University. 🎧 Listen: lnk.to/generations-...

David Brooks’ last opinion piece for the NYT directs Americans to re-embrace their humanity, and he calls on universities to lead in this work. At Mac, the Faculty of Humanities and Wilson College, co-led by the Faculty of Social Sciences, do this every day. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/o...

Opinion | Time to Say Goodbye

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A key point in this editorial, by Mount Allison president Ian Sutherland and student Lucas Orfanides, is that, along with possessing relevant (and essential) job skills, liberal arts grads are uniquely well positioned to deal with AI's ethical shortcomings. www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com...

Opinion: An AI future demands liberal arts agility

Graduates have the ethical and creative thinking skills that the AI-driven jobs of tomorrow will demand

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Excited to announce that McMaster Humanities is looking to recruit established international researchers to our institution. Please see the following link for details of the government of Canada’s Impact+ program and reach out to me if you are interested. www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/2025/12/22/m...

McMaster seeking international academics for new Canada Impact+ Research Chairs program – Faculty of Humanities | McMaster University

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Excited to share my acting debut with Ontario's public broadcaster TVO (@tvodocs.bsky.social @therundowntvo.bsky.social & more). I was in an episode on fever for the TVO Kids series 'Burps, Butts, and Bones' (do they know their audience or what?). I learned about acting from the +++talented Ryan.

Hot to Trot 🥵🤒 | 💀 BURPS, BUTTS AND BONES 🧪 | Answer Questions About The Human Body | TVOkids

YouTube video by TVOkids

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Well done, McMaster scholars Melinda Gough and Peter Cockett!

Callan Davies@callanjd.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Exciting to be among this rich collection just published, edited by Peter Cockett & @melindajgough.bsky.social . It brings together some lively thinking and conversations between actors, scholars, & makers arising from a residency at Stratford Festival: utppublishing.com/doi/book/10....

Call for Application: Full Professor of Modern and Contemporary History @unibayreuth.bsky.social

Professor Bonny Ibhawoh will share recommendations at the upcoming at COP30 Climate Change Conference from a study conducted with the support of McMaster students and researchers. https://news.mcmaster.ca/bonny-ibhawoh-climate-justice-cop30/

McMaster expert unveils blueprint for climate justice at COP30 

Professor Bonny Ibhawoh, chair of the United Nations Expert Mechanism on the Right to Development, will share recommendations from a study conducted with the support of McMaster students and researchers at the global climate summit in Brazil. 

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Tenure track philosophy job in Canada Western University’s Department of Philosophy seeks to hire a Asst Professor with an area of specialization in one or more of metaphysics, epistemology, and logic, broadly construed). The anticipated start date is July 1, 2026 www.uwo.ca/facultyrelat...

TOMORROW: LBI London Summer Lecture 2025 Hitler’s Mein Kampf: Reflections 100 Years On Dr Lisa Pine Tomorrow, Thursday 10 July 2025, 5:30pm–7:00pm Senate House, London Free admission Sign up: lbilondon.ac.uk/pine @ghilondon.bsky.social @lisapine.bsky.social

Impending and Exciting News! Job Opportunity as a Research Fellow for my Wellcome Trust Research Project in Medical Humanities and HPSM at the University of Leeds soon to be posted!

Among the thousands of groups affected by the sudden cessation of funds are state arts councils, museums, historic sites, archives, libraries, educators and media outlets in all 50 states.

Cultural groups across U.S. told that federal humanities grants are terminated

Among the thousands of groups affected by the sudden cessation of funds are state arts councils, museums, historic sites, archives, libraries, educators and media outlets in all 50 states.

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📣 Reminder for Canadian university students! Applications due Monday, March 31st! More details below. ⬇️

Participedia@participedia.bsky.social · last yr.

🚨 We’re hiring! ✨ Are you a university student interested in participatory democracy? Passionate about research and social justice? We’re looking for an RA to support our open-access database. 🗺 Check out the poster below for more details! 📝 Those interested should apply by March 31, 2025.

Congratulations to English and Cultural Studies postdoctoral fellow @stacya.bsky.social, whose course, "Black Latin America: Belonging, Refusal, Resistance" was featured on the CBC Hamilton website last week.

Ontario university course aims to fight the erasure of Black history in Latin America | CBC News

As part of a class on Black Latin American and Caribbean history, a roundtable at McMaster University in Hamilton hears from Afro-Latinx scholars about race, culture, migration and diasporic identitie...

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Philosophy at Lethbridge is also hiring Faculty of Arts & Science - Assistant Professor Philosophy Department uleth.peopleadmin.ca/postings/810...

I'm really appreciative of @thespec1846.bsky.social and JP Antonacci covering the recent measles outbreaks. Local news gets to the heart of local concerns in aa very personal way that I think has the power to change hearts and minds www.thespec.com/news/hamilto...

Norfolk elementary schools grapple with measles outbreaks

Unvaccinated students have been ordered to quarantine as infections are confirmed in 15 Grand Erie kids.

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Hamilton Spectator@thespec1846.bsky.social · last yr.

As measles spreads in southwestern Ontario, top docs urge early vaccination

Philosophy at Guelph is hiring in Ethics/ Applied Ethics. Please share widely. careers.uoguelph.ca/job/Guelph-A...

Why should humanities education persist in an AI age? Self-development, to start theconversation.com/why-should-h...

Why should humanities education persist in an AI age? Self-development, to start

Through self-development, or ‘Bildung’ in German thought, salon culture sought to resist absolutism and foster democratic discourse. This shaped the modern Western university.

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It’s good to see a well worn #envhist #cdnhist book at the Hamilton Public Library. Join us in Hamilton Ontario for the sequel/epilogue at 2025 Canadian History and Environment Summer Symposium - "Contamination and Rebirth" Friday, May 30 – Sunday, June 1, 2025 niche-canada.org/2025/01/17/c...