Repost and repost and repost.

Mar Hicks@histoftech.bsky.social · 6mo ago

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took at uni: 1. Intro to Drafting 2. African and Caribbean lit 3. Medieval Women Writers 4. Cominatorics 5. Feminism and Postmodernism

Make it viral.

This seems important. Ontario academics take note. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/educati...

‘Mind-boggling stupidity’: The consultancy that captured universities

Nous Group has slowly taken over the university sector, filling VCs’ offices with ex-staff and buying ‘incredibly sensitive’ data that is sold back for benchmarking.

thesaturdaypaper.com.au

Yep.

Rachel Vindman@natsechobbyist.bsky.social · last yr.

Republicans’ idea of Small Government™️ is when a small group of white men get to tell the rest of what to do and what we can do.

Not that I needed a warning. But this is where we’re at.

My current hot take: Mark Carney is a Joe Clark Conservative. Discuss.

Every Canadian should read this. If you think we are immune to American-style devastation of education, we are not.

Inside Doug Ford’s Plan to Starve Ontario’s Universities | The Walrus

What happens when a government stops believing in education?

thewalrus.ca

An unhappy but important read.

Blame Canada

Our warmongering, drugged-out conspiracy theory

snyder.substack.com

“The End of the University as We Know It”, by Meghan O’Rourke www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/o...

Opinion | The View Inside Trump’s Assault on Universities (Gift Article)

The Trump administration’s attacks on universities will lead to the permanent diminishment of vital American institutions.

nytimes.com

On a lighter note…

The Beaverton@thebeaverton.com · last yr.

Furious Poilievre criticizes Trump tariffs for uniting Canadians

www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

In an alternative, better world, Doug Ford would have a lot less power right now

Our first-past-the-post voting system means Ontario voters are being shortchanged.

thestar.com

Trudeau: "They're talking about working positively with Russia, appeasing Vladimir Putin- a lying, murderous, dictator. Make that make sense. Canadians are reasonable and we are polite. But we will not back down from a fight...Canada will be implementing 25% tariffs against $155b of American goods."

Dear Ontario: Vote!

Glad Day Books haul.

RIP Marianne Faithfull. 😢

It’s important to know that a lot of productive activity is happening in person and offline, too. Not all of it can be broadcast online, but we’ve had hundreds of people showing up to our trainings, mobilizations, and more. Keep going. Tyranny is eroded by a sea of small acts. Everything matters.

Useful resource for students and theatre folk ... Shakespeare's Globe: Finding Queerness in our records. Free pdf book download (156 pages) #sexuality #gender #LGBTQ #history #queer #performance #drama cdn.shakespearesglobe.com/uploads/2025...

Free educational resource from the Globe Theatre, London: "Tracing Race in our Records" (146 pages) #Shakespeare #history #drama #TeamEnglish cdn.shakespearesglobe.com/uploads/2025...

Also highly recommended: "Finding Gender in our Records" (146 pages) [ A free educational resource from the Globe Theatre, London ] #Shakespeare #history #drama #TeamEnglish #performance #gender #literature cdn.shakespearesglobe.com/uploads/2025...

Holy doublespeak!

U.S. Department of Education Ends Biden’s Book Ban Hoax

The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) today announced that it has dismissed 11 complaints related to so-called “book bans.”

ed.gov

Comfort food for discomfiting times.

Love this!

Missouri trans 'snitch form' down after people spammed it with the 'Bee Movie' script | TechCrunch

Concerned citizens armed with fanfiction and the "Bee Movie" script took down a government-run website in Missouri.

techcrunch.com

The very definition of speaking truth to power. youtu.be/ACcD8FA15uY

Bishop confronts Trump on immigration and gay rights: ‘They fear for their lives’

YouTube video by Guardian News

youtu.be

Just putting this here.

Signs You Are a Gen-Xer Who’s About to Turn Sixty

1. You own music in so many formats that your collection could be housed in an audio museum. 2. Back in your day, people feared measles more than t...

mcsweeneys.net

Question: how do I get posts in my various feeds to run in chronological order? (Still a newbie over here.)

Time to revisit this classic. Can only hope @ifbookspod.bsky.social will do an episode on this one. Please…

Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 2y ago

Been devouring this the last few weeks and I cannot believe how essential it feels for understanding our current moment susanfaludi.com/backlash-cha...