Currently, Library and Archives Canada (LAC) receives $208 million from the federal government. It will see a permanent annual cut of $22.1 million, which means spending cuts of nearly $50 million over the next three years.
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can u share a link to the full piece for those of us interested in reading more?
jokes aside, i love my colleagues and am pretty bummed to miss what seems to have been an excellent gathering in the bay. doubly so since the event horizon of the job market means i have no idea if or when i will be able to see some of these folks again !
"the field of geography is split between tech nerds and communists" dont forget abt the tree geeks & transit gremlins (sometimes also communists, to be fair)
Wikipedia now has higher standards than all universities
Watching this now and it's the most unhinged production of Earnest I've ever seen. It's like the fae have stolen all the roles are are spoofing what they think humanity is.
It rules.
Abstract for session WHO’S AFRAID OF GIS? for a. first-time or novice users of digital mapping tools and GIS (Geographic Information Systems); b. former users who feel they have lost their confidence, skill and knowledge; or c. reading this now and thinking ‘Maybe I could give it a go…?’.
I'm recruiting for TWO sessions at European Geographies of Sexualities Conference 2026!
First - WHO'S AFRAID OF GIS?
A friendly, no-stakes show-&-tell. Zero experience needed - produce 1 simple GIS output before the conference, then come & tell us about it!
sites.google.com/view/egsconf...
got inspired by some questions from phd students the other day — and also really irritated by senior academics who seem to refuse to get the issues and continue to blame students; hope useful for you! 🩷
olivia.science/cheating
A few things for March 8...
My translator's foreword to The Feminist International & some comments on feminist translation today
"the ideas of limit, measure and equilibrium, which Weil believed ought to determine the conduct of life, survive in western modernity only, she observed with devastating precision, in the vocabulary of technics"
on the ongoing relevance of simone weil's philosophy:
www.equator.org/articles/epi...
"And I am not pleased // I am not very pleased // None of this fits into my notion of // 'things going very well'"
– June Jordan, "The Bombing of Baghdad"
poets.org/poem/bombing...
spectrejournal.com/gender-ideol...
Read Tiffany Berruti writing on the social and sexual anxieties fueling the right's antitrans reaction.
I’ve spent years of my life trying to explain to people that anti-trans conservatism naturally flows from their belief that children in the American nuclear family are not individuals with autonomy, but instead property of the parents and state, and this guy just… tweeted it out
I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.
Screenshot of a map and table listing ICE warehouse purchase data.
🚨 New: We built a visual tracker of the warehouses ICE is targeting across the US.
Working off an idea from @actualkatherine.bsky.social, we’ve mapped active searches, canceled deals, and linked state property records.
Explore the map here: tinyurl.com/ICEWarehouse...
Graphic reading 'the UK Government-commissioned 'Sullivan Review' of sex and gender in data and research collection threatens British research and trans inclusion. Here's why.'
📣 Today @felicitycallard.bsky.social and I have published the first peer-reviewed response to the 'Sullivan Review' of research and data on sex and gender.
doi.org/10.1111/tran...
The Review could threaten trans rights and inclusion, erode academic freedom, and undermine research quality.
not to mention that the tech + finance gentry who colonized nyc, san francisco, seattle, etc are the same ones who are bankrolling the fascist turn and building the tools used to carry out this violent agenda
bsky.app/profile/kati...
schulman here is talking about the wake of aids, but her words just as easily fit blm, covid, palestine, ice. reading "gentrification of the mind", it's impossible not to notice that the segregationist imperative of gentrification, material and mental, is the bedrock of mainstream american politics
sarah schulman, prescient as ever:
"pretending away the truth cripples the integrity of both individuals and nations. the very privilege of supremacy—the ability to deny that other people are real— becomes the fatal flaw keeping us from collective integrity as a society..."
If you want to support communities terrorized by ICE and DHS while getting query feedback or manuscript critiques, this is the auction for you.
things are bleak, and if you want a little break from that, you can read a little photo essay my friends and i wrote about our experiments with bringing zines into academic spaces. open access link here:
doi.org/10.1177/1474...
Do me a favour and hear @reproutopia.bsky.social out! 🖤 doi.org/10.1353/sor....
Geographers, in case you missed this detail, Alex Pretti graduated from the Minnesota Geography department in 2011.
HAPPYEND was my #1 film of last year. One of the best of the decade so far. A perfect seishun eiga following wild yet principled youth as they are called to both party & protest to survive an increasingly surveiled school life/police state. Our differences and solidarity make the rave better!
people resisting fascism in the twin cities are so incredibly inspiring right now - they are building on years of great organizing including powerful abolition work described well by Camille Tinnin here freedomnews.org.uk/2025/12/28/e...
the only right answer to this question !!
