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Journal of Political Science Education @jpseeditors.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

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....

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Acadia University Faculty Association @acadiafaculty.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

🆕 #MemberMondays feature Today we feature Dr. Nicoletta Faraone, Associate Professor of Chemistry and Founding Director of the Canadian Tick Research & Innovation Center at Acadia.🧵

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Andrew Biro @andrewbiro.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Occasional reminder that it’s vital to support local, independent, investigative journalism

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Acadia University Faculty Association @acadiafaculty.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

#MemberMondays is a series where we showcase the outstanding teaching, research, and service work of our AUFA members. Today we feature Jennifer Kershaw, an instructor in the Department of Biology and the Collections Manager at the Acadia Wildlife Museum. 🧵

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Andrew Biro @andrewbiro.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Adding Philosophy & Public Affairs to the list of journals I won’t submit to or review for

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Andrew Biro @andrewbiro.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I’ve had an advance peek at some of this and excited to see the great work my colleagues are doing promoted on here. I also like that it kind of echoes the late Raul Pacheco Vega’s #ScholarSunday

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Jean Laroche @nsnewsh0und.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Correct me if I’m wrong, but I think this is unprecedented in NS. I do not recall a mass ban on protesters in my 30 years at Province House - the “people’s house”. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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36 people banned from N.S. Legislature for protest over budget cuts | CBC News

People who were present or participated in a protest that shut down Province House in March are now facing bans from the legislature's grounds.

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Andrew Biro @andrewbiro.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

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

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Andrew Biro @andrewbiro.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

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Andrew Biro @andrewbiro.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

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

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David Moscrop @davidmoscrop.com · 21/07/2026

….HOW DO YOU THINK? You don’t allow them to be manufactured and sold.

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Andrew Biro @andrewbiro.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

My unpopular opinion is that this is also an exciting game

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Andrew Biro @andrewbiro.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

The “My organization is not corrupt” t-shirt is raising a lot of questions already answered by the shirt

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Andrew Biro @andrewbiro.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Special Canada Day 🇨🇦 treat to see Kawhi Leonard coming back to the Raptors! It’s Kawhi for one season, Michael. How much would it cost, $10?

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Andrew Biro @andrewbiro.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

“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

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Andrew Biro @andrewbiro.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Shoutout to whoever put this on my office door over the weekend

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Andrew Biro @andrewbiro.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Two degrees of separation from someone who scored at the World Cup!

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Andrew Biro @andrewbiro.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Sports betting ads are the North American vuvuzela

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Suzanne Rent @suzannerent.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

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.

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Andrew Biro @andrewbiro.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Brutal. Note that this is 5 out of 11, so almost half.

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Andrew Biro @andrewbiro.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

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….

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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

We are in really, really big trouble if meaningful local journalism can't survive

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Andrew Biro @andrewbiro.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Substitute “classroom/academics” for “newsroom/journalism” and this thread is also pretty much spot-on

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Michelle Cyca @michellecyca.com · 08/05/2026

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.

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Arn Keeling @arnkeeling.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

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.”

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Joan Baxter @joanbaxter.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

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...

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‘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 · 17/04/2026

Michael Keaton and I are both disappointed by this

NYT spelling bee puzzle showing “birdman” is not in word list

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Andrew Biro @andrewbiro.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

I’m once again reminded that even medium speed train can be such a pleasant way to travel and it is frustrating how little Canada has invested in rail infrastructure

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CCPA Nova Scotia @ccpanovascotia.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Today, more than 2,200 long-term care workers from 24 care homes across the province take to the picket line. Nova Scotia’s long-term care workers are the lowest paid in Atlantic Canada, and do not make a living wage. #nspoli @cupens.bsky.social

Header: 'We don't have any other options': Thousands of Nova Scotia nursing home, residential care workers set to strike
Sub-header: By Willy Palov | April 10th, 2026 | Read the full article in the Chronicle Herald.
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“Our support services make $18.77 an hour but the living wage in Halifax is $29 an hour...
People can’t afford groceries. They can’t afford bills. People are living out of their cars. We have people working full-time here and then picking up part-time jobs elsewhere just to make ends meet.”
– Ty Loppie, CUPE spokesperson and personal care worker, quoted in the Chronicle Herald.

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Andrew Biro @andrewbiro.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

“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.”

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Roberto Faria @betofaria.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

To my Canadian friends, an acquaintance started a petition to allow US transgender citizens to claim refugee status here. www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en... If you’re Canadian please sign it. If you’re not, please share ❤️

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Andrew Biro @andrewbiro.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Solidarity with @cupe3912.bsky.social TAs and contract academic staff at NS College of Art & Design, on strike for their first contract after unionizing 3 years ago

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

New post: Can AI Replace Social Science Researchers? (No. No it can't. Come on, now.) davekarpf.beehiiv.com/p/can-ai-rep...

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Can AI Replace Social Science Researchers?

No. No it can't. Come on, now.

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Elisabeth R. Anker @libankerdc.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

I wanted to go on here to pass on that the brilliant political theorist and more importantly fabulous human being Bill Connolly passed away yesterday. This is such a loss, I'll have more to say later but for now my heart breaks.

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Hannah Main @hannahmain.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Nova Scotia’s budget came out and it’s one of the worst austerity budgets I’ve ever seen. I am going to use this thread as a place to point out everything that’s being cut. www.halifaxexaminer.ca/dismantling-...

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Tim Houston's austerity budget envisions huge deficits, staff cuts, and a billion dollars in additional cuts by 2030 - Halifax Examiner

The budget tabled today also slashes climate change-related science.

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Andrew Biro @andrewbiro.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Then, we can automate all sports betting. Bots betting on bots and we will all be rich.

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Julia M. Wright @juliamwright.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

The townhall, "Protecting Postsecondary Education in Nova Scotia," has been moved online because of the impending storm (thanks to the organizers for arranging this on such short notice!). #nspse #cdnpse Details and the link to join are at cocogov.org/blog/townhall/. #StormChips not included. :-)

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Town Hall on Protecting Post Secondary Education in Nova Scotia

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Acadia University Faculty Association @acadiafaculty.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Our AUFA president, Dr. Chelsea Gardner, will be joining a wonderful group of discussants for a Townhall on Protecting Post-Secondary Education in NS. The event is on Feb 23 at 6:30pm at the Halifax Central Library. We hope you'll join us!!

A poster advertising a town hall in Halifax. Power is in yellow and purple and includes two Nova Scotian flags.

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Andrew Biro @andrewbiro.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Nova Scotia, what are we waiting for?

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Andrew Biro @andrewbiro.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

There are a few people who are very heavily invested in this tech. They have a lot of resources and a very strong interest in getting you to believe that this stuff delivers what it promises. But it doesn’t.

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