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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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Andrew Biro @andrewbiro.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

FYI. I like to think that a Miles Davis quote is more persuasive than the threat of shrimp

Printout of course academic integrity policy, including a new quotation from Miles Davis: “It takes a long time to figure out how to sound like yourself.”

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Andrew Biro @andrewbiro.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

What started this whole thing that the MLI report is responding to, was a recognition that groups were already being de facto excluded in CRC selection processes publications.gc.ca/collections/...

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Andrew Biro @andrewbiro.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

It’s a multidimensional job, so depending on how different elements are weighted, different candidates will be defined as “best.”

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Andrew Biro @andrewbiro.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I had a prof in grad school who explained this as: “We stand on the shoulders of giants… and spit down”

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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 · 19/08/2026

👋 Email me at andrew dot biro at acadiau dot ca

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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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Andrew Biro @andrewbiro.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I’ve started doing assignments where we discus a question in class before they write their answers, and their written answers have to include at least one quotation from class discussion

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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 · 15/07/2026

White Noise if you count that as a campus novel. Lucky Jim if you don’t.

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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 · 06/07/2026

Love this as I will be teaching Hobbes in the fall. Thank you.

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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

MacIntyre’s point is that using a language requires intentionality (speech acts are goal directed) and understanding social context.

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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 · 21/06/2026

No matter how many likes this gets, it will still be underrated

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

The assignment editor for the NYT opinion section has an opportunity to do the funniest thing

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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 · 29/05/2026

Sovereign Edmonton within a united Alberta

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Andrew Biro @andrewbiro.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

People who talk like that know the difference between “anecdote” and “antidote”

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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 · 17/04/2026

If only he was aware of a quotation from Schopenhauer that might have warned him about this

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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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