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Peter Miller

@drpeterjmiller.bsky.social
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I’m an academic labour activist, professor, Classical philologist, and sports historian living and working in Winnipeg.

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Tom Miller @scousertom.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
My son @drpeterjmiller.bsky.social coined the phrase " "Glassphemy" for when one doesn't use the appropriate glass
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Peter Miller @drpeterjmiller.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Amazing. Just ordered this and then saw all the other great prints on @aplante.com!
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Larry Neufeld @larryneufeldsk.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
I just wrote a letter: Palestine Uprooted: Nakba Past and Present. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/pale...
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Palestine Uprooted: Nakba Past and Present
For the past ten years, the Palestinian Canadian Congress has worked to bring a national Nakba exhibit to life. With the support and expertise of the Palestinian Content Advisory Network, this vision ...
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Peter Miller @drpeterjmiller.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
But we already knew about the room they put you in at a doctor’s office after they call you from the waiting room.
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Aaron Parnas @aaronparnas.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
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Dan Herbert @danherb10.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Reposted every year in response to all those who fetishize remembrance
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Peter McInnis @defendeducation.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Why is a tax incentive for private-sector R&D considered an “investment,” but public R&D spending (through government, universities, or other public institutions) not? And why is spending on education, and other forms of “human capital”, not considered an investment?
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André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
How much are MPs entitled to know about research grants? Not as much as they think. A parliamentary committee is asking for researchers' personal information in what seems like an anti-DEI crusade, by @picardonhealth.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... via @theglobeandmail.com
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Opinion: How much are MPs entitled to know about research grants? Not as much as they think
A parliamentary committee is asking for academics’ private information on a strange anti-DEI crusade
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Peter Miller @drpeterjmiller.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Yamamoto is a robot come from the future to destroy our hopes.
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
The Canadian Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science and Research is launching a US-style attack on EDI in Tri-Council funding. As part of this attack, they are demanding disclosure of confidential demographic info + reviewer comments of all Canadian researchers who have applied b/w 2000-2025.
Maxime Blanchette-Joncas:
  I'm tabling the following motion:
That the committee request the three funding councils, namely the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), as part of the study on the impact of federal funding allocation criteria on research excellence in Canada, to provide it with the disaggregated data of all submitted applications, whether funded or not, for all student and faculty funding programs from the master's level onwards for applications made between 2020 and 2025. That this data include (1) demographic data of applicants and collaborators, including applicants' responses to the equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) questionnaire, (2) the institutions and departments of applicants, including the institutions of collaboration, (3) the language of the application, (4) all data regarding the type of application and project content (application year, grant program, discipline, title, summary, amount requested by the applicant), as well as (5) the identity of the evaluation committee, comments, opinions, scores assigned to applications for each criterion, and (6) the outcome of the application and the amount awarded. That the three funding councils submit all this data to the committee within 15 days following the adoption of this motion, in an Excel spreadsheet format.
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Michael Hendricks 🇨🇦 @michaelhendricks.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Canadian researchers should be aware the there is a motion before the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science and Research to force Tricouncils to hand over disaggregated peer review data on all applications: Applicant names, profiles, demographics Reviewers names, profiles, comments, and scores
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Peter Miller @drpeterjmiller.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Harry and Meaghan cheering for the Dodgers?? The French were right about one thing for sure…
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Peter Miller @drpeterjmiller.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Just got home from the @uwfa.bsky.social screening of The Encampments. What a harrowing, inspiring, and vital documentary.
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
14 October 1940 | A Dutch Jewish girl, Mirjam Lewkowicz, was born in Gouda. In September 1943, she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber after the selection. --- A short video showing the ruins of gas chamber and crematorium III: www.youtube.com/shorts/ipQmBPAlJQ8
Vintage black and white photo of a young girl with large eyes and curly hair, wearing a patterned bib over a dark shirt.
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Peter Miller @drpeterjmiller.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Israel is awful: “Israel also forbade people from celebrating the release on Monday, firing teargas at family members and journalists waiting near Ofer prison in the occupied West Bank, where detainees were kept.”
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 01/10/2025
We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 01/10/2025
Once again, it is *faculty*—not administrators—who brought this case and won. Including UC Faculty Association chapters of the AAUP.
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Court Rules in AAUP v Rubio: Trump Admin Violated First Amendment
The AAUP and partners sued to block the Trump administration from carrying out large-scale arrests, detentions, and deportations of noncitizen students and faculty members for ideological reasons.
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Greenpeace Canada @greenpeaceca.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
"Residential school denialism is not simply an alternate perspective. It is a form of harm that retraumatizes Survivors, undermines truth and perpetuates colonial ideas that jeopardize Canada’s ability to work with Indigenous Peoples..." – @seancarleton.bsky.social @truthinthesoil.bsky.social
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RT @ryankturnbull.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
One of the most important things settlers who are committed to reconciliation can do today is to stand up to and call out denialist tactics. My colleague @seancarleton.bsky.social alongside Daniel Heath Justice explain more here: theconversation.com/truth-before...
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Truth before reconciliation: 8 ways to identify and confront Residential School denialism
Residential school denialism is the rejection or misrepresentation of basic facts about residential schools to undermine truth and reconciliation efforts.
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Peter Miller @drpeterjmiller.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Surely any Gaza peace plan should remove the terrorists in charge of Israel and ban them from participation in government.
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Peter Miller @drpeterjmiller.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Actually Trump is in charge, so yes, that’s a worse idea.
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Peter Miller @drpeterjmiller.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
There are few worse ideas than Tony Blair being put in charge of post-war Gaza.
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
I realize many people don’t quite get that not every single professor in every single university teaches computer science and might actually be trained in and invested in teaching other things, like let’s say, history? Or poetry. Or sociology. It is not our job to teach students how to use AI.
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Peter Miller @drpeterjmiller.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Wow. I had one of these to take my first job at Texas Tech. This is insane and a major self-inflicted wound.
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
New UN commission report just dropped: Israel is committing genocide. apnews.com/article/isra...
GENEVA (AP) — A team of independent experts commissioned by the United Nations’ Human Rights Council has concluded that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, issuing a report Tuesday that calls on the international community to end the genocide and take steps to punish those responsible for it.

The deeply-documented findings by the three-member team are the latest accusations of genocide against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government by rights advocates as Israeli carries on with its war against Hamas in Gaza that has killed tens of thousands of people. Israel rejected what it called a “distorted and false” report.

The Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory and Israel, which was created four years ago, has repeatedly documented alleged human rights abuses and violations both in Gaza since the deadly Oct. 7, 2023, attacks in Israel led by Hamas, and other Palestinian areas.
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Julie Penner @julespenner.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
This snippet of Volkov’s speech is so powerful.
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Israeli conductor Ilan Volkov breaks silence at BBC Proms
YouTube video by Middle East Eye
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
I missed this gem from the grandmaster of gems.
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Adam Cochran @adamscochran.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
1/10 So the fake claims of "trans" and "antifa" symbols comes from both ammo stamps and casing inscriptions wrongly reported. They try to paint Tyler as left, but like Crooks this is a fringe right wing Groyper. Here's the details on registered Republican, Tyler Robinson: x.com/adamscochra...
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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 08/09/2025
So much weird in here, but hard to disagree that the average Saxon would have recognised policies of sinking vessels you don't like the look of, and imprisoning people who look different.
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Peter Miller @drpeterjmiller.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Amid so many awful things in this, the authors attempt to downplay the murder of Palestinian children: “Resulting in 22% of total casualties being children, well under the proportion of children in the population in Gaza.”
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CFJC Today Kamloops @cfjctoday.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
#Kamloops
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COLLINS: Sometimes when you try to fix one problem, you create a whole lot more
WE NEED MORE HOUSING, so let's cut down on immigrants. Better still, let's reduce the number of international students. That will create more housing ...
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Peter Miller @drpeterjmiller.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Liberal Tory same old story. Mark Carney should just re-start the old PC brand.
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Dr. Jen Gunter @drjengunter.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Mark Carney does not need to to invite a fascist who doesn't believe women should work and who thinks contraception is evil to come and speak to "understand him better."
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Liv Mariah Yarrow (pronounced "leave") @profyarrow.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
I maintain this list and celebrate each new addition and funding improvement to allow all to access our discipline. It feels equally important to mark the rollback of past successes. Programs at UVa, Columbia, Cornell, and Rutgers, now no longer exist. RT pls. 1/ livyarrow.org/funded-mas-a...
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Funded MAs and More
Additions and Corrections Welcome esp. for Fall 2025 applications! How to use this list. The organizational principles is application closing date. I have grouped by month–the later in the cycle th…
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reneedodson.bsky.social @reneedodson.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
This little girl is wearing leg shackles, trafficked to who knows where. It was caught on the airport cameras
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wantshoes7.bsky.social @wantshoes7.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Heinen's converted an old bank building & opened a full service grocery store in downtown Cleveland. It's really useful to people who live & work there. It's heavily utilized.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
The City of Atlanta is opening its first municipal grocery store today. The city is spending $3.5 million in partnership with a neighborhood grocery chain in an effort to eliminate a downtown food desert. www.wsbtv.com/news/local/a...
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City of Atlanta opening grocery store to clear up downtown food desert
The Azalea Fresh Market opens on Friday.
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Dorothy Berry @dorothyjberry.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Imagine the complicated and precious genius of the girl who made this embroidery sampler in 1811 The Solar System, sampler, unknown maker, 1811, England. Museum no. T.92-1939. Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
a 19th century embroidery sampler showing the solar system, the distance of the planets from the sun, and the length of time it takes each planet to circle the sun
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Dan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Guys, I have a special & unusual request today. My cousin Sean is a union bus driver here in Los Angeles who was just FIRED in retaliation for saying he would not let masked ICE agents onto his bus to abduct riders. The fight is on to get his job back, you can help: actionnetwork.org/letters/send...
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Peter Miller @drpeterjmiller.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
All academic publishers rushing for addendums to satisfy our supposed AI masters is really depressing.
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The Chronicle Herald @thechronicleherald.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
'It's about people, not buildings': Dalhousie Faculty Association stages rally after being locked out
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'It's about people, not buildings': Dalhousie Faculty Association stages rally after being locked out
Dalhousie Faculty Association president Dave Westwood said the last thing his members want is a protracted labour dispute with the university, but if so, they are ready.
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Dalhousie Faculty Association @dalfaculty.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
1000 faculty hit the picket lines tomorrow, 930 am, lockout by @dalhousieu.bsky.social. A first for CDN research intensive universities. A reckless move by the Board - jeopardizing the fall term, ruining relations with faculty for years to come. Join us on the picket lines to #keepdalstrong!
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Peter Miller @drpeterjmiller.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Why does Winnipeg smell so bad today???
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
The shooting of toddlers in the neck by Israeli snipers wasn’t enough. Leaving a young man with Down’s Syndrome to die alone in fear and agony without his family wasn’t enough. Detaining healthcare staff and leaving new born babies to die in incubators wasn’t enough.
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Peter Miller @drpeterjmiller.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
The right to strike is still a right even when it inconveniences travelers because we’re stuck with a near monopoly garbage airline in Canada that specializes in sucking money from the government and getting them to act on its behalf.
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Shar A @sharal.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Ah that's lovely news. metro.co.uk/2025/08/06/m...
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Millionaire trophy hunter gored to death by 1.3 tonne bull on African safari
Asher Watkins, 52, was tracking a 1.3 tonne Cape Buffalo bull, known as the Black Death, on Sunday when it suddenly charged at him at 35mph.
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Peter Miller @drpeterjmiller.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
What perfect album came out when you were 16?
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Dr Louise O'Brien @egypto-lou-gist.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
I'm a baker with a PhD, naturally I had to get my thesis turned into a cake 🤷🏻‍♀️
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Peter Miller @drpeterjmiller.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
It only took me a million viewings to realize that there’s Latin in KPop Demon Hunters!
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Isis Naucratis @isisnaucratis.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
🚨 In this open letter, the presidents of Gaza's universities are asking us all in the academic world to step up. LET'S GO! "The time for symbolic solidarity has passed. We now ask for practical, structured, and enduring partnership" www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...
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An open letter from the presidents of Gaza universities
Our campuses may have been razed, but our universities continue to exist.
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