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Jason Haslam

@jasonhaslam.ca
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Professor, English/Gender & Women’s Studies Dalhousie. He/him. Speaking only for myself (sometimes not even!) The Broadview Anthology of Science Fiction: broadviewpress.com/product/the-broa… jasonhaslam.ca

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Leah ProudLakota (she/her) @leahgazan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Earlier this year, the Canadian Network on Cuba launched a campaign to ensure Canada doesn’t cave to US pressure and support the US embargo on Cuba in a UN vote.
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U.S. Pressuring Canada to Vote Against Cuba at UN
For three decades, Canada has voted against the United States’ embargo on Cuba at the annual United Nations General Assembly vote held in October. The U.S. is now applying economic pressure to prevent...
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Jason Haslam @jasonhaslam.ca · 15h
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LLAMADO A LA ACADEMIA SOBRE LA SITUACIÓN DE CUBA - EL SILENCIO ES CÓMPLICE
(English below) En este segundo cuarto del siglo XXI, la humanidad atraviesa una serie de desafíos y amenazas existenciales. La no superada posibilidad de un enfrentamiento nuclear, la crisis climáti...
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Jason Haslam @jasonhaslam.ca · 16h
Rewatching “Matrix: Resurrections” and loving everything about its ethic all over again. “Nothing comforts anxiety like a little nostalgia.” Brilliant.
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Jason Haslam @jasonhaslam.ca · 18h
Excellent piece in @halifaxexaminer.ca on the no-confidence vote at Dalhousie (though n.b., the current provost, Brenda Merritt, was not included in the vote). The piece recognizes that senior admin focuses on the lockout but doesn’t acknowledge the other egregious, decisions before and after.
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Dalhousie Faculty Association members vote no confidence in university leadership - Halifax Examiner
"There is a sense of unhappiness and a sense of loss of direction from many people who love Dalhousie dearly."
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Jason Haslam @jasonhaslam.ca · 18h
The SO and I were talking when suddenly I heard loud, animal-like noises near the couch. I go into “terrified-hunter” mode, creeping over while trying not to cry… … then SO holds up her phone, playing a video, sound on, of a chihuahua running in the water. I’m owed money for emotional damage.
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Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social · 21h
This is *the* piece. Kate Manne, professor of philosophy at Cornell, speaks truth to the totality of failures at the university — and why students protesting the war in Gaza have faced far harsher consequences than any of the Cornell 7: www.thecut.com/article/what...
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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now
As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.
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Jason Haslam @jasonhaslam.ca · 20h
This is terrifying. Not going to lie, though, “toddler brings loaded gun to [x]” is a decent metaphor for every single waking moment of living in a world with Trump in charge of US military.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I do think they probably ran his texts through an LLM and it hallucinated crimes. That’s scary and bad and it’s funny they got caught, but imagine how many other times this happens on a day to day basis against people with no rights, let alone the ability to publicly humiliate the AI prosecutor.
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Jason Haslam @jasonhaslam.ca · 22h
Anyone else been haunted by a weird dread for the last 42 years that the only thing keeping Kim Mitchell from literal murder is going for a soda?
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Prof MNP @nushpowell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Please share!! The Department of English at Arizona State University invites applications for an Assistant Professor, Indigenous Studies position. PhD in literature, rhetoric, media studies, linguistics, or related discipline required at the time of appointment. apply.interfolio.com/194236
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Ann Petersen-Kane @anniegirl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
People have mostly forgotten how the UCP killed people during covid. Why and for whom. #ableg #abpoli Political pressure, negligence, incompetence all contributed to pandemic tragedy at High River plant, new report says albertapolitics.substack.com/p/political-...
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Political pressure, negligence, incompetence all contributed to pandemic tragedy at High River plant, new report says
Parkland Institute analysis shows how UCP ministers and officials tried to reassure workers to stay at work in the face of a major COVID-19 outbreak in 2020
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Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
missing from this argument is the fact that Williams is an extraordinarily rich college with students who are overall very well-prepared for college—essentially none of this is generalizable even to a flagship university, much less any other higher education institution
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Opinion | I’m a College Professor. Writing Isn’t as Important as We Think. (Gift Article)
If I do not treat writing as essential for achieving thought, it is not clear why I should force my students to.
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Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
it's not the main thing we need, but we do need a David Lodge style Changing Places exchange program so that professors realize the way their institution does things is not standard nor inevitable
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Senator Jeff Merkley @merkley.senate.gov · 29/09/2026
Trump’s Republican allies in the Senate BLOCKED my bill with Senator Murkowski to stop the Kennedy Center—or any presidential national memorial—from being demolished without an act of Congress. Just shameful.
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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Great moments in Scottish engineering history: James Watt tries to work out how his phone attaches to his selfie stick.
Statue of James Watt. In his right hand he holds a telescopic stick with a frame at the top; in his left he holds a flat object about the size of a large smartphone. He is scowling at the possibly-not-a-smartphone as if he is tempted to yeet it into the sea. On that basis, it probably _is_ a phone.
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Jason Haslam @jasonhaslam.ca · 29/09/2026
This empty, angry, mouldy husk of a plastic Mr Potato Head, tho…
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Jason Haslam @jasonhaslam.ca · 29/09/2026
Me realizing today was just one Monday… in September.
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Matthew McConaughey Smoking Intensely
Alt: Matthew McConaughey Smoking Intensely
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Scans from “Nomads” by Itsuro Naraki. Naraki is a Japanese photographer whose work is deeply influenced by Robert Frank. These portraits show people Naraki met on the street between 1986 and 1994. The book is available for purchase at Pinakotheca Books. IG t.archivist
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
To people who don’t believe that Kermit the Frog is real: What is the basis for your morality? Where does your moral standard come from?
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Department of English, Dalhousie U @dal-english.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This week in our speaker series, Dr. Asha Jeffers will present “Writing the Past and Present,” discussing her research and reading from her new novel project. Fri. Oct. 2, 3:45-5:00 in McCain 1198. Reception to follow. All are welcome! @dallibraries.bsky.social @dalhistory.bsky.social
A poster with a picture of Dr. Jeffers, another picture of a clock, and the details of the event listed in the post.
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Lee Cronin’s Pablo Hidalgo @infinata.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Florida figured it out?
Michael and Janet from The Good Place
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nick @unionnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
On the *same day* the Cornell Seven drugged and raped Jane Doe, Cornell banned four students (including the President of Cornell JVP) from campus for three years for nonviolent, pro-Palestine protests. The same Cornell officials let the rapists off with apology essays.
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Jason Haslam @jasonhaslam.ca · 28/09/2026
According to the information I’ve been able to find (not a scientific search…), the average McDonald’s employee in Canada stays in the job for 1-2 years. What does that mean? Over the past decade, Dal’s Provost has a higher turnover rate than McDonald’s.
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Teresa Heffernan @tjheffernan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The AI industry is driving up energy demands to keep the fossil fuel industry alive. The malware surveillance tech they produce can be regulated by laws we already have. Don't get distracted by the "existential risk" cult begging for more money to "regulate"...fossil fuels are cooking the planet.
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Jason Haslam @jasonhaslam.ca · 28/09/2026
Create an unnecessary sequel by adding an -er to a book’s title: Neuromancerer
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Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 27/09/2026
This is quite an anecdote about how our current Secretary of Education got the job. www.politico.com/news/magazin...
Linda McMahon was in her living room late one night, shortly after Trump won his second election, when her phone rang. Trump wanted to know if the woman who had led the Small Business Administration in his first term — and had been CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment before that — wanted to be his secretary of Education.

“Mr. President,” McMahon recalled telling him, “you know that I have not been in the world of education.”

“Well, you did graduate from college, didn’t you?” he responded, according to McMahon’s recollection.

Trump wasn’t looking for someone with education credentials. What he wanted instead was another business leader that would deliver a “return on investment” in the Department of Education. He also said her goal would be to put herself “out of a job” with the eventual downsizing of the department, she recalled.

“That’s not necessarily how I would expect to be courted,” she chuckled before accepting his request. McMahon would be the only one of two members from Trump’s first Cabinet — along with budget director Russ Vought — to be invited back for the second.
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Jason Haslam @jasonhaslam.ca · 27/09/2026
I honestly thought this was parody.
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Paul Renfro @renfro.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Oh, get fucked, @wsj.com. Now and forever. 🗃️
A fatuous WSJ editorial titled “The Ph.D. Job Crisis Is a Needed Market Correction.” The dek reads:
“Universities will produce fewer underemployed, overcredentialed and aggrieved young people.”
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Matthew L Reznicek @drreznicek.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Listening to academic administrators talk about the loss of trust in academia, the need to listen to what the public want us to focus on—without any recognition that this crisis is in large part manufactured by bad faith actors.
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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Spineless wimps. They never learn.
nytimes.com
TV Networks to Resume Trump Coverage, Even as White House Excludes CNN
The White House TV pool went dark this past week amid a standoff between CNN and the president. Network leaders, however, believe an indefinite suspension may be untenable.
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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
What sort of a bamboozingly story is this you are telling me?
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 26/09/2026
"Getting French-Canadians to the point of embracing the mindset of 'we must all hang together or we shall all hang separately' is an amazing feat. Only Trump could have made the US seem so awful that the Quebecois would embrace Canada First."
publicnotice.co
The view from Canada: Make America Think Again
Rebuilding trust will take generations.
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Jason Haslam @jasonhaslam.ca · 27/09/2026
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Star Wars Jar Jar Binks Thumbs Up
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Jason Haslam @jasonhaslam.ca · 27/09/2026
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Withnail Demands Booze
Alt: Withnail Demands Booze
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Columbo Meh
Alt: Lieutenant Columbo.
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emily @soupmuse.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
In case you were wondering how Silicon Valley-poisoned Stanford is these days... A department used AI on a promo photo, completely altering/slimming one young woman's appearance and erasing / replacing another student with a (non-existent!) Black woman. stanforddaily.com/2026/09/23/u...
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University confirms use of AI-edited photo amid controversy
The incident has caused national controversy, stemming from a now-viral Fizz post.
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paulseesequasis @pseesequasis.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Absolutely shocked to pass by this little gallery in Auxerre, France, that looks it hasn’t opened in a long time, to see this rare lithograph, 20/50, by the renowned Kinngait Inuk graphic artist Pitaloosie Saila (1942-2001), titled ‘The Outcast.’ The mystery remains how it
Absolutely shocked to pass by this little gallery in Auxerre, France, that looks it hasn’t opened in a long time, to see this rare lithograph, 20/50, by the renowned Kinngait Inuk graphic artist Pitaloosie Saila (1942-2001), titled ‘The Outcast.’ The mystery remains how it got to this little, ‘closed,’ gallery in this small city in France.
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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
On this day in 1972, Team Canada defeated the Soviets 4-3 in Game Seven of the Summit Series. Paul Henderson had his second-straight game-winning goal. Learn more in my Deep Dive 👇 buff.ly/2jPYIV2
Newspaper article with two players sprawled by the crease as the goalie lunges for the puck under the net, with the bold headline "Tomorrow: Sudden death" across the top.
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Julia M. Wright @juliamwright.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
AI will never deliver a burn one tenth as serious as this.
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Helen Pinsent @heleninwords.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
It still astonishes me how a man can be so dramatically ill suited for a job that didn’t exist until he had it.
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Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
And now for chapter two, which begins with the “neutral” university. Do I have thoughts on this!
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Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Come for the digital humanities, stay for the excellent analysis of higher ed today: “Even as it might seek to be inclusive, institutional neutrality cannot form the basis of a durable community.”
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Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
What, indeed: “What exactly is it that makes an educational institution? How many individual courses, books, faculty, or students can be sacrificed before it ceases to be itself?”
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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The literacy crisis is not just referring to people's ability to literally read and write. It's also people's inability to read for context. I've been a public educator for over 20 years and I have never, ever seen it this bad.
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Jason Haslam @jasonhaslam.ca · 26/09/2026
OMG, one of the LEGO people is the Fluke!! I’m dying!
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The X-Files 21369 | Ideas | Buy online at the Official LEGO® Shop CA
2 iconic scenes in 1 special X-Files set
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Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 26/09/2026
MY DESTINY
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Jason Haslam @jasonhaslam.ca · 26/09/2026
There are ministers who are not great in their portfolio, a few who are bad, and then there’s Evan Solomon.
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Karen Walton @karenwalton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
What a catastrophic Reveal. I hope this is a hard truth truly heard in that office. I have not enjoyed the Minister’s attitude toward informed public opinion on so-called AI. Which should be jointly priority-covered by Sciences, Rights, Justice and an unbiased Defence. imo
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Jason Haslam @jasonhaslam.ca · 26/09/2026
We debated what to call posts and “skeets” won, but there is still a die-hard crew including @juliamwright.bsky.social who think “bleats” is far superior and they’re still right, damnit.
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