Kate Norlock @kathrynnorlock.bsky.social · 12/02/2026Trent U's Impact+ Research Chair call for applications closes in one week on Feb 19: www.trentu.ca/humanresourc...trentu.caCanada Impact+ Research Chair - Human Resources - Trent University 000
Kate Norlock @kathrynnorlock.bsky.social · 11/06/2025We are happy to report that issue 11.2 of _Feminist Philosophy Quarterly_ at www.feministphilosophyquarterly.com is now online. Share and enjoy five peer-reviewed articles. As always, FPQ is free to all authors and all readers, so as to enjoy and support feminist philosophical research.feministphilosophyquarterly.com 0103
Kate Norlock @kathrynnorlock.bsky.social · 09/05/2025No words. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/u...nytimes.comThe Pentagon’s Culture Wars Strike West Point 010
Kate Norlock @kathrynnorlock.bsky.social · 25/04/2025A friend on fb recently posted someone's "thoughts on yesterday's executive order mandating the adoption and use of 'generative AI' in k-12 education" -- Bsky friends, what are they talking about? Could someone please post news links to the executive order? I've seen/heard nothing about this. 100
Reposted by Kate NorlockSenator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 16/04/2025I’m about to board my flight to El Salvador, where I hope to meet with senior government officials to discuss the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. I also hope to see Kilmar and check on his condition — and remind him that we won’t stop fighting until he’s home.youtube.comHeaded to El Salvador to meet with government officials and discuss return of Kilmar Abrego GarciaYouTube video by Senator Chris Van Hollen 40415382810547
Kate Norlock @kathrynnorlock.bsky.social · 14/04/2025I think the federal government should 'realign the liberal tilt of universities' just as soon as they finish realigning the conservative tilt of military bodies. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/u...nytimes.comHarvard Will Not Comply With a List of Trump Administration DemandsFederal officials said Harvard must enact “merit-based reform” in hiring and admissions and report international students who broke rules, among other steps. Harvard called the demands unlawful. 120
Kate Norlock @kathrynnorlock.bsky.social · 24/03/2025Deleting your data does not look difficult: www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...washingtonpost.comColumn | Delete your DNA from 23andMe right nowThe genetic information company declared bankruptcy on Sunday, and California’s attorney general has issued a privacy “consumer alert.” 020
Kate Norlock @kathrynnorlock.bsky.social · 20/03/2025This is where we are now. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...theguardian.comI’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnappedI was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was lucky 000
Kate Norlock @kathrynnorlock.bsky.social · 07/03/2025We are happy to report that issue 11.1 of _Feminist Philosophy Quarterly_ at www.feministphilosophyquarterly.com is now online. Share and enjoy 5 peer-reviewed articles. As always, FPQ is free to all authors and all readers.feministphilosophyquarterly.com 184
Kate Norlock @kathrynnorlock.bsky.social · 05/03/2025White House: “We spoke with the big three auto dealers. We are going to give a one-month exemption on any autos coming through USMCA,” the 2018 United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement. My confusion: Why isn't every story on the tariffs pointing out that the USA is violating the existing trade treaty? 010
Kate Norlock @kathrynnorlock.bsky.social · 04/03/2025Stop calling it a deal “A peace deal.” “Commitment to a deal.” Although Canada and the USA are at odds at the moment, here’s something they have in common: In both countries, their major newspapers repeatedly refer to the proposals of President Trump to the leader of Ukraine as deals. 1/3 130
Kate Norlock @kathrynnorlock.bsky.social · 27/02/2025The breezy comment by Bezos that anyone can find anything on the interwebz is grating, and in keeping with the trend toward replacing the judgement of persons with expertise, training, and caring --- who needs an editor when we have whatevs! Alas. 2/2 030
Kate Norlock @kathrynnorlock.bsky.social · 27/02/2025The Washington Post turns away from editorial traditions that I have always valued: judicious editorial selection and provision of an array of perspectives worth reading, that express what the section editor and team believe to be worthwhile and informative ways of looking at current issues. 1/2 010
Reposted by Kate NorlockNicole Hemmer @pastpunditry.bsky.social · 26/02/2025we don’t talk enough about this aspect of our current moment: the sadness and grief of losing institutions that were once so important to us, because they proved unworthy of our support. and it is real grief, because we lose what those institution might have been, if only they had been better. 1654893
Kate Norlock @kathrynnorlock.bsky.social · 26/02/2025Jeff Bezos email to WaPo staff: I’m writing to let you know about a change coming to our opinion pages. We are going to be writing every day in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets... viewpoints opposing those pillars will be left to be published by others. 010
Kate Norlock @kathrynnorlock.bsky.social · 20/02/2025This is the fear we've had since we moved here: USA coming for the water. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...cbc.caTrump's musings on 'very large faucet' in Canada part of looming water crisis, say researchers | CBC NewsFor water experts, there’s worry that climate change and shifting U.S. policies could put pressure on long-standing cross-border water agreements. 000
Kate Norlock @kathrynnorlock.bsky.social · 12/02/2025Hang tight, AP! Be the journalists we want to see in the world. www.cbc.ca/news/world/g...cbc.caReporter banned from Oval Office event over editorial decision not to use 'Gulf of America,' AP says | CBC NewsThe Associated Press on Tuesday said the White House barred its reporter from an event at the Oval Office because the news agency would not start using "Gulf of America" to describe the Gulf of Mexico... 040
Kate Norlock @kathrynnorlock.bsky.social · 04/02/2025It bothers me every time someone says everyone to the left of Republican isn't trying or resisting or not 'up off the mat.' So this was a relief to read. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...washingtonpost.comOpinion | The resistance will not be rushedResting up to join a peaceful, nonviolent, colorful and multigenerational opposition. 040
Kate Norlock @kathrynnorlock.bsky.social · 01/02/2025This is different. www.reuters.com/world/us/mus...reuters.comreuters.com 000
Kate Norlock @kathrynnorlock.bsky.social · 31/01/2025"The Army on Friday released the names of two of three soldiers ..., taking the rare step of withholding the third soldier’s identify after her family requested that the service do so...The third soldier, a pilot, was a woman..." www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...washingtonpost.comLive updates: Army ID’s two soldiers in D.C. plane crash, withholds name of thirdInvestigators confirmed they have recovered a cockpit voice recorder and a flight-data recorder from American Eagle Flight 5342, which will undergo analysis. 010
Kate Norlock @kathrynnorlock.bsky.social · 30/01/2025Baffling. Trump Blames D.E.I. and Biden for Crash Under His Watch www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/u...nytimes.comTrump Blames D.E.I. and Biden for Crash Under His WatchPresident Trump’s remarks, suggesting that diversity in hiring and other Biden administration policies somehow caused the disaster, reflected his instinct to immediately frame major events through his... 270
Reposted by Kate NorlockOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 25/01/2025she's right and she's right to say it bsky.app/profile/sjsh... 110720
Kate Norlock @kathrynnorlock.bsky.social · 25/01/2025Don't let some pesky laws stop you from firing the watchdogs. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...washingtonpost.comTrump ousts at least 12 independent inspectors general in late-night purgeThe dismissals appeared to violate federal law, which requires Congress to receive 30 days’ notice of any intent to fire a Senate-confirmed inspector general. 040
Reposted by Kate NorlockJohn Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 24/01/2025I increasingly think the biggest short-term danger of AI comes from humans not understanding what it actually does, treating it like some sort of oracle. 1426974
Reposted by Kate NorlockTim Sperry @yankeeinct.bsky.social · 21/01/2025open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug... “There’s more I could say about Trump’s delusions. And I will, eventually; despite everything, economic life does go on. ..it all seems insignificant beside the reality that the president of the United States has thrown himself fully behind political violence.”open.substack.comNo Time for WonkeryThis is hell, nor are we out of it 021
Reposted by Kate NorlockPam Davis-Kean, PhD @umpamdk.bsky.social · 20/01/2025“We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.” MLK 14813
Kate Norlock @kathrynnorlock.bsky.social · 06/01/2025Interesting: www.thestar.com/politics/fed...thestar.comJustin Trudeau promises to resign as prime minister and Liberal leader after leadership racePrime Minister Justin Trudeau met with Governor General Mary Simon Monday morning and received approval to prorogue Parliament until March 24. 000
Kate Norlock @kathrynnorlock.bsky.social · 04/01/2025Good toon, worth leaving the Post. geneweingarten.substack.com/p/dark-enoug...geneweingarten.substack.comDark Enough For You Yet, Wapo?Hello. 092
Kate Norlock @kathrynnorlock.bsky.social · 04/01/2025www.latimes.com/california/s...latimes.comGreat Pacific Garbage Patch could be eliminated in 10 years, cleanup organization saysThe Ocean Cleanup, a Dutch nonprofit organization, has projected that the blight on the world's largest ocean could be removed within a decade and for around $7.5 billion. 010
Kate Norlock @kathrynnorlock.bsky.social · 09/12/2024We are happy to report that issue 10.4 of _Feminist Philosophy Quarterly_ at www.feministphilosophyquarterly.com is now online. Share and enjoy these three peer-reviewed articles, followed by acknowledgments of referees, editors, and assistants here at the end of our first ten years as a journal.feministphilosophyquarterly.com 1438
Kate Norlock @kathrynnorlock.bsky.social · 09/12/2024When I first learned of ORCiD id I thought it sounded great! And now that I've been a journal editor for 10 years I think it's more often an obstacle than a help. But this is probably because I notice it only when it's an obstacle to clicking Publish. "Unauthenticated" is a word I learned to dread! 110
Kate Norlock @kathrynnorlock.bsky.social · 27/11/2024In 1990, the sector received 60 percent of its funding from the province, which has since dropped to 16.7 per cent. Sheridan College is expecting $112 million in lost revenue in the next fiscal year and reducing its workforce by up to 30 per cent (700 full-timers). www.thestar.com/news/gta/she...thestar.comSheridan College announces major program cuts and layoffs amid international student capA total of 40 programs from the college’s five faculties will stop new enrolment immediately. 010
Kate Norlock @kathrynnorlock.bsky.social · 25/11/2024"The newest way to think about biological age: Aging is far more erratic than many of us might expect." This may be new for WaPo but come on, a lot of us who go through it already know about the erratic nature of aging! (Sally @sallychivers.bsky.social should dig this, though.) 181
Reposted by Kate NorlockProPublica @propublica.org · 25/11/2024NEW: Porsha Ngumezi is the fifth case we've reported on in which a woman died after not receiving a D&C or its second-trimester equivalent in time, or at all. Her case raises questions about how abortion bans are pressuring doctors to avoid standard care even in straightforward miscarriages.propublica.orgA Third Woman Died Under Texas’ Abortion Ban. Doctors Are Avoiding D&Cs and Reaching for Riskier Miscarriage Treatments.Thirty-five-year-old Porsha Ngumezi’s case raises questions about how abortion bans are pressuring doctors to avoid standard care even in straightforward miscarriages. 415106886015
Kate Norlock @kathrynnorlock.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Name the author, guesses only, no cheating with searches! "Rocks are harder than bones. Trees are bigger than bodies. Bears are faster than you." 440
Kate Norlock @kathrynnorlock.bsky.social · 18/11/2024Although I think @katemanne.bsky.social is mistaken to take me to say there's no simple narratives of progress (I know the simple narratives exist / are conceivable!), I enjoy reading her nonideal aims too (but I already knew we were as one on this): katemanne.substack.com/p/is-there-a...katemanne.substack.comIs There Any Hope? Define HopeWhat to hope for now, in these days when it all seems hopeless 030
Kate Norlock @kathrynnorlock.bsky.social · 04/09/2024We are happy to report that issue 10.3 of _Feminist Philosophy Quarterly_ at feministphilosophyquarterly.com is now online. Share and enjoy these three peer-reviewed articles. As always, FPQ is free to all authors and all readers.feministphilosophyquarterly.com 0123
Kate Norlock @kathrynnorlock.bsky.social · 13/08/2024What Will The World Think Of Me? It will rise to meet your every step. Flowers will bloom for you. Birds will sing. Oceans will roar and swell and recede again. Mountains will frame a sun that will set in a blaze and rain will replenish the deep secret hearts under the soil. Oh. You meant people. 040
Kate Norlock @kathrynnorlock.bsky.social · 30/05/2024The newest issue of Feminist Philosophy Quarterly, guest-edited by Mich Ciurria on the topic of responsibility, is now published! We're always free to authors and readers, so enjoy these 13 original peer-reviewed articles: ojs.lib.uwo.ca/index.php/fp...ojs.lib.uwo.ca Feminist Philosophy Quarterly Feminist Philosophy Quarterly 064
Kate Norlock @kathrynnorlock.bsky.social · 21/02/2024Harvard GenderSci Lab says: We are recruiting for a full-time lab manager! You can read more about the job description here, which also has the link to apply via Harvard’s career portal: www.genderscilab.org/blog/the-gen... Please share widely! 000
Kate Norlock @kathrynnorlock.bsky.social · 19/02/2024'The airline later argued the chatbot was a separate legal entity “responsible for its own actions,” the decision said.' Happily, the court found against Air Canada. www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2024/... 110
Kate Norlock @kathrynnorlock.bsky.social · 19/02/2024More news coverage of postsecondary (non-)funding in Ontario: Why Are Ontario Post-Secondary Schools in Fiscal Disarray? | TVO Today 100
Kate Norlock @kathrynnorlock.bsky.social · 15/02/2024Powerful stuff, if you have 20 minutes (it's long-ish) to read about plagiarism in every area of writing. yasminnair.com/on-plagiarism/ 010
Kate Norlock @kathrynnorlock.bsky.social · 12/01/2024No lies detected: www.thestar.com/news/gta/tor... 100
Kate Norlock @kathrynnorlock.bsky.social · 22/12/2023@davsans.bsky.social David Sanson, nice to see you've joined us in the #philsky 120
Kate Norlock @kathrynnorlock.bsky.social · 22/12/2023Friends, Gabriele Contessa is in the Blue Sky! bsky.app/profile/gabe... May the #philsky be ever-expanding. 030
Kate Norlock @kathrynnorlock.bsky.social · 21/12/2023Good heavens. Cape Breton U: "Five years ago, ... the university had 3,500 students... This year, ... 9,100 students ... The school has grown by more than 3,000 students since last year." N.S. university's code of conduct aimed at stopping recruiters misleading students (thestar.com) 100
Kate Norlock @kathrynnorlock.bsky.social · 12/12/2023At last, Jenny Saul has joined the #philsky! Friends, you can follow my friend at @jennysaul.bsky.social 0115
Kate Norlock @kathrynnorlock.bsky.social · 11/12/2023Dan Speak is in the #philsky, friends! @danspeak.bsky.social 010