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merschrod (she/they) @merschrod.bsky.social · 12h
Flu and Covid vaccination clinics start soon, including this one in St. John's open to all (Students, staff, faculty, friends, cousins, children, all welcome!) Wednesday, Nov. 18 — Friends and Family Clinic Location: The Landing Time: 9 a.m.–4 p.m. @munfaculty.bsky.social @munsu35.bsky.social
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merschrod (she/they) @merschrod.bsky.social · 13h
OMG! I think I'm not on bsky enough. Wanna do dinner sometime?
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End Homelessness St. John's @ehsj709.bsky.social · 23h
"incorporating housing and supports on-site in a dedicated building (like Horizons 106) with that support kept them safe...now folks are going to be...sitting ducks essentially for some of the criminal element…that were operating Brazil Street.” vocm.com/2026/10/13/l...
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Local Housing Advocate Worried About Pending Closure of Old Airport Comfort Inn
A local housing advocate is very concerned about the pending closure of Horizons 106 and where it will leave v...
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AAUP @aaup.org · 18h
The AAUP is proud to endorse Angie Nixon for US Senate! 🔥🔥🔥 Angie is a fighter, an organizer, & a proven leader who doesn't back down. She has stood up against authoritarian threats to our sector, fiercely defended collective bargaining, & continues to champion a debt-free college education for all.
THE AAUP ENDORSES ANGIE NIXON
RUNNING FOR FLORIDA'S US SENATE SEAT
ANGIE NIXON WILL FIGHT FOR
ACADEMIC FREEDOM AND THE FUTURE OF HIGHER EDUCATION
A member of the Florida House of
Representatives, Nixon served as director of the Florida Public Services Union higher education campaign, an SEIU affiliate. She has organized higher education workers and is a strong supporter of debt-free college education.
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Dr. Rocío Paola Caballero-Gill (she/her/ella) @caballerogill.bsky.social · 17h
Hola #GSAConnects2026 ! The second and final @geolatinas.bsky.social meetup starts now! Thank you @geosociety.bsky.social for providing a space for affinity groups to gather and connect 🤗💜👏🏽 @francypants.bsky.social
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merschrod (she/they) @merschrod.bsky.social · 13h
I'm so sorry.
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The Boooook Shepherd 👻 @thebookshepherd.bsky.social · 23h
I cannot even begin to explain to you how scary the idea of normalizing public executions again is to me. It’s a test, a line in the sand, in the service of more evil to come.
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merschrod (she/they) @merschrod.bsky.social · 14h
I didn't know I had a favourite knot until saw this! :)
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Sevtap Savas, PhD🫐 🇨🇦🍁 @savaslab.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I have three new prints, all named after #FosterCatSkye ❤️ If you feel like donating to heavenly creatures and get one of these prints as a gift from me let me know ❤️ (need to pick at mun/downtown)
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merschrod (she/they) @merschrod.bsky.social · 14h
If you can read this, you're not close enough.
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AC Vasquez - 安娜 @criskotsu.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
🧪🌊🪨
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Ancient terrestrial forests reborn as modern marine ecosystems under shifting sea levels - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Ancient terrestrial forests reborn as modern marine ecosystems under shifting sea levels
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Ethan M. Aldridge @ethanmaldridge.bsky.social · 17h
All of these were drawn by hand, with fountain pen and watercolor! If you're in the menswear industry and would love some unique art for articles or campaigns, my email is always open.
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merschrod (she/they) @merschrod.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
From our univ president: "I talk all the time, consensus on a university campus is an illusion. [...]They are never going to agree on anything." May not her, but the rest of us agree that we need to support our academic mission. We need more funding for the university. @munfaculty.bsky.social
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merschrod (she/they) @merschrod.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Listen to the people doing the work of the university! #WeAreMUN @munfaculty.bsky.social @munfa-grenfell.bsky.social @munsu35.bsky.social @cupescfp.bsky.social
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Sevtap Savas, PhD🫐 🇨🇦🍁 @savaslab.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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MUNSU Calling on Administration to Stop Cuts to Jobs, Academic Programs
The Memorial University Students Union is calling on university administration to immediately halt job and aca...
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Sevtap Savas, PhD🫐 🇨🇦🍁 @savaslab.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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One year later: MUN elevator repair delays spark frustration | CBC News
One of two elevators at Memorial University's student centre has been broken for over a year. MUN says the elevator is original to the building making it difficult to source parts, which has delayed r...
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merschrod (she/they) @merschrod.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Why Use Alternative Grading? Making grades mean something specific @academic-chatter.bsky.social jaymedyer.substack.com/p/why-use-al...
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Why Use Alternative Grading? Part 2: Purify the meaning of grades
I outline 3 problems with the meaning of grades, and how Alt Grading attempts to solve them
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merschrod (she/they) @merschrod.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The federal govt is pushing for dangerous new powers to break legal strikes. On October 13 at 6pm ET, we’re hosting a national telephone townhall for workers, unions, and anyone across Canada who is ready to defend the right to strike. @munfaculty.bsky.social canadianplan.ca/add-your-voi...
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merschrod (she/they) @merschrod.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Love it!
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Sevtap Savas, PhD🫐 🇨🇦🍁 @savaslab.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Machines alone won't help N.L.'s MRI waitlists: advocate | CBC News
A joint government and health authority announcement on a new magnetic resonance imaging machine (MRI) coming to Grand Falls-Windsor, planned to be in service next year, has spurred concern and questi...
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CCPA — Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives @policyalternatives.ca · 05/10/2026
“These for-profit facilities offering MRI and surgical services take in much more funding from the province than they pay out in value to #Ontarians,” says @alonghurst.bsky.social. “And [this does not] lead to shorter diagnostic and surgical wait times...” www.thesudburystar.com/news/private...
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Private facilities sucking up money and increasing wait times: Report
At the same time, two MRI machines at Health Sciences North are not being fully used
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Mike 🍁 @thewarrenisempty.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"Labour shortages affecting cost or schedule were reported on just over 3 per cent of union projects, compared with 18 per cent of open shop projects." Unions supply reliable workers with lower rates of turnover - when they're paid what they're worth, they aren't constantly looking for a better job
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OneCity Vancouver @onecityvan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Solidarity with IUOE Local 963 💪 From Power Engineers to Cafeteria Workers to Supervision Aides in Vancouver's public schools, the work of IUOE 963 members provides essential, qualified, experienced and stable service to Vancouver families.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 06/10/2026
Because of the Nobel Prize, a lot of people will be talking about neutrinos today (including me I’m sure)! I *also* talk a lot about neutrinos in my new book, “How to Build a Universe (Theoretically Speaking),” which is available for preorder now! www.astrokatie.com/book-htbau
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How to Build a Universe — KATIE MACK, ASTROPHYSICIST
Information about "How to Build a Universe (Theoretically Speaking)" by Katie Mack
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Jenn Lena @jenniferlena.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
My dues are very well spent on this legislation. Solidarity!
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merschrod (she/they) @merschrod.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
We don't need rankings to determine our worth. We know the value of our work. We believe in our mission. We believe in our students. #WeAreMUN @munfaculty.bsky.social @munfa-grenfell.bsky.social @munsu35.bsky.social
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RutgersAAUP-AFT @ruaaup-aft.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Members across all units came out this morning to tell the university’s bargaining team it’s time to deliver on a fair contract that protects educators, students, patients, & our communities. We need 🫵YOU🫵 at our next session, keeping management accountable to the members that make Rutgers function.
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merschrod (she/they) @merschrod.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"Black hoods with brightly coloured trim. Black flowing robes to match. Square mortarboards and soft tams with gold tassels." But only if you can get the courses you need to graduate! I've got to stop reading the Gazette; this is giving me ulcers. gazette.mun.ca/student-life...
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Convocation season
Black hoods with brightly coloured trim. Black flowing robes to match. Square mortarboards and soft tams with gold tassels. Graduating Memorial University students will be decked out in full academic ...
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merschrod (she/they) @merschrod.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"Time magazine[...] announced an adjustment to the methodology[...]. [MUN's] overall position shifted from 295 to 322[...]. These results continue to affirm Memorial University’s standing among the top-ranked universities in Canada and worldwide." gazette.mun.ca/campus-and-c...
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Among the world’s best
The news magazine published its World’s Top Universities of 2026 list in late January and includes rankings of 500 academic institutions around the world.
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merschrod (she/they) @merschrod.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The Amway model for Universities? Is there a pyramid scheme behind the new "strategic enrollment plan"? <face palm> (The link is in the "__trashed" folder; maybe it's satire?) @munfaculty.bsky.social @munsu35.bsky.social @munfa-grenfell.bsky.social gazette.mun.ca/campus-and-c...
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Recruitment rewards
Memorial University is educating the next generation of innovators and changemakers, and we need your help to connect with them.  The Office of Development and Alumni Engagement, the Office of the Reg...
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Mike 🍁 @thewarrenisempty.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
We already knew this, but union skilled trades provide lower total labour costs on construction projects vs. open shop models Hiring better trained and more skilled workers and paying them more is cheaper in the long run
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Independent study finds union skilled trades deliver higher productivity and lower project costs in B.C. and Alberta
/CNW/ -- Union skilled trades in British Columbia and Alberta are more productive than open shop labour and deliver lower total project costs for owners,...
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merschrod (she/they) @merschrod.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
C'est quoi la nécessité d'économiser? C'est une nécessité d'investir dans des institutions qui donnent vraiment beaucoup à l'économie provinciale. ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/229... @munfaculty.bsky.social @munsu35.bsky.social @nlfl.bsky.social @munfa-grenfell.bsky.social
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Les compressions dénoncées à l’Université Memorial
Des associations étudiantes dénoncent les impacts des coupes de l'Université Memorial de Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador sur la qualité de l’éducation.
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merschrod (she/they) @merschrod.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"The Memorial University Students’ Union is sounding the alarm. They say that job and program cuts at MUN will negatively affect students, faculty, and staff." ntv.ca/news/memoria... @munfaculty.bsky.social @cupescfp.bsky.social @nlfl.bsky.social @munsu35.bsky.social @munfa-grenfell.bsky.social
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Memorial University Students' Union raises concerns over university job and program cuts - NTV: Newfoundland and Labrador's Most Trusted News Source
MUNSU is sounding the alarm. They say that job and program cuts at MUN will negatively affect students, faculty, and staff.
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Canadian Dimension @canadiandimension.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
@seancarleton.bsky.social and @niigaanwewidam.bsky.social’s new edited collection confronts the growing presence of harmful and disrespectful residential school denialism in mainstream media and public discourse. Read more of their writing in Canadian Dimension here:
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Putting truth and respect before reconciliation
Sean Carleton and Niigaan Sinclair, Indigenous studies professors and editors of the new book, Truth Before Reconciliation: Confronting Residential School Denialism, respond to the slow creep of harmf...
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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Our National Day for Truth and Reconciliation special starts at 11 a.m. ET on September 30, with hosts Dennis Ward and Tiar Wheatle. Watch live on APTN and online here: www.aptnnews.ca/rememberingt...
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Remembering the Children | APTN News
For 160 years, Indigenous children were taken and put into institutions across Canada. September 30 is a day to remember the children.
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Nora Loreto @nolore.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
(You can hear more about how the left is too white, and by proxy, too far from the working class, at our podcast -- www.sandyandnora.com)
sandyandnora.com
A political podcast. Just Listen.
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Sevtap Savas, PhD🫐 🇨🇦🍁 @savaslab.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Spend the night, learn Indigenous culture at Lunar Inn in St. John's | CBC News
“This is a place where we invite people to stay with purpose," says Rory Lambert, a co-ordinator with First Light about the Lunar Inn, which has seen guests from from across Canada, the United States ...
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💚🌏Myles🌏💚 @rainbowregionmyles.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"When the most powerful man in the country is a sexual predator who mainlines misogyny, he gives a blaring, glaring greenlight to men everywhere that they can treat us like shit and face no accountability. I call it Trickle-Down Misogyny". - Mona Eltahawy @monaeltahawy.bsky.social
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Mona Eltahawy @monaeltahawy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Trickle-Down Misogyny: When Trump was first campaigning to be president in 2015, those seven young men at Cornell were children—boys of about 10 or 11, I’d guess. They grew up in a United States of America in which Donald Trump was fruition, not an aberration www.feministgiant.com/p/essay-tric...
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Essay: Trickle-Down Misogyny
On the Cornell Seven
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Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Huge news! Charges against Eris Nyx and Jeremy Kalicum, founders of the Drug User Liberation Front, have been stayed. Judge found parts of Canada's drug laws are unconstitutional and that the compassion club reduced the harms associated with the toxic drug crisis. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Judge tosses drug trafficking convictions for B.C. compassion club founders after constitutional challenge | CBC News
A British Columbia Supreme Court judge has ruled in favour of two harm-reduction activists convicted of drug trafficking who argued they were doing it to reduce the harms caused by toxic drugs.
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Simon Little 🍁 @simonplittle.ca · 29/09/2026
Background: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Judge to rule on constitutional challenge by B.C. compassion club founders convicted of drug trafficking | CBC News
A British Columbia Supreme Court judge is expected to rule Tuesday on a constitutional challenge from two harm-reduction activists convicted of drug trafficking who argued they were doing it to reduce...
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godless dustbin 👻 @godfrey.work · 29/09/2026
BREAKING: Jeremy Kalicum and Eris Nyx's charges are being thrown out. she said they did a public service "at considerable personal cost."
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merschrod (she/they) @merschrod.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Go beyond the status quo: Transformative Territory Acknowledgment Guide @academic-chatter.bsky.social @munfaculty.bsky.social www.lenpierreconsulting.com/_files/ugd/9...
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merschrod (she/they) @merschrod.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
At a workshop on decolonization and right off the bat counted 6 chemists in attendance! #chemsky @chemjobber.bsky.social
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merschrod (she/they) @merschrod.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The right to strike gives workers power to stand up to big corporations and demand better wages. The federal government shouldn’t take that power away. share.canadianlabour.ca/s/Iqa2mL7i @munfaculty.bsky.social @nlfl.bsky.social @munfa-grenfell.bsky.social
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Tell the government: Protect our right to strike!
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merschrod (she/they) @merschrod.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If the federal government makes it harder for workers to negotiate a fair deal at work, it opens the door for NL to do the same. We can’t let that happen. share.canadianlabour.ca/s/TRXmULqG @munfaculty.bsky.social @nlfl.bsky.social @munfa-grenfell.bsky.social
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Tell the government: Protect our right to strike!
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merschrod (she/they) @merschrod.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
When workers can stand together, we have a better shot at getting a fair deal at work. share.canadianlabour.ca/s/R0Sba55E @munfaculty.bsky.social @nlfl.bsky.social @munfa-grenfell.bsky.social
share.canadianlabour.ca
Tell the government: Protect our right to strike!
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merschrod (she/they) @merschrod.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
When workers can stand together, we have a better shot at getting a fair deal at work. share.canadianlabour.ca/s/6671zDVO @munfaculty.bsky.social @nlfl.bsky.social @munfa-grenfell.bsky.social
share.canadianlabour.ca
Tell the government: Protect our right to strike!
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merschrod (she/they) @merschrod.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Bring Back the Residential Energy Rebate I just signed the NL NDP petition calling on government to bring back the residential energy rebate by removing the provincial HST from home heating bills. Please join me in calling for the removal of this regressive tax. nlndp.actionkit.com/sign/bring-b...
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Bring Back the Residential Energy Rebate
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merschrod (she/they) @merschrod.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
@munfa-grenfell.bsky.social @munfaculty.bsky.social Help spread the word! Together, we can make sure the government gets the message: protect the right to strike! share.canadianlabour.ca/toolkit/0100... @nlfl.bsky.social @cupescfp.bsky.social
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