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Ethel Tungohan @tungohan.bsky.social · 4h

Super excited to announce that @academicaunties.com is now on video (though you can also listen to the pod on your favourite podcast app). In our season premier, we talk to Deb Thompson and Yolande Bouka, asking the question - do our jobs still matter? youtu.be/RSGSdS_0St4?...

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Do our jobs still matter? | Academic Aunties | Episode 89

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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 12/09/2026

The international chess Federation banned trans women from playing women's chess. CHESS. It's not about fairness. The fairness argument is intended to radicalize people into more violent forms of transphobia.

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 20/08/2026

"At an invitation-only gathering in Italy, far-right leaders mapped out strategies to target rural America while local press coverage vanishes." #Newsmatters www.confrontthehate.com/p/white-nati...

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As Local News Dies, White Nationalists See an Opening

At an invitation-only gathering in Italy, far-right leaders mapped out strategies to target rural America while local press coverage vanishes.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Sasha Gusev has a great new blog post on faculty hiring during the DEI era. Remarkable how much backlash there has been to what was an tiny and temporary bump in hiring Black, Latino, and Native faculty of about 1 person per R1 campus theinfinitesimal.substack.com/p/what-actua...

Demographics of R1 university faculty, 2001-2024
84.5% 80%
White 69.8%
60
40
20
8.9%
3.4%
2.9%
0.3%
2001
'05
'10
'15
'20
— Asian/PI 17.1%
lispanic 6.4%
Black 4.8%
'24 Other 1.9%

Hiring counts for tenure-track positions at R1 universities
4,000 hires
3,797
• Non-URM 3,753
3,000
2,000
2,254
1,000
623
623
298
→ URM 788
Black 348
2018
2019
2020
322
2021
2022
2023
2024

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404 Media @404media.co · 17/08/2026

SCOOP: 404 Media placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it. What did we find? It ended up at an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. Yes. This is literally the logo outside the Amazon warehouse door. Read now:

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We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility

We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.

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Blacklikewho @blacklikewho.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

What standards of scholarship made it possible for Dr Nathan Cofnas to be awarded a doctorate? Just asking?

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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Hysterical whiteness has been in murderous full effect.

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Robin L Turner @robinlturnerphd.blacksky.app · 13/08/2026

Erica Townsend-Bell, Natasha Behl, @tungohan.bsky.social and I are excited that our article "Toward a More Expansive Comparative Politics: Perspectives on Knowledge Production from Outsiders Within" will be out soon(ish, given academic publishing)!

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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 11/08/2026

Now's as good of a time as any to reiterate that I have never seen anyone in a mainstream newspaper or magazine write about how Mamdani, El Sayed and Hamawy are representing positive masculinity.

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Ethel Tungohan @tungohan.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Members of the Filipino diaspora (myself included) who cheer Alex Eala also recognize when her opponents do well. Bencic, McNally and Parks were all amazing. Let's stop toxic tennis fandom that sees support for one player = hating their opponents! Also, here's a photo of me and my mom at the NBO!

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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 20/07/2026

Free for a limited period from the latest issue of @politicsgenderj.bsky.social - Care Justice through Coalitions and Communities of Care - cup.org/4w2CiWR - @tungohan.bsky.social

Text "Politics & Gender" repeated four times in yellow on a teal background.

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tania ⊹ @synthstatic.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

THIS BABY DEFEATED MESSI

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

CABO VERDE CABO VERDE CABO VERDE

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Ethel Tungohan @tungohan.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

"SHOW THE PLAYERS, get this man of the screen!," says my soccer obsessed ten year old. I agree. Also is it only trump giving the medals? What about Carney and Sheinbaum? Booooo.

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Ethel Tungohan @tungohan.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

SPAIN!!!!!!! And specifically Lamine Yamal for being all of 19, playing so well, and for supporting 🇵🇸! And also Ferran Torres for that winning goal!

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 14/07/2026

This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

To be a historian is to speak ill of the dead and the rest of you should take more history classes and join us.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 12/07/2026

Lindsay Graham and I often disagreed on whether you should overturn Democratic elections, starve the hungry, bomb anyone and bomb everyone dark, but nevertheless I hope his loved ones stay off the internet and the rest of you have some fun.

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Ethel Tungohan @tungohan.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

So very excited to dive into "Filipino Migrants and the Canadian Dream" by the brilliant Geraldina Polanco, published by @uoftpress.bsky.social! Students who'll be taking my grad class in the fall: this will be one of the books we're reading!!! #mustreads

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 06/07/2026

There's a part in the book "Careless People" where the author beats Zuck at Settlers of Catan, and he is absolutely wrecked by it. Someone pulls her aside to explain everyone else has been letting him win for years. I think about this a lot re: why tech bros think everyone will love AI chatbots.

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Ethel Tungohan @tungohan.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

ALEX EALA!!!!!!!! Just defeated the defending champion on Wimbledon! Laban Alex! 🇵🇭

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Ethel Tungohan @tungohan.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

SO excited that @drsabreena.bsky.social came to @academicaunties.com!!! We chatted abt her brilliant book, "DEI Undone"! We chat abt performative allyship, Palestine activism, and reflect on the possibilities of DEI-colonization. Everyone, buy the book!!! www.academicaunties.com/episodes/dei...

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DEI Undone

The disjuncture between the stated goals of equity, diversity, and inclusion policies and their application has long been a theme we’ve covered on...

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Luc Turgeon @lturgeon.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

2011: Ugh, there are a lot of typos in this student's term paper. 2026: Oh wow, there are typos in this paper, this is wonderful. Clearly, the student did not use AI.

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Ethel Tungohan @tungohan.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

And another brilliant PhD grad is joining our ranks! Super proud of Dr. Kushan Azadah, whose thesis powerfully uses the concept of the "Armonia effect" to explain Canada's responses to Afghan settlement, which includes geopolitics, domestic tensions and civil society actions. Congrats! #academicsky

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Adil Ray @adilray.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

If Muslims or members of the Asian and Black community had set fire to white people’s homes with children running for their lives, do you think we would be discussing legitimate concerns or focussing on who radicalised them and ideological and contributing cultural factors?

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Ethel Tungohan @tungohan.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Still beaming from Dr. Dani Magsumbol's spectacular PhD defence on Friday! I had the honour of supervising Dani, whose work examines how different generations of filipinx migrants in Canada 'terraform' belonging. She brilliantly addresses temporality, emotions, labour and community! #academicsky

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Ethel Tungohan @tungohan.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Read the room Mark Carney. No one wants this.

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Ethel Tungohan @tungohan.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Seriously such a great convo and made me all fired up to keep organizing! Thanks Anna for sharing space. And everyone else, remember that we're all stronger together! #unions #labor

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Ethel Tungohan @tungohan.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Devastated doesn't even begin to describe how I'm feeling. I last saw Raul at a mentorship workshop for racialized scholars in political science at the Canadian political science association, exactly two years ago. He was kind and generous and a true force. He was one of the best.

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Bassano @bassano.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Vermeer’s Girl With The Pearl Earring will be shown in Osaka, later this year, and the press conference was as Japanese as you’d expect #Vermeer

A Japanese mascot dressed as Vermeer’s Girl With The Pearl Earring in front of a promotional poster for the same at a press conference in Japan

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Ethel Tungohan @tungohan.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Just had an awesome convo w @annameier.bsky.social on @academicaunties.com! We talked abt transitioning from being a faculty member to a full time organizer, the importance of unions & more! Episode out next week! Thanks Anna for chatting- nice to finally meet after yrs of being social media pals!

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Ethel Tungohan @tungohan.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

"The Letters: Institutional Lives and EDI" published by @fernpub.bsky.social is magnificent. In @academicaunties.com, I chat w Nisha, Rita, Anita and Davina about how it came to be, the letters that they've written, that the EDI university has written & more. www.academicaunties.com/episodes/the...

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The Letters

This week we talk to Academic Aunties producer extraordinaire, Dr. Nisha Nath and her co-authors, Dr. Rita Kaur Dhamoon, Dr. Anita Girvan and Dr. Davina...

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Ethel Tungohan @tungohan.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

What happens in writing retreats? How should we change the conditions of our work to enable us to write + think? @nishanath.bsky.social & I listen to voice memos I taped during my last retreat and chat all things writing @academicaunties.com! www.academicaunties.com/episodes/wri... #academicsky

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Writing Retreats

For this episode of the podcast, we tackle writing, writing retreats, and why writing can be, and probably should be, a community-based practice. Last m...

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 01/05/2026

Anyone who wants to end birthright citizenship wants to bring back slavery. Those same people also claim non-citizens have no rights—not the right to protest against deportation, nor the right to not have police break down their doors, nor the right to defend themselves in a proceeding.

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Ethel Tungohan @tungohan.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

What pushes folx to run for office? In this episode of @academicaunties.com, Veronica Javier and I chat about why being a social worker, community advocate and adjunct faculty member drove her decision to run, challenges & her dreams of a more just world. www.academicaunties.com/episodes/run...

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Running for Office with Veronica Javier

With how abysmal the world is right now, we have probably all felt frustration that our political leaders are, at best, oblivious to our everyday concer...

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

young pope leo looks like a ska scene regular who goes by Upbeat but no one knows his real name

Young pope Leo, undated but he appears to be in his teens or early 20’s

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Anna Meier @annameier.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

university administrators have devolved to telling unions to "ask AI to give you that info" in case you were wondering how the academic labor movement is going

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Ethel Tungohan @tungohan.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

I am so incredibly proud of Karl Gardner, the first PhD student I ever supervised, for releasing his upcoming book published @ubcpress.bsky.social Seriously a smart and committed activist and scholar. Buy his book and watch this space for details on his launch! www.ubcpress.ca/organizing-s...

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Organizing Sanctuary

Organizing Sanctuary - Migrant Justice and Abolitionist Activism in Canadian Cities; Organizing Sanctuary offers a grounded and politically charged analysis of the history of sanctuary activism in Can...

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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Pls stop listening to Evan Solomon & the Cdn Vichy tech bros

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Ethel Tungohan @tungohan.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

I loved chatting w/ Uzma Jalaluddin on @academicaunties.com about writing, Scarborough, the importance of gossip and the latest instalment of her "Detective Aunty" murder mystery books, "moonlight murder" published by @harpercollinsca.bsky.social! www.academicaunties.com/episodes/moo... #canlit

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Moonlight Murder with Uzma Jalaluddin

This week, we are SO excited to talk to Uzma Jalaluddin about her new book, Moonlight Murder! This is the latest instalment in her amazing Detective Aun...

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

There is no ceasefire in Lebanon. Israel has been bombing Lebanon non-stop since last night. If anything Israel is expanding its war on Lebanon. You are being lied to

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Tina Adcock @tinaadcock.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Hello Bluesky! My book *A Cold Colonialism* came out in paperback last week. To celebrate, I'm giving away one free inscribed copy. Just like this post to enter the draw. You have till Thurs Apr 9 at 9:30 am PT to enter. More about the book here: www.ubcpress.ca/a-cold-colon... #cdnhist #envhist

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A Cold Colonialism

A Cold Colonialism - Modern Exploration and the Canadian North; A Cold Colonialism reframes exploration as a modern enterprise – one through which southern Canadians and Americans sought to exert cont...

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Seyward Darby @seywarddarby.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

One more time, loud as you can, for the people in the back. www.liberalcurrents.com/it-was-fasci...

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Maxwell Frost @maxwellfrost.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

The President is openly threatening genocide. A crime against humanity. He must be removed from office. The 25th Amendment must be invoked. If not, Congress has to do our damn job. Speaker Johnson, call us into session. War powers & impeachment. Remove this man from office.

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Anna Meier @annameier.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

yes it is awful when ICE breaks up families and it is just as awful when ICE kidnaps single people or those without traditional/heteronormative family structures. people have the same worth regardless of who is or isn't around them. no one deserves to be brutalized. framing matters.

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

I recently re-read Richard Hofstadter’s Anti-Intellectualism in American Life and now every time a Silicon Valley billionaire opens his mouth, I think about it. So I wrote about it for The Nation: www.thenation.com/article/soci...

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The Anti-Intellectualism of the Silicon Valley Elite

How the self-styled know-it-alls atop the knowledge economy want to dismantle the pursuit of knowledge for its own sake

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

I think the reason AI propagandists are so flustered by the fact that no real writer wants to use their idiotic tools is that they themselves don't enjoy writing. They see it as a boring arduous chore to be avoided, while real writers actually enjoy writing and actually care about the quality of it.

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Ethel Tungohan @tungohan.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Excited for academic conference season but having to pay reg fees and travel tickets and hotels for upcoming academic conferences is hard on my wallet bc of my uni's policy that I can't get reimbursed till after the conferences take place. #academicsky

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 01/04/2026

Why would I use "AI," I actually know how to fucking write

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