Mathieu Bouchard

You know what? I'm trying trying Canadian wines now. Thank you Donald!

75% of US scientists who answered Nature poll consider leaving More than 1,600 readers answered our poll; many said they were looking for jobs in Europe and Canada.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

A likely dire long-term consequence of the Trump madness if it goes on: a heavy brain-drain from the US.

Primary them

In the meantime, camp out at their offices and flood their phone lines

It's damn hard to resist the Trump/Musk fascist regime when a subset of Dems keeps holding open the door for them

Pathetic

I'm in!

This Wednesday I had the pleasure of facilitating a "prefigurative workshop" for hashtag#SDGWeek at École Telfer. Thanks to Daina Mazutis, Kenzie Whalen, Takwa YOUSSEF and the Centre for Sustainable Impact for the wonderful organizing!

US shelf at LCBO today. Time to fight back!

An Economy and a Government are Not Like a Business One of the great truisms about economics is that people assume CEOs...

One of the most insightful takes I have read so far about what is happening south of the border

talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/an-ec...

NEW: Senator Marshall (R-KS) RUNS AWAY, fleeing his own town hall after being asked about DOGE firing Veterans. MAKE HIM GO VIRAL.

😱 Are you a qualitative coder tired with NVivo and looking for an open source alternative? Me too! If you share my pain, please respond to this post -- I want to read your experiences and open a conversation to figure out the road ahead. Thanks!

This book looks super interesting -- will take a look. Thanks!

A big part of the problem is the centralized, private ownership structure of these mass technologies, which are governed without their users (i.e., us) having any say on their design or purpose. Hence the promise of open source, decentralized forms of twch dwvelopment.

Right now, we are not regulating big tech -- big tech is regulating us. Part of the solution, in my view, is raising awareness about the critical importance of digital hygiene in our daily lives (and I don’t claim to be a model, but at least I'm working on it).

Huge -- I'm starting to read this tomorrow morning!!!

I'm intrigued!

FYI - I'm a trained investment professional with a CFA and 10 years of experience in fund management for large pension plans, who became a qualitative management researcher when I realized it’s all bullshit. That’s why the topic speaks to me. Had a job talk at WBS last year before I joined Telfer.

Congrats on the book, btw. I'll look at it!

Active management works for the fund managers, not for the clients. It is a business that thrives on pervasive financial illiteracy.

Right

Thre principles of wise investing:
1. Eliminate management fees
2. Minimize transaction costs
3. Diversify asset classes
Boring is better.

Tokenism existed long before the phrase DEI was invented -- the natural response to being called out as bigot.