Christina Holmes

I haven't much yet, but I have some European colleagues who are using it more extensively

NS government hired a US company (Huron) to help do a review of university programs. Cost 400K.

It did not bother to check whether Huron's methodology was compatible with local data collection practices (it wasn't).

Now Huron is trying to get unis to pay them to improve their data collection.

Black X-cellence Panel: #StFX Alumni Lifting Others explores how X shaped alumni lives and how they continue to lift others, hosted by Kwame Osei ’10. Feb 24, 7 p.m. AT. Virtual. https://www.alumni.stfx.ca/s/650/17/interior.aspx?sid=650&gid=1&pgid=4116&cid=7676&ecid=7676

History of Anthropology Interest Group: Inaugural Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Prize Winner

This past fall, the History of Anthropology Interest Group of the American Anthropological Association awarded its inaugural Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Prize to Nala K. Williams, doctoral…

Feds slashed farm research. An internal email suggests they don't know what Canada's losing Senior officials at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) did not know how their decision to close three research stations on the Prairies would impact the department's research program when they an...

Feds slashed farm research. An internal email suggests they don't know what Canada's losing www.nationalobserver.com/2026/02/02/n...

Feds slashed farm research. An internal email suggests they don't know what Canada's losing Senior officials at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) did not know how their decision to close three research stations on the Prairies would impact the department's research program when they an...

Feds slashed farm research. An internal email suggests they don't know what Canada's losing www.nationalobserver.com/2026/02/02/n...

Dozens of CDC databases are not being updated — most related to vaccines, study finds The agency plays a key role in tracking the disease spread and vaccination rates. Last year, it seemed to back away from some of that work, according to new research.

Nearly half of the databases that the CDC used to update regularly — surveillance systems that tracked public health information like Covid vaccination rates and hospitalizations for respiratory syncytial virus — have been paused without explanation, according to new research.

Canada's largest pension fund retreats from climate but other funds show leadership The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board invested at least $7.1 billion in new fossil fuel and pipeline assets between October 2024 and October 2025, pension watchdog Shift Action estimated in its ann...

Canada's largest pension fund retreats from climate but other funds show leadership www.nationalobserver.com/2026/01/28/n...

“You don't start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it's good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it. That's why I say one of the most valuable traits is persistence.”
― Octavia E. Butler

@4sonline.bsky.social calls for panel proposals for its 50th annual meeting in Toronto, October 6-10, 2026. "A key challenge now is ... to shift technoscientific futures away from the dictates of a wealthy few towards technoscience that fosters collective wellbeing, justice, and sustainability" #STS

Make your jokes about Faculty Senate meetings (we do!) but governance structures prevent costly fad-chasing! Small-d democratic procedures esp union workplace democracy *should* deflate overinvestment in the latest "innovation"

Fair Employment Week (FEW) is from October 20 to 24, 2025.

FEW is a @caut.bsky.social annual campaign to raise awareness about precarious employment on campus and to improve the working conditions of CAS by amplifying their voices.

Visit www.stfxaut.ca/part-time-ac...

#Fairness4CAS #MakeitFair

Promotional image for CAUT's Fair Employment Week keynote. Photo of speaker Dr. Kendra Strauss with text that reads "Make it Fair. A Discussion with Dr. Kendra Strauss on academic freedom and precarity. Wednesday, October 22 at 12pm EDT."

Join us next Wednesday, Oct. 22 for the #FairEmploymentWeek keynote! Register for the webinar now to hear Dr. Kendra Strauss discuss academic freedom and precarity.

More information: www.caut.ca/event/a-disc...

Cover of Gregorio Dati, La Sfera/The Globe. Cosmology, Science, and Geography in the Fifteenth-Century Mediterranean, ed. Carrie Beneš, Laura Ingallinella, Laura Morreale, Caterina Agostini, Winston Black, Elena Brizio, and Monica Keene. It shows a fifteenth-century manuscript diagram of the earth surrounded by the four elements and the moon, rendered in brilliant blues, reds, and greens.

New book! So pleased to get my author copies of our edition, translation, and study of Gregorio Dati's "La Sfera", a fifteenth-century Florentine poem on cosmology and geography.
This was the brainchild of the unstoppable Carrie Beneš.
It's profusely illustrated and will be great for students.

Obsidian advantages? And do the two interact with each other well?

EASST2026 Home The conference will take place on the main campus of AGH University of Krakow, walking distance from the Krakow’s vibrant city centre.

Call for panels now open until 31 Oct 2025. We invite you to join us for EASST’s Biennial Conference, to be held in Krakow, Poland
easst.net/conference/e...

"This is obviously the greatest assault on higher education in the history of this country.... What the Trump administration is doing is attacking the sector and institutions writ large to undermine their autonomy. That never happened under McCarthyism."
www.caut.ca/bulletin/tod...

Please wear red tomorrow for our missing and murdered indigenous realitives #MMIW #MMIM #MMIWG #Canada #canadian #NoMoreStolenSisters

Letter from Chief Sheldon Sunshine and Chief Billy-Joe Tuccaro to Premier Smith

"If you or any Canadians are not happy living on Treaty Lands, they are free to apply for citizenship elsewhere"
www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...

Fewer Students Engage in College Activities After COVID New data shows that student participation in high-impact practices at research institutions has yet to fully rebound after COVID-19–related shutdowns.

Student Success | Data: Students Less Involved on Campus Post-Pandemic

New data shows that student participation in high-impact practices at research institutions has yet to fully rebound after COVID-19–related shutdowns. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/3EiJjgo

Are you a Canadian researcher who depends on NOAA or NASA climate data? Please get in touch with Marc Fawcett-Atkinson: marc[at]nationalobserver.com.

Illustration of a magnifying glass with text that reads "Without colleges and universities, how different would life look?"

➡️Health care
➡️Infrastructure
➡️Art & design
➡️Engineering

Without post-secondary education, our lives would look a lot different. It's a system we all rely on every day.

Let's Unlock Education: Education2025.ca

4 questions, no follow-ups at PP's presser this morning in Sault Ste Marie.
They told me they choose a mix of local, national & French outlets.
CTV reporter Judy Trinh (who wasn't chosen) shouted a question about PP's refusal to get security clearance.
"Excuse me there's an activist here," PP said.

Thanks for posting! This looks great for the Anth of HIV and Infectious disease class I'm teaching next year.

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Photograph of a hardcopy of the book 'The Riddle of Organismal Agency: New Historical and Philosophical Reflections,' held in one of the editors' hands in front of the Institute of Philosophy, KU Leuven.

I am really happy to finally hold this book in my hands! It is the product of the collective efforts of editors, authors, reviewers, and publishing staff. We hope it sparks new interesting discussions on organismal agency! 📚👇 www.routledge.com/The-Riddle-o... #philsci #histsci #philsky #HPbio

‘Climate of fear’: Montreal doctor says NYU cancelled her presentation A Montreal doctor says her presentation at NYU was abruptly cancelled and believes the university did so out of fear of being pressured by the Donald Trump administration.

NYU canceled a planned speech by the former president of Doctors Without Borders because she planned to discuss the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and cuts to US AID.

This is what actual campus censorship looks like.

Ella Hunter did a great job presenting her poster at student research day @stfx-university.bsky.social last night and won the Service Learning award bit.ly/3FL5oVg

SANDRA HARDING Obituary (1935 - 2025-03-05) - Amherst, MA - Boston Globe View DR. SANDRA G. HARDING's obituary, send flowers and sign the guestbook.

Sandra Harding, feminist philosopher of science, passed away. www.legacy.com/us/obituarie...
Her work on feminist standpoint theory was so important to me. #philsky #feministsky #philsci #STS

we fixed acid rain! we fixed the ozone layer! we beat polio! we’ve rescued scores of species from the brink of extinction! the despair many of us feel about climate change isn’t that it’s too big to fix. it’s that we know it is fixable but we’re being thwarted by greedy ghouls at every turn.