Dr Sho Jacobs 🍁

A jack-o’-lantern with a goofy smile.

Happy Halloween!

This is important, #HigherEd
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Open Letter to Protect Tri-Council EDI Data Why do we need urgent action to protect our data? The mandate of the House of Commons Standing Committee on Science and Research is to review and report on topics relating to science and research in ...

If you are a Canadian scientist 🧪 alarmed by the unfair targeting of academics working on research related to EDI in the US ➡️

Turn your attention to our own House of Commons' Standing Committee on Science and Research and consider signing this open letter:

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Screenshot from study linked in our first reply.

📒 NEW STUDY: “Permanent Daylight Saving Time hinders the stability of circadian rhythms, posing public health risks, especially for adolescents and evening chronotypes.” 👉 Permanent Standard Time is needed instead!

There was a study that was done, which was submitted as part of this study, and it states that 88% of all Canadian faculty in universities are left-leaning and that 12% are right-leaning. Do you see an issue with that?

I'm reading the transcript of a House of Commons committee hearing about #EDI in Research

Full text: www.ourcommons.ca/documentview...

#HigherEd 🧪

Representative Vincent Ho, Richmond Hill South, is asking the USAgov-questions out loud:

Brief submitted to the House Committee on Science and Research; Impact of the Criteria for Awarding Federal Funding on Research Excellence in Canada Delete DEI. Invest in AI. Mikko Packalen CDASH Director, Associate Professor Department of Economics University of Waterloo 15 October 2025 Background: For two decades my research has focused on science policy. For over a decade, this work has been regularly mentioned in leading international news outlets (including in the New York Times last month). I’m a member of the National Institutes of Health Council of Councils Working Group on Science of Science, which gives advice to the world’s largest funder of scientific research. For nearly a decade, I have taught AI. My course is the most popular fourth year elective course. Fact 1. There is no high-quality evidence to support the idea that EDI policies advance scientific progress or benefit university students. Fact 2. Canada’s funding agencies’ and universities’ preoccupation with EDI has a significant opportunity cost. Canada is losing out on the AI economy. Fact 3. Leading U.S. universities now strongly reject social change goals and non- merit-based funding. Recommendation 1. Prohibit SSHRC, NSERC and CIHR from implementing EDI policies. Recommendation 2. Force SSHRC, NSERC, and CIHR to publish data on hiring practices, applicant pools, and outcomes in Canada Research Chairs program. Recommendation 3. Give universities incentives to delete EDI from their activities and strategic plans, and to re-focus on education and discovery. Recommendation 4. Invest in AI instead of EDI

This is unhinged and violent:

The layers of hate in these statements need to be addressed directly and continuously

EDI initiatives are a critical ingredient to ensuring a happier and healthier future

#HigherEd 🧪

@uwaterloo.ca @sshrc-crsh.canada.ca @create-les.bsky.social

Here's a recording of my 10-minute presentation about addressing shared indoor air as an accessibility barrier in our learning environments.

Feel free to share!

youtu.be/HD0wVoN7Pr8

This is important, #HigherEd
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Does anyone have a good academic resource for citation counting best practices? I'm trying to include some counts for a project but numbers between e.g., Google Scholar and Web of Science are wildly different (can't access Scopus through my institution).

Congratulations to everyone who entered the "The Andrew formerly known as Prince" sweepstakes today!

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In case you're looking for a last minute Hallowe'en costume, Statistics Canada has you covered...

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A professional tradesperson just confused my reno work with a now-retired builder's, and this is the life goal that I've always wanted.

#LifeGoals

Making a special digital-equity-based petition to the publishing board of a journal on Equity and Society is next-level frustrating

#HigherEd 🧪

Photograph of clouds with the sun poking through and 100 sandhill cranes high above

I love this sound!

Can you spot the group(s) of ~100 Sandhill Cranes that flew high over head this weekend ?

Dear Editors,
If it takes 10 minutes to make the edits, it is not a MAJOR revision.

Thanks for accepting the paper! We're excited to get it out there.
#HigherEd #AcademicLife 🧪

Dr Dawn Bowdish is on CBC calling for a vaccine registry because of how measles is so problematic in Canada. They also featured Dr Bogosh. Because there is worry over embarrassment in possible losing the measles elimination status.

a man with rings on his fingers is making a gesture that says i give up ALT: a man with rings on his fingers is making a gesture that says i give up

When you're #HigherEd employer asks you to provide your student support records by calendar year, not academic year:
#AcademicFriday

As described this is a very small linocut print of the night sky in blue with carved stars, Milky Way and a line across the sky and a line of silhouettes of evergreen trees in black along the bottom.

For the #Spacetober_challenge day 23 prompt space station I made a tiny linocut print of the track of the ISS across the night sky.

#linocut #printmaking #miniprint #night #forest #spaceArt #sciArt 🧪

a group of men are sitting at a table with a bowling ball and papers . ALT: a group of men are sitting at a table with a bowling ball and papers .

I wrote 612 words today.
#HigherEd

“Ceasefire”

Just cited pg 31.
Great text!

Sure, strip him of his Title but I betcha he’ll still be collecting his pay cheques.

Shorn of title, status and dignity, it’s the new Prince Andrew. A life he was born to replaced by a life he will hate | Stephen Bates Nothing will ever be the same for the disgraced royal or the other Windsors. He can still live in Royal Lodge, but it’s a terrible blow to his sense of entitlement, says former Guardian royal correspo...

It’s not enough, but it’s a start

Criminals must be prosecuted

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Recognizing dengue symptoms early can save lives.
Watch out for:

🤕 Severe headache
👀 Pain behind the eyes
🦵🏽Severe muscle & joint pain
🤢Nausea
🤮Vomiting
☹️Skin rashes
🤒Feve

I can’t hear you.

We don't need a list

All we need to do is believe women

‘Prince Andrew believed having sex with me was his birthright’: Virginia Giuffre on her abuse at the hands of Epstein, Maxwell and the king’s brother In an extract from her posthumous memoir, Virginia Roberts Giuffre remembers the day an ‘apex predator’ recruited her from Mar-a-Lago, aged just 16; how she was trafficked to a succession of wealthy a...

Always listen to survivors.
Always believe survivors.

May Virginia’s words and memory be for a revolution. ❤️‍🔥

Very, very significant trigger warning on this. CSA, grooming, more.