Anoush F. Terjanian (elle/she/ան)

There is no evidence to support that federal research funding is being unfairly allocated to "woke" or "leftist" research.

If anything, as @pinglamjoeip.bsky.social and I found, research on structural inequality is underfunded.

I will link our original piece below.

Opinion: How much are MPs entitled to know about research grants? Not as much as they think A parliamentary committee is asking for academics’ private information on a strange anti-DEI crusade

How much are MPs entitled to know about research grants? Not as much as they think. A parliamentary committee is asking for researchers' personal information in what seems like an anti-DEI crusade, by @picardonhealth.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... via @theglobeandmail.com

Les #droitshumains, c’est surtout quand ça va mal qu’il faut s’y tenir.
Les rendre universels et surtout les rendre accessibles à tous et toutes devrait guider les décisions politiques et les budgets.
🙏 @alexneve.bsky.social et @cbcradiocanada.bsky.social Massey lectures
#polcan #budget

A balm in stormy times: Merci @alexneve.bsky.social for concrete steps we can all take to ensure #HumanRights are truly #Universal.

Et chapeaux to the brilliant #NahlaAyed + #PaulineHoldsworth who quench our thirst with these #CBCMasseyLectures.

May we all be ‘lamps, lifeboats, ladders’ indeed ✨

Artist Amy Sherald: The 60 Minutes Interview Amy Sherald spent years painting in obscurity, and almost died from a rare heart condition. Now 52, the artist behind Michelle Obama's official portrait is one of America's most celebrated painters.

ICYMI: Drop everything and spend 13 minutes with Amy Sherald--with her singular vision and talent, with her clarity about her central place in the jagged American story. You will be stirred by it all. www.cbsnews.com/video/amy-sh...

a woman in a hat says anyone else curious in a forest Alt: someone in a forest saying "anyone else curious?"

Squint a little, and all of that investment in AI starts to look like subsidies to keep an unsustainable service afloat--so they're starting to charge for it. Will they get enough ongoing revenue to pay for all of the server farms burning down the planet, as more and more talk about "AI Slop"?

Wiley retracts study stolen by reviewer, following Retraction Watch coverage A Wiley journal has retracted a paper more than a year after a researcher reported the work was hers and had been stolen by a reviewer for another journal. As we reported in July, Shafaq Aftab, now…

Well done Shafaq Aftab. When a reviewer stole her work and published it under his own name, she fought for a YEAR to get the journal to retract the paper. Just wondering why it took Wiley a YEAR to do this. 🧪 #academicsky

retractionwatch.com/2025/10/03/w...

Merci, pourriez-vous confirmer si oui ou non vous avez dû confronter une pénurie d’eau cet été?

“Water reserves at an all-time low.” Hydro-Québec imports electricity.

Eyes wide open Canada 🇨🇦!

N’oublions pas ce que les serveurs informatiques nous coûtent en eau 💦

#PenurieDEau #WaterScarcity

At last. Can someone add the water 💦 story to it, too?

Chi miigwetch @ocil-ila.bsky.social for this vital gathering, and to @fpcc.ca for their sponsorship and the opportunity to learn from the great Wanosts'a7, a Woman Who Walks In Peace Among People indeed, merci infiniment 🙏

Chair de poule ce matin à #WAVES2025: the great #TomsonHighway on why soeaking many languages is like living in a house with more than one window…#kisâkihitin❤️

Keen to learn next from Dr Lorna Wanosts’a7 Williams!

Miigwetch + 🙌 Kukpi7 Dr Ronald E. Ignace + teams + #CCUNESCO
#LanguageIsLife

Framing Heritage Destruction as a Human Rights Violation The way in which assaults on cultural and religious sites are presented to the public is critical to linking these attacks to atrocity crimes, a new book argues.

“Because conflict is often justified through historical narratives, and because cultural heritage is tied to identity and homeland, stories around cultural heritage may be purposed to either legitimate or exploit geopolitical aims.” —Mischa Geracoulis, human rights journalist

Opinion: Canada should follow Britain and lower the voting age to 16 Giving 16- and 17-year-olds in Scotland the right to vote appears to have disrupted the typical decline in participation during early adulthood

Yes Scott Stirrett! In 🇨🇦 16=taxes, keys to machines that kill, criminal responsibility, consent. Let’s solve for #DemocraticResilience earlier. La recherche montre qu’étendre le #vote à 16ans assure la participation informée + donc notre sécurité #Vote16Canada www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

Communiqué AFP Gaza

Communiqué de la SDJ de l'AFP à propos de ses journalistes à Gaza :
"Depuis que l’AFP a été fondée, nous avons perdu des journalistes dans des conflits, [...], mais aucun de nous n’a le souvenir d’avoir vu un collaborateur mourir de faim.
Nous refusons de les voir mourir."

Great leadership from the UK. We need to solve for democratic resilience earlier in the cycle, and research shows this is a winning path. C’est le moment pour le Canada de se joindre à cette évolution qui renforcera notre sécurité et notre bien-être! On y va #Vote16Canada 🇨🇦

Over 30 years ago, territory amounting to 20% of 🇨🇦’s land mass was (at last) peacefully transferred to its rightful citizens 🕊️❄️

#Nakurmiik to our Inuit neighbours for their leadership + partnership

#HappyNunavutDay!
ᖁᕕᐊᓱᒋᑦᑎ ᓄᓇᕗᑦ ᐅᓪᓗᖓᓂᑦ!
#BonneFêteDuNunavut!

At noon we’ll sing 🎶 Ce midi comme toujours j’ai entonné #ÔCanada. Remembering those early #CanadaDay fêtes when newcomer families like ours cheered the promise of 🇨🇦. Now we know more about how we must meet that promise. Fière et reconnaissante, je suis au rdv avec vous, miigwetch et #ViveLeCanada!

An important contribution by @clarkkazak.bsky.social for reflection and action on #WorldRefugeeDay

World Refugee Day: Prolonged refugee separation is harming families — and Canada’s economy On World Refugee Day, we call on the Canadian government to end the bureaucratic limbo causing family separation

World Refugee Day: Prolonged refugee separation is harming families — and Canada’s economy

Bloomberg • Live TV Markets v Economics Industries Tech Politics Businessweek Opinion More v Climate Change Insurance Crisis: Catastrophe Bonds Lightly Regulated Insurance $1 Trillion Liability Green | ESG & Investing US Spending on Climate Damage Nears $1 Trillion Per Year The bill for impacts from rising temperatures exceeded 3% of US GDP, according to a new analysis by Bloomberg Intelligence.

NEW from @eroston.bsky.social:

The US is already spending nearly $1 trillion every year on climate damages — we're not even officially at 1.5C of heating yet — according to a @bloomberglp.bsky.social analysis.

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Learning from Inuit knowledge systems will enhance our creativity and enrich our understanding of good governance, cooperation, well-being, technology, and nature. #Nakurmiik Natan Obed and all at @inuittapiriit.bsky.social and all in the community for your leadership 🙌

Début dans une heure !

➡️La nouvelle responsabilité globale des universités: Universitaires en danger et coopération internationale

Se déroule en anglais et en français >>> bit.ly/3SyhOmA

Draining cities dry: the giant tech companies queueing up to build datacentres in drought-hit Latin America In Brazil, the Chinese social media giant TikTok is said to be the latest company planning a supercomputer warehouse that will use vast amounts of water and energy

“Draining cities dry: the giant tech companies queueing up to build datacentres in drought-hit Latin America.”

“In Brazil, the Chinese social media giant TikTok is said to be the latest company planning a supercomputer warehouse that will use vast amounts of water and energy.”

🎓☀️ Le Cours d’été en droit international humanitaire commence bientôt à @uottawa.ca!

Bienvenue à nos participant·es qui se joindront à nous pour une semaine d’apprentissage intensif avec des expert·e·s du #DIH.

🔗 bit.ly/4jjX2TI

#DIH #DroitsHumains #uOttawa #ÉcoleDEté

@redcrosscanada.bsky.social

For forty years or more we've lived with the "more market, less government" nostrum.
Now that ethos is running on stilts, at exactly a time when demographics, climate change, AI, corporate concentration and rising geopolitical tensions are demanding more government, less market.

Penelope Simons

Please join us in congratulating Professor Penelope Simons, who will be the next Director of the Human Rights Research and Education Centre, effective July 1, 2025, for a five-year term!

Read the full article ➡️ bit.ly/4dpQVuF

@uocommonlaw.bsky.social
@uottawa-innovation.bsky.social
@uottawa.ca

Opinion: Anti-democratic ‘Dark Enlightenment’ ideas have spread from Silicon Valley to Washington This esoteric and obscure ideology has increasing influence on U.S. politics

‘…understanding the intellectual currents in our largest trading partner is not just a matter of academic curiosity—it’s practical wisdom for a complex future.”

A key headsup by Christopher Collins @theglobeandmail.com

#AnxietiesOfDemocracy
#cdpoli #polcan www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

Opinion: Canada still faces a massive brain-drain problem Despite Donald Trump, our entrepreneurs are likely to continue losing talent to America

Good diagnosis by #RichardFlorida: focus on retention/repatriation of *Canadian expats (researchers or entrepreneurs) is key. Like PM Carney those with US work experience share commitments, values, ties + understand what’s different and worth fighting for in 🇨🇦 www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...