Ryan McNeil

The Department of Sociology at Wilfrid Laurier University (Waterloo campus) invites applications for a Tenure-Track faculty position at the rank of Assistant Professor. We seek applicants with expertise in the Sociology of Work and Professions, with the ability to teach sociological theory. The position will begin July 1, 2026, subject to budgetary approval. Anticipated Salary Range: $90K to $110K. Actual salary to be commensurate with experience.

Very good sociology job just posted: work and social theory at Wilfrid Laurier.

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Not for nothing, but the women didn’t party with Kash Patel after they won. 🥇💅🏼

A photo of an ice cream machine with a sign reading, "Anything is possible with ice cream." Beneath that is a hand lettered sign reading, "No ice cream".

2026 basically

3 on 3*

Very true. But still.

How many ways can Canada almost but not score, let's watch

Settling a game with 3 on 3 OT is such horseshit

For the record, Canada should have been on the power play when that happened

That was so many men

HOT FUZZ scene. Pegg as a cop talking to some underage kids in a pub When’s your birthday? 22nd of February. What year? Every year.

Happy birthday to this young man, and really to us all

Trying to figure out if I can get a Canadian feed of the game so the commentary doesn't make me vomit.

Just saw that we might get two feet of snow and am contemplating hibernating until Spring.

Pope Leo Will Spend July 4 Visiting Migrant Crossing Island Pope Leo has spoken out against the treatment of migrants in the United States several times over the last year.

JD Vance personally invited Pope Leo to the U.S. 250th celebration on the 4th of July. Today the Vatican announced Leo will be spending the day with migrants instead.

So, just to recap, we have two random DOGE bros with basically no knowledge or experience in the humanities (and at least one of whom is a college dropout), who just went around terminating grants that had gone through a full grant application process by feeding in a list of culture war grievance terms, selecting out the grant titles based on the appearance of seemingly “woke” words, then asking ChatGPT “yo, tell me this is DEI” and then sending termination emails the next day from a private server and forging the director’s signature. This is what “government efficiency” looks like in practice: two guys with zero relevant experience, a keyword list built on culture war grievances, and a chatbot confidently spitting out 120-character verdicts on federal grants that went through actual review processes. The experts who might have explained what these grants actually do? Locked out. The director whose signature appeared on termination letters? Couldn’t tell you which grants got cut or w

Ever wondered how your grant got cancelled? No we know. Some college dropout asked ChatGPT "is it DEI/woke"?

www.techdirt.com/202...

good news everyone, supreme court justices are beholden to their corporate benefactors over their fascist overlords

A fake ICE tip line reveals neighbors reporting neighbors A Nashville comedian’s deportation hotline, set up as a joke, has gone viral among viewers who say it shows the “banality of evil personified” in the U.S. immigration crackdown.

New: A comedian set up a fake ICE tip line as a joke. Then 100 calls flooded in: neighbors ratting on neighbors, a teacher reporting a kindergartener. Fans say the viral TikToks revealed deportation's "banality of evil." Conservatives say he should be in prison wapo.st/4kM4qbF

Thousands of institutions abandoned programs, ended or rewrote scholarships, closed down clubs and publications, all in pre-emptive compliance.

And you know why?

Mostly because they wanted to do it if they thought they could blame someone else for it.

"Addiction vaccines" have been studied since the 1970s and attracted millions in federal government research dollars. Me and a fellow medical sociologist, Kristin Barker, take a deep dive on the promise and failures of this intervention. Read our 🌶️spicy take in SSM: doi.org/10.1016/j.so...

The drunk uncle theory.

You don’t argue with the casually homophobic uncle at Thanksgiving dinner to change his mind; you argue so that the closeted cousin at the kids table knows there’s safe people and better possibilities out there

"Billionaires like thinkers who see their exploitation of the weak as good and natural. Epstein funneled ~$20m a year to academic men who shared his ideology [and got] to hold forth in formal sessions at Harvard, condemning feeding and caring for the poor as if he were making a scholarly argument."

Nice starting the week with a paper accepted at Social Science & Medicine

Movie description of the B horror move Death PhD. Gawdawful movie.

Now this is a movie plot!!! Someone understands grad school.

How and why police actually support the federal invasions—I have been working on this article for ~6 months, trying to make sense of Trump’s nationwide surge of DHS officers, how it has evolved, what brought us here, and what will remain after it ends.

CURLING BEEF! CURLING BEEF! CURLING BEEF! CURLING BEEF!

(I never post Olympic videos bc the IOC will hunt you down but I am taking that risk so that you can hear the Canadian curling cursing)

Call for Applications — Global Health Justice Postdoctoral Fellowships

The Global Health Justice Postdoctoral Programme at the Research Centre “Normative Orders,” Goethe University Frankfurt, is offering up to two fellowships for researchers in philosophy/social sciences

ICE Agents Smash Car Window, Detain Fair Havener Before Court - New Haven Independent Broken glass was scattered across Maltby Street Friday after masked federal agents reportedly surrounded a 33-year-old man's car, smashed his passenger-side window, and handcuffed him outside his home...

ICE activity in New Haven, Connecticut, today, reports the New Haven Independent.

www.newhavenindependent.org/2026/02/13/i...

Cartoon. Person says to other person „We invented a robot that answers questions.“, adding, „we just have to feed it 10 baby giraffes a day“. The other person asks „But it answers the questions correctly?“ Person responds „Oh my goodness, no. No no no no no.“ By Aram J. French Appropriated due to missing alt text

NUDE ELON MUSK: The invisible clothes I'm wearing are a product of xAthleisure, which will roll out self-dressing outfits within two years at the latest

THE CREDULOUS PRESS: Fully Clothed Tesla Innovator Does It Again

Elon Musk Wants to Build an A.I. Satellite Factory on the Moon In a meeting with employees at his company xAI, Mr. Musk revealed a vision for a facility that includes a giant catapult to launch his satellites into space.

insane to be reporting this stuff with a straight face. like what are we doing here man

No son, they are not "magically delicious." The workers made them delicious. This is a slogan meant to mystify the social conditions of labor