Aylin Malcolm

Living this in reverse right now with importing my American partner to Canada. After thousands of dollars and six months of work on the file, we've managed to *apply*…now a year or two to wait if all goes well. And of course we're lucky, as this is still the easiest way to immigrate

Me every day since leaving Philly

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

I saw this story earlier and made a mental note to check what you had to say about it! That line about "AI" analysis being "objective" as opposed to scholars' "subjective opinions" is total rage bait

This is amazing on so many levels, including the implied renunciation of scientific "progress." Good thing we gave up on chemistry!

Smoke and Mirrors: Medieval Drama Through the Smog On June 7, 2025, Toronto hosted outdoor medieval plays amid wildfire smoke, blending ecological crisis with theatrical reflection.

3) "Smoke and Mirrors: Medieval Drama Through the Smog" by @malentendre.bsky.social - niche-canada.org/2025/07/05/s...

#envhum #medieval #theatre #wildfires #smoke

Our most read articles published in July!

Links in the thread below.

#envhist #cdnhist

Poster text is as follows: Call for Papers: ICMS 2026, May 14–16, Western Michigan University. Naturing Bodies, Embodying Nature. This session seeks to explore the intersections of embodiment and environment in the Middle Ages, considering how bodies—organic and inorganic, human and non-human, material and immaterial—constitute, shape, and envelop one another. By “naturing” bodies, we seek to erode neat divisions between humans and the natural world to uncover the earthy entanglements linking humans to the environments they shape and are shaped by. Attuning to John Scotus Eriugena’s claim that nature is the name “for all things, for those that are, and those that are not,” we invite papers that reflect on the fundamentally relational ontology of humans, non-humans, and environments. Abstracts up to 300 words can be submitted to the ICMS proposal portal before September 15.

With the organizers' permission, here's a great #icms2026 CFP on "Naturing Bodies, Embodying Nature." I'm not going this year but would def attend this session!

Apply: wmich.edu/medievalcong...
Contact: Hunter Phillips (hap48[at]cornell.edu), Asher Courtemanche (ac2457[at]cornell.edu)
#MedievalSky

The professor has been fired and senior administrators removed from their post. No mention of this in the New York Times, The Free Press, The Atlantic or other outlets who drove the campus speech moral panic.

You have about a week to submit to Dan Reeve and I’s IMC panels on queer and trans temporalities ! #imc2026 #medievalsky @imc-leeds.bsky.social

I'm putting that line in my book acknowledgments

Going deeper into the non-Euclidean rabbit hole: Googling "I would be lost without restaurant" yields a stunning array of slop sites

Yes! And I shouldn't have just said physical books – we'll be doing a few weeks on digital remediation and labor and all that good stuff.

This course hasn't even run for years – but I think students are more interested than ever in physical books. And it helped to have librarians & curators guest lecture in my previous classes (inc @leoba.bsky.social)!

This class doesn't start until January so who knows where we go from here

They're going to love your book! (they'd better)

Waitlist is up to 50

Yeah, I've heard lots of people praise the SSHRC model (mostly people with SSHRCs) but there would have been no grad school for me without the US funding model

It Took Many Years And Billions Of Dollars, But Microsoft Finally Invented A Calculator That Is Wrong Sometimes | Defector It’s not AI winter just yet, though there is a distinct chill in the air. Meta is shaking up and downsizing its artificial intelligence division. A new report out of MIT finds that 95 percent of compa...

"The entire (AI) business model: Get people addicted to the thing to the extent they can no longer function without it, and they will simply have to learn to live with it doing a bad job."

defector.com/it-took-many...

Canadian writers, there are now a couple of AI class actions for Canadian authors. Please check out both links below.
If you have found your books in the Books3 or LibGen DBs, you are likely to be included in the class(es).
www.cfmlawyers.ca/class-action...

www.cfmlawyers.ca/class-action...

UChicago just axed the Middle Eastern Studies program where I did my MA (along with every other grad program that requires language study). Luckily there isn't anything major happening in the Middle East at the moment, so that should be fine.

Special Collections Accessions Librarian University Overview The University of Pennsylvania, the largest private employer in Philadelphia, is a world-renowned leader in education, research, and innovation. This historic, Ivy League school co...

Opening at Penn for a Special Collections Accessions Librarian, responsible for acquiring and accessioning all special collections materials for the Kislak Center. The salary range for this position is $66,000 - $89,039. Come work with meeeee!

wd1.myworkdaysite.com/recruiting/u...

well, including and beyond the Middle Ages

Was told today that my scholarly brand is "weird little guys" and you know I will wear this label with pride

Arms Embargo Now! Canada’s secret arms trade with Israel, exposed: This hard-hitting report exposes the damning data—hundreds of shipments, hundreds of thousands of bullets—and the Canadian government’s web of lies tha...

421,000 bullets shipped from canada since october; 10 million since 2023;
175,000 in april of this year alone

Montréal as the key shipping hub

armsembargonow.ca/report/

AI Data Centers in Texas Used 463 Million Gallons of Water, Residents Told to Take Shorter Showers - Techie + Gamers Texas has long been defined by oil, heat, and huge infrastructure projects. Now, it’s also at the center of a growing environmental debate. Microsoft’s Stargate campus in Abilene is leading a data cen...

Coming soon to a nation near you: Mad Max

"In San Antonio, Microsoft and U.S. Army Corps facilities used a combined 463M gallons of water in 2023 and 2024, according to local water utility SAWS. That’s the equivalent of usage for tens of thousands of households."

techiegamers.com/texas-data-c...

This is, no exaggeration, Trump stealing a billion dollars from the United States. There are other planes for POTUS to use. This one will not be functional during his term for long, if at all.

But this one he will keep afterwards via his "presidential library."

As @gregpak.net has noted, unless there was a specific clause in all the contracts that allows for this, they can't go back and retroactively amend contracts without the author's consent. This is a class action suit waiting to happen.

Lotta bad stuff has happened in the past few years, but we can all agree that science's trend of "let's shine a UV light at every animal and see what happens" is an unadulterated good.

Smoke and Mirrors: Medieval Drama Through the Smog On June 7, 2025, Toronto hosted outdoor medieval plays amid wildfire smoke, blending ecological crisis with theatrical reflection.

"Saskatchewan & Manitoba declared states of emergency, while smoke drifted over Toronto & Montreal on its way to Europe. By the afternoon of June 6, Toronto’s air quality had plummeted almost to the bottom of world rankings..." - @malentendre.bsky.social

niche-canada.org/2025/07/05/s...

#smoke