The Hunter Prize is shaking up Canadian policymaking. Submit your idea to address Canada’s housing affordability crisis by May 31st.

Andrea Dekeseredy Jan🇨🇦Stay’n For The Fight For Our Lives Research that, ironically, also keeps government accountable. Until now.

Still thinking about how much M*sk hurt us when he took over this place. Past friends and colleagues I used to talk to regularly. Present projects and opportunities I do not know about. Future collaborations that will not happen. I think my career is a bit worse because of it.

Excellent talk with Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen and Toronto District School Board Chair on #SuingSocialMedia the Dais 𝐃𝐚𝐧𝐚 𝐂𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐫

Published! Thanks to Mavis Morton OAITH Farrah Khan for their awareness raising re. #femicide in Canada. Carrie Rentschler Mandi Gray samantha c. thrift PROF J Ringrose she/her/TRANS NONBINARY ALLY🏳️‍⚧️

I’m having a *delightful* day. And I have Console-ing Passions 2024’s great panels, a new book — and, oddly, Air Canada’s cancellation (and 💩 customer service) to thank: I have an unexpected final day to wander, ponder, and read. Excited to read your work sarah banet-weiser Kat Higgins (aka Kathryn Claire) !

Pleased to announce my article on ‘#ThemToo’ mediated commemorative activism, to recoup femicide victims’ stories, is out via ⁦⁦⁦⁦⁦UTP Journals⁩ Canadian Journal of Communication Happy to provide complimentary access (DM me). ⁦⁦ can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%…

Just found out that Taylor & Francis has sold access to all Routledge Books data to Microsoft to train their AI. This includes my publications. I get no payment for using my research labour, never mind the bigger problems of this energy-intensive extractivism...

I just learned the terms “hicklib” and “blue neck” in Jerrica Rowlett’s great talk about Liberal SMI TikTokers in the South, and I can’t thank her enough SocialMedia&Society #SMSOCIETY

🌟Exciting News!🌟Our citations on Google Scholar for Feminist & Women’s Studies journals are soaring, with FMS ranked #1! 🎉 A huge thank you to everyone for your support in making the journal a phenomenal success. Let’s keep advancing feminist scholarship together! 💪📚✨

What a great Social Media & Society conference! Thanks to both organizers and participants for a fantastic experience, and good luck with new horizons Anatoliy Gruzd 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈 and Philip Mai (Photo credit: Daniel Angus (he/him) @[email protected]) SocialMedia&Society #smsociety Tom Divon | توم ديفون | תום דיבון

UPDATE: As of 9pm ET, grassroots supporters have raised $46.7 million through ActBlue following Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign launch. This has been the biggest fundraising day of the 2024 cycle. Small-dollar donors are fired up and ready to take on this election 🔥

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122 calls? C’mon everyone, be better than this. You wouldn’t want to be locked in a hot car yourselves so think about that. Ps. I’m smashing windows if I need to. #yeg #yegwx

Victoria Gold's Eagle mine in the Yukon has contaminated ground water with arsenic and cyanide, and has not complied with environmental orders, yet is permitted to continue operating. 1/ alaskabeacon.com/2024/07/26/a-c…

Pleased to see the idea take flight that images of abusive partners—when automatically resurfaced by social media ‘Memories’ features—can harm survivors. doi.org/10.1080/146807… Appreciate your rigorous engagement with ‘platform violence’ Martin Johannes Riedl et al. Inga Kristina Trauthig Tom Divon | توم ديفون | תום דיבון

"Your therapy bots aren’t licensed psychologists, your AI girlfriends are neither girls nor friends, your griefbots have no soul, & your AI copilots are not gods. We’ve warned companies about making false or unsubstantiated claims about AI [...]. And we’ve followed up w/ action."

My brother was also forced to have tampons in his bathroom at home because he and I shared a bathroom and you'll never believe this but he is alive and well today.