We're looking to train a lab technician in Nain, Nunatsiavut this coming January. This is a short-term paid position to help Nunatsiavut Government staff process the Canada geese that hunters submitted this year. Closing date: December 30th, 2020

If you want a picture of the future, imagine a zoom workshop about how to manage the stress of a boot stamping on your face - forever.

If you give someone a fish they'll eat for a day. But if you teach someone to conduct workshops on how hungry people can practice self-care then you dodge the question of why people are hungry while also cutting the fish budget and the savings can be passed on to the shareholders

Breaking: Uber has lost a landmark gig economy case in the Supreme Court. Uber drivers must now be classified as workers and receive minimum wage and holiday pay

I wish I could say I'm surprised at this, but I've seen how Queen's University has handled COVID response at all levels. They've had to be begged, pushed or publicly shamed for almost every basic concession. QueensSGPS our work isn't done yet.

I just signed this petition to extend timelines and funding for Queen's Graduate students affected by the pandemic who need extra resources, please join me: you.leadnow.ca/petitions/pivo… via Leadnow

Accessibility isn’t more work, you were just cutting corners before. The work was incomplete.

The ‘I can’t speak up about injustice because I’m too junior and precarious’ to ‘I can’t speak up about injustice because I’m too senior and have too much to lose’ pipeline

So persuasive is the power of the institutions we have created that they shape not only our preferences but actually our sense of possibilities. Ivan Illich

Now they've got a video of a kid from a different, better-attended conference doing his tight 5, I think they've run out of steam on this one #CyberSymposium

A special shout-out to Air Canada, an airline with so many people calling to complain we couldn't get in queue over the last two weeks. Now they want to charge extra because they ran out of cheaper seats. I recommend WestJet if at all possible. Very unhappy with this service.

10,000 of you stand before me, but the journal requirements only have a word limit of 8,000. #Editing

Amazon has had consistent net profits since early in the 00s. Its total profits exceeded historic loses during it's early growth phase during starting in 2009. Even by that conservative measure I wouldn't say they just became profitable recently, it's over 10 years.

B-school journal publications: "touching a stuff animal increases stated willingness to purchase by 3.1% (p = 0.046)" B-school mass market books: "Plush: The Power of Softness to Shape our Lives & Transform Our Economy"

Academics agreeing to exciting new papers & projects…

I want to dig in for a bit on this set of Slack replies from a Twitter manager talking about undoing some of the layoffs.

Diversify the curriculum all you want. Even refer to it as "decolonizing the curriculum" but at least don't claim this alone transforms material conditions of domination if the pedagogy used & knowledge attained is not praxis-oriented. You can't read your way out of coloniality.