Peter Miller
@drpeterjmiller.bsky.social
I’m an academic labour activist, professor, Classical philologist, and sports historian living and working in Winnipeg.
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Peter Miller
@drpeterjmiller.bsky.social
· Nov 14
In Praise of Greek Athletes
Cambridge Core - Ancient History - In Praise of Greek Athletes
doi.org
“In Praise of Greek Athletes” (Cambridge UP, 2024) examines the genres of agonistic epigram and epinikian. Across dozens of close readings, I argue for the centrality of identity and ritual speech to both genres, and I root them in the athletic and sanctuary context doi.org/10.1017/9781...
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I just wrote a letter: Palestine Uprooted: Nakba Past and Present. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/pale...
Palestine Uprooted: Nakba Past and Present
For the past ten years, the Palestinian Canadian Congress has worked to bring a national Nakba exhibit to life. With the support and expertise of the Palestinian Content Advisory Network, this vision ...
actionnetwork.org
November 20, 2025 at 12:07 AM
I just wrote a letter: Palestine Uprooted: Nakba Past and Present. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/pale...
But we already knew about the room they put you in at a doctor’s office after they call you from the waiting room.
November 17, 2025 at 11:57 PM
But we already knew about the room they put you in at a doctor’s office after they call you from the waiting room.
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NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 16, 2025 at 11:43 PM
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
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Reposted every year in response to all those who fetishize remembrance
November 9, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Reposted every year in response to all those who fetishize remembrance
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Why is a tax incentive for private-sector R&D considered an “investment,” but public R&D spending (through government, universities, or other public institutions) not? And why is spending on education, and other forms of “human capital”, not considered an investment?
The federal budget heralded a new approach to "capital budgeting". I unpack the new framework, and find it's mostly about optics: centreforfuturework.ca/2025/11/05/f.... There's some genuine new investment in the budget, but not as much as Canada needs for the moment. #cdnecon #canlab #Budget2025
Federal Budget 2025: Unpacking the New Capital Budgeting Framework - Centre for Future Work
Leading into this budget, the Carney government made much of a new distinction between operational spending and capital spending: between “spending” and “investing”. However, in practice this distinct...
centreforfuturework.ca
November 6, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Why is a tax incentive for private-sector R&D considered an “investment,” but public R&D spending (through government, universities, or other public institutions) not? And why is spending on education, and other forms of “human capital”, not considered an investment?
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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
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
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 4, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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
Yamamoto is a robot come from the future to destroy our hopes.
November 2, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Yamamoto is a robot come from the future to destroy our hopes.
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The Canadian Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science and Research is launching a US-style attack on EDI in Tri-Council funding.
As part of this attack, they are demanding disclosure of confidential demographic info + reviewer comments of all Canadian researchers who have applied b/w 2000-2025.
As part of this attack, they are demanding disclosure of confidential demographic info + reviewer comments of all Canadian researchers who have applied b/w 2000-2025.
October 31, 2025 at 2:33 PM
The Canadian Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science and Research is launching a US-style attack on EDI in Tri-Council funding.
As part of this attack, they are demanding disclosure of confidential demographic info + reviewer comments of all Canadian researchers who have applied b/w 2000-2025.
As part of this attack, they are demanding disclosure of confidential demographic info + reviewer comments of all Canadian researchers who have applied b/w 2000-2025.
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Canadian researchers should be aware the there is a motion before the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science and Research to force Tricouncils to hand over disaggregated peer review data on all applications:
Applicant names, profiles, demographics
Reviewers names, profiles, comments, and scores
Applicant names, profiles, demographics
Reviewers names, profiles, comments, and scores
October 30, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Canadian researchers should be aware the there is a motion before the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science and Research to force Tricouncils to hand over disaggregated peer review data on all applications:
Applicant names, profiles, demographics
Reviewers names, profiles, comments, and scores
Applicant names, profiles, demographics
Reviewers names, profiles, comments, and scores
Harry and Meaghan cheering for the Dodgers?? The French were right about one thing for sure…
October 29, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Harry and Meaghan cheering for the Dodgers?? The French were right about one thing for sure…
Just got home from the @uwfa.bsky.social screening of The Encampments. What a harrowing, inspiring, and vital documentary.
October 22, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Just got home from the @uwfa.bsky.social screening of The Encampments. What a harrowing, inspiring, and vital documentary.
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14 October 1940 | A Dutch Jewish girl, Mirjam Lewkowicz, was born in Gouda.
In September 1943, she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.
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A short video showing the ruins of gas chamber and crematorium III: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ipQmBPAlJQ8
In September 1943, she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.
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A short video showing the ruins of gas chamber and crematorium III: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ipQmBPAlJQ8
October 14, 2025 at 8:00 PM
14 October 1940 | A Dutch Jewish girl, Mirjam Lewkowicz, was born in Gouda.
In September 1943, she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.
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A short video showing the ruins of gas chamber and crematorium III: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ipQmBPAlJQ8
In September 1943, she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.
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A short video showing the ruins of gas chamber and crematorium III: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ipQmBPAlJQ8
Israel is awful: “Israel also forbade people from celebrating the release on Monday, firing teargas at family members and journalists waiting near Ofer prison in the occupied West Bank, where detainees were kept.”
October 14, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Israel is awful: “Israel also forbade people from celebrating the release on Monday, firing teargas at family members and journalists waiting near Ofer prison in the occupied West Bank, where detainees were kept.”
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We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
October 1, 2025 at 2:38 PM
We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
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Once again, it is *faculty*—not administrators—who brought this case and won. Including UC Faculty Association chapters of the AAUP.
Court Rules in AAUP v Rubio: Trump Admin Violated First Amendment
The AAUP and partners sued to block the Trump administration from carrying out large-scale arrests, detentions, and deportations of noncitizen students and faculty members for ideological reasons.
www.aaup.org
October 1, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Once again, it is *faculty*—not administrators—who brought this case and won. Including UC Faculty Association chapters of the AAUP.
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"Residential school denialism is not simply an alternate perspective. It is a form of harm that retraumatizes Survivors, undermines truth and perpetuates colonial ideas that jeopardize Canada’s ability to work with Indigenous Peoples..." –
@seancarleton.bsky.social @truthinthesoil.bsky.social
September 30, 2025 at 2:41 PM
"Residential school denialism is not simply an alternate perspective. It is a form of harm that retraumatizes Survivors, undermines truth and perpetuates colonial ideas that jeopardize Canada’s ability to work with Indigenous Peoples..." –
@seancarleton.bsky.social @truthinthesoil.bsky.social
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One of the most important things settlers who are committed to reconciliation can do today is to stand up to and call out denialist tactics. My colleague @seancarleton.bsky.social alongside Daniel Heath Justice explain more here: theconversation.com/truth-before...
Truth before reconciliation: 8 ways to identify and confront Residential School denialism
Residential school denialism is the rejection or misrepresentation of basic facts about residential schools to undermine truth and reconciliation efforts.
theconversation.com
September 30, 2025 at 2:38 PM
One of the most important things settlers who are committed to reconciliation can do today is to stand up to and call out denialist tactics. My colleague @seancarleton.bsky.social alongside Daniel Heath Justice explain more here: theconversation.com/truth-before...
Surely any Gaza peace plan should remove the terrorists in charge of Israel and ban them from participation in government.
September 29, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Surely any Gaza peace plan should remove the terrorists in charge of Israel and ban them from participation in government.
Actually Trump is in charge, so yes, that’s a worse idea.
There are few worse ideas than Tony Blair being put in charge of post-war Gaza.
September 29, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Actually Trump is in charge, so yes, that’s a worse idea.
There are few worse ideas than Tony Blair being put in charge of post-war Gaza.
September 29, 2025 at 4:02 PM
There are few worse ideas than Tony Blair being put in charge of post-war Gaza.
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I realize many people don’t quite get that not every single professor in every single university teaches computer science and might actually be trained in and invested in teaching other things, like let’s say, history? Or poetry.
Or sociology.
It is not our job to teach students how to use AI.
Or sociology.
It is not our job to teach students how to use AI.
If you don’t teach your students how to use AI, you’re doing them a huge disservice because they won’t have jobs in the future.
September 28, 2025 at 11:25 AM
I realize many people don’t quite get that not every single professor in every single university teaches computer science and might actually be trained in and invested in teaching other things, like let’s say, history? Or poetry.
Or sociology.
It is not our job to teach students how to use AI.
Or sociology.
It is not our job to teach students how to use AI.
Wow. I had one of these to take my first job at Texas Tech. This is insane and a major self-inflicted wound.
At $100,000 per H1B visa, Amazon alone will end up paying $1 Billion. Or, more likely, laying off most of their international staff.
www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-h...
www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-h...
Trump administration to add $100,000 fee for H-1B visas
The Trump administration is targeting a visa widely used by tech companies and other employers to hire foreign workers.
www.cbsnews.com
September 20, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Wow. I had one of these to take my first job at Texas Tech. This is insane and a major self-inflicted wound.
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September 16, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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This snippet of Volkov’s speech is so powerful.
Israeli conductor Ilan Volkov breaks silence at BBC Proms
YouTube video by Middle East Eye
m.youtube.com
September 15, 2025 at 3:52 PM
This snippet of Volkov’s speech is so powerful.
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I missed this gem from the grandmaster of gems.
September 14, 2025 at 12:52 PM
I missed this gem from the grandmaster of gems.