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Christine Mitchell 🇨🇦 @cmitchellsask.bsky.social · 5h

Anybody got any ideas for where I could submit an article called "Gideon, 'Breaking Bad,' and toxic masculinity"?

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The Conversation Canada @ca.theconversation.com · 6d

Seems like a good week to update and resurface this compelling — and terrifying — story from Aisha Ahmad of @utoronto.ca:

theconversation.com/why-annexing...

Why annexing Canada would destroy the United States

Americans have already been defeated by insurgents all over the world. Invading Canada would be no exception.

theconversation.com

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Christine Mitchell 🇨🇦 @cmitchellsask.bsky.social · 8d

Oh for God's sake. Just no.

Trump again floats Canada joining the U.S. as the 51st state | CBC News

U.S. President Donald Trump said Tuesday he again told some unnamed Canadian official that the country should consider joining the U.S. as the 51st state — returning to the annexationist rhetoric he u...

www.cbc.ca

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Ryan Turnbull @ryankturnbull.bsky.social · 8d

Since it's the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, here's a piece I wrote a few years ago tackling one of the main ways folks tend to minimize or dismiss the horror of the residential schools - the idea that it was done with "good intentions":

theconversation.com/when-good-in...

When ‘good intentions’ don’t matter: The Indian Residential School system

Variations on the myth of “good intentions” are invoked as a tool against the truth that the legacy of the IRS tells. Here’s why that needs to stop.

theconversation.com

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Christine Mitchell 🇨🇦 @cmitchellsask.bsky.social · 9d

Friends, I was "Reviewer 2" today, and for the first time ever, I did it gladly. (Sometimes I've been Reviewer 2, felt bad about having to do it, but needs must.) I've never reviewed a manuscript with such a dismissive tone before.

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Christine Mitchell 🇨🇦 @cmitchellsask.bsky.social · 14d

Or former staffers who beat their partner with a high chair.

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Alex Usher @alexusherhesa.bsky.social · 16d

Nothing is going to improve in Canadian higher education until the political class accepts that we need to make it better rather than cheaper. How will we know they have accepted it? When they are prepared to put institutions ahead of voters and raise tuition.

Turning the Corner | HESA

Things have been bleak in higher education the last couple of years, and no doubt they will remain bleak for … Continued

higheredstrategy.com

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Christine Mitchell 🇨🇦 @cmitchellsask.bsky.social · 23d

McGill-Queen’s UP? The Advancing Studies in Religion series, maybe, or their cultural studies list?

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Christine Mitchell 🇨🇦 @cmitchellsask.bsky.social · 23d

As some of us in the backwoods move to the larger seminaries... this is what we bring with us!

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Christine Mitchell 🇨🇦 @cmitchellsask.bsky.social · 28d

As an academic administrator, I like flexible policies/guidelines in a lot of instances because then I can do what I judge to be appropriate. But they are so open to abuse, or even just simple unfairness. I actually prefer clear policies with boundaries - more equitable.

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · Sep 7

Cognitive scientists and AI researchers make a forceful call to reject “uncritical adoption" of AI in academia
www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/cognitive-...

Cognitive scientists and AI researchers make a forceful call to reject “uncritical adoption" of AI in academia

A new paper calls on academia to repel rampant AI in university departments and classrooms.

www.bloodinthemachine.com

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Christine Mitchell 🇨🇦 @cmitchellsask.bsky.social · Sep 7

I do a lot of peer review, happy to do it. I turn down requests when the abstract is just silly. I'm getting more of those. Eds need to do more desk rejects & journals have to be clearer that not everything will be sent for review. Authors need to be more selective about where they send their mss.

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Christine Mitchell 🇨🇦 @cmitchellsask.bsky.social · Sep 6

Eric.

Christine Mitchell 🇨🇦 @cmitchellsask.bsky.social · Sep 3

So a slow-motion civil war?

Christine Mitchell 🇨🇦 @cmitchellsask.bsky.social · Sep 1

American exceptionalism at its very finest.

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Christine Mitchell 🇨🇦 @cmitchellsask.bsky.social · Aug 29

I did this a couple of months ago. It is very good.

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Christine Mitchell 🇨🇦 @cmitchellsask.bsky.social · Aug 28

If you want to study at TST, get in touch! Knox College (one of TST's member schools) has a limited number of full-funding fellowships.

Toronto School of Theology @torschtheology.bsky.social · Aug 28

Have you been thinking about a degree in Theology? TST's online application process for Fall 2026 admission opens *September 15*. Applications accepted for Doctoral Programs (PhD & DMin) and Master's Programs (ThM & MA). Learn more about TST's graduate degree programs and how to apply bit.ly/45pHt8i

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Christine Mitchell 🇨🇦 @cmitchellsask.bsky.social · Aug 27

"[The makers of AI] want to build a genie to grant them wishes, and their wish is that nobody ever has to make art again. They want to create a new kind of mind, so they can force it into mindless servitude. Their dream is to invent new forms of life to enslave."

Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · Aug 27

I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.

I Am An AI Hater

I am an AI hater. This is considered rude, but I do not care, because I am a hater.

anthonymoser.github.io

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Christine Mitchell 🇨🇦 @cmitchellsask.bsky.social · Aug 26

Well, considering they wanted to include themselves in a new ruling junta, I'm thinking not. More and more, invoking the EA is looking like the Cdn equivalent of South Koreans scaling the gates of the legislature to uphold democracy from a wannabe dictator.

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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · Aug 26

The Canadian Freedom Convoy people who argue the Emergencies Act was a dictatorial abuse of power agree that this use of power bears the ‘hallmarks of unreasonableness’ too, right?

Jesse Rabinowitz @jesserbnwtz.bsky.social · Aug 26

For folks not in DC:
- There are full-on police checkpoints most nights
- Gangs of 30+ federal agents roam DC
- National Guard folks w/ guns patrolling a Harris Teeter
- Every day, multiple friends see ICE kidnapping ppl
- Daycares are scared to have kids go on walks due to ICE

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Christine Mitchell 🇨🇦 @cmitchellsask.bsky.social · Aug 26

Like the "flipped classroom"

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Christine Mitchell 🇨🇦 @cmitchellsask.bsky.social · Aug 25

Manichaeism's long reach.

Christine Mitchell 🇨🇦 @cmitchellsask.bsky.social · Aug 25

That's not a lot. Maybe Trinity Western? I don't know their program but I see a lot of their MA students giving language based presentations

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Christine Mitchell 🇨🇦 @cmitchellsask.bsky.social · Aug 25

Would need Greek too, then? Does the student have any Hebrew or Greek already?

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Christine Mitchell 🇨🇦 @cmitchellsask.bsky.social · Aug 25

To do graduate work? University of Toronto, Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations - can do Hebrew, Aramaic, Akkadian, Ugaritic, Egyptian, Coptic

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