Hoping that some of the longest players in this work are being contacted by 404 for their help and insight.

cc: @flfreedomread.bsky.social @txfreedomread.bsky.social @freadomfighters.bsky.social @tasslyn.bsky.social etc etc

I'm so excited about this upcoming volume by @wardasworld.bsky.social and have asked my subject librarian to pre-order it. Farah's book works at the nexus of race, neurodiversity and culture to rethink speech language therapy practices.

www.routledge.com/White-System...

“A motion calling on the Vancouver Park Board to officially apologize for hosting an upcoming Harry Potter attraction passed Tuesday in a unanimous vote.”

The only so-called "ed tech" company that has ever sued its own customers is Proctorio. You'd be safer with anyone else. Out of all the proctoring companies, Proctorio is the litigious one.

Protect students. Cancel Proctorio.

www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

We heard you were looking for books to read this #InternationalLesbianDay 🌈

uncpressblog.com/2025/10/08/c...

"Our findings highlight the need for evidence-based guidance to shape local autism policies and show the importance of ongoing efforts to address the omission of love, sex, and relationships from discussions of autistic people’s everyday support needs in policy."

I'm once again sharing my starter pack of Canadian Game Studies Folks!

Follow and let me know if you, or someone you know, might be a good fit. 🕹️✨

Good rundown of the current situation on Bsky (written before Rudy's update that Blacksky is going to make Link available to its users)

plus.flux.community/p/banning-co...

The latest:

bsky.app/profile/hund...

Do we really need to offer library credibility and space to meetings about "agentic AI and Zotero?"

Not a critical look even, but basically a marketing pitch for a faculty developed tool.

For the 800th time this year:

What are we even doing?

If you are a supporter and reader of @contingent-mag.bsky.social one of the biggest things you can do to help us at the moment is get this CFP to the NTT folks in your life. The fracturing of social media has made it very difficult to get the word out esp. to adjuncts and VAPs.

Arnoud S. Q. Visser ( @arnoudvisser.bsky.social), On Pedantry: A Cultural History of the Know-it-All (@princetonupress.bsky.social, 2025; #skystorians) press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

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May 2026 👀

My monograph "Characters and Characterization in Mythological Video Games" will be out next year in @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social's IMAGINES series!

Many thanks to @ubisoft.com for the #ImmortalsFenyxRising art ⚡

More information (soon!) on www.bloomsbury.com/uk/character...

Today is a good day to spend a little time with the resources held by the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation.

It's a big collection, so this link goes to materials related to the IRS at Shubenacadie:

archives.nctr.ca/Shubenacadie...

This would be why I am such a strident critic of digitization as a substitute for actual archival preservation. My sixteenth century documents are far sturdier and likely to survive another 500 years than the detritus on the internet. And digitization is not democratization.

Whew, what a day? Popping in here for a minute to share that we have opened up more slots for my "How to Create A Personal Archive" Communiversity session happening on Saturday [in person]. We can use a bigger room to accommodate more people. www.interruptingcriminalization.com/communiversi...

In our study, led by the amazing Taylor Burns, we found that masking of autistic traits may leave autistic people vulnerable to identity distress which in turn effects mental health. This means constantly adapting to neurotypical norms may make it hard for autistic people to hold on to who they are

You don’t have to be a climate scientist to know the Arctic is losing permafrost; in Svalbard, the dislocation is obvious even to an untrained eye...

The Arctic Seed Vault Shows the Flawed Logic of Climate Adaptation | Scientific American www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...

In 1885, Montreal was ravaged by smallpox.
To stem the spread of the disease that had killed thousands so far, public health officials enforced vaccinations. Those that mistrusted the vaccine rioted in the streets.
This is the story of the Montreal Smallpox Riots.

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12 Palestinian authors writing spec fic. commapress.co.uk/books/palest...