Johanna Whitson
@johannawhitson.bsky.social
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BREAKING 🚨 The University of Waterloo will not renew its partnership with the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, following a referendum in 2024 in which 83.9% of participating undergraduates voted in favor of ending the collaboration.
September 23, 2025 at 3:37 PM
BREAKING 🚨 The University of Waterloo will not renew its partnership with the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, following a referendum in 2024 in which 83.9% of participating undergraduates voted in favor of ending the collaboration.
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The deliberate killing of five Al Jazeera staff has brought the total number of journalists killed by Israel since the start of the war to 237, according to Gaza's Government Media Office.
🔴 LIVE updates:
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Israel murders five Al Jazeera staff in Gaza, including Anas al-Sharif
Al-Sharif was killed along with Mohammed Qreiqeh two cameramen and an assistant in an Israeli attack on Gaza City.
aje.io
August 11, 2025 at 12:00 AM
The deliberate killing of five Al Jazeera staff has brought the total number of journalists killed by Israel since the start of the war to 237, according to Gaza's Government Media Office.
🔴 LIVE updates:
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Governments on one hand: "We desperately need more physicians/engineers/nurses/teachers/this/that/the-next-thing."
Governments on the other hand 👇🏼
Governments on the other hand 👇🏼
Change in overall provincial government spending vs. total provincial government spending on post-secondary education, Canada, 2006-07 to 2025-26 (2006-07 = 100). It's not austerity, it's the choices.
May 16, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Governments on one hand: "We desperately need more physicians/engineers/nurses/teachers/this/that/the-next-thing."
Governments on the other hand 👇🏼
Governments on the other hand 👇🏼
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If these guys had their own apartments and a steady income, they'd be watching the game like everyone else in this city. That's all it would take to give them both a shelter from the storm of the world. And yet, we actively refuse to do that. We prefer that they simply die.
April 25, 2025 at 11:11 PM
If these guys had their own apartments and a steady income, they'd be watching the game like everyone else in this city. That's all it would take to give them both a shelter from the storm of the world. And yet, we actively refuse to do that. We prefer that they simply die.
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To have a hope of combating the greedy, traitorous end times fascists we will need to build an unruly open-hearted movement of the Earth-loving faithful: faithful to this planet, its people, its creatures and to the possibility of a livable future for us all.
Faithful to here.
Faithful to here.
April 14, 2025 at 12:58 PM
To have a hope of combating the greedy, traitorous end times fascists we will need to build an unruly open-hearted movement of the Earth-loving faithful: faithful to this planet, its people, its creatures and to the possibility of a livable future for us all.
Faithful to here.
Faithful to here.
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I have a joke about Persephone but y'all are gonna drag me to hell for it
There’s always my joke about Sisyphus, but how much longer are we doing this?
I have a joke about Icarus. It's probably not a good idea to tell it, but what's the worst that could happen?
April 13, 2025 at 4:26 AM
I have a joke about Persephone but y'all are gonna drag me to hell for it
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Mind-blowing column by @sarahoconnorft.ft.com (with a hell of a final paragraph)
The US may be reversing course on child labour
Acute strain on the jobs market has encouraged some states to consider reducing restrictions on employing minors
www.ft.com
April 10, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Mind-blowing column by @sarahoconnorft.ft.com (with a hell of a final paragraph)
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Time to check in on social media for my little hit of dopamine.... what??? All cortisol???? Again??!?!
April 9, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Time to check in on social media for my little hit of dopamine.... what??? All cortisol???? Again??!?!
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More than 130,000 government pages have gone dark in a purge that one scientist likened to a “digital book burning.” A group of librarians and archivists is fighting back.
The Volunteer Data Hoarders Resisting Trump’s Purge
Can librarians and guerrilla archivists save the country’s files from DOGE?
www.newyorker.com
March 27, 2025 at 6:42 PM
More than 130,000 government pages have gone dark in a purge that one scientist likened to a “digital book burning.” A group of librarians and archivists is fighting back.
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Could you use help explaining the value of #cataloging & good metadata to your admin, coworkers, #MLIS students, etc.? Happy to share this set of resources put together by an ALA working group chaired by @magsjoy.bsky.social. All of these & more are available at hdl.handle.net/11213/22872. 📚
April 3, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Could you use help explaining the value of #cataloging & good metadata to your admin, coworkers, #MLIS students, etc.? Happy to share this set of resources put together by an ALA working group chaired by @magsjoy.bsky.social. All of these & more are available at hdl.handle.net/11213/22872. 📚
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More journalists have been killed in Israel’s genocide in Gaza than in the past seven major U.S.-involved wars combined, marking the “worst ever conflict” for reporters in history.
Israel’s Genocide Has Reportedly Killed More Journalists Than WWI and WWII Combined
At least 232 journalists have been killed amid the genocide, a new Costs of War report finds.
truthout.org
April 1, 2025 at 11:20 PM
More journalists have been killed in Israel’s genocide in Gaza than in the past seven major U.S.-involved wars combined, marking the “worst ever conflict” for reporters in history.
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Classification as Colonization: The Hidden Politics of Library Catalogs
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Guest Post - Classification as Colonization: The Hidden Politics of Library Catalogs - The Scholarly Kitchen
The renaming of "Mount Denali" and "Gulf of Mexico" to the politically loaded “Mount McKinley" and "Gulf of America" reveal the naked truth of what cataloging has always been: a battlefield where mean...
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March 31, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Classification as Colonization: The Hidden Politics of Library Catalogs
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The *real* problem is that publicly-subsidized research is being hidden behind radically exorbitant subscriber walls, in turn paid for by publicly-subsidized institutions like university libraries. In effect, public money is paying *twice* for research, and the public STILL doesn't have access! 3/3
March 31, 2025 at 5:10 PM
The *real* problem is that publicly-subsidized research is being hidden behind radically exorbitant subscriber walls, in turn paid for by publicly-subsidized institutions like university libraries. In effect, public money is paying *twice* for research, and the public STILL doesn't have access! 3/3
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One of many moments in Omar El Akkad’s new book, “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” that will stop you in your tracks.
March 29, 2025 at 8:31 PM
One of many moments in Omar El Akkad’s new book, “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” that will stop you in your tracks.
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Poilievre's candidate in my riding of Kitchener South-Hespeler is Dr Matt Strauss.
In 2023 Strauss sued Queens University, claiming he was canceled for his views on vaccine mandates and masking. His lawsuit was funded by none other than Elon Musk.
Details in thread.
#cdnpoli #canadapol #canpoli
In 2023 Strauss sued Queens University, claiming he was canceled for his views on vaccine mandates and masking. His lawsuit was funded by none other than Elon Musk.
Details in thread.
#cdnpoli #canadapol #canpoli
March 28, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Poilievre's candidate in my riding of Kitchener South-Hespeler is Dr Matt Strauss.
In 2023 Strauss sued Queens University, claiming he was canceled for his views on vaccine mandates and masking. His lawsuit was funded by none other than Elon Musk.
Details in thread.
#cdnpoli #canadapol #canpoli
In 2023 Strauss sued Queens University, claiming he was canceled for his views on vaccine mandates and masking. His lawsuit was funded by none other than Elon Musk.
Details in thread.
#cdnpoli #canadapol #canpoli
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It’s understandable that lots of people fell for the Woke free speech gender whatever drivel. It was everywhere people looked, often all they ever heard. Nonetheless, if you fell for any bit of it, you now need to reflect on how you were taken in and the uses that your credulity are being put to.
For years conservatives and some liberals complained incessantly about ‘cancel culture’ and the lack of ‘free speech’ on campuses. None of that stuff comes even close to what the right is now doing in power, in terms of the open bullying and pressuring of colleges and censoring of curricula.
Harvard Dismisses Leaders of Center for Middle Eastern Studies | News | The Harvard Crimson
Interim Harvard Dean of Social Science David M. Cutler ’87 dismissed the director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, professor of Turkish Studies Cemal Kafadar, and its associate director, Hist...
www.thecrimson.com
March 29, 2025 at 9:58 AM
It’s understandable that lots of people fell for the Woke free speech gender whatever drivel. It was everywhere people looked, often all they ever heard. Nonetheless, if you fell for any bit of it, you now need to reflect on how you were taken in and the uses that your credulity are being put to.
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When we say Canada is just three corporations (and their bankers) in a trenchcoat, we’re not kidding. HBC was granted 1.5 million square kilometres of land in 1670, setting off the dispossession and genocides of Indigenous peoples that enables our country today.
the history of the hudson's bay company is insane, i did not realize canada was under semifeudal rulership by a scottish fur trading enterprise for like... 200 years
March 29, 2025 at 12:46 AM
When we say Canada is just three corporations (and their bankers) in a trenchcoat, we’re not kidding. HBC was granted 1.5 million square kilometres of land in 1670, setting off the dispossession and genocides of Indigenous peoples that enables our country today.
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Canadians like to joke that our country is just three companies in a trench coat, but there was a time when we were literally just one company in a fur coat.
March 28, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Canadians like to joke that our country is just three companies in a trench coat, but there was a time when we were literally just one company in a fur coat.
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My first post as a regular contributor to ACRLog is about LC not only implementing the changes to "Gulf of America" and "Mount McKinley," but *fast-tracking* those changes. acrlog.org/2025/03/28/a... #critcat #LCSH
Anticipatory Obedience at the Library of Congress - ACRLog
On February 18, the Library of Congress (LC) sent an email announcement through its regular channels about a special list of revisions in the Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH). This list con...
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March 28, 2025 at 4:13 PM
My first post as a regular contributor to ACRLog is about LC not only implementing the changes to "Gulf of America" and "Mount McKinley," but *fast-tracking* those changes. acrlog.org/2025/03/28/a... #critcat #LCSH
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Bright Pages, a local group started by Kitchener high school students, provides educational materials (including books of all genres) to inmates.
There is a Softcover Book Drive on Saturday, March 29 at Country Hills Public Library. Drop off at 1500 Block Line Rd Kitchener from 12 to 2 p.m.
There is a Softcover Book Drive on Saturday, March 29 at Country Hills Public Library. Drop off at 1500 Block Line Rd Kitchener from 12 to 2 p.m.
a girl wearing glasses is reading a book with the word shiba on the cover
Alt: a girl wearing glasses is reading a book
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March 28, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Bright Pages, a local group started by Kitchener high school students, provides educational materials (including books of all genres) to inmates.
There is a Softcover Book Drive on Saturday, March 29 at Country Hills Public Library. Drop off at 1500 Block Line Rd Kitchener from 12 to 2 p.m.
There is a Softcover Book Drive on Saturday, March 29 at Country Hills Public Library. Drop off at 1500 Block Line Rd Kitchener from 12 to 2 p.m.
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At some point, perhaps sooner than we think, we will have to decide whether we will continue to accept changes from LCSH/LCNAF to our catalogue, and start doing it ourselves or relying on other vocabularies. #critcat thoughts
March 27, 2025 at 7:06 PM
At some point, perhaps sooner than we think, we will have to decide whether we will continue to accept changes from LCSH/LCNAF to our catalogue, and start doing it ourselves or relying on other vocabularies. #critcat thoughts
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The world is in crisis – what role should our universities play?
The world is in crisis – what role should our universities play?
Globally, we’re witnessing a rise in far-right governments increasingly hostile towards universities, historically springboards for progressive change. What should the future look like for universities in Canada?
theconversation.com
March 27, 2025 at 4:14 PM
The world is in crisis – what role should our universities play?
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This moment is SO FULL of possibilities right now and its absolutely enraging that our politicians refuse to think beyond doing late stage capitalism harder.
Like the collapse of US tourism should trigger a national domestic tourism strategy, complete with nationally-owned services!
Like the collapse of US tourism should trigger a national domestic tourism strategy, complete with nationally-owned services!
March 27, 2025 at 3:40 PM
This moment is SO FULL of possibilities right now and its absolutely enraging that our politicians refuse to think beyond doing late stage capitalism harder.
Like the collapse of US tourism should trigger a national domestic tourism strategy, complete with nationally-owned services!
Like the collapse of US tourism should trigger a national domestic tourism strategy, complete with nationally-owned services!