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Loleen Berdahl 🇨🇦 @loleenberdahl.bsky.social · 13d

Are your students skipping the assigned readings? Here are some ideas to help. #highered #teaching #academicsky #academia

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Read it and (don’t) weep - University Affairs

How to help students tackle texts in a digital age.

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Loleen Berdahl 🇨🇦 @loleenberdahl.bsky.social · Aug 21

Tom Petty. So awesome.

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Loleen Berdahl 🇨🇦 @loleenberdahl.bsky.social · Aug 17

Cat! In a box!

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Loleen Berdahl 🇨🇦 @loleenberdahl.bsky.social · Aug 15

Preparing to watch the series finale of “And Just Like That…” with no sense of joy, but solely a grim determination to finish something I started.

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Loleen Berdahl 🇨🇦 @loleenberdahl.bsky.social · Aug 13

It is so good!

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Loleen Berdahl 🇨🇦 @loleenberdahl.bsky.social · Aug 12

In my most recent University Affairs column, I share strategies to help students retain knowledge in their post-secondary classes. Academic colleagues, please take a look and share with your networks! #academicsky #academia #teaching #highered #pse

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10 ways to boost memory - University Affairs

Try these classroom activities to help your students retain what they learn.

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Loleen Berdahl 🇨🇦 @loleenberdahl.bsky.social · Aug 7

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#academicsky #highered

Opinion | These College Professors Will Not Bow Down to A.I.

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Lisa Young 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @jlisayoung.bsky.social · Jul 23

“Every summer one child is selected from each of the other 9 provinces to be delivered as a sacrifice to the Petroleum Gods.”

The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · Jul 23

6. House of Commons to be elected on strict rep by population rules, and also cows count as 3 people

Top 10 ideas Danielle Smith has to promote "Alberta's sovereignty within Canada"

Danielle Smith is in the process of touring her ‘Alberta Next’ panels, investigating ways in which Alberta could finally get a fair deal from Confederation. Smith believes it important to renegotiate ...

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Loleen Berdahl 🇨🇦 @loleenberdahl.bsky.social · Jul 22

Sorry, not sorry. #cdnpoli

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Trump thinks Canadians are ‘nasty’ to deal with for avoiding U.S. travel, banning booze, ambassador says

Pete Hoekstra told a conference audience that such steps ‘don’t send positive signals’ about Ottawa treating Washington well

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Simon Little 🍁 @simonplittle.ca · Jul 22

Sales of U.S. spirits in Canada fell by 66.3 per cent compared with the same period last year, according to industry Data.

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U.S. liquor sales have dried up in Canada amid trade war, industry says - National | Globalnews.ca

The spirits industry says the sales of American-made products dropped 66 per cent in March and April after several provinces pulled their goods from store shelves.

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Loleen Berdahl 🇨🇦 @loleenberdahl.bsky.social · Jul 20

“graduates in computer science, computer engineering and graphic design all have unemployment rates at 7% or greater; young workers who hold a number of much-maligned humanities degrees—including English, history and philosophy—are all more hirable.” #academicsky

Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · Jul 17

I didn’t find any of the explanations for what’s going on with the bad job market for new college grads satisfying, so I spent a week trying to figure out what was up and what it means for the larger economy. Turns out it’s not AI! Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

What the Tough Job Market for New College Grads Says About the Economy

A sudden lack of career mobility is a problem for every worker.

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · Jul 19

Doing a little 5K-to-couch training this weekend.

(That’s where you run 5K in the morning and then sit on the couch exhausted for the rest of the day.)

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Loleen Berdahl 🇨🇦 @loleenberdahl.bsky.social · Jul 19

Backyard bounty. #Saskatoon #yxe

Bowls of freshly picked sour cherries, Saskatoon berries, and raspberries

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Rebekah 🍉 @grrrl.bsky.social · Jul 16

since the new year, I've been doing a lot of thinking about values, and how they show up for me at work. Loleen is a great coach, and I appreciate the resources she's shared with us here.

I'm going to work in more values work into my teaching next year, esp as a countermeasure to AI tools abuse.

Loleen Berdahl 🇨🇦 @loleenberdahl.bsky.social · Jul 10

I have found that having clarity on my core values is incredibly helpful. My latest Academia Made Easier newsletter shares a simple process for identifying core values. #academia #academicsky
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How to work in alignment with your core values

Plus a new photo of Sammie, my canine buddy

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Loleen Berdahl 🇨🇦 @loleenberdahl.bsky.social · Jul 14

That is so awesome!

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Lisa Young 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @jlisayoung.bsky.social · Jul 11

Hear me out: we buy a bunch of fentanyl, hire some actors to try to move it across the border, Carney leads a team on horseback that intercepts it. Get it all on camera, leak it to Fox. (It’s as good a plan as any other at this point).

Duane Bratt @duanebratt.bsky.social · Jul 11

Here we go. Trump has sent his tariff letter to Carney. 35%. Trump adds "if Canada works with me to stop the flow of Fentanyl, we will, perhaps, consider an adjustment to this letter."

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Loleen Berdahl 🇨🇦 @loleenberdahl.bsky.social · Jul 10

I have found that having clarity on my core values is incredibly helpful. My latest Academia Made Easier newsletter shares a simple process for identifying core values. #academia #academicsky
open.substack.com/pub/loleen/p...

How to work in alignment with your core values

Plus a new photo of Sammie, my canine buddy

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Chronic Illness Humor @chronicillness.bsky.social · Jun 21

Artist: @igdoods.bsky.social

1 - little mouse says 'why don't you take a chill pill?'

2 - mouse with beret says 'why don't you take a "understand that I'm in a fragile state and be considerate instead of dismissing my feelings" pill?'

3 - little mouse stares at him

4 - little mouse says 'that sounds like a tough to swallow pill and the mouse with the beret responds 'it doesn't go in your mouth'

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Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · Jun 20

What a difference 6 months makes. In honour of the summer #solstice (8:42 pm tonight in Saskatoon), here’s a comparison of Dec 20 (sunrise 9:12am, set 4:56pm) and June 20 (sunrise 4:45am, set 9:31pm). Both pics at 8:30am. Happy #Solstice! #GoodMorningFromSaskatoon

Arched concrete bridge over a prairie river with city skyline beyond. It is dark and snowy.

Arched concrete bridge over a prairie river with city skyline beyond. It is sunny and green.

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Loleen Berdahl 🇨🇦 @loleenberdahl.bsky.social · Jun 10

Smoky day in Saskatoon. 😢

University of Saskatchewan building with smoke haze

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Loleen Berdahl 🇨🇦 @loleenberdahl.bsky.social · Jun 9

Do you waste too much time in meetings? In my latest Academia Made Easier, I discuss how defining the purpose of meetings can improve the quality and reduce the number of meetings in our calendars. Please read and share with your networks! #academia #academicsky
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How to waste less time in meetings

Plus a few digs at group word-smithing, one of my least favourite activities

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Tom Hollenstein @tomhollenstein.bsky.social · Jun 5

My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy.
Details found here👇

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Queen’s University is a globally engaged, research-intensive institution dedicated to attracting and supporting exceptional PhD students who will significantly advance our research mission.

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The Weather Network @weathernetwork.bsky.social · Jun 1

Saskatchewan is battling the worst wildfire it's seen in decades — including the 300,000-hectare Shoe Fire in northern Saskatchewan — and experts say it's largely caused by climate change. #SKwx #SKfires www.theweathernetwork.com/en/news/weat...

'This is classic climate change': Sask. faces worst wildfire season in decades - The Weather Network

There have been 207 wildfires this year as of Friday — 40 more than the same period last year

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Loleen Berdahl 🇨🇦 @loleenberdahl.bsky.social · Jun 2

Kid success is the best success! 🥰

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Loleen Berdahl 🇨🇦 @loleenberdahl.bsky.social · Jun 2

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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · Jun 2

I cannot lie.

Dietary restrictions: I only eat ice cream and tacos

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