Sean E Moore
@seanemoore.bsky.social
He/him. Social-Cultural Psychologist Interested in Emotions, Non-Religion, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. Facially Different, Crate Digger. Oilers Fan and Farmer (on the side). **Opinions my own**
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Sean E Moore
@seanemoore.bsky.social
· Feb 14
Hello Bluesky audience. Longtime lurker, first time poster. Briefly about me – I’m a social-cultural psychologist who teaches at a primarily undergraduate institution in rural, northern(ish) Canada in the province of Alberta (about 500km/300 miles north of Montana border).
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@melwoods.me: We must not overcomplicate what’s going on here.
This is the Alberta government saying the rights of trans kids to receive life-saving health care, go by their own pronouns at school or play on sport teams don’t matter as much as the Smith government’s right to dictate their lives.
This is the Alberta government saying the rights of trans kids to receive life-saving health care, go by their own pronouns at school or play on sport teams don’t matter as much as the Smith government’s right to dictate their lives.
Danielle Smith Goes Nuclear on Trans Rights | The Tyee
Alberta’s premier is overriding Charter protections. Here’s a fact check on her claims.
thetyee.ca
November 20, 2025 at 3:02 PM
@melwoods.me: We must not overcomplicate what’s going on here.
This is the Alberta government saying the rights of trans kids to receive life-saving health care, go by their own pronouns at school or play on sport teams don’t matter as much as the Smith government’s right to dictate their lives.
This is the Alberta government saying the rights of trans kids to receive life-saving health care, go by their own pronouns at school or play on sport teams don’t matter as much as the Smith government’s right to dictate their lives.
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I am pretty sure that when Merv Leitch and Peter Lougheed first created the notwithstanding clause, they didn’t mean it to be deployed to bully and oppress literal school children. #ableg #abpoli #TransRightsAreHumanRights #Alberta #notwithstandingclause
Alberta to invoke notwithstanding clause to shield 3 transgender bills from court challenges | CBC News
The Alberta government has tabled legislation that seeks to invoke the notwithstanding clause to shield a suite of bills that affects transgender youth and adults from legal challenges.
www.cbc.ca
November 18, 2025 at 10:16 PM
I am pretty sure that when Merv Leitch and Peter Lougheed first created the notwithstanding clause, they didn’t mean it to be deployed to bully and oppress literal school children. #ableg #abpoli #TransRightsAreHumanRights #Alberta #notwithstandingclause
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Those Ring of Fire ads during World Series broadcasts might have you thinking mines are up and running in the remote region in northern Ontario, but that's not the case and the Ford government should be upfront about it, writes @elaineanselmi.bsky.social thenarwhal.ca/opinion-blue...
Don’t be fooled by the Ontario Ring of Fire ads aired during Blue Jays games | The Narwhal
Doug Ford’s ads during Blue Jays World Series games suggest mines are up and running in the Ring of Fire in northern Ontario, but that’s not true
thenarwhal.ca
October 31, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Those Ring of Fire ads during World Series broadcasts might have you thinking mines are up and running in the remote region in northern Ontario, but that's not the case and the Ford government should be upfront about it, writes @elaineanselmi.bsky.social thenarwhal.ca/opinion-blue...
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Alberta is the wealthiest province in Confederation, but you'd never know that by looking at the way it funds its public schools and their students. At some point, voters might want to think about what that says — and means — @maxfawcett.bsky.social writes.
Alberta is the richest province in the country — except where it really counts
How does the province with the highest fiscal capacity in the country also have the lowest per-capita funding for students in its public schools? Because it wants it that way
www.nationalobserver.com
October 28, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Alberta is the wealthiest province in Confederation, but you'd never know that by looking at the way it funds its public schools and their students. At some point, voters might want to think about what that says — and means — @maxfawcett.bsky.social writes.
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There's been endless talk about an AI bubble, but less about exactly how, why, and how much it's a bubble. So I turned to the framework put forward by scholars Brent Goldfarb and David A. Kirsch, authors of "Bubbles and Crashes," for assessing tech bubbles.
Spoiler: On a scale of 1 to 8, AI is an 8
Spoiler: On a scale of 1 to 8, AI is an 8
AI Is the Bubble to Burst Them All
I talked to the scholars who literally wrote the book on tech bubbles—and applied their test.
www.wired.com
October 27, 2025 at 8:58 PM
There's been endless talk about an AI bubble, but less about exactly how, why, and how much it's a bubble. So I turned to the framework put forward by scholars Brent Goldfarb and David A. Kirsch, authors of "Bubbles and Crashes," for assessing tech bubbles.
Spoiler: On a scale of 1 to 8, AI is an 8
Spoiler: On a scale of 1 to 8, AI is an 8
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456,365 signatures!
This is a historic mobilization of Albertans by @lukaszukab.bsky.social and his team with #ForeverCanadian!
More than needed by HALF!!!
This is more than a full quarter of votes cast in the last provincial election!
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
This is a historic mobilization of Albertans by @lukaszukab.bsky.social and his team with #ForeverCanadian!
More than needed by HALF!!!
This is more than a full quarter of votes cast in the last provincial election!
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
Today, I submitted 456,365 Albertans’ signatures to Elections Alberta, petitioning the Premier to do the right thing, avoid a divisive and economically harmful referendum, and allow MLAs to vote and reaffirm that Alberta’s future is in Canada.🇨🇦
Alberta is #ForeverCanadian
Alberta is #ForeverCanadian
October 28, 2025 at 5:17 PM
456,365 signatures!
This is a historic mobilization of Albertans by @lukaszukab.bsky.social and his team with #ForeverCanadian!
More than needed by HALF!!!
This is more than a full quarter of votes cast in the last provincial election!
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
This is a historic mobilization of Albertans by @lukaszukab.bsky.social and his team with #ForeverCanadian!
More than needed by HALF!!!
This is more than a full quarter of votes cast in the last provincial election!
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
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COVID vaccines available in AB (though many barriers, sigh).
Remember, large body of evidence: safe & effective.
For example, recent study involving approx 1 million adults: "NO increased risk of 29 adverse events was observed after vaccination..."
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Remember, large body of evidence: safe & effective.
For example, recent study involving approx 1 million adults: "NO increased risk of 29 adverse events was observed after vaccination..."
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Safety of JN.1-Updated mRNA COVID-19 Vaccines
This cohort study investigates the association between booster vaccinations containing the JN.1 lineage and 29 serious adverse events in Denmark.
jamanetwork.com
October 21, 2025 at 4:14 PM
COVID vaccines available in AB (though many barriers, sigh).
Remember, large body of evidence: safe & effective.
For example, recent study involving approx 1 million adults: "NO increased risk of 29 adverse events was observed after vaccination..."
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Remember, large body of evidence: safe & effective.
For example, recent study involving approx 1 million adults: "NO increased risk of 29 adverse events was observed after vaccination..."
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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Water-hungry data centres are planned for drought-stricken regions across Canada. What will the AI data centre boom mean for communities? By @savannahridley.bsky.social: thenarwhal.ca/ai-data-cent...
What will the AI data centre boom mean for Canada? | The Narwhal
Sprawling AI data centres — hungry for land, water and power — are coming. Plans the world’s largest, called Wonder Valley, are underway in Alberta
thenarwhal.ca
October 8, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Water-hungry data centres are planned for drought-stricken regions across Canada. What will the AI data centre boom mean for communities? By @savannahridley.bsky.social: thenarwhal.ca/ai-data-cent...
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“It is hard to know who to blame, but if you can embody it in immigrants, then you have somebody who people can grasp as a target, as a kind of cause of their hardship.” #abpoli
‘Shameless’: How the Alberta Next Panel Blamed Immigrants | The Tyee
Divisive scapegoating, including showing a slanted video, fits the populist playbook, says an expert.
thetyee.ca
October 7, 2025 at 2:22 PM
“It is hard to know who to blame, but if you can embody it in immigrants, then you have somebody who people can grasp as a target, as a kind of cause of their hardship.” #abpoli
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"Why would it bow to antidemocratic pressures by placing a professor on leave without their request, consent, or involvement? That any university would do this is beyond comprehension and is cause for alarm about the future of academic freedom in Canada."
What Happened to the University’s Commitment to Free Expression? Charley Kirk, uAlberta, and Me | Centre for Free Expression
I was shocked when the University of Alberta administration informed me, one of its law professors, that I was being placed on non-disciplinary leave for my social media comments in the wake of Charli...
cfe.torontomu.ca
September 29, 2025 at 2:54 PM
"Why would it bow to antidemocratic pressures by placing a professor on leave without their request, consent, or involvement? That any university would do this is beyond comprehension and is cause for alarm about the future of academic freedom in Canada."
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New SIECCAN Issue Brief!
Preventable negative sexual and reproductive health outcomes, including sexually transmitted infections, unintended pregnancies, sexual assault, and intimate partner violence, are costing Canada over $13.7 billion every year.
Preventable negative sexual and reproductive health outcomes, including sexually transmitted infections, unintended pregnancies, sexual assault, and intimate partner violence, are costing Canada over $13.7 billion every year.
September 9, 2025 at 4:54 PM
New SIECCAN Issue Brief!
Preventable negative sexual and reproductive health outcomes, including sexually transmitted infections, unintended pregnancies, sexual assault, and intimate partner violence, are costing Canada over $13.7 billion every year.
Preventable negative sexual and reproductive health outcomes, including sexually transmitted infections, unintended pregnancies, sexual assault, and intimate partner violence, are costing Canada over $13.7 billion every year.
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Internal emails throw light on the sources used by Government of Alberta staff to search for “inappropriate” materials in school libraries, including an index of America’s most banned books and a website linked to the rise in attempts to ban books in the U.S. #abpoli
Alberta Used Lists of America’s Most Banned Books to Target ‘Inappropriate’ School Material | The Tyee
Internal emails show how education ministry staff compiled book titles subject to new content restrictions.
thetyee.ca
July 11, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Internal emails throw light on the sources used by Government of Alberta staff to search for “inappropriate” materials in school libraries, including an index of America’s most banned books and a website linked to the rise in attempts to ban books in the U.S. #abpoli
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"It's impossible for Alberta to think it can claim the land without involving Indigenous peoples," said Matthew Wildcat, director of Indigenous governance at the University of Alberta, and a member of Ermineskin Cree Nation.
www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...
www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...
First Nations chiefs say Alberta premier is trying to 'manufacture a national unity crisis' | CBC News
Many First Nations in Alberta are denouncing Bill 54, the Election Statutes Amendment Act tabled in the provincial legislature Tuesday, saying it disregards treaty rights.
www.cbc.ca
May 2, 2025 at 1:50 PM
"It's impossible for Alberta to think it can claim the land without involving Indigenous peoples," said Matthew Wildcat, director of Indigenous governance at the University of Alberta, and a member of Ermineskin Cree Nation.
www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...
www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...
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I don’t think this is really a matter of doing “rigorous science”. It is just a matter of moral decency and humanity.
‘We’re hurting.’ Trans scientists call for recognition and support from research community
“Rigorous science demands” it, authors write in landmark commentary
www.science.org
March 31, 2025 at 1:40 PM
I don’t think this is really a matter of doing “rigorous science”. It is just a matter of moral decency and humanity.
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It's Transgender Day of Visibility, and I have mixed emotions. So I wrote something about it 😊
(this is the first in a series; the next one is in a few weeks and is about disinformation campaigns)
pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/my-...
(this is the first in a series; the next one is in a few weeks and is about disinformation campaigns)
pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/my-...
My mixed emotions on Transgender Day of Visibility
Around the world, trans people are under attack. So, while Transgender Day of Visibility is a celebration, we need to talk about the dread as well, says a University of Melbourne expert.
pursuit.unimelb.edu.au
March 30, 2025 at 10:46 PM
It's Transgender Day of Visibility, and I have mixed emotions. So I wrote something about it 😊
(this is the first in a series; the next one is in a few weeks and is about disinformation campaigns)
pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/my-...
(this is the first in a series; the next one is in a few weeks and is about disinformation campaigns)
pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/my-...
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Danielle Smith applies for refugee status in USA
Danielle Smith applies for refugee status in USA
COUTTS, AB - Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has arrived on foot at the Coutts-Sweet Grass border crossing station, petitioning for refugee status in the US on the grounds of being persecuted in her ho...
www.thebeaverton.com
March 12, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Danielle Smith applies for refugee status in USA
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How it started:
We don’t need anything from Canada!
How it’s going:
• Wait, they’re our main source of aluminum?
• Oil too? Seriously?
• Potash? So farms need that?
• They spend billions in tourism?
• They make American cars?
• My house is basically Canadian?
• WTF, we rely on them for electricity?
We don’t need anything from Canada!
How it’s going:
• Wait, they’re our main source of aluminum?
• Oil too? Seriously?
• Potash? So farms need that?
• They spend billions in tourism?
• They make American cars?
• My house is basically Canadian?
• WTF, we rely on them for electricity?
March 11, 2025 at 10:25 PM
How it started:
We don’t need anything from Canada!
How it’s going:
• Wait, they’re our main source of aluminum?
• Oil too? Seriously?
• Potash? So farms need that?
• They spend billions in tourism?
• They make American cars?
• My house is basically Canadian?
• WTF, we rely on them for electricity?
We don’t need anything from Canada!
How it’s going:
• Wait, they’re our main source of aluminum?
• Oil too? Seriously?
• Potash? So farms need that?
• They spend billions in tourism?
• They make American cars?
• My house is basically Canadian?
• WTF, we rely on them for electricity?
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I’ve been a green card holder since 2005. I am a social scientist researching racism + DEI, and my entire research is listed in this list. I go to protests. Tho I’m afraid of speaking up, I’m much more privileged than most at this moment so I can’t be silent. If you can, speak up for those who can’t
March 11, 2025 at 12:09 AM
I’ve been a green card holder since 2005. I am a social scientist researching racism + DEI, and my entire research is listed in this list. I go to protests. Tho I’m afraid of speaking up, I’m much more privileged than most at this moment so I can’t be silent. If you can, speak up for those who can’t
All my friends know how much I loathe the current UCP provincial government…but FFS Danielle read the fucking room. I’ve never supported the federal Liberals and even I know we’ve got bigger fish to fry than supporting the few big oil company donors lining your wallet 🇨🇦💪
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Mark Carney is no ally of the oilpatch, says Alberta Premier Danielle Smith as she calls for election | CBC News
'He's been on a warpath against the energy industry for his entire career,' Smith said Monday at the CERAWeek energy conference in Houston, Texas.
www.cbc.ca
March 10, 2025 at 4:49 PM
All my friends know how much I loathe the current UCP provincial government…but FFS Danielle read the fucking room. I’ve never supported the federal Liberals and even I know we’ve got bigger fish to fry than supporting the few big oil company donors lining your wallet 🇨🇦💪
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
It makes the Monday after daylight savings time so much better to learn my favourite fascist-smashing thrash band from Winnipeg 🇨🇦 are releasing another (timely) new album. Listen on max volume and remember to forcefully confront/resist MAGA-idiocy on all fronts.🏴🏳️⚧️🇵🇸🏴
Propagandhi Detail New Album 'At Peace,' Share Title Track
Propagandhi Detail New Album 'At Peace,' Share Title Track
As teased last year, Winnipeg's Propagandhi have been working on a new record — and the serene fruits of their labour have officially been
dlvr.it
March 10, 2025 at 4:44 PM
It makes the Monday after daylight savings time so much better to learn my favourite fascist-smashing thrash band from Winnipeg 🇨🇦 are releasing another (timely) new album. Listen on max volume and remember to forcefully confront/resist MAGA-idiocy on all fronts.🏴🏳️⚧️🇵🇸🏴
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McGill with this, Calgary and York both cancelling a wide range of programs that include Languages, Religious Studies, and others, and tons of colleges just eradicating entire campuses and departments.
It's *dire* up here, folks.
It's *dire* up here, folks.
I’m sorry, I missed the announcement that McGill University is talking about cutting *500* jobs in the next three years.
Canadian higher ed is entering a full-blown cataclysm.
www.cbc.ca/amp/1.7455165
Canadian higher ed is entering a full-blown cataclysm.
www.cbc.ca/amp/1.7455165
February 26, 2025 at 9:16 PM
McGill with this, Calgary and York both cancelling a wide range of programs that include Languages, Religious Studies, and others, and tons of colleges just eradicating entire campuses and departments.
It's *dire* up here, folks.
It's *dire* up here, folks.
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Amid allegations of pressure to sign shady contracts with private surgery firms, AHS CEO was advised to involve RCMP, then abruptly terminated. #abpoli
Alberta Health Services CEO was advised to contact RCMP over contracts
The Alberta Health Services board advised its CEO to talk to the RCMP about her concerns – then the CEO was fired and the board was dismissed.
rabble.ca
February 26, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Amid allegations of pressure to sign shady contracts with private surgery firms, AHS CEO was advised to involve RCMP, then abruptly terminated. #abpoli
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Sadly I think I should share this post again. 😢 When I wrote it in November I'd hoped it wouldn't be as prescient as it is turning out to be.
People need to realise we're in an abusive relationship with Trump and MAGA. We can't appease them into treating us well.
perfors.net/blog/only-wa...
People need to realise we're in an abusive relationship with Trump and MAGA. We can't appease them into treating us well.
perfors.net/blog/only-wa...
The only way to win is not to play | Andrew Perfors
You all realise we’re in an abusive relationship with MAGA, right?
perfors.net
February 24, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Sadly I think I should share this post again. 😢 When I wrote it in November I'd hoped it wouldn't be as prescient as it is turning out to be.
People need to realise we're in an abusive relationship with Trump and MAGA. We can't appease them into treating us well.
perfors.net/blog/only-wa...
People need to realise we're in an abusive relationship with Trump and MAGA. We can't appease them into treating us well.
perfors.net/blog/only-wa...