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Ashley Lynch ✂️🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 1d

Mascot rave actually seems like an incredibly effective tactic. There's absolutely no way to spin that the dancing unicorn was threatening.

Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 1d

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

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Ethel Tungohan @tungohan.bsky.social · 7d

My summer and early fall obsession w/ #thesummeriturnedpretty has led me to discuss the show in-depth with friends. And so I figured why not chat about it on the pod? In this episode, Nicole De Silva & I analyze the show from an auntie perspective! www.academicaunties.com/episodes/the...

The Summer I Turned Pretty Old

In academia, it’s taboo to be unserious. Not here, though, at Academic Aunties. On today’s episode, we show that we can be good academics an...

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Academic Aunties @academicaunties.com · 7d

On our latest episode, we take a break from academic seriousness and get into @tungohan.bsky.social 's guilty pleasure: The Summer I Turned Pretty. Listen wherever you get your podcast! www.academicaunties.com/episodes/the...

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Ethel Tungohan @tungohan.bsky.social · 9d

This was such a lovely event and a huge honour. Thank you again to the @robartscentre.bsky.social for inviting me to give the Robarts lecture, thank you to Raj and Mohamed for giving comments, and thank you to those who attended. Jazz band was fabulous too!

Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies @robartscentre.bsky.social · 9d

🙏 Thank you to all who joined us for our Welcome Day activities and our Annual Lecture in Canadian Studies with @tungohan.bsky.social. It was wonderful to reconnect with returning associates and to welcome new colleagues.

🌐Stay connected: www.yorku.ca/research/rob...

Photos: Alex Filipe

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Sean Carleton @seancarleton.bsky.social · 17d

ICYMI: Ellen Gabriel and I published a new piece on resisting Canada's "elbows up" colonialism, for @canadiandimension.bsky.social: canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...

Resisting Canada’s ‘elbows up’ colonialism

Canada’s new “elbows up” nationalism frames itself as resistance to Trump and US expansionism—but it risks recycling colonial myths. By glossing over the Mohawk Resistance and ongoing land theft, patriotic rhetoric hides violence against Indigenous peoples. Real strength means truth, reconciliation, and resisting colonialism, not shallow nostalgia.

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Ethel Tungohan @tungohan.bsky.social · 20d

We are back on @academicaunties.com!!! In our first episode, we speak to Dr. Carrianne Leung about the energy we hope to bring to the school year, unconventional paths to the academy, and many more! www.academicaunties.com/episodes/the... #highered

The Energy We Bring

Season 6 premiere! We’ve just started the school year and I’m realizing that I am already stressed. How can this be? The year literally just...

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Academic Aunties @academicaunties.com · 21d

NEW EPISODE! @tungohan.bsky.social and Carrianne Leung talk about the energy we bring into the classroom, with students who are coping with realities of fascism, genocide, climate catastrophe, and the uncertainties of AI. Listen on your favourite podcast app: academicaunties.captivate.fm

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Slightly Howling @slightlyhowling.bsky.social · 22d

Sounds amazing.
I love when something practical feels so poetic.

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 22d

NEW WRITING:
"We are living through the worst time of my lifetime, and astrophotography has helped me remember that, as my mom Margaret Prescod once reminded me, the universe is bigger than the bad things that are happening to us." 🔭

As promised, with a prettier image of Andromeda! 🎉

It's Andromeda Season!

Now is the time to go outside at night and look at our next door neighbor. It's not creepy!

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404 Media @404media.co · 22d

The Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the United States.

🔗 www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...

DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing

Following Charlie Kirk’s assassination and the Trump administration’s promise to go after the “radical left” a study showing most domestic terrosim is far-right was disappeared.

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Ethel Tungohan @tungohan.bsky.social · 23d

I missed the boat on Toronto tickets, which sold out quickly so I made the trek to Brampton!!!

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Ethel Tungohan @tungohan.bsky.social · 23d

In half an hour, I will be watching RF Kuang talk about her latest book, "Katabasis"! So excited! And I got a signed copy too. #booksky #booknerd

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Emily Andrew @eandreweditor.bsky.social · 25d

Great to see @yasmeenabulaban.bsky.social at the @apsa.bsky.social meetings! Here, with her new book, coedited with @tungohan.bsky.social and @mireillepaquet.bsky.social.

@mcgillqueensup.bsky.social is the proud publisher.

A woman wearing a black dress stands in front of a table, holding a copy of her book and smiling.

The book cover of “Knowledge, Power, and Migration: Contesting the North/South Divide“.

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Be Stone @drbestone.bsky.social · 28d

As you're settling in to (beautiful!) Vancouver for #APSA2025 don't forget to mark your calendar for the 20th annual Methods Café! It's a venue for one-on-one & small group discussion w/top experts in the field on a range of qualitative and interpretive research methods & approaches. Don't miss it!

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Ethel Tungohan @tungohan.bsky.social · 29d

If you're going to #APSA, check out the Palestine program!

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Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies @robartscentre.bsky.social · Sep 8

Afterwards, join us for the Robarts Lecture in Canadian Studies by @tungohan.bsky.social entitled: "From ‘Canada First’ to ‘Good Enough to Work, Good to Stay’: Far Right and Progressive Social Movements, Digital Activism and International Student Migration to Canada".

See poster for details!

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Robin L Turner @robinlturnerphd.bsky.social · Sep 5

Join our #APSA2025 Wednesday afternoon short course on Planning for Real: Bringing Your Whole Self to the Field!

PLANNING FOR REAL: BRINGING YOUR WHOLE SELF TO THE FIELD
An APSA Short Course
Discussions on Navigating:
• The body
• Academic Responsibilities
• Ethics
• Practical Concerns
• Gatekeepers
• Community
• Family
• And much more
Most fieldwork advice is very general in nature, proffered for supposedly neutral and unmarked researchers. This approach underestimates the variability of researchers’ bodies and positionalities across the span and dimensions of fieldwork including preparing, active field time, and reception. These varied bodies and positionalities are not ancillary to the planning and doing of fieldwork but influence every aspect of it.
We take up these concerns in this interactive workshop session, sharing our experiences, insights and expertise, and creating space for participants to integrate their whole selves into planning and adapting field work.
Wednesday, September 10th
1:30-5:30 p.m.
See program for location

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Robin L Turner @robinlturnerphd.bsky.social · Sep 5

You're invited to learn more about interpretive methods at the 20th annual IMM Methods Cafe at #APSA2025! Sept. 11, 4-5:30 pm, Marriot Point Grey Room.

20th annual Methods Café Thursday, September 11th
4:00-5:30 pm PDT, Marriott Point Grey Room.
The Interpretive Methods and Methodologies group is delighted to host our 20th annual Methods Café, an opportunity for social scientists at all career levels to learn more about interpretive methods in an informal setting.
Read more about the Methods Café, topics, and experts here: https://www.interpretivemethods.com/methods-cafe-2025

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Robin L Turner @robinlturnerphd.bsky.social · Aug 28

Ravecca addresses Latin American Political Science in authoritarian times here. Learned of this work from @tungohan.bsky.social

Book cover for the politics of political science: re-writing Latin American experiences

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · Aug 22

i think people need a refresher on what constitutes a Distraction. the cracker barrel logo thing (zero stakes, obviously invented controversy) is a Distraction. the ongoing military occupation of washington dc (ample footage of random delivery drivers being violently detained by feds) is not

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · Aug 21

Oh, this is clever

Kate Ross @kateross.bsky.social · Aug 21

White woman puts Mexican flag on her truck to waste ICE’s time.

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I am as white as a hotel towel, and the closest thing to Mexican I am was a single all inclusive resort stay in Cancun. I put a Mexican flag sticker on my old Tacoma abd was promptly pulled over by ICE in San Antonio. I'm happy to waste their time
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This is the way

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Their big question was like, "why the sticker" I told them it was on the truck when I bought it-and they suggested I remove it. Obnoxious creatures.
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Ethel Tungohan @tungohan.bsky.social · Aug 21

It's finally out! Am proud of this article that Megan Gaucher, Harshita Yalamarty, Asma Atique and I wrote on grandparent visa sponsorship in Canada! We make the case for the need to strengthen family reunification pathways and to include grandparents. theconversation.com/heres-why-ca... #canimm

Here’s why Canada’s parents and grandparents reunification program is problematic

International conventions dictate that families have a right to be together. But Canada’s current parent and grandparent reunification program makes that difficult.

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Ethel Tungohan @tungohan.bsky.social · Aug 15

Summer is almost over and we gotta get our syllabi ready. If you want to learn more about ways to jazz up our syllabi + come up with assignments in a post-AI world, check out these sessions being organized by superstar colleagues @yorkuniversity.bsky.social! www.yorku.ca/teachingcomm...

The Essay is Dead… Now What? Alternative Assessment Studio (August 19, 21, 26 & 28, 2025) | Teaching Commons

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Daniel P. Moriarity @dpmoriarity.bsky.social · Jun 17

"Awaiting Editor Decision"

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Sylvia Solanas @sylviasolanas.com · Jun 9

11 activists and 1 journalist were aboard the Madleen #FreedomFlotilla

they are now hostages.

• Greta Thunberg - Swedish climate activist
Rima Hassan - French-Palestinian
Member of European Parliament
• Yasemin Acar - Germany
Baptiste Andre - France
Thiago Avila - Brazil
Omar Faiad - France; Al Jazeera Mubasher correspondent
Pascal Maurieras - France
Yanis Mhamdi - France
Suayb Ordu - Turkiye
Sergio Toribio - Spain
Marco van Rennes - The Netherlands
Reva Viard - France
source: aljazeera.com

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