A blog post as enjoyable as it is needed: "The crux of my raging hatred is not that I hate LLMs or the generative AI craze... No, what I hate is the people who have latched onto it, like so many trailing leeches, bloated with blood and wriggling blindly."
https://t.co/DewOfP9GJb
NEW: Ontario Federation of Labour president Laura Walton in a new letter to University of Toronto president Meric Gertler: "If, you decide to move against the students, you'll have to go through the workers first."
#Budget2024 💰 makes the largest investment in 20+ years for grad students & postdocs! It will support financial needs, boost mental well-being, allow focus on research, & promote diversity by easing barriers for underrepresented groups. 🎉💪🏽#SOSBudget2024
UNITED WE WON! For the 1st time ever, 5 units from CUPE 3902 + @cupe3261 sat side-by-side at the table for final offers and signed historic collective agreements. Proof that solidarity works, and organizing gets the goods! Read our full update here:
https://t.co/QOqZrtgRIA
‼️🚫 York University refuses to address the affordability crisis caused by rising housing and food prices at the same time that wages on campus have stagnated. More and more, academic staff are living further from campus and being forced to work other jobs to make ends meet.
Tell President Lenton and six members of the York University Senior Administration to support wages, job stability and protections that provide an accessible, high quality education to all: https://t.co/Zst4ve1swz
TAHSN claiming that Mount Sinai Hospital was a target for protesters is not only factually incorrect, but defamatory in nature. There was no targeting of the hospital and no antisemitism found in any aspect of the protest.
CEOs in the healthcare sector are quick to denounce a peaceful protest, but have yet to make any statements about the complete annihilation of the healthcare system in Gaza. Canadian doctors are risking their lives in Gaza, Canadian citizens are experiencing physical, psychological, and emotional trauma, & families in Canada are experiencing unimaginable blows to their mental health as they fear for their relatives’ lives every day.
We denounce your silence and enabling of anti-Palestinian racism. Passing by a hospital while protesting is not motivated by hate; choosing to frame our community as antisemitic is. The healthcare system in Gaza has been physically destroyed; the Western healthcare system is morally destroyed. #T4P
New Interview: I talked to Seema Jilani, a pediatrician who spent two weeks working at a hospital in Gaza, about her experiences, and what Israel’s refusal to allow sufficient medicine into the territory has meant for Gaza’s children. https://t.co/TnSwwK51qL
Climate change has killed at least four million people. I wrote this because I felt like I was the only one who had noticed. If you ever read and share anything I've written, I hope it'll be this short piece, out today in @NatureMedicine
https://t.co/wynmmdP6cy
We had such a great time at last year’s SWEEET workshop at the @CSEE_SCEE/@CanBotanical conference that we wanted to share our discussions (w/ ✨amazing✨ panelists @Monsauce@jvamosi @wishartae & Fanie Pelletier) with a wider audience… So we did! Thanks to @cdnsciencepub 🙌
Hey everyone! @SalmonCoast is hiring for two full-time positions: (1) a Maintenance and Facilities Manager and (2) a Station Coordinator. If you want to support conservation research in a beautiful place, click this link (https://t.co/KbW9gblv3k) to learn more/apply!
NEW: @UNHumanRights NY Office Director @CraigMokhiber resigns in protest over timidity of key parts of #UN system on issues pertaining to Palestinian Human Rights. In letter to @volker_turk he says: "This is a text-book case of genocide. The European, ethno-nationalist, settler colonial project in Palestine has entered its final phase, toward the expedited destruction of the last remnants of indigenous Palestinian life in #Palestine."
million Palestinians have been displaced, with corridors for humanitarian aid closed. Human Rights Watch has documented the use of white phosphorus, a chemical that “burns at temperatures hot enough to melt metal.” (3/3)
"The attack on Jama comes amidst deepening government repression of those who speak out in defence of Palestinian life [...] The siege on Gaza is a humanitarian disaster, described by UN experts as “collective punishment” and “ethnic cleansing”. Since Oct. 7 and of [...] (1/3)
writing this article on Friday, the Israeli army has dropped over 6,000 bombs in Gaza, killing 3,478 people, with one Palestinian child killed every 15 minutes. Israel has launched 136 attacks on health-care services across Palestine, killing 28 medical staff. Over a [...] (2/3)