Grant

Assistant Prof in the Faculty of Sustainable Design Engineering at UPEI. Design, Product Development, PLM & Engineering Education. Tweets are my own. He/him.

[Cory Doctorow NO LONGER ON TWIT TER @doctorow]

When the GOP trifecta assumes power in just a few months, they will pass laws, and those laws will be terrible, and they will cast long, long shadows.

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[NASA Earth @NASAEarth]

Sea levels are rising and NASA data is helping communities prepare.

Now you can find sea level rise projections for coastlines around the world out to the year 2150 on the new global sea level change site.

Explore: https://t.co/4SKLFNdqYf

[Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel]

Our new paper takes you Inside the funhouse mirror factory and explains How social media distorts perceptions of norms
0.1 % of users share 80% of fake news!
A tiny proportion of bad actors cause most of the problems and distort the norms.
https://t.co/1L5LoSYfia
Via @CRobertson500 & @KS_delRosario

[Prof Michael E. Mann @MichaelEMann]

You know what ACTUALLY killed huge numbers of birds?
Donald Trump: https://t.co/k917NjP07k

[ICLMG @ICLMG]

ICLMG maintains its long-standing opposition to the use of #facialrecognition tech, especially by law enforcement & intelligence agencies

Take action to protect our #rights at https://t.co/NT385TbWAX

Read our full submission at https://t.co/E8Ah0CaRpz

#cdnpoli #Canada #privacy

[UN Women @UN_Women]

There is no safe place in #Gaza.

Thousands of Palestinians – mostly women and children – have been killed and injured.

With @iascch we call on Israel to fulfil its legal obligation to facilitate aid operations.

We need an immediate ceasefire.

https://t.co/BE1iJohiOP

[CUPE National @cupenat]

Six unions are calling on @JustinTrudeau and @melaniejoly to reverse the suspension of UNRWA funding. The safety and security of millions of Palestinians is at stake. #Gaza

[Heather McPherson @HMcPhersonNDP]

The Canadian gov't cut funding to @UNRWA, the ONLY organization able to save lives in #Gaza, even though they had received no evidence of wrongdoing and an independent investigation was underway. Someone needs to be accountable for abandoning Palestinians in their greatest need.

[Brent Toderian @BrentToderian]

One of the MOST IMPORTANT THINGS your city could do to become more healthy, sustainable, livable, affordable, equitable, successful — stop pretending to “balance” transportation modes, and commit to PRIORITIZING walking/rolling, biking, public transit. HT @dublincycling’s graphic

[Reuters @Reuters]

WATCH: Traditional Japanese puppetry helped inspire these robotic arms, which can be removed and attached via sockets https://t.co/eOslXCRt49

[Urban Cycling Institute 🚲  @fietsprofessor]

'You can't justify a bridge by the number of people swimming across a river'
~@BrentToderian

[Kerry Campbell @kerrywcampbell]

For what it's worth, here's an update on my efforts to get UPEI to provide internal documents related to the Rubin Thomlinson review.

Initially the university said it would cost CBC $5,160 to receive the documents. I pared down my request.

The new fee estimate is $660, BUT...

[Kerry Campbell @kerrywcampbell]

I have some fresh thoughts this morning around what the UPEI review says, and seemingly doesn’t say, on the topic of the university’s use of NDAs. A thread…

[TechCrunch @TechCrunch]

Colorado’s new right-to-repair law ensures tractor and wheelchair owners get the parts they need https://t.co/6ZhKabY1Kg

[Justice For Hassan Diab @JusticeForHDiab]

Canadian Association of University Teachers statement in support of Hassan Diab @CAUT_ACPPU https://t.co/pBMwPCWQJK

[Tim Richter 🇺🇦🇨🇦 @timrichter]

🚨THIS is how you respond to encampments 🚨

✅ build a multiagency team
✅ take your time
✅ work with each person
✅ solve encampment with housing, not enforcement

Also interesting to note role of federal disaster team

#DTES
https://t.co/zYp0iORp85

[Bill Whelan @williamwhelan]

In mediation, the @UPEI Board/Admin refused to allow @UPEIFA faculty to vote on their final offer and they refused to agree not to retaliate against us as part of a back to work protocol. Unfortunately, I’m not surprised by this. It is the culture @UPEI created by the Board/Admin

[Students Support the UPEIFA @UPEI_SSFA]

It's sad to see @UPEI take this route. They never intended to negotiate in good faith. They've drawn out the strike, likely to hurt us students and pit us against the FA

We could have been in class this whole time, but UPEI insists on maintaining a harmful status quo.

[Sarah Lawrynuik @SarahLawrynuik]

I can't tell you how many times I hear from people that green energy solutions to the climate crisis are great, but "would never work in Canadian winters." ☃️

To prove just how wrong that sentiment is, I put an air-source heat pump in my own home. And guess what? It works. 🧵