"Socialism not nationalism or liberalism is the sole justification for wrenching Canada free from American domination." — Ed Broadbent (1967)
The closure of Hampshire College means the Five College consortium will have only four colleges…but do we have a name for that reduction? Yes, since 2008, when @schrisomalis.bsky.social (in another context) coined «quinquemation»!
glossographia.com/2008/11/30/f...
I've been joking about having everything I need to write a department chair simulator game but turns out one exists, it's from 1974, and it is FASCINATING as both a snapshot of higher ed and gaming history: dl.acm.org/doi/epdf/10....
Breaking news: Indiana University plant microbiologist Roger Innes has been locked out of his laboratory by the school in response to a request by one of his federal funders. The move comes after Innes complained about the government’s prosecution of Chinese postdocs. https://scim.ag/4tsDqRr
In 1967, responding to an open letter calling for an alliance of socialists and liberals to address growing American encroachment in Canada , Ed Broadbent argued forcefully that the two ideologies wer...
broadbentinstitute.ca
In news from the burgeoning field of the anthropology of numbers, the Union Internationale de Pentathlon Moderne has decided that the pentathlon will now comprise only four distinct events, combini…
brief introduction to Venetic here from @viewsproject.bsky.social with links to some further posts by @katherinemcdon.bsky.social
I have been promising for a while to say something about the Venetic goddess of writing. Last term, my colleague Dr Katherine McDonald gave a short seminar series on the Venetic language, which was…
