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Michelle L. Dion
@michelledion.bsky.social

Political scientist @ McMaster, misplaced Texan, amateur taco expert, and 80s pop culture enthusiast. Not necessarily in that order.

Michelle Dion is a political scientist, currently a professor in the department of political science and the Senator William McMaster Chair in Gender and Methodology at McMaster University, as well as the founding director of McMaster University's Centre for Research in Empirical Social Sciences. Dion studies the political economy of Latin America, the history of social welfare policies, political methodology, and comparative political behaviour with a focus on attitudes, gender, and sexuality in politics. .. more

Political science 36%
Economics 32%

Also looking up historical markers… if you’re on back roads…

This is really valuable information that media companies should be sharing as well.
🚨Resources 🚨a thread I’ll be updating a lot. 🧵🧵🧵

Verizon Wireless will work with furloughed federal employees to either split your payment or move the due date forward 30 days if you call them.

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👉 #FurloughedFederalWorkers

AFL-CIO, the country's largest federation of unions, has compiled a complete state-by-state list of benefits for federal workers.

State Resources for Shutdown-Impacted Federal Employees and Contractors | AFL-CIO share.google/ohEa5d6NYVdY...
State Resources for Shutdown-Impacted Federal Employees and Contractors | AFL-CIO
As the federal budget impasse continues, thousands of workers are missing their paychecks through no fault of their own. The following resources can help workers navigate unemployment benefits, insura...
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🚨Resources 🚨a thread I’ll be updating a lot. 🧵🧵🧵

Verizon Wireless will work with furloughed federal employees to either split your payment or move the due date forward 30 days if you call them.

What an amazing woman and political leader!
Judy LaMarsh helped bring us Medicare and the Canada Pension Plan.
She oversaw our Centennial celebrations.
Her book, Memoirs of a Bird in a Gilded Cage, is one of Canada's best political memoirs.
She even played a role in the fight for LGBTQ rights.
This is her story.

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Judy LaMarsh helped bring us Medicare and the Canada Pension Plan.
She oversaw our Centennial celebrations.
Her book, Memoirs of a Bird in a Gilded Cage, is one of Canada's best political memoirs.
She even played a role in the fight for LGBTQ rights.
This is her story.

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The River Sings
Jeff Dillon
2015
From the Daily Texan, the UT student newspaper: Academic freedom should not be for sale.

thedailytexan.com/2025/10/16/a...
Academic freedom should not be for sale
The Editorial Board argues the University should join the league of universities rejecting Trump’s compact in favor of in institutional independence.
thedailytexan.com
Our analysis, which shows that more women nearly bled to death during miscarriage after Texas banned abortion, adds to a growing body of reporting revealing that maternal outcomes have gotten worse under bans.

(Published July)
By @andreasuozzo.com, Kavitha Surana and Lizzie Presser
Miscarriage Is Increasingly Dangerous for Women in Texas, Our Analysis Shows. Here’s How We Did It.
Using seven years of hospital discharge data, we found that the number of blood transfusions during emergency room visits for first-trimester miscarriage shot up by 54% since Texas banned abortion.
www.propublica.org

who? 😂

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Tame Impala: Tiny Desk Concert
YouTube video by NPR Music
www.youtube.com
Chicago - no kings
😍 Boston, you are beautiful. #NoKings

Great! You're up next @utaustin.bsky.social ! All @texasexes.org ('96 here) should consider signing this alumni petition to help keep UT great, with academic freedom! www.change.org/p/alumni-urg...

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Reduction in force (RIF, I.e. firing) email and page 1 of the RIF memo.

CDC, this is absolutely illegal and our union (AFGE) will be suing.

afge2883ga.org

The union is asking that you send your RIF notice to: RIF@afge2883ga.org with

Name
CIO/division/branch
FTE status & tenure

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#OpenAccess from @cjps-rcsp.bsky.social -

A New Dataset Identifying LGBTQ2S+ Candidates in Canadian Federal Elections - https://cup.org/43dVFj3

- @kebaisley.bsky.social & @qalbaugh.bsky.social

#FirstView

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On this day in 1993, This Hour Has 22 Minutes debuted, bringing in 468,000 viewers for its first episode. To date the show has won 22 Gemini Awards and 11 Canadian Screen Awards.

Learn more in my Deep Dive 👇
canadaehx.com/2024/01/30/t...

This is pretty cool. Would have been super useful _before_ I submitted my latest grant app. :) But better late than never.

Feel better!

Does it count as inbox zero if you snooze all your messages until Saturday morning?

What's the word, will @mpsa.bsky.social be extending the paper deadline tomorrow? Asking for a friend. 😆
we need a word for a type of person who spends all their time working to live in a city so they can be near cool things, but they don't actually like going out
We do not deploy American forces against Americans in our own cities.

Our military is not trained for domestic law enforcement.

It’s illegal and un-American.

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Another Texas-Ex here hoping @utaustin.bsky.social stands up for academic freedom.
You’re next, @utaustin.bsky.social!
Take a stand for Longhorn Pride and #SaveUT!

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@texasexes.org
You’re next, @utaustin.bsky.social!
Take a stand for Longhorn Pride and #SaveUT!

🧡✊🧡✊🧡

@texasexes.org

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The financial struggles plaguing our postsecondary education sector are not a sudden development, nor are they solely a result of federal changes to international student permit caps.
"New KM Compass App From the Social Media Lab Helps Researchers Translate Knowledge Into Real-World Impact" socialmedialab.ca/2025/10/02/n...
New KM Compass App From the Social Media Lab Helps Researchers Translate Knowledge Into Real-World Impact - Social Media Lab
TORONTO, ON – [October 02, 2025] — At a time when public trust in institutions is fragmented and misinformation spreads faster than evidence, researchers and experts face a critical challenge: how to ...
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In March, Trump ordered the elimination of the Institute of Museum and Library Services, an independent agency that is the main source of federal funding for public libraries

No other president has shown as much contempt for libraries or their mission

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/u...
Florida Hands Over Prime Miami Property for Trump Library
www.nytimes.com

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Getting a research grant is 10% coming up with a good idea, 20% writing a polished application, and 70% hitting reload on a web browser to see if the SSHRC website will appear.