Jen Mustapha
@jhmustapha.bsky.social
Political “Scientist.” Asian-Canadian. Vaccine Enthusiast. Prof. Writer. Lover. Fighter. Sometimes, I get fired up. She/Her
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Jen Mustapha
@jhmustapha.bsky.social
· Sep 18
Being a politics prof usually feels like an endurance sport, but these days it feels more like high speed, high intensity interval training.
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Vladdy hit a home run I have to teach in the morning.
October 28, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Vladdy hit a home run I have to teach in the morning.
Do I have to be up early tomorrow? Yes. Yes I do.
October 28, 2025 at 5:42 AM
Do I have to be up early tomorrow? Yes. Yes I do.
“Oh Canada” is genuinely hard to sing but I will forgive the terrible vocals because “our home ON Native land” was just sung at the #WorldSeries 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
October 28, 2025 at 12:27 AM
“Oh Canada” is genuinely hard to sing but I will forgive the terrible vocals because “our home ON Native land” was just sung at the #WorldSeries 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
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Dale Bissland ~ Texture & Light, Crail, 2022
October 20, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Dale Bissland ~ Texture & Light, Crail, 2022
My hot take is that when you are literally at the very top of the game, diss tracks are- by definition- nothing short of bullying. If you have no-where to punch but down, it's time to try something entirely new.
October 3, 2025 at 5:26 PM
My hot take is that when you are literally at the very top of the game, diss tracks are- by definition- nothing short of bullying. If you have no-where to punch but down, it's time to try something entirely new.
Being a politics prof usually feels like an endurance sport, but these days it feels more like high speed, high intensity interval training.
September 18, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Being a politics prof usually feels like an endurance sport, but these days it feels more like high speed, high intensity interval training.
Evergreen post
No longer shocked and definitely not in any kind of awe.
Just resigned to watching humanity spiral deeper into derangement and insanity with the worst possible people having power to inflict the most pain on other humans.
Just resigned to watching humanity spiral deeper into derangement and insanity with the worst possible people having power to inflict the most pain on other humans.
September 11, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Evergreen post
I don't know about you guys, but today I would much rather mourn the 3000 people who were killed by al Qaeda on 9/11, & the upwards of 4 million people- mostly civilians- who were killed (directly and indirectly) by GWB's ensuing "War on Terror" in the subsequent 20 years. But hey, that's just me.
September 11, 2025 at 2:10 PM
I don't know about you guys, but today I would much rather mourn the 3000 people who were killed by al Qaeda on 9/11, & the upwards of 4 million people- mostly civilians- who were killed (directly and indirectly) by GWB's ensuing "War on Terror" in the subsequent 20 years. But hey, that's just me.
Two things can be simultaneously true: political violence almost always leads to very bad things, for everyone. And also, the establishment that enabled a malignant bigot to thrive doesn’t get to demand respect or civility for him, especially from the very targets of his hatred.
September 11, 2025 at 4:45 AM
Two things can be simultaneously true: political violence almost always leads to very bad things, for everyone. And also, the establishment that enabled a malignant bigot to thrive doesn’t get to demand respect or civility for him, especially from the very targets of his hatred.
Post sabbatical blues: this mountain of HR training modules that I cannot put on 1.75 speed are literally going to make me slip into a state of catatonia...
September 5, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Post sabbatical blues: this mountain of HR training modules that I cannot put on 1.75 speed are literally going to make me slip into a state of catatonia...
The Ai “assistant” in WhatsApp asking me if I want a “helpful summary” of [squints, checks notes] ONE missed message is the thing that might finally push me over the edge to just accept that humanity is doomed.
August 30, 2025 at 5:11 PM
The Ai “assistant” in WhatsApp asking me if I want a “helpful summary” of [squints, checks notes] ONE missed message is the thing that might finally push me over the edge to just accept that humanity is doomed.
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I would read an academic murder book in which the murder was solved by reading the syllabus
I love this idea and also want a list of academic murder books. Please reply with recs
Hear me out: a dark academia murder book that opens at a department beginning-of-the-year celebration on a boat (I know a department that does this) and a professor goes overboard. The intrepid department chair must figure out who did it. Everyone is a suspect, including the chair herself.
August 29, 2025 at 10:12 PM
I would read an academic murder book in which the murder was solved by reading the syllabus
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Meanwhile, also yesterday, I got a cheerful message from the Dean’s office about how “helpful” guides on how to be “more thoughtful” about how we can incorporate AI in the classroom are now available to us…Then MS Copilot asked me if I wanted help summarizing the message.
WTF ARE WE DOING HERE?
WTF ARE WE DOING HERE?
August 27, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Meanwhile, also yesterday, I got a cheerful message from the Dean’s office about how “helpful” guides on how to be “more thoughtful” about how we can incorporate AI in the classroom are now available to us…Then MS Copilot asked me if I wanted help summarizing the message.
WTF ARE WE DOING HERE?
WTF ARE WE DOING HERE?
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I also read a whole NYT piece at 1:50am about a family suing Open AI bc Chat GPT literally encouraged their 16 year old to conceal his suicidal ideation and gave helpful tips on how to hang himself…
August 27, 2025 at 2:32 PM
I also read a whole NYT piece at 1:50am about a family suing Open AI bc Chat GPT literally encouraged their 16 year old to conceal his suicidal ideation and gave helpful tips on how to hang himself…
The Prestige Cartel is real. We also need to talk abt the hiring biases in Canadian Poli Sci depts. There is a tendency to assume Ivy League/US & Oxbridge grad job candidates are inherently “better” applicants, while those from amazing Canadian *programs* are cast onto the NO pile way too quickly.
In poli sci, "the top 20% of departments produced 75% of all faculty and the bottom 50% accounted for less than 5% of all tenure track faculty members at a research university. 49 programs did not have a single graduate placed in a TT position at a PhD-granting department in the past 10 years."
Where You Earn Your PhD Matters | PS: Political Science & Politics | Cambridge Core
Where You Earn Your PhD Matters
www.cambridge.org
August 27, 2025 at 2:17 PM
The Prestige Cartel is real. We also need to talk abt the hiring biases in Canadian Poli Sci depts. There is a tendency to assume Ivy League/US & Oxbridge grad job candidates are inherently “better” applicants, while those from amazing Canadian *programs* are cast onto the NO pile way too quickly.
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We live in a seriously screwed-up world.
I don’t know how to process that my social media feeds tonight were 10% footage of rescue workers getting blown up on live TV in an IDF ‘double tap’; 10% footage of bereft Palestinian parents wailing in grief over the lifeless body of their little girl and 80% rich famous white woman got engaged
August 27, 2025 at 6:04 AM
We live in a seriously screwed-up world.
I don’t know how to process that my social media feeds tonight were 10% footage of rescue workers getting blown up on live TV in an IDF ‘double tap’; 10% footage of bereft Palestinian parents wailing in grief over the lifeless body of their little girl and 80% rich famous white woman got engaged
August 27, 2025 at 5:59 AM
I don’t know how to process that my social media feeds tonight were 10% footage of rescue workers getting blown up on live TV in an IDF ‘double tap’; 10% footage of bereft Palestinian parents wailing in grief over the lifeless body of their little girl and 80% rich famous white woman got engaged
I have thus far managed to avoid all awareness of/participation in any #LoveIsland fandom or discourse whatsoever. Until now.
August 11, 2025 at 4:29 PM
I have thus far managed to avoid all awareness of/participation in any #LoveIsland fandom or discourse whatsoever. Until now.
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A horrifying statement published today by the Editorial Committee of the Agence France-Presse (AFP) news agency.
"Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die"
Translation from French to English by @cnorristrent.bsky.social:
"Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die"
Translation from French to English by @cnorristrent.bsky.social:
July 21, 2025 at 11:21 PM
A horrifying statement published today by the Editorial Committee of the Agence France-Presse (AFP) news agency.
"Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die"
Translation from French to English by @cnorristrent.bsky.social:
"Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die"
Translation from French to English by @cnorristrent.bsky.social:
Premiere Danielle Smith would like to speak to the manager.
Of Jasper.
Of Jasper.
July 18, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Premiere Danielle Smith would like to speak to the manager.
Of Jasper.
Of Jasper.
In UK w my kid. We’re queuing at a figurine store & some guy comes out yelling “if you’re queuing to buy the special edition labubu danglies but haven’t won the online lottery & don’t have a purchase number or photo id you will NOT be seeing ANY labubus today.”
I thought I was having a stroke.
I thought I was having a stroke.
July 7, 2025 at 7:31 PM
In UK w my kid. We’re queuing at a figurine store & some guy comes out yelling “if you’re queuing to buy the special edition labubu danglies but haven’t won the online lottery & don’t have a purchase number or photo id you will NOT be seeing ANY labubus today.”
I thought I was having a stroke.
I thought I was having a stroke.
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Worth a watch:
Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
June 26, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Worth a watch:
Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
Meanwhile…
June 24, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Meanwhile…
Trump being genuinely surprised that Netenhayu isn’t licking his boots is something to see
From the FT live blog - very angry Trump declares Iran and Israel “don’t know what the fuck they’re doing”. Video embedded in the link www.ft.com/content/f440...
June 24, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Trump being genuinely surprised that Netenhayu isn’t licking his boots is something to see
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Carney has been doing some things right but I’m increasingly disappointed by his govt’s response to urgent security & IR issues. I shouldn’t be surprised, but I guess I was hoping for more Chrétien-on-Iraq energy & less gotta-keep-kissing-American-ass-and-refusing-to-name-or-sanction-genocide energy
June 23, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Carney has been doing some things right but I’m increasingly disappointed by his govt’s response to urgent security & IR issues. I shouldn’t be surprised, but I guess I was hoping for more Chrétien-on-Iraq energy & less gotta-keep-kissing-American-ass-and-refusing-to-name-or-sanction-genocide energy