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Joel Welch
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PhD law candidate at Western University (space law/scifi); Western University Board of Governors (2024-26); Bar: Ontario; Ret-RCMP. Not legal advice. Dual 🇨🇦🇺🇸. Qapla’!
Status.
November 1, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Trader Sam's at the Polynesian Village Resort at Walt Disney World knows how to serve a Bud Light to an older fellow in style...

Great tiki joint.
October 31, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Status tonight in Nashville.

Bill Murray and his Blood Brothers.
October 23, 2025 at 5:33 AM
Just a red-tailed hawk hanging out above the main doors of University College at Western University in London, Ontario - nothing to see here...

#WesternU
October 3, 2025 at 9:31 PM
September 17, 2025 at 12:38 AM
September 17, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Yes! The Grad Club is having a mascot design contest!

www.uwogradclub.ca/mascot

I'm of course hard at work with potential designs. And you could be too!

(Note: I have no idea if AI generated images are allowed. I'm just going with my muse. See the website for the submission guidelines.)
September 17, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Happy #startrekday2025!

In honor of the franchise, here's a pic of me at the future birthplace of James T. Kirk, from my 2022 cross-country road trip.

#LLAP #StarTrek
September 8, 2025 at 9:25 PM
It's always nice to see wildlife on campus, looking north from the University Drive Bridge, along the Thames River, in London, Ontario.

#WesternU
August 18, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Huzzah! The Grad Club is back open (summer hours)!
August 5, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Sunfest! I've made it!

The free international music festival runs until Sunday night at Victoria Park in London, Ontario. Good times.

Also #andersoncraftales has a branded Sunfest cerveza. How cool is that?
July 4, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Yeah... I love my colleagues at the Grad Club. Funny.

It was a good event by #WesternU SOGS.

Thank you Society of Graduate Students!
June 23, 2025 at 11:26 PM
This was from last Tuesday's Western University convocation. I was so happy I participated as the Graduate Student Representative to Western University's Board of Governors (I did two convocations and a formal dinner on the Tuesday.)

I'm in the left (stage left) of the framed shot. Congrats!
June 20, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Ok #WesAnderson, let's do this.
June 9, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Working on my bartender's game.
June 7, 2025 at 5:20 AM
I love it when legal scholarship and Star Wars collide.

#CassRSunstein
June 2, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Getting my Stratford Festival fix.
May 29, 2025 at 1:35 AM
I'm attending my first opening of a play, ever, tonight at the Stratford Festival.

I'm catching the Scottish play. I hope the characters patch things up before bad things happen...

Also witches.

#StratfordFestival
May 28, 2025 at 10:55 PM
First run of the season. 3 km and a bit, slowly.

Send lungs. Thanks.
May 26, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Spending time figuring out how to do U.S. legal citations (the McGill Guide is unhelpful.)

Send whiskey and cigarettes.
May 19, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Paying my respect to good old Alec Guinness at the Stratford Festival.

#StarWars
May 17, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Hello Stratford Festival. My 2025 season adventure has begun.

I'm looking at you, bard man.
May 17, 2025 at 11:25 PM
I accidentally ordered a children's book on artificial intelligence through Western University Libraries and it's really good.

I'm so going to quote from it for my dissertation.
May 8, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Attending the Exploring Art & Pop Culture's Relationship with Space Exploration at @westernuSpace #WesternUSpaceDay.

The panelists are Kate Howells of the Planetary Society, @aerospacewriter.bsky.social, Helen Gregory, moderated by Maya Soukup.
May 7, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Alright #WesternUSpaceDay, let's do this.

#WesternU @WesternU @westernuSpace
May 7, 2025 at 2:08 PM