For those Canadian researchers following the "all your (data)base are belong to us" moves of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science & Research:
My PhD is SSHRC-funded, so I asked SSHRC directly about disclosure of info.
So far, they have only provided the committee w/ public information.
My PhD is SSHRC-funded, so I asked SSHRC directly about disclosure of info.
So far, they have only provided the committee w/ public information.
November 5, 2025 at 9:55 PM
For those Canadian researchers following the "all your (data)base are belong to us" moves of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science & Research:
My PhD is SSHRC-funded, so I asked SSHRC directly about disclosure of info.
So far, they have only provided the committee w/ public information.
My PhD is SSHRC-funded, so I asked SSHRC directly about disclosure of info.
So far, they have only provided the committee w/ public information.
You wanna partner on a small SSHRC application?
November 8, 2025 at 6:57 PM
You wanna partner on a small SSHRC application?
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Stop the anti-DEI campaign against Canadian researchers — what amounts to a hunt for personal information that could enable individuals be targeted, bullied and harassed #cdnpse #cdnpoli #research #SSHRC #CIHR
www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/836f94c...
Stop the anti-DEI campaign against Canadian researchers — what amounts to a hunt for personal information that could enable individuals be targeted, bullied and harassed #cdnpse #cdnpoli #research #SSHRC #CIHR
www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/836f94c...
How much are MPs entitled to know about research grants? Not as much as they think
A parliamentary committee is asking for academics’ private information on a strange anti-DEI crusade
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 4, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Here's the only thing I see about Tri-Agency funding.
November 4, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Here's the only thing I see about Tri-Agency funding.
As the data shows, the claim that federal agencies favor “left-wing,” “progressive,” or “woke” research projects is but a myth circulated by misinformed conservatives. If anything, SSHRC actually needs to fund more projects about social inequalities and injustice.
November 4, 2025 at 5:16 AM
As the data shows, the claim that federal agencies favor “left-wing,” “progressive,” or “woke” research projects is but a myth circulated by misinformed conservatives. If anything, SSHRC actually needs to fund more projects about social inequalities and injustice.
We extracted public data on 35,828 research projects funded by eight SSHRC programs to examine the govt's claim. Our original analysis is here, but eventually we took this a step further and looked at each of the topics.
Alberta’s Bill 18: Who gets the most federal research funding? Danielle Smith might be surprised by what the data shows
The ideological war waged by Smith will only endanger high-quality research void of political interference from the government.
theconversation.com
November 4, 2025 at 5:16 AM
We extracted public data on 35,828 research projects funded by eight SSHRC programs to examine the govt's claim. Our original analysis is here, but eventually we took this a step further and looked at each of the topics.
UM choosing its words carefully:
"[UM is] highlighting the privacy and research integrity concerns associated with this request as they work through approaches to comply."
But who will ever want to volunteer to review for SSHRC if their reviews get deanonymized & subjected to political scrutiny?
"[UM is] highlighting the privacy and research integrity concerns associated with this request as they work through approaches to comply."
But who will ever want to volunteer to review for SSHRC if their reviews get deanonymized & subjected to political scrutiny?
The Canadian Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science and Research is launching a US-style attack on EDI in Tri-Council funding.
As part of this attack, they are demanding disclosure of confidential demographic info + reviewer comments of all Canadian researchers who have applied b/w 2000-2025.
As part of this attack, they are demanding disclosure of confidential demographic info + reviewer comments of all Canadian researchers who have applied b/w 2000-2025.
November 3, 2025 at 8:49 PM
UM choosing its words carefully:
"[UM is] highlighting the privacy and research integrity concerns associated with this request as they work through approaches to comply."
But who will ever want to volunteer to review for SSHRC if their reviews get deanonymized & subjected to political scrutiny?
"[UM is] highlighting the privacy and research integrity concerns associated with this request as they work through approaches to comply."
But who will ever want to volunteer to review for SSHRC if their reviews get deanonymized & subjected to political scrutiny?
Congratulations to @torontomet.bsky.social professor Natalie Álvarez on receiving a @sshrc-crsh.canada.ca Partnership Grant to fund a groundbreaking research project that seeks to build inclusive new data systems to capture the impact of the arts on civic life. Read more: tinyurl.com/3b8h4j5w
Data that’s true to art: TMU researcher launches partnership to support a data-driven understanding of the arts’ civic impact
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November 3, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Congratulations to @torontomet.bsky.social professor Natalie Álvarez on receiving a @sshrc-crsh.canada.ca Partnership Grant to fund a groundbreaking research project that seeks to build inclusive new data systems to capture the impact of the arts on civic life. Read more: tinyurl.com/3b8h4j5w
Parliamentary committees can demand info, and privilege overrides privacy concerns. However, committees lack enforcement teeth. They have to appeal a refusal or non-compliance to the House. If I were SSHRC, I’d slow roll the handover of data, then give incomplete or partly redacted data
November 3, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Parliamentary committees can demand info, and privilege overrides privacy concerns. However, committees lack enforcement teeth. They have to appeal a refusal or non-compliance to the House. If I were SSHRC, I’d slow roll the handover of data, then give incomplete or partly redacted data
This will be every application--funded or not--and every comment and score. Everyone's identities, demographic profiles, personal informational, for every CIHR, NSERC, and SSHRC application from the last five years.
October 30, 2025 at 8:33 PM
This will be every application--funded or not--and every comment and score. Everyone's identities, demographic profiles, personal informational, for every CIHR, NSERC, and SSHRC application from the last five years.
This is bad. Call your MPs, please. I didn't share data with SSHRC and CIHR going back 20 years for this.
Canadian researchers should be aware the there is a motion before the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science and Research to force Tricouncils to hand over disaggregated peer review data on all applications:
Applicant names, profiles, demographics
Reviewers names, profiles, comments, and scores
Applicant names, profiles, demographics
Reviewers names, profiles, comments, and scores
October 30, 2025 at 11:40 PM
This is bad. Call your MPs, please. I didn't share data with SSHRC and CIHR going back 20 years for this.
The Canadian Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science and Research is launching a US-style attack on EDI in Tri-Council funding.
As part of this attack, they are demanding disclosure of confidential demographic info + reviewer comments of all Canadian researchers who have applied b/w 2000-2025.
As part of this attack, they are demanding disclosure of confidential demographic info + reviewer comments of all Canadian researchers who have applied b/w 2000-2025.
October 31, 2025 at 2:33 PM
The Canadian Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science and Research is launching a US-style attack on EDI in Tri-Council funding.
As part of this attack, they are demanding disclosure of confidential demographic info + reviewer comments of all Canadian researchers who have applied b/w 2000-2025.
As part of this attack, they are demanding disclosure of confidential demographic info + reviewer comments of all Canadian researchers who have applied b/w 2000-2025.
The hypocrisy is incredible. These 'anti-woke' 'experts' literally say they want "viewpoint diversity" and then go on to say that 10% of grants going to "activist" projects is "a lot higher than I think should be coming from a federal granting agency."
www.ourcommons.ca/documentview...
www.ourcommons.ca/documentview...
October 31, 2025 at 3:18 PM
The hypocrisy is incredible. These 'anti-woke' 'experts' literally say they want "viewpoint diversity" and then go on to say that 10% of grants going to "activist" projects is "a lot higher than I think should be coming from a federal granting agency."
www.ourcommons.ca/documentview...
www.ourcommons.ca/documentview...
This is unhinged and violent:
The layers of hate in these statements need to be addressed directly and continuously
EDI initiatives are a critical ingredient to ensuring a happier and healthier future
#HigherEd 🧪
@uwaterloo.ca @sshrc-crsh.canada.ca @create-les.bsky.social
The layers of hate in these statements need to be addressed directly and continuously
EDI initiatives are a critical ingredient to ensuring a happier and healthier future
#HigherEd 🧪
@uwaterloo.ca @sshrc-crsh.canada.ca @create-les.bsky.social
October 31, 2025 at 1:43 PM
This is unhinged and violent:
The layers of hate in these statements need to be addressed directly and continuously
EDI initiatives are a critical ingredient to ensuring a happier and healthier future
#HigherEd 🧪
@uwaterloo.ca @sshrc-crsh.canada.ca @create-les.bsky.social
The layers of hate in these statements need to be addressed directly and continuously
EDI initiatives are a critical ingredient to ensuring a happier and healthier future
#HigherEd 🧪
@uwaterloo.ca @sshrc-crsh.canada.ca @create-les.bsky.social
And we haven't even gotten into the topic of decreasing funding/more competition for the funds that do exist, both in the United States and in Canada. SSHRC only just increased their stipends for graduate students for the first time in 25 years.
I won't admit a student with no funding whatsoever.
I won't admit a student with no funding whatsoever.
October 29, 2025 at 10:48 PM
And we haven't even gotten into the topic of decreasing funding/more competition for the funds that do exist, both in the United States and in Canada. SSHRC only just increased their stipends for graduate students for the first time in 25 years.
I won't admit a student with no funding whatsoever.
I won't admit a student with no funding whatsoever.
"I'm going to pull 2 random titles from SSHRC applications and ask you to defend them"
or "I demand an xls of all application data for all competitions from all 3 agencies for the last 5 yrs including all identifiable information on the applicant, project details, reviewers, & funding in 15 days"
or "I demand an xls of all application data for all competitions from all 3 agencies for the last 5 yrs including all identifiable information on the applicant, project details, reviewers, & funding in 15 days"
October 29, 2025 at 7:32 PM
"I'm going to pull 2 random titles from SSHRC applications and ask you to defend them"
or "I demand an xls of all application data for all competitions from all 3 agencies for the last 5 yrs including all identifiable information on the applicant, project details, reviewers, & funding in 15 days"
or "I demand an xls of all application data for all competitions from all 3 agencies for the last 5 yrs including all identifiable information on the applicant, project details, reviewers, & funding in 15 days"
Cue the cuts to NSERC, CIHR, SSHRC and CFI and new investments for industrial partnerships for universities that will piss away millions
To build the Canada we want for ourselves, we have to make responsible choices and bet big on Canadians.
We’re going to cut waste and spend less on government operations — so we can make the big investments that will grow our economy and create new opportunities for Canadians.
We’re going to cut waste and spend less on government operations — so we can make the big investments that will grow our economy and create new opportunities for Canadians.
October 22, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Cue the cuts to NSERC, CIHR, SSHRC and CFI and new investments for industrial partnerships for universities that will piss away millions
📣 The 2025 #SSHRCStorytellers Challenge is live! Don’t miss out on your chance to share amazing #SSHRC funded research and win $3000! Submit your story: sshrc-crsh.canada.ca/en/research-...
@swc-can.bsky.social
@swc-can.bsky.social
October 21, 2025 at 2:27 PM
📣 The 2025 #SSHRCStorytellers Challenge is live! Don’t miss out on your chance to share amazing #SSHRC funded research and win $3000! Submit your story: sshrc-crsh.canada.ca/en/research-...
@swc-can.bsky.social
@swc-can.bsky.social
In about two weeks:
And Philosophy Created Woman / And Woman Created Philosophy: Disciplinary Intersections around Gender Equality in Early Modernity
Second online session – Oct. 29, 2025
17–19h CET / 12–14h EDT
More info & registration: www.newnarrativesinphilosophy.net/seminars.html
#philsky
And Philosophy Created Woman / And Woman Created Philosophy: Disciplinary Intersections around Gender Equality in Early Modernity
Second online session – Oct. 29, 2025
17–19h CET / 12–14h EDT
More info & registration: www.newnarrativesinphilosophy.net/seminars.html
#philsky
October 13, 2025 at 9:39 PM
In about two weeks:
And Philosophy Created Woman / And Woman Created Philosophy: Disciplinary Intersections around Gender Equality in Early Modernity
Second online session – Oct. 29, 2025
17–19h CET / 12–14h EDT
More info & registration: www.newnarrativesinphilosophy.net/seminars.html
#philsky
And Philosophy Created Woman / And Woman Created Philosophy: Disciplinary Intersections around Gender Equality in Early Modernity
Second online session – Oct. 29, 2025
17–19h CET / 12–14h EDT
More info & registration: www.newnarrativesinphilosophy.net/seminars.html
#philsky
I'm pleased to find myself among the first 220 Bluesky followers of @sshrc-crsh.canada.ca or #SSHRC. Canada's main social sciences and humanities funding agency, SSHRC invests $500M annually into research and training. Follow for announcements and deadlines. #Academicsky #research #grants #SSHRC
We’re funding new international fellowships in collaboration with @ukri.org and the @sloanfoundation.bsky.social to investigate how AI is transforming research:
sshrc-crsh.canada.ca/en/news/2025...
sshrc-crsh.canada.ca/en/news/2025...
October 10, 2025 at 7:24 PM
I'm pleased to find myself among the first 220 Bluesky followers of @sshrc-crsh.canada.ca or #SSHRC. Canada's main social sciences and humanities funding agency, SSHRC invests $500M annually into research and training. Follow for announcements and deadlines. #Academicsky #research #grants #SSHRC
Dr. Mills' roles as both a curator and collaborator:
1. co-applicant on the SSHRC grant application secured for 2025 - 2027
2. co-curating exhibitions in collaboration with the Woodstock Art Gallery and Yukon Arts Centre directors/curators and UofL Art Gallery
3. supporting artists and residencies
1. co-applicant on the SSHRC grant application secured for 2025 - 2027
2. co-curating exhibitions in collaboration with the Woodstock Art Gallery and Yukon Arts Centre directors/curators and UofL Art Gallery
3. supporting artists and residencies
October 10, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Dr. Mills' roles as both a curator and collaborator:
1. co-applicant on the SSHRC grant application secured for 2025 - 2027
2. co-curating exhibitions in collaboration with the Woodstock Art Gallery and Yukon Arts Centre directors/curators and UofL Art Gallery
3. supporting artists and residencies
1. co-applicant on the SSHRC grant application secured for 2025 - 2027
2. co-curating exhibitions in collaboration with the Woodstock Art Gallery and Yukon Arts Centre directors/curators and UofL Art Gallery
3. supporting artists and residencies
Last week, I was invited to be a panel respondent to a Keynote presentation by Dr. Maurita T. Harris at the Ethical Tech for a Global Future Symposium at #UWaterloo. Dr. Harris's talk was titled, "Human Factors, Ethics, and the Future of Responsible Innovation."
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October 9, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Last week, I was invited to be a panel respondent to a Keynote presentation by Dr. Maurita T. Harris at the Ethical Tech for a Global Future Symposium at #UWaterloo. Dr. Harris's talk was titled, "Human Factors, Ethics, and the Future of Responsible Innovation."
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Putting Foot in Mouth 101:
(Foolishly and unintentionally) inform a friend that their MA funding application (to SSHRC) is older than the people using it as a model for the 2025/26 round of applications.
(Foolishly and unintentionally) inform a friend that their MA funding application (to SSHRC) is older than the people using it as a model for the 2025/26 round of applications.
a dog is laying on the floor in a cage with a bowl of food in the background .
ALT: a dog is laying on the floor in a cage with a bowl of food in the background .
media.tenor.com
October 2, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Putting Foot in Mouth 101:
(Foolishly and unintentionally) inform a friend that their MA funding application (to SSHRC) is older than the people using it as a model for the 2025/26 round of applications.
(Foolishly and unintentionally) inform a friend that their MA funding application (to SSHRC) is older than the people using it as a model for the 2025/26 round of applications.
3 #UofT scholars shortlisted for 2025 SSHRC Impact Awards 🍁 uoft.me/bRL
October 2, 2025 at 2:05 PM
3 #UofT scholars shortlisted for 2025 SSHRC Impact Awards 🍁 uoft.me/bRL
Last week, I had the honour of presenting my work on anti-immigrant attitudes for the Migration and Ethnic Relations Alumni Reunion at Western.
September 29, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Last week, I had the honour of presenting my work on anti-immigrant attitudes for the Migration and Ethnic Relations Alumni Reunion at Western.