bri watson 🐝

I gave a Rotman Lecture last fall about the my dissertation and book, specifically about the Kinseys (the man and the Institute) and the influence taxonomy has on the labels we use to describe ourselves (gender, sexuality, etc. It was recently uploaded to YouTube: youtu.be/KDwF_3ilkwM?... 🗂️🗃️📚📃📜

Hedge funds with small schools attached to them

assembling our dias de los muertos altar 😍💀

Tangentially but not unrelatedly, if you're wondering why some indie studios in canada have lived so long, the fact that the Canada Media Fund disperses around 350 million dollars in arts grants a year has something to do with it

📢 Save the date for #CAIS2027! The 55th CAIS/ACSI Annual Conference comes to Montréal + online, June 1–3, 2027. Theme: Edges — the boundaries and intersections where new perspectives in information science emerge. 🌐 cais2027.ca

“This article clarifies uncertainties about the date, origin, brewing procedure & text of a technical treatise on brewing beer that has been central to the ancient history of food and drink. This recipe for beer, found in an alchemical codex associated with the epitomized works of Zosimus…” 🍺

got word this morning that everyone in my COVID-accurséd PhD cohort ("Cohort Sanitare" @ UBC iSchool 2020) has finally made it through the wringer (I suspect each of us more crawling than walking, &etc). But all the feels, love & hugs to DOCTOR @alvionne.bsky.social & DOCTOR @kotlet00.bsky.social 🥳

I think they've started to accept the kitten

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Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

@darringtonpress.bsky.social could do the most-baller thing…

ask and ye shall receive

BREAKING: EU chief Ursula von der Leyen says she wants to open the door for Canada to become the bloc's first associate member.

She was Rachel, weeping for her children, because they were not.

An American scholar spent years buying Nepali gods out of Kathmandu Valley shrines, often for less than a bus fare. She then built a career as an expert on the culture she was quietly dismantling. She kept meticulous records. We found them. A new investigation, soon at himalmag.com

this has been so much more involved than previously suspected. Thursday's speech will be a very significant day indeed

I resigned from ExxonMobil today. I spent the last three years doing fossil fuel extraction research at both BP and ExxonMobil. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing to maximize extraction while the window to act closes, and gambling with our lives. More below.

New post at ACRLog about the breakneck speed at which the Library of Congress implemented the #LCSH changes to Lake Ontario—just 8 days from proposal to approval, with no comments allowed. 📚 The title is from a letter written by our friend Sandy Berman. acrlog.org/2026/09/12/l...

as seen in Kingston Ontario

📣 Brand new zine published to celebrate Labor Day: "Don’t Cross the Picket Line : Strike Solidarity for Beginners." Free to print or read online at violetbfox.info/dontcross/. This 24-page zine was created for anyone who's *not* part of a union and doesn't know much about unions or strikes.

labour is entitled to bread, roses & all that it creates. ✊🏻

getting "loonie sized hail" is the most Canadian weather alert yet

got asked on very short notice to talk about the "renaming" of #LakeOntario for the Canadian Post; I can't bear to watch myself on video but perhaps you might enjoy! ca.news.yahoo.com/why-maps-can... (there are Globe and Mail and Toronto Star articles too but this is the easier link)

Us: An 80-something who was on TV. Death: Shelley Fabares. Us: No... one with lots of business interests. Death: Dolly Parton! Us: No!!! One who was in Home Alone 2! Death: Tim Curry! Us: NO! The leader of a country who's linked to the Epstein scandal! Death: Oh! King Harald of Norway! Us:

did bluesky hear about Miss Teen Indiana’s Garfield costume

The new @tkingfisher.com Daggerbound book feels like it was written for/at academia, especially academia bsky 😂

really looking forward to having to deal with the immediate #LCSH change 🙄

Our new thing is making Lily into a zen garden while she’s sleeping

en esta economía??????

absolute disaster of emergency management @westernu.ca :( the students affected by this deserve extended tuition stipends & the university should be supporting faculty who have lost research progress & the animals whose welfare is endangered. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

"there's no bottom to aella lore" is going to live rent free in my head until the end of my days

Remembering how during the Claudine Gay scandal, one of its biggest promoters of the story was Bill Ackman. Then someone uncovered that Ackman's own wife was a professor alleged to have committed much more serious academic misconduct than Gay and then nothing happened to her.

Here's Amazon's two new planned fossil-fuelled AI data centres next to the ENTIRE POWER GRIDS OF SEVERAL LARGE COUNTRIES Together, the two gas-burning data centres will emit more than Spain's entire grid, if built

The Ozarks and Appalachians know you well. They know you're there. Sometimes they're happy. Sometimes they're angry. Sometimes they're mourning something you don't understand but you can feel their immense sadness. Everything there is intended.