MxE (They/Them)

reading material: "In Her Absence I Created Her Image" By Mahmoud Darwish Translated By Fady Joudah www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi... www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/52555/...

Just putting a marker down: When it happens and this madness is finally over, I'm throwing a week-long party at my home. Everyone's invited. I'll rent a block of rooms at the hotel down the street for anyone needing lodging. Details hopefully soon.

so many ideas; so many developments: Moderna mRNA vaccine almost halves the risk of skin cancer returning www.nature.com/articles/d41... A first for CRISPR: powerful prime editing alters DNA directly in the human body www.nature.com/articles/d41...

binary patterns (combining rules at regular intervals)

words abt thoughts abt the world: www.thecollector.com/nancy-cartwr...

Very happy to announce that I will be teaching a UVic Continuing Studies course on novel outlining next February!!

Manuscript and Text Cultures (MTC) Vol. 3 No. 2 (2024) mtc-journal.org/index.php/mt... @cmtc-oxford.bsky.social #openaccess

"Most days it feels as if the world is whirling around me and I am standing still. In slow motion, I watch the colors blur; people and faces all become a massive wash." -Sarah Kay

so many ideas; so many developments www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

MONTH TWO OF GRAD SCHOOL Prof: *poses a question, pauses, and for the first time in the seminar says "uh... what do you guys think?" Students: *silence, minutes pass Me (reluctantly): Well... maybe [redacted] Prof (annoyed): That's not even interesting. *resumes monologue

reading material (chronological): _Notebook of a Return to the Native Land_ by Aimé Césaire (1939) _Dictée_ by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha (1982)

It's not always easy to complain about academic life. But many reliably find a way.

reading material (chronological): "The Garden Party" by Katherine Mansfield (1922) _Mrs. Dalloway_ by Virginia Woolf (1925)

what are you looking at? My view for several hours a day: a cello and some dogs and cats. Increasingly, my life is at once more interesting to me and less optimized for social media posts.

Today’s Canadian painting is “Mother and Child” painted by Norval Morrisseau in 2005. This is Truth and Rconciliation Day in Canada, a day to remember the harms done to Canada’s first peoples.

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

An amazing glimpse into Mesolithic everyday life: this more than 7,500-year-old ring was made from heather roots, carefully rolled up and prepared for later use. It was discovered at the settlement of Motala/Sweden, where the same material was used for fish traps. Dating 5750–5550 BC. 🧵1/2 📷me

Reading material: _Autonomous_ by Annalee Newitz www.goodreads.com/en/book/show... Reading material on reading material: Rana, Mahrukh, & Hurbik (2026). "Posthuman Subjectivity and the Illusion of Autonomy in Newitz’s Autonomous." llrjournal.com/index.php/11...

Beauty bias... Conservation biases show "a systematic disproportion in the allocation of research and conservation efforts among taxa." Butterfly beauty is associated with public attention, research, and conservation. 🧪 #Science #Biology #Biodiversity #Conservation www.cell.com/current-biol...

so many ideas, so many developments journals.aps.org/prl/abstract...

This September, I am riding 200 miles in the Great Cycle Challenge to fight kids' cancer! People should be living life, not fighting for it. Consider donating or sharing this link: greatcyclechallenge.com/Riders/Edwar... All funds raised will support Children's Cancer Research Fund.

so many ideas; so many developments arxiv.org/html/2609.03...

so many ideas; so many developments current.fas.harvard.edu/stories/harv...

Morning. Trying new things. An international dark roast blend complemented with grated almond, bloom-steeped, French-pressed, and finished with an unsweetened beet, carrot, citrus-zest, and cinnamon infusion. #csabox

Great examples of wasters. The vessels were damaged during the process of firing. From the #Roman site at Worb, Switzerland. Dating 2nd century AD. On display at Historisches Museum Bern. 📷 me 🏺 #archaeology

Emily Young has been called ‘Britain’s greatest living stone sculptor’ #Womensart

reading (/unreadability) material: _Three Lives_ by Gertrude Stein www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/15408

For #RomanSiteSaturday let's go to a huge pile of #trash - Monte Testaccio in #Rome. A huge artificial hill located next to the Tiber River. It was made up of millions of broken amphorae (mostly oil amphorae from southern Spain) during the first three centuries AD www.elnacional.cat/es/cultura/r...

In a thunderstorm, the girl is running from the house. But the house fumes and steams.

Pretty much the description of the introductory political philosophy course I teach every fall...

Susie Freeman, Jubilee, 2000, wedding dress with (a lifetime average) 6,279 contraceptive pills, from a women’s health exhibition #WomensArt

"But realism is not the real; it may even be the sign of its absence." crimereads.com/charles-henr...

Sophie Standing, British born textile artist who creates her work by combining applique and free motion embroidery #WomensArt

Lucy Telles (c.1870-1956) master basket weaver of Yosemite Miwok and Mono Lake Paiute descent #WomensArt

The second 'r' makes it art

The 17th chord change of the 639 years-long performance of John Cage's _As Slow As Possible_ is happening in approximately nine hours in Halberstadt, Germany. www.aslsp.org/Klangwechsel...

My profession has turned me into someone who finds this hilarious. Please send help.

How much did you really enjoy your lunch if you don't have to change clothes after?

unreadability in context: Wörner, C., & Stöckert, U. (2026). Unreadable to Actionable—Condensing Insights and Deriving Quality from Machine Raw Data in Asphalt Road Construction Processes. Intelligent Infrastructure and Construction, 2(2), 6. doi.org/10.3390/iic2...

reading material: Beguš, N. Experimental narratives: A comparison of human crowdsourced storytelling and AI storytelling. Humanit Soc Sci Commun 11, 1392 (2024). doi.org/10.1057/s415...

Brandi Carlile demonstrates w/ consistency vocal features I find vacantly compelling & which I 1st noted in rarer performance by Emily Armstrong: the voice is pressed to various forms of fragmentation. [Sonic Visualizer of Brandi Carlile-Uninvited (Morissette)-Newport Folk Festival, RI|July 2026]

July Disability Pride www.civilandhumanrights.org/disability-p...