@ruth_mottram@fediscience.orgRound 1 of the second science seminar for #AntarcticaInSync - an international collaboration aiming at advancing research of all kinds in Antarctica the Southern Ocean. Fear not if you missed it, there is another chance Wednesday at 15:00 UTC
https://www.antarctica-insync.org/2nd-antarctica-insync-international-science-webinar/
@ruth_mottram@fediscience.orgThe first session of the second #AntarcticaInSync webinar is about to start - an international effort to coordinate research on and around the southern continent. Come and talk to me about land based observations and climate variability ... https://www.antarctica-insync.org/2nd-antarctica-insync-international-science-webinar/
@arXiv_mathHO_bot@mastoxiv.pageFraudulent Publishing in the Mathematical Sciences
Ilka Agricola, Lynn Heller, Wil Schilders, Moritz Schubotz, Peter Taylor, Luis Vega
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07257 https://
@brian_gettler@mas.toHow to put a positive spin on xenophobia.
https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/canada-rebounds-as-a-top-choice-for-international-students-new-survey-finds/article_0c9e94c0-81d2-4a…
@cdarwin@c.imMathematician Karen Keskulla Uhlenbeck was born #OTD in 1942.
She is known for her work on PDEs, calculus of variations, topology, and gauge theory, and was the second woman (after Emmy Noether!) to give the plenary lecture to the International Congress of Mathematicians.
@relcfp@mastodon.socialThe Second Coming of Humanities: 2nd International Conference on Literature, Linguistics, and Language
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@arXiv_econTH_bot@mastoxiv.pageConcentration and Markups in International Trade
Alviarez Vanessa, Fioretti Michele, Kikkawa Ken, Morlacco Monica
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00345 https://…
@cdarwin@c.imWeeks after the Trump administration attempted to remove VOA Director Michael Abramowitz from his position,
a judge ruled only an advisory board could do so.
• Complications: Trump can’t get the board in question,
the International Broadcasting Advisory Board, to do so,
because he fired the entire board shortly after taking office.
@arXiv_astrophIM_bot@mastoxiv.pageThe Major Gamma-ray Imaging Cherenkov Telescopes (MAGIC)
Oscar Blanch, Julian Sitarek
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22585 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.22585
@arXiv_csCY_bot@mastoxiv.pageMultilateralism in the Global Governance of Artificial Intelligence
Michal Natorski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15397 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.15397
@cdarwin@c.imTrump caught his loyal conservative base off-guard and sparked backlash
by saying he would allow 600,000 Chinese students into American universities.
That would be a departure for the Trump administration after it added new vetting for student visas,
moved to block foreign enrollment at Harvard
and expanded the grounds for terminating international students’ ability to study in the United States.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio has singled out China, the second h…
@arXiv_physicsoptics_bot@mastoxiv.pageE-21 Level Instability Frequency Dissemination over 2067 km noisy Telecommunication Infrastructure
Fa-Xi Chen, Li-Bo Li, Jiu-Peng Chen, Kan Zhao, Jian-Yu Guan, Yang Xu, Lei Hou, Fei Zhou, Cheng-Zhi Peng, Qiang Zhang, Hai-Feng Jiang, Jian-Wei Pan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.14192
@cdarwin@c.imA Trump-shaped wrecking ball swings toward a faltering United Nations
In his second term has Trump has brought down the hammer,
cutting U.S. contributions to the U.N. and scaling back U.S. involvement.
The administration’s gutting of USAID was a blow to the international humanitarian system,
which has been propped up for years by U.S. involvement.
Cindy McCain, executive director of the U.N.’s World Food Program, said her agency is having to “take food from the…
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.caThe average undergrad tuition fee in the 1974/75 academic year in Canada, across all disciplines, was $547 ($3445 adjusted to 2025)
Fees 50 years later in 2024/25 were $7360 ($7496 adjusted)
That is more than double. 117%.
And I *know* from personal experience this is a low ball average. If I could find a breakdown by discipline or by length of study for today, some would be even more obscene.
What has changed? Any occupation outside a minimum wage paying job demands a 2-4yr undergraduate diploma or degree, if not more.
Think about the 1970s and how common it was for people to get good paying jobs, leading to careers, without even high school education. Our free education stops with high school.
My family is a good example.
Mom and Step Dad: teacher college/degree. One got a Masters mid career.
Dad: didn’t complete HS
Father in law: didn’t complete HS
Mother in law: completed HS mid-career
Leadership positions and full careers demand a Masters or PhD requiring 5-10 years of study after HS!
Add in the cost of food and housing and the massive cuts happening at all colleges and universities because of the loss of international student tuition and I am going to go out on a limb and say our students today are going to pay double the price for a far worse experience than possibly any time since the Second World War.
Public education should be free.
Food and Housing should be controlled.
If the only thing government cares about is the economy, then they are setting us up for failure, and have been for decades.
(Don’t get me started on the kinds of “values” Canadian governments demonstrate when International student tuitions are 5x more than domestic students, let alone the inherent revenue risk in that funding strategy that has now come home to roost)
#canpoli #cdnpoli #education #university #college #canada
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74/75 Source Stats Can: https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=3710015001&pickMembers[0]=1.1&cubeTimeFrame.startYear=1972 / 1973&cubeTimeFrame.endYear=2006 / 2007&referencePeriods=19720101,20060101
24/25 source stats can: https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=3710004501
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@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.caFascinating that BC's population dropped marginally (2154 people) last quarter ... but it still had the second highest inter-provincial migration of any province!
If we're anything like Alberta, then it's a good bet the biggest source of decline was in temporary international residents.
#CanPoli #Immigration #Population #CdnPoli #BCPoli #ABPoli
