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Eugene McCann @ejmccann.bsky.social · 15h

This is amazing.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Bird migration is changing. What does this reveal about our planet? – visualised

Bird migrations rank as one of nature’s greatest spectacles. Thanks to GPS tracking, scientists are uncovering extraordinary insights into ancient and mysterious journeys – and new threats that are re...

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Euan Tombstone @drugdatadecoded.ca · 1d

NEW
I spent the day in court, where DULF organizers heard the closing arguments for their trafficking charges.
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"Everyone knew what was happening," judge admonishes Crown as DULF awaits trafficking verdict

Justice Catherine Murray closed the trial with remarks that indicated sympathy for the accused and for the confusing behaviour of Health Canada, the Vancouver police and all other political entities d...

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Eugene McCann @ejmccann.bsky.social · 1d

lol

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karen ward @kwardvancouver.bsky.social · 2d

the number of unsold condos in metro Vancouver is approximately the same as the metro Vancouver homeless population

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Metro Vancouver's glut of empty condos: What's unsold and why?

No amount of incentives seems to be able to reverse the glut. How did we get here? And how bad could it get? Read more.

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by Eugene McCann

Eugene McCann @ejmccann.bsky.social · 3d

In a grocery store. Staff member asks if she can help me find anything. No thanks. Two mins later in the adjacent aisle, she comes up & asks me the same thing again, clearly not remembering me. I have the rare combination of Resting Confused Face & Instantly Forgettable Face.

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Cristina Temenos @ctemenos.bsky.social · 6d

New: Dialogues in Urban Research exploring what it means to think about crisis as urban & how locating crisis in the urban reconfigures relations between eventful & everyday crisis politics, materiality, discourse & movement. Part of a great set of interventions.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 8d

Jeff Bezos might have built a spaceship, but indie bookstores build and nurture whole communities and that is *way* more impressive and valuable.

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Eugene McCann @ejmccann.bsky.social · 8d

Next they’ll be implying that it’s weird for a grown adult to run upstairs on a double decker bus hoping the front seat’s available.

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Eugene McCann @ejmccann.bsky.social · 8d

@theonion.com bullying #geographers now. Entirely uncalled for imo!

The Onion @theonion.com · 8d

Passenger Glued To Airplane Window Like It Fucking 1956 https://theonion.com/passenger-glued-to-airplane-window-like-it-fucking-1956-1832728158/

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The Onion @theonion.com · 8d

Passenger Glued To Airplane Window Like It Fucking 1956 https://theonion.com/passenger-glued-to-airplane-window-like-it-fucking-1956-1832728158/

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John Woodside @woodsideful.bsky.social · 8d

Today we're launching a new, powerful tool for public accountability created by @rorywh.bsky.social.

Civic Searchlight compiles hundreds of municipalities' public meetings and makes them searchable for the first time. It's free to use and we hope you journalists and researchers put it to work.

Canada’s National Observer unveils a powerful tool for fighting disinformation

Civic Searchlight brings together municipal meeting transcripts from across Canada into a searchable database for the first time. It has already been used to fight disinformation, report on impact, di...

www.nationalobserver.com

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 11d

we need a word for a type of person who spends all their time working to live in a city so they can be near cool things, but they don't actually like going out

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Eugene McCann @ejmccann.bsky.social · 13d

Interesting. "Women, ppl of color, & LGBQ scholars ... write more about the ppl, resources, & conditions that made their books possible. So too, do younger scholars & those who’s parents have graduate degrees." Given my identity, my acknowledgements should be monosyllabic, then. But I'm long-winded.

Jeff Lockhart @jwlockhart.bsky.social · 13d

I'm excited to share my new paper with a former student, Tommy Smith. "'This Work Would Not Have Been Possible without...': The Length of Acknowledgments in Sociology Books"

Open Access in @sociusjournal.bsky.social : doi.org/10.1177/2378...

Main figure from the paper. Violin plots showing the length of acknowledgments sections in books by sociologists, broken out by gender, race, sexuality, parents’ education, millennium of author’s PhD, and publisher type.

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Jeff Lockhart @jwlockhart.bsky.social · 13d

I'm excited to share my new paper with a former student, Tommy Smith. "'This Work Would Not Have Been Possible without...': The Length of Acknowledgments in Sociology Books"

Open Access in @sociusjournal.bsky.social : doi.org/10.1177/2378...

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Eugene McCann @ejmccann.bsky.social · 13d

Already sick of Halloween Month.

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Kenton Card @kentoncard.bsky.social · 14d

Great news!!

Louisville Metro is finally implementing its Anti-Displacement Commission & Assessment Tool!

Well done PUSH Louisville & Jecorey Arthur for keeping pressure on the city, and Louisville Tenants Union for launching the campaign!!

www.lpm.org/news/2025-10...

Louisville's Anti-Displacement Commission finally gets off the ground

The Anti-Displacement Commission will track housing developments that receive city resources to protect residents from gentrification.

www.lpm.org

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by Eugene McCann

Eugene McCann @ejmccann.bsky.social · 15d

And around the corner at the developer's open house ...

Part of a page from the development permit submission for 570 Columbia (formerly 105 Keefer).

A TV camera operator records the proceedings. (A dog isn't that interested, tbh).

Audience members listen to the project architect discuss details of the design.

by Eugene McCann

Eugene McCann @ejmccann.bsky.social · 15d

At the Vancouver Chinatown People's Open House against 105 Keefer/570 Columbia & for a People's Vision for Chinatown.

A poster, written in English and Chinese, for The People's Open House in Vancouver's Chinatown. It is part of a decade-long opposition to a condo development in the neighbourhood and to neighbourhood's gentrification.

Seniors gathered for the People's Open House in the plaza of the Chinese Cultural Centre.

Attendees read information boards in the plaza.

A summary, written in English and Chinese, of the 2017 People's Vision for Chinatown, a community strategy for social and economic change.

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Michelle Cyca @michellecyca.com · 16d

For @thewalrus.ca, I wrote about the state of reconciliation 10 years after the final report of the Truth & Reconciliation Commission. thewalrus.ca/trc-introduc...

The Stark Reality Ten Years after the Truth and Reconciliation Report | The Walrus

“We have to wonder: should we just abandon ‘reconciliation’ altogether?”

thewalrus.ca

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Lindsay Brown @lidsville.bsky.social · 17d

PLEASE: Short notice, but we have til the end of today to email City Hall: Beedie is back trying to develop #105Keefer & it's even worse. (Govt should've bought this land, given the destruction it has already imposed on Chinatown) savechinatownyvr.substack.com/p/last-day-g... #vanpoli #bcpoli

LAST DAY: Get your NO to Beedie counted by the City

Comment today to make sure your opposition to 105 Keefer / 570 Columbia is registered on the City's report

savechinatownyvr.substack.com

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by Eugene McCann

Eugene McCann @ejmccann.bsky.social · 19d

Yeah I know. They've gotten away with sitting on it for years. Ridiculous.

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Eugene McCann @ejmccann.bsky.social · 19d

Holborn's Little Mountain development in #Vancouver. "A Generational Masterplan," apparently. 'Generational' cuz it took, like, a generation to get round to building it? #vanre #vanpoli

A black shiny billboard emblazoned with two lines of white text: A Generational Masterplan. In Vancouver's Most Beloved Neighbourhood.

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by Eugene McCann

Eugene McCann @ejmccann.bsky.social · 20d

They’ve already contracted with a dinosaur.

by Eugene McCann

Eugene McCann @ejmccann.bsky.social · 22d

hope it's worthwhile

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Eugene McCann @ejmccann.bsky.social · 23d

🙂 hopefully useful for you

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Eugene McCann @ejmccann.bsky.social · 23d

Uses brief examples from the drug #harmreduction social movement, specifically #overdose prevention & #SCSs, to illustrate the argument, but contends that a wide range of social movements can be understood through "moving ideas." 6/6

by Eugene McCann

Eugene McCann @ejmccann.bsky.social · 23d

Outlines five paths toward overcoming the policy mobilities approach’s relative inattention to counter-hegemonic activism & contentious politics: situated knowledge on-the-move; persuasive storytelling; encounters in “truth-spots”; temporalities of activism; & “futuring” in policy change. 5/6

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Eugene McCann @ejmccann.bsky.social · 23d

... 2) political ideas move people to critique dominant ideologies & engage in activism that challenges, rethinks, & reworks political orthodoxies. 4/6

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Eugene McCann @ejmccann.bsky.social · 23d

Introduces the term “moving ideas” as a framing with two connotations: 1) the political efficacy of ideas is related to their spatialities—how & with what effects they move from place to place & are embedded in places; ... 3/6

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Eugene McCann @ejmccann.bsky.social · 23d

Specifically argues that the political scope of policy mobilities scholarship can be enlarged to include not only the politics of hegemonic policy-making but also the counter-hegemonic activism, ideation, & contentious politics through which social movements seek to change hegemonic policy. 2/6

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