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ericbkennedy.bsky.social
Associate Prof of Disaster & Emergency Management at York University. Trying to improve use of evidence, science, data, and wisdom in wildfire. Editor of Canadian Journal of Emergency Management.
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You should absolutely wear a respirator (N95, KN95, etc) when in large crowds to protect yourself and others. But, hot take: if a protest is the only time you’re wearing a mask, you’re making it easier for anti-mask folks to stigmatize and ban. Show solidarity by wearing them elsewhere, regularly.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

159 Canadian Forces members were killed in Afghanistan, a higher per-capita fatality rate than Americans. At least five of those were killed by Americans in so-called “friendly fire” incidents.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

One of my pet peeves with wildfire coverage is when media outlets uncritically parrot bad understandings of emergency management and how different levels of government work together to manage wildfire. So, I want to highlight CBC doing it well! Brief 🧵 (1/n) www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

This is how I start the conversation about LLMs with my students: it’s like going to the gym and riding an e-bike on the treadmill. Then, we figure out how to co-create a class where it’s safe to struggle at workouts together.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Perpetual subtweet on people using AI in academia: if you can’t be bothered to do the analysis or write it yourself, why in the world should I be bothered to read it, let alone trust it?

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

I continue to hold firm to my position that “if you can’t be bothered to write it, why should I be bothered to read it?”

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

Jumping. I think quizzes that suggest who you vote for like "vote compass" are awful... but this new one from Leger, which gives you likely party alignment based on things about you, your 'lifestyle habits,' and not a single questions about values, is just downright dangerous for democracy.

submitted 55 days ago • 2 comments

I like paying taxes. Genuinely. Not grudgingly. I can’t pave a road, I can’t build and staff a hospital. $200 in my pocket won’t pay for my kid’s daycare but if we all pool our money it might. I really wish someone on the left would be brave enough to be like, “Taxes are good, actually.”

submitted 75 days ago • 67 comments

This is why we say that popping on a mask when you go to the grocery store is a chance to resist creeping fascism. It’s a simple way to refuse this training to abandon others.

submitted 82 days ago • 1 comment

Every accusation is a confession.

submitted 94 days ago • 0 comments

Here's the thing: you can say it's a 'constitutional crisis' all you want, but the playbook here (and tbh, I'm referring to multiple situations) is to simply deny there's a crisis + assert their power is absolute & right. The crisis only exists if you make it, rather than accepting their take.

submitted 99 days ago • 0 comments

This new work from @blakemurdoch.bsky.social is spot on. Denial of airborne transmission was the great crime (yes, crime) of the pandemic. It changed, and broke, everything healthydebate.ca/2025/03/topi...

submitted 100 days ago • 20 comments

If you can’t be bothered to write it, why should I be bothered to read it?

submitted 104 days ago • 1 comment

Cannot overstate how much this gutting of expertise is going to impact wildfire response. NOAA’s work to support (fire) weather forecasting; capacity for staffing incident management teams; ability to move firefighters and gear to where it’s needed… absolutely all being decimated.

submitted 111 days ago • 1 comment

Theme of the last two weeks: Tell me you don't know what "soft power" is without telling me you don't know what soft power is.

submitted 132 days ago • 0 comments

One of the things I'm so down about right now is how long it takes to build strong institutions that quietly do the work to make all our systems run, and how quickly certain folks are committed to burning them down entirely.

submitted 139 days ago • 0 comments

Whelp, that's one way to put a water bomber out of commission... (One of the Quebec tankers in California was hit by a small drone)

submitted 159 days ago • 3 comments