Dr Sho Jacobs 🍁

Does it get its money back?

Close-up photograph of a dried burdock burr with many curved hook-like spines against a black background. A translucent grey banner overlays the image with the text: “Article: Turning Bio-Inspired Ideas Into Patents. Brook Kennedy with Anna Bieri.” Footer text reads: “Zygote Quarterly 39 | vol 3 | 2025 | ISSN 1927-8314 | Pg 101 of 124.”

As bio-inspired design grows, questions about IP emerge, particularly about the line between nature-inspired and tech innovation

Brook Kennedy & Anna Marion explore these complexities in their article

As co-editor of ZQ, I’m excited to share this piece

pg 100: zqjournal.org/pdfs/ZQ_issu...

Creative inclusion or regressive exclusion? AI and the arms race in teaching and learning - CAUT As the workshop facilitator demonstrated the latest update in AI technology, we realized that we had lost the arms race of teaching and learning.

AI may have already won the “arms race” in #HigherEd teaching and learning

But the real question is what we do next:

Will we respond with creativity and inclusion, or retreat into policies that quietly exclude the students who need access the most?
Our commentary

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Was there a moneyback guarantee on Board of Peace membership?

Excited to share this new one w/ @chrisajulian.bsky.social @gaylekaufman.bsky.social @demresjournal.bsky.social. Its wild how much we dont know about living arrangements of American families! Here we compare rels status & living arrangements among het & noncishet adults. #SOGIData #LGBTQDemog

holy crap! Steve! Get home safe!

NANCY MACE: What is a woman? Have you learned that lesson?

WALZ: I'm the governor of Minnesota. I'm not here to be a prop for your obsession.

The Most Accurately Predicted Genocide in History | The Walrus There was satellite imagery, survivor testimony, and mass graves. Still, the world looked away from Sudan

“It’s very simple ... In this case, a decision was made [...] by the United States, the European Union, and the United Kingdom, that the diplomatic, economic, and security relationship with the United Arab Emirates matters more than the lives of these people in Darfur.” thewalrus.ca/sudan-genoci...

Its animus against girls and children is constantly appalling...

READ THIS!!!

They’re really trying to do drive-thru colonization

two social media posts, one after the other. The first is about the death of the Iranian girls, the next is about Trump saying that he is defending American children

The juxtaposition:

Canada’s government gets a failing grade on child poverty Campaign 2000’s new report says children under 18 are still the age group in Canada most likely to fall into poverty.

Canada’s government gets a failing grade on child poverty

City had nearly $14M in unpaid property taxes last year More properties were in arrears in 2025, but the dollar value and overall percentage were down

www.guelphtoday.com/local-news/c...

Creative inclusion or regressive exclusion? AI and the arms race in teaching and learning - CAUT As the workshop facilitator demonstrated the latest update in AI technology, we realized that we had lost the arms race of teaching and learning.

We had some thoughts about Generative AI, and @caut.bsky.social was kind enough to help us express them.
#HigherEd

Creative inclusion or regressive exclusion? AI and the arms race in teaching and learning - www.caut.ca/bulletin/cre...

@alexsmithants.bsky.social @danielgillis.ca

Another submission:

ministryofcurry.com/mango-tirami...

Definitely going to try this one in the summer :)

No more to the wars of men

The moment we accept the idea that peace must be purchased with the blood of women and girls, we are no longer speaking of peace.

If safety demands their suffering
then what we are building is not a better world but a quieter graveyard.

C'est une mauvaise position.

Il ne s'agit pas d'armes.

Ils ont tué des enfants.

Ils ont tué des filles.

S'il vous plaît, changez notre position.

C'est une mauvaise position.

Il ne s'agit pas d'armes.

Ils ont tué des enfants.

Ils ont tué des filles.

S'il vous plaît, changez notre position.

This is the wrong take

It’s not about weapons

They killed children

They killed girls

Please, change our stance

This is the wrong take

It’s not about weapons

They killed children

They killed girls

Please, change our stance

FIFA peace prize written with disappearing ink

Trans people are people 🏳️‍⚧️

Yes.

So, that FIFA Peace Prize, eh?

I agree completely. Today’s arts and social sciences students are the ones who are going to end up saving this planet.

Supporting the slaughter of children is never acceptable

Canada should not support the American bombing in Iran

B.C. man cured of rare disease in world-first for new gene-editing technology Ty Sperle says he felt “insane shock” after learning he’d been cured of a rare genetic disease through a clinical trial using a new gene-editing treatment.

B.C. man cured of rare disease in world-first for new gene-editing technology

Laurentian University unions question 11% pay hikes for the president and provost | CBC News Laurentian University’s staff and faculty unions are asking why pay increases for the president and provost, approved in October, are only being made public now.

Laurentian University unions question 11% pay hikes for the president and provost

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