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Mar 13 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
I'll post the two tweets that led to this in a thread. You decide if this person is doing good work communicating on behalf of @WHO.
Nothing @annie_sparrow said was either ad hominem or factually incorrect.

And note the absurd hypocrisy with which @gabbystern *literally* names and shames @annie_sparrow.

Go ahead and share @annie_sparrow's tweets above and give her a follow.

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Mar 14
We have so many receipts ready to share when @OntarioAuditor audits @uofg. Some of the issues have already been covered in the media as well, so I am keeping these in one list. 🧵 of 🔗
List of issues first, then links to media stories about several of them.

guelphtoday.com/local-news/hou…
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Mar 13
There's a fair bit of recent discussion about another member of the XBB lineage ("Gryphon family"): XBB.1.16. It shows signs of impressive growth where it occurs (mostly India so far), even compared to now globally dominant XBB.1.5 (Kraken).

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XBB.1.16 is not descended from XBB.1.5 (Kraken), but they are both descended from the recombinant ancestor XBB (Gryphon) and more recently XBB.1 (Hippogryph).

XBB.1.16 is the second variant to earn a nickname under the new system using astronomical names: Arcturus.

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As with XBB.1.9.1 (Hyperion), XBB.1.16 (Arcturus) gets a name that starts with a letter from A-H because it is part of the BA.2 lineage, and the name contains the letter R because it is descended from a recombinant. Both Hyperion and Arcturus are names of stars.

3/
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Mar 12
I'd be glad if @uofg were among the next 4 universities audited. May be the only way for us to cut through the gaslighting and get some real information. We also have an admin that is as incapable of admitting huge mistakes as they are of avoiding them.

universityaffairs.ca/news/news-arti…
Some specific things to look into:

* Lack of transparency / favouritism in senior admin appointments.

* Erosion of collegial governance and damaged relationships with employee unions.

* Mismanagement of finances taking us from large surplus to crisis.

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* Lack of transparency after a cyberattack.

* Huge unforced error on enrollment that blew past the corridor and is causing major challenges for faculty, staff, and students. No admission of any mistake (only gaslighting), but the Registrar was let go.

2/2
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Mar 12
One of the big warning signs highlighted by the Auditor General's report on the Laurentian disaster is a lack of transparency in hiring of senior administrators. Let's review the situation at @UofG.🧵

1/ Section 6.6 of the report, outlining the lack of transparenc
1. President.

Our former President stepped down early in his second term. There was a search, but it was suspended due to the pandemic and the Board of Governers decided to appoint the former Provost to a 2-year term as President.

porticomagazine.ca/2020/06/charlo…

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An "extensive and highly competitive search" was then held, but the university community was given no information about who was shortlisted, there were no public presentations, and there was no opportunity to provide feedback on candidates.

news.uoguelph.ca/2021/08/presid…

3/
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Mar 9
XBB.1.5 now dominates in Ontario, but wastewater signal is declining this week (although as usual the baseline remains too high). Immunity levels from sustained infections since summer 2022 likely mean there aren't enough people susceptible at this moment for a wave.

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That's good in one sense, of course. We don't want big waves, and it's very good if immunity holds enough to prevent them at least for now. The bad news, though, is that this temporary immunity comes at the cost of an unsustainable level of infections for months on end.

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This is really the first time in a long while that the pattern in Ontario has become decoupled from what's happening in the UK, which is interesting. The UK seems to be starting yet another wave, driven by XBBs.

3/
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Mar 8
Perhaps it's obvious to most of us, but a senior leadership team consisting of a) the person who got us into a financial mess + b) someone with zero relevant qualifications or experience + c) internal replacements for people who have left isn't going to get us out of a big mess.
And when that leadership team has demonstrated appalling incompetence and a total inability to admit or learn from mistakes, while utterly destroying trust and collegial governance, it's time for the board to act or, failing that, the province to audit.
Faculty, staff, students, parents, alumni, donors, and the province should all be concerned and demanding transparency and accountability of U Guelph. No more gaslighting. No more destroying relationships. No more ham-fisted undercutting of our mission in education and research.
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