Asim Renyard

Hey ants can smell their food and you should read our new paper about it! Proud of the work we did and thanks to all the amazing co-authors who made this project happen @cegooding @GriesRegine and others who are not on twitter! doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2…

.@SFU "can send these diet Pinkertons our way as much as they want, but we're only going to get stronger" #bcpoli #cdnpoli #canlab beta.ctvnews.ca/local/british-…

This is what solidarity looks like. The working class stands together. Unionized workers show up for each other forever and always.

SFU is lying to the entire school community once again. How can we trust anything this admin says going forward?

A reminder that Lions Gate, the firm that @SFU hired to surveil its workers, is perhaps best known for its close collaboration with the RCMP C-IRG. aptnnews.ca/ourstories/cir… #bcpoli #cdnpoli

"They've been standing around and filming us and, to be honest, making us feel incredibly unsafe." Is this what @SFU means when they say they are the "community engaged university"? Engaging with shadey private spies? #bcpoli

UPDATE: @SFU has "concluded" its contract with the private investigators it hired to surveil us. We're glad to know they won't be back, but they should never have been invited to our campus in the first place. #bcpoli #cdnpoli #canlab

SFU won't say it, but this is because @UniteHere40 workers refuse to cross our picket lines. We will never forget their solidarity and will continue to stand with contract workers at SFU in their fight for an end to outsourcing. @cwj_sfu

WHAT'S DISGUSTING?! UNION BUSTING!! SFU sends private investigators after us instead of offering a fair contract—and our resolve grows only stronger. @TSSU is unbreakable. Send a million Pinkertons after us and we will still win. Solidarity forever!

"We're teachers, not dangerous thugs" Goodbye and good riddance to Lions Gate! cbc.ca/news/canada/br…

"BARGAINING" UPDATE: the employer [@SFU] came to bargaining this morning to tell us that they would not bargain today because they haven't done their homework, which they've had nearly a year to do. Members flocked to bargaining to make them say it to our faces again.

SFU has hired Lions Gate Risk Management—the same corporate security firm that spied on and infiltrated Fairy Creek land defenders—to surveil @tssu picket lines. Unvelievable. #cdpoli #bcpoli pressprogress.ca/simon-fraser-u…

Although SFU maintains plausible deniability, we should call this what it is: intimidation. Hiring the same diet pinkertons as big corporate players is pulling the mask off Joy Johnson's Administration's shallow rhetoric of diversity, equity and inclusion. Shame on you, SFU.

‘How Did We Become an Underclass in the University?’ Prominent scholars with zero job security. Instructors whose labour brings in millions in tuition paid pennies. English teachers with decades of service denied pensions. #bcpoli STORY: thetyee.ca/News/2023/10/0…

NBPA, Raptors donate $10,000 to striking SFU support workers sportsnet.ca/nba/article/nb…

An incredible act of solidarity from our faculty colleagues. Thank you!

At the @tssu picket line at SFU Burnaby this morning, and there seem to be a lot of midterm exams scheduled. MBB 331 and FAN X99 so far. These indtructors are putting meh pedagogy ahead of worker well-being. Shame.

A huge shoutout to all the truck drivers who see a picket line, raise a fist and turn around. Solidarity is a beautiful thing!

Burnaby campus is SHUT DOWN. Contract now!

Another day, another @SFU lie. In an email sent to faculty and staff today, the university claims @TSSU hasn't agreed to any more bargaining dates. That's not true. Both parties have agreed to resume bargaining Wednesday, Oct. 4. bargaining.tssu.ca/strike-and-bar…