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Dr. Wally | Let’s Human Together-Curious, Reflective, Vulnerable @drwally.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This year's Fat Bear Week champ, Backpack, got his name as a cub riding around on his mom's back. Now he's about 20 and the heavyweight of Katmai. Funny how that works. Being carried early doesn't make you weak. Often it's what makes you strong enough to stand on your own. #HumanTogether

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Gentle giant Backpack wins Alaska’s Fat Bear Week

The contest celebrates the resilience of the 2,200 brown bears that live in the preserve on the Alaska Peninsula.

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Dr. Wally | Let’s Human Together-Curious, Reflective, Vulnerable @drwally.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I hold deeply humanist values, care for people over ideology, and I still won't accept either side deciding what counts as knowledge. Once one tribe controls that, the other stops trusting what it produces. We lose the language we need to even argue with each other. #HumanTogether

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Dr. Wally | Let’s Human Together-Curious, Reflective, Vulnerable @drwally.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

As a developmental psychologist: this isn’t just a budget story. Consistent, responsive caregiving in years 0-3 is the foundation of secure attachment. When cost forces families into unstable, high-turnover care, kids absorb a developmental cost. Evidence-based policy matters here. #HumanTogether

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Dr. Wally | Let’s Human Together-Curious, Reflective, Vulnerable @drwally.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Kids read the room. Tension over money and borders trickles down into households, even when nobody explains the tariffs to them. Steadier grownups, steadier kids. Worth naming that cost too, not just the economic one. #HumanTogether

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Dr. Wally | Let’s Human Together-Curious, Reflective, Vulnerable @drwally.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Haylan Engdahl and Brayden Rogers were sophomores, right at the age where young adults are still becoming who they’ll be. Two Milligan cyclists killed this morning on Highway 19E, teammates hurt. So much life ahead of them. Hold this East Tennessee community close today. #HumanTogether

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Dr. Wally | Let’s Human Together-Curious, Reflective, Vulnerable @drwally.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

You can’t discipline a child into feeling safe. Fear and safety don’t teach the same lesson, and only one of them builds kids who regulate themselves well as adults. #HumanTogether

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Dr. Wally | Let’s Human Together-Curious, Reflective, Vulnerable @drwally.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

237 years, and this November two Native women could break that barrier at the same time. That’s not a footnote, that’s a door opening. Representation isn’t symbolic, it’s information: different histories in the room mean different questions get asked. #HumanTogether

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Dr. Wally | Let’s Human Together-Curious, Reflective, Vulnerable @drwally.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Wow. A 25-year-old scientist in Argentina developed an injectable gel from placental tissue that helped hearts heal after simulated heart attacks in sheep. Still years from human trials, but a real look at what young researchers can build when given the chance. Worth celebrating. #HumanTogether

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Dr. Wally | Let’s Human Together-Curious, Reflective, Vulnerable @drwally.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

5/ Early voting runs through August 1 here in Tennessee. If you’ve been putting it off, today’s a good day to take charge. #HumanTogether

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Dr. Wally | Let’s Human Together-Curious, Reflective, Vulnerable @drwally.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

4/ You don’t need to agree with your neighbor’s ballot to agree that both of you showing up is what makes the outcome legitimate. That’s a shared stake, not a partisan one.

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Dr. Wally | Let’s Human Together-Curious, Reflective, Vulnerable @drwally.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

3/ Low turnout is what creates room for doubt. When only a sliver of eligible voters decide an outcome, it’s easier to say the result doesn’t reflect the people. Full participation closes that gap.

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Dr. Wally | Let’s Human Together-Curious, Reflective, Vulnerable @drwally.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

2/ Every election cycle, someone claims the results can’t be trusted. The strongest answer to that isn’t an argument. It’s turnout so broad the claim doesn’t hold up.

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Dr. Wally | Let’s Human Together-Curious, Reflective, Vulnerable @drwally.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

1/ Early voting opened today in Tennessee. Whatever your ballot looks like, this is the moment where showing up actually counts. #HumanTogether isn’t a slogan if it doesn’t include this.

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Dr. Wally | Let’s Human Together-Curious, Reflective, Vulnerable @drwally.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Ms. Frizzle had the whole thing right. “Take chances, make mistakes, get messy” is basically how children actually learn. Curiosity plus a teacher who makes it safe to be wrong out loud. Forty years later that is still the assignment. #HumanTogether

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Dr. Wally | Let’s Human Together-Curious, Reflective, Vulnerable @drwally.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Worth pausing on this. A legislature deliberating instead of deferring is the architecture doing its job: power kept from pooling in one place, a decision shaped by many voices instead of one. The branches were built to push against each other. This is that. #HumanTogether

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Dr. Wally | Let’s Human Together-Curious, Reflective, Vulnerable @drwally.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

The part that stays with me is not the uprising. It is what comes before. When you cannot feed your kids and those who could help look past you, the thread between you and everyone else gives way. Being unseen while you are hungry is what breaks people. #HumanTogether

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Dr. Wally | Let’s Human Together-Curious, Reflective, Vulnerable @drwally.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Anyone who’s hunted for an apartment knows the fee pile-up. Paying $50 a pop just to be considered, with no refund and no guarantee, quietly shuts people out before they ever get a fair shot. Lowering that barrier means more families actually get to compete for a home. #HumanTogether

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Dr. Wally | Let’s Human Together-Curious, Reflective, Vulnerable @drwally.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Sharing this because someone else needs to hear a fox bark today. We are all out here humaning together, and sometimes the assignment is just: look, listen, point. #HumanTogether

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Dr. Wally | Let’s Human Together-Curious, Reflective, Vulnerable @drwally.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Gratitude lands differently when it’s shared. Naming what sustains us out loud, with the people who are part of it, turns a private feeling into a community practice. That is where more actually lives. #HumanTogether

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Dr. Wally | Let’s Human Together-Curious, Reflective, Vulnerable @drwally.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Leaving is when the danger peaks in an abusive relationship. When the path out is blocked by a lease, a deposit, a credit score, we are asking survivors to choose between safety and stability. No one should have to make that choice. #HumanTogether

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Dr. Wally | Let’s Human Together-Curious, Reflective, Vulnerable @drwally.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

The deeper story here: households reaching for tools that let them stop white-knuckling the next bill. Energy choices are becoming agency choices. #HumanTogether

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Dr. Wally | Let’s Human Together-Curious, Reflective, Vulnerable @drwally.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

The headline worth keeping: a major city closed a historic budget gap without cutting services to people who need them most. That’s a governance choice, not a given. Whether it holds depends on what comes next. But the choice itself matters. #HumanTogether

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Dr. Wally | Let’s Human Together-Curious, Reflective, Vulnerable @drwally.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Economic uncertainty isn’t just a kitchen-table issue. It’s a safety issue. When families can’t predict next month’s rent or grocery bill, the chronic stress shows up in sleep, parenting, and health. Voters aren’t asking for a party. They’re asking for a stable life. #HumanTogether

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Dr. Wally | Let’s Human Together-Curious, Reflective, Vulnerable @drwally.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Five Republicans + every Democrat in the chamber. That’s a coalition, across party and across motive, but the effect is the same: the rules of the game stay intact this round. That’s how a republic is supposed to hold. #HumanTogether

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Dr. Wally | Let’s Human Together-Curious, Reflective, Vulnerable @drwally.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Kids grow up reading the signals adults send about whether their place is worth protecting. Communities that organize, even when they lose, teach the next generation that voice and place matter. That lesson outlasts any single fight. #HumanTogether

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Dr. Wally | Let’s Human Together-Curious, Reflective, Vulnerable @drwally.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

The irony is hard to miss: a Court signaling we’ve moved past race, while state after state moves to redraw who gets heard. People notice when the stated principle and the lived experience don’t match. And that gap doesn’t erode trust quietly. It erodes with a crescendo. #HumanTogether

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Dr. Wally | Let’s Human Together-Curious, Reflective, Vulnerable @drwally.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

The days when everything hurts and you still don’t give up, that’s persistence doing its quiet work. You don’t have to be okay to keep going. Being witnessed on the hard days is part of how we keep walking. #HumanTogether

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Dr. Wally | Let’s Human Together-Curious, Reflective, Vulnerable @drwally.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

The job of certifying an election isn’t supposed to be partisan. It’s supposed to be boring. When it stops being boring, something’s wrong. #HumanTogether

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Dr. Wally | Let’s Human Together-Curious, Reflective, Vulnerable @drwally.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Every mother I know is doing more than one person should carry. That’s not a personal failing. It’s what happens when a society treats care as private. Today, gratitude for moms. #HumanTogether

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Dr. Wally | Let’s Human Together-Curious, Reflective, Vulnerable @drwally.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Supreme Court: “We don’t live in a racist society anymore” Legislatures, immediately: “let’s sort voters by race and draw the lines accordingly.” The evidence against the ruling arrived faster than the ink dried on it. We need to #HumanTogether

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Dr. Wally | Let’s Human Together-Curious, Reflective, Vulnerable @drwally.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

The cruelest part: people had no chance to protect their families because the information was kept from them. Choice requires knowledge. When institutions decide what we’re allowed to know about our own water, our own bodies, they take something more than health, they take agency. #HumanTogether

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Dr. Wally | Let’s Human Together-Curious, Reflective, Vulnerable @drwally.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

When people grow up learning their vote is decorative, civic trust doesn’t just dip, it atrophies across a generation. “Safe” districts teach disengagement. The cost shows up decades later, in who shows up at all. #HumanTogether

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Dr. Wally | Let’s Human Together-Curious, Reflective, Vulnerable @drwally.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Public health works when people trust it. Trust is built through honesty, transparency, and showing up, not slogan and not slick doubt-merchants. Pediatricians who keep showing up for kids and families are doing that quiet, essential work. We need a lot more of it. #HumanTogether

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Dr. Wally | Let’s Human Together-Curious, Reflective, Vulnerable @drwally.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

UToledo grad here. Regional universities aren’t redundant. They’re how a kid from a working-class family gets a shot. The real story isn’t “too many universities,” it’s state support has dropped from ~75% of operating budgets to ~22%. We didn’t outgrow these places. We defunded them. #HumanTogether

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Dr. Wally | Let’s Human Together-Curious, Reflective, Vulnerable @drwally.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Few things shape whether people feel they belong in a democracy like knowing their community has a real voice in who represents it. The harm of narrowing that voice reaches well past one election. #HumanTogether

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Dr. Wally | Let’s Human Together-Curious, Reflective, Vulnerable @drwally.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Watch this and you see it: mobility isn’t just wheels. It’s the person who fitted the cart, the friend running alongside, the community that decided this dog gets to feel sand and salt air too. Joy like this is built. #HumanTogether

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Dr. Wally | Let’s Human Together-Curious, Reflective, Vulnerable @drwally.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Workers Memorial Day matters because safety isn’t a perk. It’s the foundation. When people feel safe at work, families stay whole, communities stay strong, and dignity stays intact. Honoring those we’ve lost means building workplaces where everyone gets to go home. #HumanTogether

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Dr. Wally | Let’s Human Together-Curious, Reflective, Vulnerable @drwally.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Decades of developmental science are clear: children learn safety, regulation, and new skills through connection and predictable support. Not pain. Aversive shock doesn’t teach. It conditions fear in kids who often can’t tell us they’re hurting. We can do better. They deserve better. #HumanTogether

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Dr. Wally | Let’s Human Together-Curious, Reflective, Vulnerable @drwally.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Exactly. A child’s nervous system can’t toggle that fast … so it stops toggling. That flatness we mistake for “doing okay” is often the cost. #HumanTogether

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Dr. Wally | Let’s Human Together-Curious, Reflective, Vulnerable @drwally.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

The grief in that last line is the part I sit with too. Experiences don’t reliably change minds. Relationships do. Which is why the work is slow, and why showing up for each other matters more than any single moment of horror ever will. #HumanTogether

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Dr. Wally | Let’s Human Together-Curious, Reflective, Vulnerable @drwally.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Resilience is built the same way at every scale: through relationships that hold under pressure. A child, a family, a town, a country. Societies that survive shocks are the ones that practiced cooperation in calm weather. Greed has begun to replace that practice, and we feel the cost. #HumanTogether

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Dr. Wally | Let’s Human Together-Curious, Reflective, Vulnerable @drwally.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Last night a room of adults experienced what children in this country experience on ordinary Tuesdays. Most of those adults went home to debriefs and people trained to help. The kids go back to math class. We’re asking children to carry what we cannot carry ourselves. #HumanTogether

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Dr. Wally | Let’s Human Together-Curious, Reflective, Vulnerable @drwally.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

t still stuns me how many smart people talk about AI like it’s a fad to wait out. It changes how we know, what feels true, who we trust, whether the thought in our head is ours. That isn’t a tech story. It’s a human one. And we’re already inside it. #HumanTogether

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Dr. Wally | Let’s Human Together-Curious, Reflective, Vulnerable @drwally.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Both things can be true. AI literacy will matter for these kids, and a child’s developing mind needs friction, boredom, and the experience of figuring something out alone. The risk isn’t that AI distracts them. It’s that it does the thinking they were supposed to do themselves. #HumanTogether

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Dr. Wally | Let’s Human Together-Curious, Reflective, Vulnerable @drwally.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

There’s a difference between asking honest questions and tearing down the people who spent their lives finding answers. One builds understanding. The other leaves children unprotected and calls it freedom. We protect each other. That’s the deal. #HumanTogether

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