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NPR @npr.org · 02/08/2025
The prize is one of the most prestigious awards in literature. This year's crop of nominees includes two debut novelists going up against a previous Booker Prize winner.
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Here are the 13 books that made the Booker Prize longlist
The prize is one of the most prestigious awards in literature. This year's crop of nominees includes two debut novelists going up against a previous Booker Prize winner.
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Just stop using the planet guzzling plagiarism machine altogether
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University of Illinois Press @illinoispress.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
"Radical Publications in Art + Design Education," an #OpenAccess special issue of Visual Arts Research Vol. 51, Iss. 1, is guest edited by @courtniewolfgang.bsky.social , Mindi Rhoades, Veronica Hicks, and @lllart.bsky.social‬ . Read on @projectmuse.bsky.social : muse.jhu.edu/issue/54813
Cover of Visual Arts Research, Volume 51, No. 1.
Pink background with list of editors in black text, three teal rectangular prisms behind title.
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Mitsy Smile @mitsysmile.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Why does the data collection time make me so tired? 1). Is it a normal feeling/ fatigue which everyone experiences? Or 2). Might be seasonal? Or 3). Am I abnormal to feel this fatigue during the data collection? 2.5 weeks out of 10 WK to go. I hope I am doing the right/innovative/ good job.
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riikkahohti.bsky.social @riikkahohti.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Look at this PhD opportunity with the best of people!
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Michael Salter @mike-salter.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Bluesky boosts safety tools as user numbers continue to rise www.independent.co.uk/space/intern...
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Bluesky boosts safety tools as user numbers continue to rise
The social media site has seen its user numbers more than double between November and January as users continue to flee Elon Musk’s X.
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Mitsy Smile @mitsysmile.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
I cannot more than AGREE with what @ilonamaher01.bsky.social says
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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 28/01/2025
The #Holocaust was the first widely photographed mass atrocity. #LastSeen project collects images of Nazi deportations (1938–1945), often the last photos of victims—some even taken by Jewish individuals. buff.ly/3EdyAna (Wolf Gruner @dornsife.usc.edu) 🗃️ #HolocaustRememberanceDay
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 17/01/2025
Fed up with Meta? Avoiding Instagram or Facebook isn’t enough to stop Meta from harvesting and profiting from your private information. Here’s how to limit Meta’s ability to monetize your personal data.
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Mad at Meta? Don't Let Them Collect and Monetize Your Personal Data
If you’re fed up with Meta right now, you’re not alone. Meta tracks you across millions of websites and apps and its business model relies on your data. If you want to limit Meta’s ability to collect ...
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 20/01/2025
‘Knitting is a lifeline’: young people turn to craft to cast off gloom
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‘Knitting is a lifeline’: young people turn to craft to cast off gloom
A new generation of enthusiasts say they are putting down their phones and picking up needles Eleanor Eden, 24, recently swapped a “pretty chronic social media addition” with crochet and knitting. During the Covid pandemic, it became “easy to spend all…
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Devin Heroux @devinheroux.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
STILL SUMMER IN THE WINTER Another honour in the year of Summer McIntosh. Truly in a league of her own. The swimming sensation has been named Canadian Press female athlete of the year. www.cbc.ca/sports/olymp...
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Summer McIntosh wins CP female athlete of year in overwhelming vote | CBC Sports
No explanation required was the consensus among voters for The Canadian Press award for 2024 female athlete of the year. Summer McIntosh was the overwhelming choice among sports editors, producers and...
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Holly Guise ❄️ @hollyguise.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
While on holiday break I’m really enjoying the depth, reflections, insights, and even footnotes from “Undrowed: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals” by @alexispauline.bsky.social Reading Chap 1 as an Inupiaq woman I feel sad for the Bering Sea Cows made extinct by colonial extraction.
My hand holding the book “Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals” by Alexis Pauline Gumbs. The book is blue with some yellow font, the background is a blanket.
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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 26/12/2024
Menopause treatments can help with hot flashes and other symptoms – but many people aren't aware of the latest advances
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Menopause treatments can help with hot flashes and other symptoms – but many people aren’t aware of the latest advances
The number of patients prescribed hormonal therapy plummeted after 2002, due to findings experts have since questioned. With better understanding, more and more people are using these treatments.
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Devin Heroux @devinheroux.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
GOLD FOR CANADA 🇨🇦 A WORLD RECORD HAT TRICK Swimming sensation Summer McIntosh makes it three-for-three at short course worlds by winning gold and breaking the World Record in the 400m IM. This is McIntosh’s 6th World Record: three long course, three short course.
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The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · 10/12/2024
Wasted goods, wasted lives: our #TSRWaste issue, edited by @asiyaislam.bsky.social , draws on thinkers from Françoise Vergès to Zygmunt Bauman to take a closer look at food apps, sanitation workers and fishing communities, floods of fast fashion in Ghana, and much more. buff.ly/4iolWBf
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Mitsy Smile @mitsysmile.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Interesting to read this because I have heard hearing loss will become causes of dementia. So being able to listen and hear sounds and conversations will be the key to activate our brain.
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Nicholas Ng-A-Fook @fooknconversation.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
#FooknConversationEP57 with colleagues at @UBCOkanagan about their Co-Curricular-Making SSHRC Partnership research with the Syilx Okanagan Nation, different publicly funded institutions, teacher education, and local K-12 public schooling district. On next walk, take a listen: tinyurl.com/4e8w4ybb
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Mitsy Smile @mitsysmile.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
great news!
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Mitsy Smile @mitsysmile.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
The paper's popularity still goes wild. This one was published in 2020 after completing my year-long walking/making this project. The visual essay is short and poetic. I hope you'll enjoy it. opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/atj/vol5/iss...
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Walking and Dwelling: Creating an Atelier in Nature
This paper comprises a description of an exploration of how the author’s daily walking reflected the emergence of an a/r/tographical living inquiry that engendered a profound sense of dwelling and lin...
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Mitsy Smile @mitsysmile.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Taylor & Frances messaged me that my article "Radical Dialogues and Slow Pedagogy in Early Childhood Art Education," which I published in 2021, now has 50 more FREE ONLINE COPIES. www.tandfonline.com/eprint/MZ7I5...
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Radical dialogue and slow pedagogy in early childhood art education
This research aimed to examine the dialogical engagement of early childhood educators in an artmaking space. A descriptive-qualitative research model was used for this phenomenological case study. ...
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Mitsy Smile @mitsysmile.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Taylor & Frances messaged me that my article "A Dialogical Art Making Space: Cultivating a Pedagogy of Listening in Early Childhood Art Education," which I published in 2021, now has 50 more FREE ONLINE COPIES. www.tandfonline.com/eprint/WFCHK...
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A Dialogical Artmaking Space: Cultivating a Pedagogy of Listening in Early Childhood Art Education
Early childhood educators have been encouraged to pedagogically engage with children, materials, and their given environments. However, neither dialogue nor the creation of a space for practicing t...
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Mitsy Smile @mitsysmile.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
"Everything is Country. To Aboriginal people, fossils are artifacts. (...) Our artifacts come from Mother Earth; a fossil comes from Mother Earth. I come from the Earth. I walk the Earth. I die, I go back to the Earth. The Earth can continue without us. We can't continue without the Earth."
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Mitsy Smile @mitsysmile.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
my Sunday meditation reading/ listening
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Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 01/12/2024
“Anyone can be a victim of ableism if they do not follow societal norms that our culture sets for people’s bodies and minds. In fact, we need to realize how corrosive the oppression of ableism is on our culture & society.” From @communicationfirst.bsky.social: communicationfirst.org/dr-lateef-mc...
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“How Ableism Impacts People Who Use AAC”
Presentation by Dr. Lateef McLeod
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Mitsy Smile @mitsysmile.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
I have needed to revisit some of his work lately. Listening to his thoughts has reinvited me to revisit my walking-making year project (2018-2019). "I couldn't be perfect, but concentration(...)never achieve what I want(...)materials are [my] vehicle for understanding the place." vimeo.com/31100598
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Andy Goldsworthy's Wood Line
Wood Line, a newly completed work by the artist Andy Goldsworthy in the Presidio of San Francisco, can be found in a grove of eucalyptus along Presidio Blvd, just…
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Mitsy Smile @mitsysmile.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
1. To improve your writing, read more. To improve your thinking, write more. To improve your storytelling, present more. To improve your energy, rest more. To improve your understanding, teach more. To improve your network, give more. To improve your happiness, appreciate more. (Credit: Unknown)
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Lizzie @lizziemaughan.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
My first Conversation article. theconversation.com/trans-youth-...
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Trans youth are already among Australia’s most marginalised people. The social media ban could make this worse
Young trans people in Australia have much higher rates of suicide, mental health struggles and anxiety disorders – but many find refuge in social media.
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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Researchers working in critical edtech studies - just over 2 weeks to send proposals for our conference in Zurich next June. Help build a community of critical edtech research. Especially hope it appeals to doctoral and early career researchers www.de.ed.ac.uk/news/call-ab...
Decorative image of a crowd of people on steps, with a graphic of a raised hand pressing a green target in the foreground
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JoAlbinClark @joalbinclark.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
There is a cracking research report from Shaddai Tembo and Simon Bateson as part of their Froebel Trust funded project, find out more here www.froebel.org.uk/research-lib...
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Diversity in Unity: Developing an anti-racist framework within…
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Mitsy Smile @mitsysmile.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Great Opportunities for Graduate and Undergraduate Students Conducting Early Childhood ART Education at the NAEA 2025
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The Conversation Canada @ca.theconversation.com · 26/11/2024
COP29: Climate change could kill millions — and world leaders must work to limit fatalities
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COP29: Climate change could kill millions — and world leaders must work to limit fatalities
The 1,000-ton rule states that a person is killed every time humanity burns 1,000 tons of fossil carbon. Minimizing the deaths caused by climate change should be a global priority.
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Mitsy Smile @mitsysmile.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
"I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood." (Ian Williams, April 2024) www.cbc.ca/arts/q/polit...
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'Politeness constrains us': Massey lecturer Ian Williams on developing our own opinions amid cancel culture | CBC Arts
The award-winning Canadian writer and professor has been named this year’s Massey lecturer. He sits down with Q’s Tom Power to tell us why he’s chosen the topic of conversations for his cross-country lecture series.
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Professor EJ Renold @ejrenold.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Join us next May 2025 for the International Gender and Education Association Conference 🦋 www.mmu.ac.uk/about-us/fac...
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Re-Routing and Re-Imagining Gender and Education conference
The 21st Gender in Education Association conference. Discover the themes being discussed, key dates and how to get involved.
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JoAlbinClark @joalbinclark.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Thought provoking reading from Jane Merewether, Jo Pollitt and Mindy Blaise #earlychildhood ://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15290824.2024.2403757#abstract "Children were concerned for the fate of the building, the land on which it stood, and the myriad others it sheltered."
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Young Children Moving through Ecological Anxiety and Grief: Dancing with Demolition
As the extent of planetary unraveling becomes increasingly apparent, scholars are beginning to document responses to the loss of ecological systems, mass extinctions, and climate change. However, t...
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60 Minutes @60minutes.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Lesley Stahl reports on the growing market of “humans in the loop” — workers around the world who help train AI for big American tech companies. They say they face poor working conditions, low pay, and undertreated psychological trauma. Sunday on 60 ⏱️
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Evelien Geerts @egeertsphd.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
I will be in very cool & philosophically outstanding company on December 5 during the Contact Zones event, organized by @ombretarragnat.bsky.social & The Posthumanities Hub! With Prof @cdaigle.bsky.social & others. For more information, see the post below. #posthuman #philosophy #Levinas #Haraway
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carrie karsgaard, phd @carkar.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Call for papers! special issue of Youth on “Politics of disruption: Youth climate activisms and education” www.mdpi.com/journal/yout...
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Politics of Disruption: Youth Climate Activisms and Education
Special Issue in journal Youth: Politics of Disruption: Youth Climate Activisms and Education
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J. Childhood Studies @childhoodjourn.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
#CallForPapers Re-engaging the Journal of Childhood Studies Special Issue - Manuscript proposals are due January 31, 2025. Full CFP here: bit.ly/3BXpVEb
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Mitsy Smile @mitsysmile.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
My co-editors, Jo and Gigi, and I signed the book contract with the Routlegue today 🎉 We are thrilled to pursue this book project with the fabulous contributors. We plan to publish the book in 2026. Stay in tune!
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