Dr. Dawn Wiseman @sciencedawn.bsky.social · 7hWhen you know exactly what stepping into a scene feels like 100 1
Reposted by Dr. Dawn WisemanAnnesley Studio @annesleystudio.bsky.social · 7hAlberta Landscape # 9 Your daily inspiration to vote Oct. 19 to keep this country united! 🇨🇦 (today is the last day for advanced voting!) There is a serene and simple beauty of Alberta prairie in winter...1/2 12811 28
Reposted by Dr. Dawn WisemanMinas Karamanis @minaskar.bsky.social · 10hAbsolutely worth reading. 0268 26
Reposted by Dr. Dawn WisemanKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 15/10/2026I would take more seriously the people promoting the idea of AI consciousness if they first materially grappled with the (much more obvious) consciousness of animals and how that affects our moral obligations to them. 53953637 4K
Reposted by Dr. Dawn WisemanJoseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 14/10/2026My heart breaks for mathematicians whose lives and careers are being destroyed by AI — and especially this PhD student, who doesn’t even know he is a poet 8174261502 7.4K
Reposted by Dr. Dawn WisemanColton the fish sp💀💀ker🐟🪴🏕️🐝 @fishsqueezer.bsky.social · 14/10/2026You guys...the frickin' wolves have figured out that lightly scorched moose stumbling out of a wildfire have the best terroir. They're positively selecting for active fires in NE Alberta. They manage risk/reward by hunting the burn flanks (avoiding the hot front) & staying by water! #SciComm🤯🧪🦊🌎besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.comPlaying with fire: Wolf response to active wildfires, fire fronts and smokeThis study is one of the first, to our knowledge, to explicitly examine fine-scale behavioural responses of a large carnivore to actively burning wildfires, fire fronts and smoke. The study found tha... 57114 71
Reposted by Dr. Dawn WisemanPolling Canada @canadianpolling.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Alberta - "How concerned are you about the possibility of American influence or interference in discussions around Alberta's separation and the upcoming referendum?" Concerned: 61% Not Concerned: 31% Leger / Oct 4, 2026 46216 62
Reposted by Dr. Dawn WisemanMary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 04/10/2026First-past-the-post is a democratic abomination. It's an insane way to hold elections and the politicians who continually refuse to get rid of it are selfish assholes. Every single one of them. 16114 61
Reposted by Dr. Dawn WisemanParksy @pfparks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026edmontonjournal.com/... Excellent Op-Ed - All Albertans and Canadians should read it 👇 "When my time matters most, will my place in line be determined by how urgently I need care — or by how much I can afford to pay for it? That is a question worth our time."edmontonjournal.comOpinion: Will Alberta's dual-practice model cut surgery wait times — or only for the rich?When my time matters most, will my place in line be determined by how urgently I need care — or by how much I can afford to pay for it? 410657 106
Reposted by Dr. Dawn WisemanKelly @kehlee.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Indigenous PEI sells them (indigenouspei.ca), designed and made by Mi'kmaw artists. The same tees are also available at the UPEI Bookstore! #PEI #Epekwitkindigenouspei.caIndigenous PEIFor over ten thousand years, we – the Epekwitnewaq Mi’kmaq (Mi’kmaq of PEI) – have called Epektwik our home. Come, explore Indigenous PEI and discover how our culture and way of life have been shaped ... 2144 14
Reposted by Dr. Dawn WisemanTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Please try to reclaim your precious precious attention, at all costs. Do puzzles. Take walks without a phone. Dear god, try to read, almost anything that isn’t a manifesto will really do. You are going to need your brain. 52529662 2.5K
Reposted by Dr. Dawn WisemanDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 12/09/2026I resigned from ExxonMobil today. I spent the last three years doing fossil fuel extraction research at both BP and ExxonMobil. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing to maximize extraction while the window to act closes, and gambling with our lives. More below. 147137394905 13.7K
Reposted by Dr. Dawn WisemanAndrew Robinson (no, not Garak) @andrewr.bsky.social · 07/09/2026RT if you’ve never had a tab of ChatGPT open, ever. (Or Claude and certainly not Grok) 45240 52
Reposted by Dr. Dawn Wisemanderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 06/09/2026this is the kind of design costume designers make to tell you who are the bad guys in a space movie 1272207193993 20.7K
Reposted by Dr. Dawn WisemanKelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Rabies is 100% fatal if untreated. Please help spread the word about the exposure at the Farm Adventures mobile petting zoo in North Carolina. The vaccine is incredibly effective and will save your life. Also…. Rabies at a petting zoo!?!? www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...nbcnews.comFour baby goats at mobile petting zoo in North Carolina test positive for rabiesThe North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services said the petting zoo held events involving children and elderly people between July 28 and Thursday. 7223441761 2.3K
Reposted by Dr. Dawn WisemanNiigaan Sinclair @niigaanwewidam.bsky.social · 30/08/2026In this weekend’s @winnipegfreepress.com column, I openly wonder if Carney understands the implications of what he actually did. www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/2026/0...winnipegfreepress.comOpinion: Carney’s defence of Lake Ontario carries enormous weightFor centuries on Turtle Island (North America), explorers, map makers, and political leaders have erased Indigenous place names and substituted them — more often than not — with political, ethnocentri... 31813 18
Reposted by Dr. Dawn WisemanJoel @itsjoels.bsky.social · 25/08/2026This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry. 7243893811283 38.9K
Reposted by Dr. Dawn WisemanGeorge Pearkes @peark.es · 25/08/2026Is it possible to be more juiceless than this 1114237592 4.2K
Reposted by Dr. Dawn WisemanAlex Usher @alexusherhesa.bsky.social · 25/08/20262025-26: the first year Canadian universities employed more tenured/TT professors over the age of 70 than under the age of 35. 22165102 165
Reposted by Dr. Dawn WisemanRebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle.bsky.social · 21/08/2026The exclusion of Indigenous communities from decision-making during emergencies is showing up in real time. This season, wildfires have hit 81 First Nations and displaced 9,131 people.ictnews.orgCanada’s wildfire season is taking a heavy toll on First Nations - ICTThousands have been forced from their homes as Indigenous leaders raise concerns about firefighting resources, emergency assistance, and who decides when communities are safe. 39460 94
Reposted by Dr. Dawn Wiseman🔫🎃Scott Martian Invaders 🎃🛼 @youcaughtscott.com · 20/08/2026All signs point to that, thankfully.ctvnews.caThree in four Canadians wouldn’t buy U.S. booze if it returned to shelves: NanosCanadian sentiment against buying U.S. alcohol is higher than a year ago, with new polling done by Nanos exclusively for CTV News showing just under three-quarters of Canadians are likely not buying t... 210417 104
Reposted by Dr. Dawn WisemanTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 01/08/2026I like this notetaking example. it is a good case of how gender works. Notetaking has never been about producing a transcript. It is a bureaucratic skill in the 20th c. organixarion because it is SENSEMAKING. Those women socialized to take notes? They have been doing men’s metacognition for them 232984738 3K
Reposted by Dr. Dawn WisemanKieran Hurley @kieranhurley.bsky.social · 14/08/2026This is how the BBC was reporting on Jason Arday two days ago 16687146 687
Reposted by Dr. Dawn Wisemanaaron boothby @ellipticalnight.bsky.social · 15/08/2026"why didn't we know about this?" we didn't care, didn't listen, and killed or removed the people who would have told us, because colonial occupation is about erasure and forgetting and "discovery" only applies to territory to be stolen 13514 35
Dr. Dawn Wiseman @sciencedawn.bsky.social · 14/08/2026The School of Education at Bishop’s University has an emergency posting for two fall courses. The courses are for in-person delivery. Please share within your own networks. Deadline is August 19, 2026 at noon. working.ubishops.ca/job/school-o...working.ubishops.caSchool of Education – Part-time courses – Fall 2026 – Working at Bishop's 120 2
Reposted by Dr. Dawn WisemanJe Hyeon | ABOLISH the polICE @naptime.theolive.garden · 12/08/2026along with checking out Gabrielle’s project another chance to see some of the many ways people are answering this moment please check out one million experiments (the Signe Harriday episode is my fave but I may be biased bc we used to swim together)millionexperiments.comOne Million ExperimentsExploring snapshots of community-based projects that expand our ideas about what keeps us safe. 043 4
Reposted by Dr. Dawn WisemanBrandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Went to parent-teacher night at my kid's middle school this evening and got told that the district is now moving away from technology in the classroom and going back to pen and paper. I love that this excellent news of rebellion came on the same day as Zuckerberg's AI supremacist screed.404media.coMark Zuckerberg Posts Deranged 6,500-Word Essay About Giving Everyone AI Superintelligence"The future is for everyone," Zuckerberg says, describing future that is primarily good for Meta. 401794259 1.8K
Reposted by Dr. Dawn WisemanLaura Phillips @lauraphillips.bsky.social · 01/08/2026Sir #DavidAttenborough “Things are going to get worse. This is the new extinction. We are in terrible, terrible trouble and the longer we wait to do something about it, the worse it is going to get." #ClimateEmergencyvox.comDavid Attenborough, the voice of Our Planet: “Things are going to get worse”The voice of some of the most stunning nature documentaries ever made is pessimistic about the future of wildlife on earth. 27293124107 9.3K
Reposted by Dr. Dawn WisemanKris Nordstrom @krisnordstrom.bsky.social · 31/07/2026"Researchers at the University of Chicago studied the impact of removing police and shifting to restorative practices at CPS high schools and found declines in school-based arrests and high-level discipline violations. Students said they felt a stronger sense of safety and belonging."chalkbeat.orgChicago to slash funding earmarked for schools that replaced police with restorative justice programsAt the same time CPS is cutting funding for Whole School Safety Plans, the district plans a new push to help all schools implement a 2024 policy that requires social-emotional learning, maintaining at... 111755 117
Reposted by Dr. Dawn WisemanIan Milligan @ianmilligan1.bsky.social · 31/07/2026"Come to Canada, we're a stable, serious, non-politicized place to do science." (And then we name the program after an overt partisan) A future government looking to cut research funding now gets to frame it as scrubbing Liberal branding. Why hand them that? OK, soapbox put away now. 062 6
Reposted by Dr. Dawn WisemanTara A Pierce @restoringsustainability.com · 27/07/2026Deb Wright, author of Future Sea, started the 100x50 movement. Given the literal language of UNCLOS, she proposes we flip the script: instead of exploiting 70% of the ocean, we protect 100% and create designated commercial areas instead of marine protected areas 💖 what do you think? 011 1
Reposted by Dr. Dawn Wiseman⚜️ Royal Blood ⚜️ @royalblood1.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Absolutely insane shot by Guzman Ramos ✨ 926534790 6.5K
Reposted by Dr. Dawn WisemanDr. Emily Friedman @ecfriedman.com · 24/07/2026I think a lot about how many fields are built on this kind of reciprocity (I peer review things because someone did it for me, & someday I will need reviews, etc) & the current hellscape means we start counting the cost for fear of being left hollowed out. Which sucks. 1304 30
Reposted by Dr. Dawn WisemanDavid Eby @davidebybc.bsky.social · 21/07/2026There is not a chance in hell that US alcohol is going back on the shelf in B.C. 41591181 591
Reposted by Dr. Dawn WisemanJohnnie Jae @johnniejae.bsky.social · 17/07/2026I want people to understand the full impact of the devastation that First Nations in Canada are facing. It's NOT just that people and wildlife are losing their homes...it's the history that is being lost for generations to come. 3845082169 4.5K
Reposted by Dr. Dawn Wisemanphoenix @phoenix-rights.bsky.social · 16/07/2026really thinking about this tweet as i’ve been struggling to breathe through nausea for the last 5 hours 3160992357 6.1K
Reposted by Dr. Dawn Wisemanbree bird 🇨🇦 @goose.ski · 12/07/2026#topoli #toronto shooter is apparently still active, police are urging people to avoid the area 1155 15
Reposted by Dr. Dawn WisemanThe Hill Times @hilltimes.com · 07/07/2026Alberta contributing more annually to federal revenues than what it gets in return could be seen as a sign of strength, rather than a weakness, says Moshe Lander, a senior lecturer of economics with Concordia University. www.hilltimes.com/2026/07/06/t... 011 1
Reposted by Dr. Dawn WisemanMeade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 01/07/2026This is what it looks like to take wildlife collisions seriously. There are >40 wildlife overpasses and underpasses with fencing along the Trans-Canada Highway near Banff, Alberta. They’ve reduced wildlife-vehicle collisions by 80%, saving human & animal lives while promoting connected ecosystems. 191249310 1.2K
Reposted by Dr. Dawn WisemanDr. Elizabeth Sawin @bethsawin.bsky.social · 28/06/2026The leaders we need are already leading. They are weaving, connecting, designing, prototyping, proof of concepting, sheltering, nurturing, feeding, peace building, land caring, library protecting, public art-making. 28020 80
Reposted by Dr. Dawn WisemanNatalia (娜塔莉) @wrycritic.bsky.social · 14/06/2026There's sentiment that "education is too expensive & not worth it anymore" this is a lie, education is worth it, sciences and arts are a common societal good, not a scarce luxury for the privileged few. Education has been privatised & commodified, turned to product rather than a societal necessity. 8472174 472
Reposted by Dr. Dawn WisemanCount Melancholia @lillyh.bsky.social · 14/06/2026Meanwhile in Austr-, er, I mean Canada 😳 053 5
Reposted by Dr. Dawn WisemanKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 10/06/2026It's hard to be excited about the Artemis III mission announcements when the CEO of the company making one of the mission's rockets has spent his week inciting racial violence via his personal social media platform. 214141122946 14.1K
Reposted by Dr. Dawn WisemanRachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 11/06/2026There's an organized effort to make a racist movement mainstream in Canadian politics. That's why experts were so concerned to hear the pro-mass deportation group's leader attended one of Canada's largest Conservative conferences. In my latest piece for @thetyee.ca, I dig into this rising problem: 728284 282