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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 1d

Bookshop has free shipping now! So imma recommend some books for you!

A thread. 1/x 🧵

First of all, this came out yesterday literally by the wonderful @kaitlincurtice.bsky.social

Everything Is a Story: Reclaiming the Power of Stories to Heal and Shape Our Lives

Reclaiming the Power of Stories to Heal and Shape Our Lives

bookshop.org

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Dan @danxduran.bsky.social · 3d

If you'd asked me which celebrity would posthumously unveil a list of people she wanted fired into the sun, I would not have guessed Jane Goodall

KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 4d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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Kate Raworth @kateraworth.bsky.social · 7d

Big Doughnutty News.
Just out in Nature: the all-new 2025 Doughnut. Transformed from a single-year snapshot to an annual global monitor of 21st century social & ecological thriving. Available to all in an open-access paper by @andrewlfanning.bsky.social and me. 🧵 1/
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Martin John @martinjohn.bsky.social · 8d

Beyond 94 is an interactive website that keeps track of the Canadian government’s progress on Truth and Reconciliation.

How far have we come in ten years?

Not far enough.

www.cbc.ca

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Dr. Dawn Wiseman @sciencedawn.bsky.social · 13d

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divine beastmode @gunstreet.bsky.social · 13d

the post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.

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Dr. Dawn Wiseman @sciencedawn.bsky.social · 14d

List 3 things you can talk about for 3 hours with no prep.

1) Approaches to K-12 science teaching
2) The manner in which provincial policy on integration of Indigenous ways of knowing, being, and doing in science teaching and learning varies from practice
3) Science curricula in Canada

Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 14d

List 3 things you can talk about for 3 hours with no prep.

(I'd like a blackboard though)

1) Space archaeology
2) Cultural heritage management
3) Stone tools
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Lars Fischer @fischblog.bsky.social · 14d

List 3 things you can talk about for 3 hours with no prep.

(What people actually mean is giving a professional lecture about it. Just saying)

1) Chemistry & Physics of Whisky
2) Infectious diseases
3) origin of life / chemical evolution

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Dr. Dawn Wiseman @sciencedawn.bsky.social · 15d

Hahahahahahahahah

Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · 15d

A painting of a bird beside the text "Oh joy, another dipshit who thinks he understands my area of expertise"

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Daniel Kennedy @fliglman.bsky.social · 18d

They should make an international franchise out of Murder She Wrote called Murder She Translated, where Jessica Fletcher's various translators in different countries also happen to solve crimes in their spare time

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Dr. Dawn Wiseman @sciencedawn.bsky.social · 20d

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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 20d

Canadians are taking a big step back from the U.S. — and here's the data to prove it

Travel is cratering, exports are down and consumer habits have been upended #Canada

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www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Canadians are taking a big step back from the U.S. — and here's the data to prove it | CBC News

In the weeks after U.S. President Donald Trump sparked a trade war with his punishing tariffs, Prime Minister Mark Carney said Canada’s "old relationship" with the U.S. would be "over" soon — and now ...

www.cbc.ca

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Plague Poems @plaguepoems.bsky.social · 20d

I asked the historian,
who studies the dark times,
how it has come to this
and she replied:
it’s because we have failed
to take care of each other.

So I asked her
if we will get through this
and she replied:
if we do
it will be because we
took care of each other.

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Beth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social · 21d

You know things are rough when the AAUP's advice on how to use social media is just "set all your accounts to private."

Kevin Reuning @reuning.bsky.social · 21d

The @aaup.org just shared guidance for academic workers on how to protect themselves online www.aaup.org/news/advisor...

Advisory to Academic Workers

In a moment when it is becoming increasingly difficult to predict the consequences of our online speech and choices, the AAUP and Faculty First Responders are issuing guidance to AAUP members and othe...

www.aaup.org

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Dr. Dawn Wiseman @sciencedawn.bsky.social · 23d

Congratulations!

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Prof Nisreen Alwan @nisreenalwan.bsky.social · 26d

What’s happening to the higher education sector in the States is absolutely shocking and should be a warning to all of us academics across the globe. A warning not to be scared and shut up but to stay alert and ready to uphold and defend our academic freedom.

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Dr. Dawn Wiseman @sciencedawn.bsky.social · 28d

Today in science methods there was an AHA moment where something they’ve been stuggling with fell into place in an instant and I saw all the lightbulbs turn on. And that is why I do this.

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tamara nopper @tamaranopper.bsky.social · Sep 3

If you don't already teach Dr. Martin Luther King honoring Dr. W.E.B. Du Bois on what would've been his 100th birthday, I recommend it.

King discusses Du Bois's scholarship (like Black Reconstruction), his organizing, his love, and defends his communism.

credo.library.umass.edu/view/full/mu...

Honoring Dr. Du Bois, ca. 1970

credo.library.umass.edu

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Dr. Dawn Wiseman @sciencedawn.bsky.social · Sep 4

This term has started hard and fast. Thank goodness for my lovely little science methods course

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bree speech absolutist 🇨🇦 @goose.ski · Sep 4

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Jerry Boyle @jecboyle.bsky.social · Aug 30

Chicago: Buckle up for the invasion. Save this graphic. We’re at your service. 🫡

4 panel graphic of NLG Chicago services for activists.

NATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD CHICAGO
LEGAL SUPPORT
HOTLINE
872-4NLG-Chi
(872-465-4244)

NLG LEGAL OBSERVERS
To request Legal Observers at your action, email:
chicago.lo.program@gmail.com.
Include the following in the email:
- Organizing Group
- Date/Time/Location of the Action
- Type of Action
- An on-the-ground contact person for the action

GETTING HELP FOR SOMEONE ARRESTED AT
A PROTEST
If someone was arrested at the action and is currently being held in police custody, call the NLG Chicago Mass Defense Hotline at:
872-4NLG-CHI
(872-465-4244)
NG Chicago is working in coordination with the Cook County Public Defender's Office to ensure that
protesters in police custody are able to speak with an attorney.

IF YOU'VE BEEN CONTACTED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT
If you or anyone you know receives any notice from law enforcement, asking you to speak with them, tell them you would like to speak with an attorney, and call the NLG Hotline at:
872-4NLG-CHI
(872-465-4244)

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Dr. Dawn Wiseman @sciencedawn.bsky.social · Sep 3

I’ve gone from “walk-public transit almost everywhere” Montrealer to “you can’t get there from here, need to drive everywhere” more rural resident, and being looked like I’m crazy because “no, I don’t think it’s more wonderful living here when I need 60-90 minutes to take a bus 6km to campus”

Ken McLeod @kenmcld.bsky.social · Sep 2

“These results suggest that physical activity levels are directly influenced by the built environment and not simply a product of personal preferences or other types of selection effects”

If we really want to make America healthy again, walkability should be a priority

Timo Hämäläinen @urbanistimo.bsky.social · Aug 23

The obvious is official: walkable neighborhoods increase walking. An American large cellphone data study across 1,609 cities shows that moving to a walkable city can increase your daily steps by over 1000.

www.cnu.org/publicsquare...

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Dr. Dawn Wiseman @sciencedawn.bsky.social · Aug 31

Montreal should be so lucky

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Dr. Dawn Wiseman @sciencedawn.bsky.social · Aug 30

I track my unpaid hours

Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · Aug 30

Airlines aren't the only sector where women work unpaid hours

Healthcare, education and other woman-dominated fields are often underfunded, experts say #Canada

www.cbc.ca/radio/day6/a...