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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.

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.

Just stop using the planet guzzling plagiarism machine altogether

Cover of Visual Arts Research, Volume 51, No. 1. Pink background with list of editors in black text, three teal rectangular prisms behind title.

"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

Warning: Canadian institutions are not immune to the authoritarian drift we are seeing in the US Complacency and political posturing are chipping away at the rule of law in Canada as well

Warning: Canadian institutions are not immune to the authoritarian drift we are seeing in the US www.canadianlawyermag.com/news/opinion...

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.

Look at this PhD opportunity with the best of people!

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.

Bluesky boosts safety tools as user numbers continue to rise www.independent.co.uk/space/intern...

I cannot more than AGREE with what @ilonamaher01.bsky.social says

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. https://buff.ly/3EdyAna (Wolf Gruner @dornsife.usc.edu) 🗃️ #HolocaustRememberanceDay

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 ...

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.

‘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…

‘Knitting is a lifeline’: young people turn to craft to cast off gloom

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...

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...

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.

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.

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.

Menopause treatments can help with hot flashes and other symptoms – but many people aren't aware of the latest advances

This is such a perfect tradition! I would love
to start the tradition, too!!

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.

Awe, I am so happy for you, Dr Lizzie 🩷!!
Congratulations 🎉🎉🎉

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

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.

#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

great news!

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...

Thank you so much 🩷

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. ...

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...

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...

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...

"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."

The Serviceberry: An Economy of Abundance – Robin Wall Kimmerer As Robin Wall Kimmerer harvests serviceberries alongside the birds, she considers the ethic of reciprocity that lies at the heart of the gift economy.

and this
emergencemagazine.org/essay/the-se...

my Sunday meditation reading/ listening

“How Ableism Impacts People Who Use AAC” Presentation by Dr. Lateef McLeod

“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...

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…

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