Alanna Mitchell
@alannamitchell.bsky.social
Journalist, author, playwright. A lotta science. Some physics.
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October 16, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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I love this!! Just a terrific story. Thank you @alanburdick.bsky.social
I learned a lot about Fresnel lenses for this amazing series of lighthouse photographs by Michal Siarek: nyti.ms/41qkFCN
A Voyage to Bring Norway’s Lighthouses Into the 21st Century
More than 2,000 navigational beacons, big and small, oversee the nation’s 60,000-mile-long coast. Now they need an upgrade.
nyti.ms
August 5, 2025 at 8:44 PM
I love this!! Just a terrific story. Thank you @alanburdick.bsky.social
How fun is this!! 🧪
It's Canadian Ocean Week! I love drawing marine life 😊🦑🦭
Detail of a colouring page about the Pacific Discovery Tank at the Canadian Museum of Nature, in Ottawa.
#WorldOceansDay2024 #KidLitArtist #AnimalFacts #kidlitart #Kidlit #KidsBooks #oceanweekcanada #oceanweek #marinelife #seastar
Detail of a colouring page about the Pacific Discovery Tank at the Canadian Museum of Nature, in Ottawa.
#WorldOceansDay2024 #KidLitArtist #AnimalFacts #kidlitart #Kidlit #KidsBooks #oceanweekcanada #oceanweek #marinelife #seastar
June 5, 2025 at 1:53 PM
How fun is this!! 🧪
This is Ocean Week, culminating in World Ocean Day on Sunday, June 8. As goes the ocean, so goes the planet. Ocean week events can help people fall in love with a key part of our life support system. 🧪 #Oceanweekcanada #semainedelocean #bluecanada #bleucanada #celebratetheocean
🌊 Ocean Week Canada | Semaine de l’océan Canada
📅 June 1–8 juin 2025 Host an event | Organisez un événement
🔗 oceanweek.ca
#OceanWeekCanada #SemaineDeLOcéan #BlueCanada #BleuCanada #CelebrateTheOcean
📅 June 1–8 juin 2025 Host an event | Organisez un événement
🔗 oceanweek.ca
#OceanWeekCanada #SemaineDeLOcéan #BlueCanada #BleuCanada #CelebrateTheOcean
June 5, 2025 at 1:53 PM
This is Ocean Week, culminating in World Ocean Day on Sunday, June 8. As goes the ocean, so goes the planet. Ocean week events can help people fall in love with a key part of our life support system. 🧪 #Oceanweekcanada #semainedelocean #bluecanada #bleucanada #celebratetheocean
Art meets science during Ocean Week Canada 2025! 🧪
Love it.
Love it.
Congrats to the Ocean Week Canada 2025 Featured Artists! 🎉
Learn more about each artist and their upcoming events at oceanweek.ca
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Félicitations aux artistes vedettes de la Semaine de l’océan Canada 2025! 🎉
Découvrez chaque artiste et leurs événements à venir sur semainedelocean.ca
Learn more about each artist and their upcoming events at oceanweek.ca
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Félicitations aux artistes vedettes de la Semaine de l’océan Canada 2025! 🎉
Découvrez chaque artiste et leurs événements à venir sur semainedelocean.ca
June 4, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Art meets science during Ocean Week Canada 2025! 🧪
Love it.
Love it.
Reposted by Alanna Mitchell
Congrats to the Ocean Week Canada 2025 Featured Artists! 🎉
Learn more about each artist and their upcoming events at oceanweek.ca
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Félicitations aux artistes vedettes de la Semaine de l’océan Canada 2025! 🎉
Découvrez chaque artiste et leurs événements à venir sur semainedelocean.ca
Learn more about each artist and their upcoming events at oceanweek.ca
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Félicitations aux artistes vedettes de la Semaine de l’océan Canada 2025! 🎉
Découvrez chaque artiste et leurs événements à venir sur semainedelocean.ca
June 4, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Congrats to the Ocean Week Canada 2025 Featured Artists! 🎉
Learn more about each artist and their upcoming events at oceanweek.ca
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Félicitations aux artistes vedettes de la Semaine de l’océan Canada 2025! 🎉
Découvrez chaque artiste et leurs événements à venir sur semainedelocean.ca
Learn more about each artist and their upcoming events at oceanweek.ca
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Félicitations aux artistes vedettes de la Semaine de l’océan Canada 2025! 🎉
Découvrez chaque artiste et leurs événements à venir sur semainedelocean.ca
@colcoalition.ca So many great Ocean celebration events this week in Toronto to help us all fall in love with the the sea! oceanweekcan.ca/events/?_vis...
Events Archive - Ocean Week Canada
oceanweekcan.ca
June 3, 2025 at 3:02 PM
@colcoalition.ca So many great Ocean celebration events this week in Toronto to help us all fall in love with the the sea! oceanweekcan.ca/events/?_vis...
Such an excellent story! @broadviewmedia.bsky.social @alisonmotluk.bsky.social
So happy to see this story up for this award! Thanks, @broadviewmedia.bsky.social
🏆 Finalist | #NMA25
📰 Origin Story
By @alisonmotluk.bsky.social | @broadviewmedia.bsky.social
Canada has been slow to end anonymous donation of sperm or eggs. Adult children are finding their roots anyway.
Finalist – Long-Form Feature Writing | #NMA25
🔗 zurl.co/WvLZu
📰 Origin Story
By @alisonmotluk.bsky.social | @broadviewmedia.bsky.social
Canada has been slow to end anonymous donation of sperm or eggs. Adult children are finding their roots anyway.
Finalist – Long-Form Feature Writing | #NMA25
🔗 zurl.co/WvLZu
May 2, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Such an excellent story! @broadviewmedia.bsky.social @alisonmotluk.bsky.social
So very thrilled about the National Magazine Awards nomination for this fabulous story by @alisonmotluk.bsky.social @broadviewmedia.bsky.social
🏆 Finalist | #NMA25
📰 Origin Story
By @alisonmotluk.bsky.social | @broadviewmedia.bsky.social
Canada has been slow to end anonymous donation of sperm or eggs. Adult children are finding their roots anyway.
Finalist – Long-Form Feature Writing | #NMA25
🔗 zurl.co/WvLZu
📰 Origin Story
By @alisonmotluk.bsky.social | @broadviewmedia.bsky.social
Canada has been slow to end anonymous donation of sperm or eggs. Adult children are finding their roots anyway.
Finalist – Long-Form Feature Writing | #NMA25
🔗 zurl.co/WvLZu
May 2, 2025 at 1:56 PM
So very thrilled about the National Magazine Awards nomination for this fabulous story by @alisonmotluk.bsky.social @broadviewmedia.bsky.social
So very thrilled about this nomination for a piece by Pieta Woolley on climate disruption and wildfires in B.C.! 🧪
🏆 Finalist | Feature Writing | #NMA25
Generation Wildfire
@broadviewmedia.bsky.social | By Pieta Woolley | Handling Editor: @alannamitchell.bsky.social
Young people are on the front lines of the climate crisis as wildfires worsen in Western Canada
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Generation Wildfire
@broadviewmedia.bsky.social | By Pieta Woolley | Handling Editor: @alannamitchell.bsky.social
Young people are on the front lines of the climate crisis as wildfires worsen in Western Canada
🔗 zurl.co/EOlhi
May 1, 2025 at 7:50 PM
So very thrilled about this nomination for a piece by Pieta Woolley on climate disruption and wildfires in B.C.! 🧪
Reposted by Alanna Mitchell
Like the monks who walked this path to protect the saint’s body from marauders, Alanna Mitchell knows that she is also “on a journey of trial and sacrifice in the modern British wilderness.” But, she wonders, “what am I trying to find?”
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A pilgrim seeks meaning on St. Cuthbert's Way
As Alanna Mitchell traces the saint's Scottish path, she finds it's more than a journey—it's an act of faith in the power of storytelling.
broadview.org
March 7, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Like the monks who walked this path to protect the saint’s body from marauders, Alanna Mitchell knows that she is also “on a journey of trial and sacrifice in the modern British wilderness.” But, she wonders, “what am I trying to find?”
@alannamitchell.bsky.social
@alannamitchell.bsky.social
Go on a pilgrimage with me along St. Cuthbert's Way in the Scottish borderlands! broadview.org/a-pilgrim-se... @broadviewmedia.bsky.social @wildinkpoet.bsky.social
A pilgrim seeks meaning on St. Cuthbert's Way
As Alanna Mitchell traces the saint's Scottish path, she finds it's more than a journey—it's an act of faith in the power of storytelling
broadview.org
March 6, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Go on a pilgrimage with me along St. Cuthbert's Way in the Scottish borderlands! broadview.org/a-pilgrim-se... @broadviewmedia.bsky.social @wildinkpoet.bsky.social
And here's the recommendation: Longevity Conservation.
Longevity Conservation should include policy to protect old age-classes of animals. IUCN red listing of threatened species should include loss of age structure in criteria and ‘longevity overfishing’ should be recognised as a type of overfishing.
January 2, 2025 at 2:47 PM
And here's the recommendation: Longevity Conservation.
Reposted by Alanna Mitchell
Since these old individuals are and important part of biodiversity (similar to old trees) we suggest ‘longevity conservation’ as a solution.
November 24, 2024 at 6:53 AM
Since these old individuals are and important part of biodiversity (similar to old trees) we suggest ‘longevity conservation’ as a solution.
Reposted by Alanna Mitchell
Older individuals make vital contributions to moderate and long-lived species, migratory animals and this where knowledge and cultural transmission are important. We refer to these as old animal storage effects and synthesise the benefits across life history strategies
November 24, 2024 at 6:50 AM
Older individuals make vital contributions to moderate and long-lived species, migratory animals and this where knowledge and cultural transmission are important. We refer to these as old animal storage effects and synthesise the benefits across life history strategies
Reposted by Alanna Mitchell
Second, research conducted on old animals usually focuses on the negative aspects of ageing but that literature is changing rapidly.
November 24, 2024 at 6:47 AM
Second, research conducted on old animals usually focuses on the negative aspects of ageing but that literature is changing rapidly.
Reposted by Alanna Mitchell
Old animals across a wide range of taxa provide important ecological functions, but these are being eroded.
November 24, 2024 at 6:45 AM
Old animals across a wide range of taxa provide important ecological functions, but these are being eroded.
Absolutely fascinating study on how the old members of a species make vital contributions.
First post here.
I’ll unpack our new paper @science.org highlighting the loss of old animals and calling for ‘longevity conservation’
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
I’ll unpack our new paper @science.org highlighting the loss of old animals and calling for ‘longevity conservation’
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Loss of Earth’s old, wise, and large animals
Earth’s old animals are in decline. Despite this, emerging research is revealing the vital contributions of older individuals to cultural transmission, population dynamics, and ecosystem processes and...
www.science.org
January 2, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Absolutely fascinating study on how the old members of a species make vital contributions.
So fun to work with you!!
In my new gig as executive editor of Up Here magazine, I get to work with great writers, including @alannamitchell.bsky.social. Read her fabulously smart piece on what a Nunavut murre colony has to say about the future of animals and plants www.uphere.ca/articles/pro...
The Prophecy
A murre colony on Nunavut’s Coats Island has a lot to say about the future of animals and plants in the North—and elsewhere.
www.uphere.ca
November 26, 2024 at 10:46 PM
So fun to work with you!!
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Les journalistes ne sont pas les seuls sur Bluesky : les scientifiques affluent aussi, attirés par un meilleur contrôle du contenu et des échanges enrichissants. « A place of joy: why scientists are joining the rush to Bluesky. »
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
‘A place of joy’: why scientists are joining the rush to Bluesky
Researchers say the social-media platform — an alternative to X — offers more control over the content they see and the people they engage with.
www.nature.com
November 24, 2024 at 11:33 PM
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check out this great list of science journalists, assembled by the great Jim Handman. Super easy starter kit for bsky.
Hey Jeff. I've trained dozens of ECCC scientists in #SciComm. Hope some of them see your post. You might also be interested in my own starter pack. go.bsky.app/Uq2HC4Q
November 24, 2024 at 7:16 PM
check out this great list of science journalists, assembled by the great Jim Handman. Super easy starter kit for bsky.
Really thrilled to be awarded the Sandford Fleming Medal by the Royal Canadian Insititute for Science. It's for a career of communicating science. A bigger job than ever these days. www.rciscience.ca/news/2024/11...
RCIScience marks 175th anniversary by honouring science advocates across Canada — Royal Canadian Institute for Science
Celebrating excellence in Canadian science engagement.
www.rciscience.ca
November 20, 2024 at 2:35 PM
Really thrilled to be awarded the Sandford Fleming Medal by the Royal Canadian Insititute for Science. It's for a career of communicating science. A bigger job than ever these days. www.rciscience.ca/news/2024/11...
Happy publication day to my colleague Ayesha Habib and all these other authors! Can’t wait to read you.
November 19, 2024 at 2:51 PM
Happy publication day to my colleague Ayesha Habib and all these other authors! Can’t wait to read you.
such a relief to be here. Especially bsky science!! back in a real conversation at last.
November 18, 2024 at 4:03 PM
such a relief to be here. Especially bsky science!! back in a real conversation at last.