Alicia Wanless
@lageneralista.ca
Information Ecologist exploring the information environment | Senior Fellow at @carnegieendowment.org and Director of @ieproject.bsky.social | PhD from KCL War Studies | Visiting Researcher @uniofbath.bsky.social | Author of The Information Animal 🇨🇦
Today’s race start. We did not win.
September 14, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Today’s race start. We did not win.
And Jordi Labanda made us these
September 12, 2025 at 8:25 PM
And Jordi Labanda made us these
If you’re looking for something different - I strongly recommend joining the Monocle world. I’ve never seen a publication (outside @lawfaremedia.org) create that level of community before. Thanks to Anthony Perez for the shots.
September 12, 2025 at 12:42 PM
If you’re looking for something different - I strongly recommend joining the Monocle world. I’ve never seen a publication (outside @lawfaremedia.org) create that level of community before. Thanks to Anthony Perez for the shots.
Well, getting The Information Animal into a Waterstones in Trafalgar certainly makes my day. Thanks to @abarrinha.bsky.social for spotting and sharing this! Thanks to @hurstpublishers.bsky.social for being awesome!
September 4, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Well, getting The Information Animal into a Waterstones in Trafalgar certainly makes my day. Thanks to @abarrinha.bsky.social for spotting and sharing this! Thanks to @hurstpublishers.bsky.social for being awesome!
Anyone up for an experiment with Amazon? Is the cart truthful about remaining stock? I need eight people in the US to help me find out www.amazon.com/Information-...
August 20, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Anyone up for an experiment with Amazon? Is the cart truthful about remaining stock? I need eight people in the US to help me find out www.amazon.com/Information-...
Grateful and clearly terrified to close out today’s The House on CBC talking about “The Information Animal” - take all the shiny people as bait to sit through to the end:
www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
August 16, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Grateful and clearly terrified to close out today’s The House on CBC talking about “The Information Animal” - take all the shiny people as bait to sit through to the end:
www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
Got my hands on the North American edition of the book today from Oxford University Press - very exciting!
August 7, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Got my hands on the North American edition of the book today from Oxford University Press - very exciting!
Today is puffin day.
August 1, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Today is puffin day.
But my particular favourite comes from a book he found - "Newspaper reporters of the early 1960s were especially given to the idea that think tank-affiliated researchers lived in states of gratuitous luxury, infantile dependence, or narcissistic self-absorption"
www.google.ca/books/editio...
www.google.ca/books/editio...
July 24, 2025 at 2:02 PM
But my particular favourite comes from a book he found - "Newspaper reporters of the early 1960s were especially given to the idea that think tank-affiliated researchers lived in states of gratuitous luxury, infantile dependence, or narcissistic self-absorption"
www.google.ca/books/editio...
www.google.ca/books/editio...
It could probably work but screams Black Mirror. Sigh.
July 24, 2025 at 1:40 AM
It could probably work but screams Black Mirror. Sigh.
By the way @antti1.bsky.social - I also suggested this pairing offline. But @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org then said we had to have new books, so not sure if it will fly. Maybe with enough support from you and @alanderminna.bsky.social - ad a return of @jussitoivanen.bsky.social it’ll fly!
July 23, 2025 at 9:30 PM
By the way @antti1.bsky.social - I also suggested this pairing offline. But @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org then said we had to have new books, so not sure if it will fly. Maybe with enough support from you and @alanderminna.bsky.social - ad a return of @jussitoivanen.bsky.social it’ll fly!
A brief appearance with wet hair and failing internet. Befitting that I wore this shirt
July 17, 2025 at 9:29 PM
A brief appearance with wet hair and failing internet. Befitting that I wore this shirt
Really need a tall friend to visit to finish off the propaganda wall. If I were doing it over, I’d make diagonals of sameness. Maybe for the next house,
July 13, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Really need a tall friend to visit to finish off the propaganda wall. If I were doing it over, I’d make diagonals of sameness. Maybe for the next house,
It’s Canada Day, and I’d like it to stay that way. While sovereignty is top of mind, maintaining that independence rests in an independent info ecosystem free from external controls or manipulation. That starts with understanding what the Canadian info ecosystem consists of from top to bottom.
July 1, 2025 at 12:19 PM
It’s Canada Day, and I’d like it to stay that way. While sovereignty is top of mind, maintaining that independence rests in an independent info ecosystem free from external controls or manipulation. That starts with understanding what the Canadian info ecosystem consists of from top to bottom.
I’m on holiday and my choices are questionable. It’s not right to scare your husband “for the art” is it?
June 23, 2025 at 6:26 PM
I’m on holiday and my choices are questionable. It’s not right to scare your husband “for the art” is it?
Then it's off to Berlin, where my colleague Maxim Samorukov will host a fireside chat on June 10 at 10:00 at the Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center - DM me to register for that one.
June 2, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Then it's off to Berlin, where my colleague Maxim Samorukov will host a fireside chat on June 10 at 10:00 at the Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center - DM me to register for that one.
Some people weren’t born to be influencers. As proof, a special one time only video of me unboxing. If you promise to buy the book, I’ll never subject you to this pain again. But seriously, @hurstpublishers.bsky.social sent my first official copies of The Information Animal!!
May 27, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Some people weren’t born to be influencers. As proof, a special one time only video of me unboxing. If you promise to buy the book, I’ll never subject you to this pain again. But seriously, @hurstpublishers.bsky.social sent my first official copies of The Information Animal!!
May 18, 2025 at 2:06 AM
The Information Animal is more about articulating a vision for how we might understand information ecosystems to get ahead of problems, rather than an exploration of specific issues we currently face within them.
Thanks to @hurstpublishers.bsky.social and @carnegieendowment.org for making it real!
Thanks to @hurstpublishers.bsky.social and @carnegieendowment.org for making it real!
April 22, 2025 at 5:01 PM
The Information Animal is more about articulating a vision for how we might understand information ecosystems to get ahead of problems, rather than an exploration of specific issues we currently face within them.
Thanks to @hurstpublishers.bsky.social and @carnegieendowment.org for making it real!
Thanks to @hurstpublishers.bsky.social and @carnegieendowment.org for making it real!
My wonderful publishers @hurstpublishers.bsky.social made a bound galley for a pre-launch event at my alma mater King’s College London with Ofer Fridman. The Information Animal is out in Europe on May 22 and on September 1 in North America.
April 12, 2025 at 8:48 AM
My wonderful publishers @hurstpublishers.bsky.social made a bound galley for a pre-launch event at my alma mater King’s College London with Ofer Fridman. The Information Animal is out in Europe on May 22 and on September 1 in North America.
No jokes, they can peck through leather!
April 3, 2025 at 4:14 PM
No jokes, they can peck through leather!
I should add now - it’s because of this guy - my husband just guessed it in one go too
April 2, 2025 at 1:19 PM
I should add now - it’s because of this guy - my husband just guessed it in one go too