Mitsy Smile
@mitsysmile.bsky.social
PhD Candidate
Early Childhood Educator
Artist
Researcher
Baker
Hiker
Swimmer
Snowboarder
Laughter
Early Childhood Educator
Artist
Researcher
Baker
Hiker
Swimmer
Snowboarder
Laughter
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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.
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.
n.pr
August 2, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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.
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Just stop using the planet guzzling plagiarism machine altogether
If You're Using ChatGPT for Any of These 11 Things, Stop Immediately www.cnet.com/tech/service...
If You're Using ChatGPT for Any of These 11 Things, Stop Immediately
Commentary: Before you enter your next prompt, here's when you'd be better off not using your trusty AI chatbot.
www.cnet.com
July 2, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Just stop using the planet guzzling plagiarism machine altogether
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"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
June 23, 2025 at 7:02 PM
"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
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Warning: Canadian institutions are not immune to the authoritarian drift we are seeing in the US www.canadianlawyermag.com/news/opinion...
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
www.canadianlawyermag.com
March 21, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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.
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.
March 19, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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.
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.
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Look at this PhD opportunity with the best of people!
Come and do a funded PhD with me, Dr Laura Trafí-Prats @lala-trapra.bsky.social and Pinc College!
Re-imagining Design for Critical Access in Museums and Cultural Spaces with Neurodivergent Youth
www.mmu.ac.uk/study/postgr...
Re-imagining Design for Critical Access in Museums and Cultural Spaces with Neurodivergent Youth
www.mmu.ac.uk/study/postgr...
Doctoral scholarships
Find out what doctoral research scholarships are available at Manchester Met and sign up for vacancy alerts.
www.mmu.ac.uk
February 25, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Look at this PhD opportunity with the best of people!
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Bluesky boosts safety tools as user numbers continue to rise www.independent.co.uk/space/intern...
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.
www.independent.co.uk
February 22, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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
February 21, 2025 at 11:03 AM
I cannot more than AGREE with what @ilonamaher01.bsky.social says
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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
January 28, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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
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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.
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 ...
www.eff.org
January 17, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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.
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‘Knitting is a lifeline’: young people turn to craft to cast off gloom
‘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…
www.theguardian.com
January 20, 2025 at 1:26 PM
‘Knitting is a lifeline’: young people turn to craft to cast off gloom
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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...
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...
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...
www.cbc.ca
December 26, 2024 at 5:43 PM
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...
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...
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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.
Reading Chap 1 as an Inupiaq woman I feel sad for the Bering Sea Cows made extinct by colonial extraction.
December 27, 2024 at 6:10 AM
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.
Reading Chap 1 as an Inupiaq woman I feel sad for the Bering Sea Cows made extinct by colonial extraction.
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Menopause treatments can help with hot flashes and other symptoms – but many people aren't aware of the latest advances
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.
theconversation.com
December 26, 2024 at 8:08 PM
Menopause treatments can help with hot flashes and other symptoms – but many people aren't aware of the latest advances
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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.
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.
December 14, 2024 at 6:02 PM
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.
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.
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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
buff.ly/4iolWBf
December 10, 2024 at 10:17 AM
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
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.
Adults grow new brain cells – and these neurons are key to learning by listening
Adults grow new brain cells – and these neurons are key to learning by listening
Understanding how new neurons affect brain function throughout adulthood can offer new approaches to treating epilepsy and dementia.
buff.ly
December 9, 2024 at 9:44 PM
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.
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#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
On next walk, take a listen: tinyurl.com/4e8w4ybb
December 3, 2024 at 8:54 PM
#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
On next walk, take a listen: tinyurl.com/4e8w4ybb
great news!
Beginning January 2025, myself & Dr. Asli Sezen-Barrie will be co-editors for a new section in the journal Science Education focused on climate change and environmental education.
See link for section description - look forward to receiving submissions! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...
See link for section description - look forward to receiving submissions! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...
Overview - Science Education - Wiley Online Library
The field of science education has long grappled with tensions and complexities, such as:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
December 3, 2024 at 9:50 PM
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...
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...
Walking and Dwelling: Creating an Atelier in Nature
This paper comprises a description of an exploration of how the author’s daily walking reflected the emergence of an a/r/tographical living inquiry that engendered a profound sense of dwelling and lin...
opensiuc.lib.siu.edu
December 3, 2024 at 5:33 PM
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...
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...
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...
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/MZ7I5...
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. ...
www.tandfonline.com
December 2, 2024 at 2:53 PM
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...
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/MZ7I5...
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...
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/WFCHK...
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...
www.tandfonline.com
December 2, 2024 at 2:51 PM
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...
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."
First Nations cultural knowledge has much to share with archaeology, palaeontology and Earth sciences.
‘Everything is Country’: these 4 projects blend First Nations knowledge and science to rewrite our understanding of the past
First Nations cultural knowledge has much to share with archaeology, palaeontology and Earth sciences.
theconversation.com
December 2, 2024 at 10:59 AM
"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."
my Sunday meditation reading/ listening
In this conversation, Potawatomi botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer speaks about embracing a gift economy, and offers a framework for embodying a practical reverence: an ethic of care, reciprocity, and gratitude for the Earth. Listen to “Practical Reverence.”
emergencemagazine.org/interview/pr...
emergencemagazine.org/interview/pr...
December 1, 2024 at 3:37 PM
my Sunday meditation reading/ listening
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“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...
communicationfirst.org/dr-lateef-mc...
“How Ableism Impacts People Who Use AAC”
Presentation by Dr. Lateef McLeod
communicationfirst.org
December 1, 2024 at 1:32 AM
“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...
communicationfirst.org/dr-lateef-mc...