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Claire Cameron

@clairecameron.bsky.social
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Author of How to Survive a Bear Attack, winner of the Governor General’s Literary Award in Non-Fiction | I write about wild things, I run & I read www.claire-cameron.com

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Claire Cameron @clairecameron.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Hey hey hey
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Nathan Whitlock @nathanwhitlock.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Hey, I'll be interviewing @clairecameron.bsky.social onstage in Toronto on Sept 15. #canlit www.toronto.ca/BookClub
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Eva Holland @evaholland.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Exciting news!! @cabinradio.ca is hiring an Ottawa correspondent "to help northerners understand what’s happening across national politics in all its forms." cabinradio.ca/jobs/
cabinradio.ca
Work at Cabin Radio
Cabin Radio is a growing, independent northern broadcaster, entirely owned and operated in Yellowknife, NWT. Find out more about joining our team.
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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 04/06/2026
What a staggering loss. RIP Marjane Satrapi.
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Marjane Satrapi, Author of ‘Persepolis,’ Dies at 56
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Denise Balkissoon @balkissoon.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Hey! Canadian journalism jobs! The Narwhal is hiring a reporter in B.C. and one (almost) anywhere in Canada. We're looking for seasoned, ambitious reporters to focus their skills on the natural world and how it connects to politics, industry - and people. thenarwhal.bamboohr.com/careers?sour...
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Current Openings
Take a look at the current openings at The Narwhal
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Claire Cameron @clairecameron.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
I should change my name to Lyon, I think.
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Claire Cameron @clairecameron.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Absolutely with the clarity of looking back. I remain obsessed with how writing about the Daguerreotype etc. at the time feels like an iteration of our current conversation. What I will do with this insight is less clear -- fritter away my time on Bluesky, perhaps.
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Claire Cameron @clairecameron.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Charles Baudelaire in his essay, The Salon of 1859 -- "As the photographic industry was the refuge of all failed painters, too ill-equipped or too lazy to complete their studies, this universal infatuation bore not only the character of blindness and imbecility, but also the color of vengeance."
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Kathy Reid 🇨🇦🧶🚴‍♀️🏊‍♀️ @kathyreidknitter.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
In honour of missing and murdered indigenous women… red dresses - picture taken in the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg
Red dresses hanging in front of trees, taken in the Cdn Museum for human Rights
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Claire Cameron @clairecameron.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
It will come via a closed time-like curve, I bet. www.newscientist.com/article/2524...
newscientist.com
We have figured out a new way to send messages into the past
A technique inspired by the film Interstellar suggests a new way of communicating backwards in time, but it could help improve conventional communication systems as well
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Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Bradley's book isn't in this this interview on #Neanderthals in literary imaginings, but @nigelwarburton.bsky.social did let me sneak in a 6th book too, the excellent "Life As Told by a Sapiens to a Neanderthal" by Juan José Millás & Juan Luis Arsuaga. 📚 #BookSky fivebooks.com/best-books/n...
Screengrab of Five Books website page, titled "Five Books Imagining Neanderthals recommended by Rebecca Wragg Sykes". Shows thumbnails of books: William Golding's The Inheritors; Jean Auel's Clan of the Cave Bear; Claire Cameron's The Last Neanderthal; Ludovik Slimak's The Naked Neanderthal; Sebastian Faulks' The Seventh Son.
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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Cocaine Bear, Thirty Years War edition.
A detail from a broaside of the Thirty Years War (1618-48) showing, among other details, a beasty animal fighting. The beast has a bear head, a human arm, a horse leg and body, and is fighting with weapons in his hands.
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Jason, ex Inferis @benedictsred.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
I don’t like cigarettes or hacky sack, I just love standing in a circle
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Claire Cameron @clairecameron.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
It's been an eventful day!
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Claire Cameron @clairecameron.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
River crossing! www.svtplay.se/video/8Dvo9Y...
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Den stora älgvandringen – Idag 01:10
I flera tusen år har älgarna vandrat samma leder för att ta sig till sommarens rika betesmarker. Följ årets vandring, som är den åttonde säsongen då vi får se älgarna vandra i rutan och på SVT Play.
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Claire Cameron @clairecameron.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
I hope you are all watching the Swedish Moose migration. Have not caught glimpse of a moose yet, but I am streaming it as I work -- the sounds of the Swedish spring have found their way into the draft I'm working on... www.svtplay.se/video/8Dvo9Y...
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Den stora älgvandringen – Idag 01:10
I flera tusen år har älgarna vandrat samma leder för att ta sig till sommarens rika betesmarker. Följ årets vandring, som är den åttonde säsongen då vi får se älgarna vandra i rutan och på SVT Play.
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Taras Grescoe 🚇 @taras-grescoe.com · 23/04/2026
#Finland opens world's longest car-free bridge, intended for bicycle riders, pedestrians and mobility device users, and transit riders. #Helsinki's Kruunuvuori Bridge is 1,191 metres long, and will soon be served by trams. newatlas.com/architecture...
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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
My name, and yours, and the true name of the sun, or a spring of water, or an unborn child, all are syllables of the great word that is very slowly spoken by the shining of the stars. There is no other power. No other name.
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Colin Schultz @colinschultz.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
The secret sensory life of plants: researchers are discovering how they see, hear, feel – and even remember theconversation.com/the-secret-s...
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The secret sensory life of plants: researchers are discovering how they see, hear, feel – and even remember
Plants can tune into the sound of water to direct their roots towards it, or release toxins to make themselves less palatable to browsing animals.
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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Trans Canada Highway Peter McConville 2021
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Claire Cameron @clairecameron.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Thank you for the message. On behalf of all the non-experts out here, it's very much needed and appreciated. Also, ugh.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
I will say this again: Science isn’t just something that nerds do, it’s the foundation of the modern world. It’s why this app exists. It’s why child mortality rate isn’t 50% anymore. It’s how we’re able to launch people to the moon. It’s how we’re able to grow food that feeds half the world.
nature.com
Massive budget cuts for US science proposed again by Trump administration
Budget proposal would also curb federal payments for scientific publishing.
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Claire Cameron @clairecameron.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Isn't it? So glad you found it -- makes me want to read it again!
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Since the headline is a bit confusing, the NYT is reporting that on the same day we hit the girl's school in Minab, we also sent a missile full of tungsten steel pellets at a girl's volleyball tournament hundreds of miles away in Lamerd. Twenty one dead. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/w...
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New U.S. Missile Hit Iranian Sports Hall and School, Analysis Shows
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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
A man would know the end he goes to, but he cannot know it if he does not turn, and return to his beginning, and hold that beginning in his being.
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
How incredible: “The full delivery took about 30 minutes. For hours afterward, pairs of whales held the baby above the water until it was able to swim… What struck the researchers was how many mother, sister and daughter whales united to support the new calf, even ones that weren’t related.”
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Scientists captured female sperm whales on video working together during a birth to protect the calf
Scientists have captured rare footage of a sperm whale giving birth, offering a window into the large mammals' behavior.
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 26/03/2026
they’re building a new style of interchange here and i don’t think most men are going to be able to find their way around it
the interchange, which looks like a vagina
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Claire Cameron @clairecameron.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
"What I mean is, there has never come a time when I could be thought to have acquired dignity, common sense, still less worldly wisdom, qualities that supposedly come with age and get lost with age, too." Alan Bennett’s diary of his 90th year www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/m...
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‘I feel I am not yet grown up’: Alan Bennett’s diary of his 90th year
He got stuck in the bath and met the queen. But despite a few wobbles and procedures, the author still can’t believe his age
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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
What a powerful graphic memoir this is. The story begins after a mother’s stroke, for the narrator, Teresa Wong, as she tries to understand the dislocations that have left her and her mother so far apart. A gift to my husband and I from @clairecameron.bsky.social and I’m very happy for it.
A graphic novel with an illustration on the cover of two Asian girls connected by a scarlet thread. They are beside the sea or at the beach, the water around them purple and black, their figures blue and black. Text reads TERESA WONG
AUTHOR OF DEAR SCARLET
all our ordinary stories
A MULTIGENERATIONAL
FAMILY ODYSSEY
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Claire Cameron @clairecameron.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Isn't it incredible? One of those books that I'll always carry inside me. 💙
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Claire Cameron @clairecameron.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
If you loved The Marriage Portrait, I would go all in on Hamnet.
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Urban Truth Collective @urbantruth.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
WATCH: If your city is having a bike-lane debate that’s more about ideology than evidence, watch this news story from Toronto. The Province is attacking bike-lanes, and the local business community takes their arguments apart with data and smart messaging. Safe bike-lanes mean business. #UrbanTruth
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Annex businesses tell Ford to back off Bloor bike lanes
Stores in the Annex say the Bloor bike lanes have been a big boost to business. As Michelle Mackey reports, the neighborhood's BIA wants the province to back off its new bill that could see the lanes ...
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Claire Cameron @clairecameron.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Many notable books here, including Vivek Shraya’s I’m Afraid of Men and Casey Plett’s Dream of a Woman. lithub.com/what-was-los...
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What Was Lost: A Queer Accounting of the NY Times Book Review, 2013-2022
“Goodbye, Pamela Paul,” was the headline of Andrea Long Chu’s now-iconic, recently ASME-nominated New York Magazine farewell to the former NY Times Book Review editor, when Paul left the paper two …
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Claire Cameron @clairecameron.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
So interesting, thank you!
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Claire Cameron @clairecameron.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
13 already somehow and yet it feels like yesterday...
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Claire Cameron @clairecameron.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
He has the plans already drawn up and everything www.blogto.com/city/2013/03...
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MGM reveals its plans for a casino at Exhibition Place
Exhibition Place could get a whole lot more extravagant if MGM is able to realize its vision for a casino resort on the lake front property. Executiv…
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Mary Fernando M.D. 🇨🇦 @maryfernando.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
This is so exciting: a new Canadian site where you can buy from independent bookstores. 🔥 #Canada #AmReading www.booksellers.ca
booksellers.ca
booksellers.ca | Purchase print books and eBooks online
A network of over 100 bookstores, more than 500,000 print books or eBooks, unparalleled expertise. It is possible to buy local on the Web!
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Claire Cameron @clairecameron.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Wow
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Claire Cameron @clairecameron.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Why So Many Women Are Writing About Bears? @trinamoyles.bsky.social on Challenging a Canon Long Dominated by Men @lithub.com.web.brid.gy Spoiler: Women are choosing the bear, in more ways than one. #bears #bearsky
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Why So Many Women Are Writing About Bears
As a daughter of a wildlife biologist growing up in the Canadian wilderness, I’ve been fascinated with bears since I was a child. When I was only five years old, my father brought home an orphaned …
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Noah @bedmounds.com · 03/03/2026
I photographed a Pizza Hut in Tunkhannock, Pennsylvania for the New York Times www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/f... (Gift Link)
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Claire Cameron @clairecameron.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
My husband changed his last name to mine. This was a few years ago -- our experiences of the name change have been *wildly* different. Also, I've lost count of the number of people who have asked if I married my cousin. I wrote about it:
cbc.ca
Claire Cameron taps into the power of a surname in this original essay | CBC Books
What's in a name is a personal essay by Claire Cameron, winner of the 2025 Governor General's Literary Award for nonfiction. It is part of Life, Rearranged, a special series of new, original writing b...
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Claire Cameron @clairecameron.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
I'd like to read your book about the suburbs, please.
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Claire Cameron @clairecameron.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
"Deep in the forests of Algonquin Provincial Park, a few hours north of Toronto, sits a metal monster." thewalrusca.substack.com/p/canada-is-...
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Canada Is Building a Surveillance Network in Space
A reborn Cold War telescope is part of a broader effort to stop relying on US intelligence
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Claire Cameron @clairecameron.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
"Namwali Serpell is one of the most evocative, erudite, and original writers at work today." Really looking forward to this book. lithub.com/namwali-serp...
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Namwali Serpell on Approaching Toni Morrison’s Work As a Reader and a Critic
Namwali Serpell is one of the most evocative, erudite, and original writers at work today. She mixes Gothic and Afrofuturist styles in The Old Drift, her first novel, a three-family saga that spans…
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Gremliny Nussboo @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Devastating article about the effects of the Minneapolis chaos on children: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/u...
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A Winter of Anguish for Minneapolis Children
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Doug Saunders @dougsaunders.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Amber Bracken is one of Canada’s greatest photojournalists, and for the RCMP to mistake observers for participants, arrest her and prevent her from doing her vital work is a deeply dangerous precedent. This case is important for all of us.
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