Reposted by Claire CameronNathan Whitlock @nathanwhitlock.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Hey, I'll be interviewing @clairecameron.bsky.social onstage in Toronto on Sept 15. #canlit www.toronto.ca/BookClub 182
Reposted by Claire CameronEva Holland @evaholland.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Exciting 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.caWork at Cabin RadioCabin Radio is a growing, independent northern broadcaster, entirely owned and operated in Yellowknife, NWT. Find out more about joining our team. 13717
Reposted by Claire CameronSarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 04/06/2026What a staggering loss. RIP Marjane Satrapi.nytimes.comMarjane Satrapi, Author of ‘Persepolis,’ Dies at 56 4871219
Reposted by Claire CameronDenise Balkissoon @balkissoon.bsky.social · 14/05/2026Hey! 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...thenarwhal.bamboohr.comCurrent OpeningsTake a look at the current openings at The Narwhal 12027
Claire Cameron @clairecameron.bsky.social · 08/05/2026Absolutely 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. 110
Claire Cameron @clairecameron.bsky.social · 08/05/2026Charles 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." 120
Reposted by Claire CameronKathy Reid 🇨🇦🧶🚴♀️🏊♀️ @kathyreidknitter.bsky.social · 05/05/2026In honour of missing and murdered indigenous women… red dresses - picture taken in the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg 02111
Claire Cameron @clairecameron.bsky.social · 05/05/2026It will come via a closed time-like curve, I bet. www.newscientist.com/article/2524...newscientist.comWe have figured out a new way to send messages into the pastA 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 110
Reposted by Claire CameronDr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · 24/04/2026Bradley'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... 1213
Reposted by Claire CameronDaniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 29/04/2026Cocaine Bear, Thirty Years War edition. 411122
Reposted by Claire CameronJason, ex Inferis @benedictsred.bsky.social · 24/04/2026I don’t like cigarettes or hacky sack, I just love standing in a circle 1127867
Claire Cameron @clairecameron.bsky.social · 23/04/2026River crossing! www.svtplay.se/video/8Dvo9Y...svtplay.seDen stora älgvandringen – Idag 01:10I 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. 000
Claire Cameron @clairecameron.bsky.social · 23/04/2026I 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...svtplay.seDen stora älgvandringen – Idag 01:10I 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. 1110
Reposted by Claire CameronTaras 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... 732372
Reposted by Claire CameronUrsula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 17/04/2026My 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. 04812
Reposted by Claire CameronColin Schultz @colinschultz.bsky.social · 16/04/2026The secret sensory life of plants: researchers are discovering how they see, hear, feel – and even remember theconversation.com/the-secret-s...theconversation.comThe secret sensory life of plants: researchers are discovering how they see, hear, feel – and even rememberPlants can tune into the sound of water to direct their roots towards it, or release toxins to make themselves less palatable to browsing animals. 042
Reposted by Claire CameronCanadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 10/04/2026Trans Canada Highway Peter McConville 2021 216337
Claire Cameron @clairecameron.bsky.social · 08/04/2026Thank you for the message. On behalf of all the non-experts out here, it's very much needed and appreciated. Also, ugh. 000
Reposted by Claire CameronDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 03/04/2026I 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.comMassive budget cuts for US science proposed again by Trump administrationBudget proposal would also curb federal payments for scientific publishing. 21822313
Claire Cameron @clairecameron.bsky.social · 30/03/2026Isn't it? So glad you found it -- makes me want to read it again! 010
Reposted by Claire CameronBill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 30/03/2026Since 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...nytimes.comNew U.S. Missile Hit Iranian Sports Hall and School, Analysis Shows 11436842138
Reposted by Claire CameronUrsula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 30/03/2026A 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. 0325
Reposted by Claire CameronKathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 27/03/2026How 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.”apnews.comScientists captured female sperm whales on video working together during a birth to protect the calfScientists have captured rare footage of a sperm whale giving birth, offering a window into the large mammals' behavior. 958131391
Reposted by Claire Cameronashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 26/03/2026they’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 2951170
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...theguardian.com‘I feel I am not yet grown up’: Alan Bennett’s diary of his 90th yearHe got stuck in the bath and met the queen. But despite a few wobbles and procedures, the author still can’t believe his age 161
Reposted by Claire CameronAlexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 23/03/2026What 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. 512416
Claire Cameron @clairecameron.bsky.social · 23/03/2026Isn't it incredible? One of those books that I'll always carry inside me. 💙 110
Claire Cameron @clairecameron.bsky.social · 18/03/2026If you loved The Marriage Portrait, I would go all in on Hamnet. 010
Reposted by Claire CameronUrban Truth Collective @urbantruth.bsky.social · 14/03/2026WATCH: 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. #UrbanTruthtoronto.citynews.caAnnex businesses tell Ford to back off Bloor bike lanesStores 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 ... 316246
Claire Cameron @clairecameron.bsky.social · 12/03/2026Many 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...lithub.comWhat 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 … 051
Claire Cameron @clairecameron.bsky.social · 06/03/202613 already somehow and yet it feels like yesterday... 110
Claire Cameron @clairecameron.bsky.social · 06/03/2026He has the plans already drawn up and everything www.blogto.com/city/2013/03...blogto.comMGM reveals its plans for a casino at Exhibition PlaceExhibition 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… 100
Reposted by Claire CameronMary Fernando M.D. 🇨🇦 @maryfernando.bsky.social · 05/03/2026This is so exciting: a new Canadian site where you can buy from independent bookstores. 🔥 #Canada #AmReading www.booksellers.cabooksellers.cabooksellers.ca | Purchase print books and eBooks onlineA network of over 100 bookstores, more than 500,000 print books or eBooks, unparalleled expertise. It is possible to buy local on the Web! 67340
Claire Cameron @clairecameron.bsky.social · 03/03/2026Why 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 #bearskylithub.comWhy So Many Women Are Writing About BearsAs 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 … 092
Reposted by Claire CameronNoah @bedmounds.com · 03/03/2026I photographed a Pizza Hut in Tunkhannock, Pennsylvania for the New York Times www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/f... (Gift Link) 2485
Claire Cameron @clairecameron.bsky.social · 26/02/2026My 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.caClaire Cameron taps into the power of a surname in this original essay | CBC BooksWhat'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... 070
Claire Cameron @clairecameron.bsky.social · 23/02/2026I'd like to read your book about the suburbs, please. 020
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-...thewalrusca.substack.comCanada Is Building a Surveillance Network in SpaceA reborn Cold War telescope is part of a broader effort to stop relying on US intelligence 050
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...lithub.comNamwali Serpell on Approaching Toni Morrison’s Work As a Reader and a CriticNamwali 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… 010
Reposted by Claire CameronGremliny Nussboo @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 04/02/2026Devastating article about the effects of the Minneapolis chaos on children: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/u...nytimes.comA Winter of Anguish for Minneapolis Children 38855
Reposted by Claire CameronDoug Saunders @dougsaunders.bsky.social · 30/01/2026Amber 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. 420283