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H.K. Andersen @hkandersen.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Finishing the stack of grading then the stack of admin, so I can work on the papers I'm actually excited to write on, and have time to drive to the bookstore to pick up the stack of new SFF+horror waiting there. Fall term motivation. Sunset over the long weekend

The sun setting through a tall fir tree, gazing across a wooden acupture park towards the Vancouver lower mainland. The north shote mountains are bathed in golden light. A glow in the air in the distance surrounds the barely visible buildings of downtown.

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H.K. Andersen @hkandersen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fall has arrived on Burnaby Mountain, which means brutalist concrete enveloped in cloud. Pro sem today was Carnap ESO and a chunk of the new book by Cartwright, Munro, and Pemberton. We had a good discussion and also had to turn the lights on because of the gloom. #philsci #sfu

A lone person wearing a red backpack walks towards the edge of the frame in a complicated brutalist concrete set of plateaud stairs with several visible floors. There are a lot of stark horizontal and vertical lines of concrete, with a diagonal of a stairwell above the stairs. Through the far side windows is only the blankness of fog.

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H.K. Andersen @hkandersen.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Eid mubarak! Los Angeles palm trees and moon.

Two palm tree tops are silhouetted against a dark blue sky with a small crescent moon to the right of them. The glowing part of the crescent is the bottom edge of the moon, and the rest of the moon is still slightly visible as lighter than the sky around it.

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H.K. Andersen @hkandersen.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Eldest child drew me this amazing snail blorbo on my notebook cover, had to share

On a rough thick brown paper notebook cover is a line art drawing of a snail. It is sluglike with a lovely curved shell, and lots of great texture details in fine point ink. It has two glorpy eyes on stalks and two mouth tentacles for waving slowly and sighing. It is a handsome boi.

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H.K. Andersen @hkandersen.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Blue hour Academic Quadrangle on the walk home #sfu

Intersecting angles of brutalist concrete quadrangle style buildings, in the twilight with a dark blue sky behind

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H.K. Andersen @hkandersen.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Eldest child made this arcane lore christmas meme. Happy christmas eve!

A meme format with new details filled in. On the left, it reads, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Then a red arrow with text above and below. Above text reads, Kissing a guy's wife is fine if you kiss him too. Below text reads, Everyone is imperfect, but being honest and forthcoming about our mistakes is the path to redemption.

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H.K. Andersen @hkandersen.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Kid 2 got a plasma ball birthday gift. Here it is in slo mo.

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H.K. Andersen @hkandersen.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

The crows in Bloomington do the same evening commute through the sky together as they do in Burnaby. A river of flying crows at sunset. View from @jordicat.bsky.social 's office: there were dozens to hundreds per tree.

sunset colours with silhouettes of about twenty crows sitting at the very top of a tree or flying just above the trees

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H.K. Andersen @hkandersen.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Bloomington is a very lovely place in the fall. Had some fantastic philosophy of science discussions today and set up for even more tomorrow

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H.K. Andersen @hkandersen.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Flying out of Vancouver is pretty much always some flavour of gorgeous

A view of a ridge of very rocky sharp mountains with the tops covered in snow, fading into a far horizon of even more mountains, seen over the wing of an airplane

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H.K. Andersen @hkandersen.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Heading into the long weekend with some atmosphere. Philosophers: do have a strong, or mild, preference for reading papers when its one paper with that hang together at 14k-ish words, or two shorter papers that each have less in terms of a point but also are only 7-8k each? #philsci #philsky

Dark looming clouds that are slightly out of focus are visible through a window with streaks of rain on it. The streaks are in crisp focus and the little drops are silvery and bright.

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H.K. Andersen @hkandersen.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Happy Mid-autumn harvest festival weekend! I made fusion mooncakes, cookie outside with a paste of dates and four kinds of nuts inside. Metro Vancouver style energy snacks, because I absolutely have to finish this draft today.

View looking down into a tin lined with paper, holding four stacks of mooncakes. Two stacks are round with a flower pattern on top, two stacks have square cookies with a different flower pattern on top. This picture was taken earlier today and already those stacks are half gone.

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H.K. Andersen @hkandersen.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Time lapse cloud drama looking northward. Fresh breeze through the window makes this stage of writing less sloggish. #sfu

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H.K. Andersen @hkandersen.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

A lovely moment shared with Ebeneezer Murderbeak on the walk in. They played with that mallard decoy! Pushing it around like a toy duck. And they coo'd at me! You can hear them make little cozy sounds if you listen closely. Definitely improved my day to be counted as birdfriend. #sfu #heron

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H.K. Andersen @hkandersen.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Ebeneezer Murderbeak is back! Just in time for the start of Fall term. Here he is atop the AQ, admiring some brutalist Arthur Erickson architecture in the morning light filtered through wildfire smoke. Waiting for his moment to lecture some students and snack on some koi. #sfu

A grey heron sits atop a concrete brutalist building. The building has regular lines but they are somewhat distorted because of the angle at which the photo was taken. The light is weirdly sepia coloured, a result of all the smoke.

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H.K. Andersen @hkandersen.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Oh summer garden drama. Stolen rhubarb-weird? but whatever. Then stolen tomatoes, which is pure sacrilege. After 8 years w/out a single apple, our little tree did so well! Kids were proud. Till a bear sat on it and squashed the whole thing, trellis and tree. Still a great garden year, though

The wreckage of an espaliered apple tree trellis, broken into pieces and pushed over, with trees branches through it. There are a lot of apples on the tree, still rather small and green but also delicious.

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H.K. Andersen @hkandersen.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

A fantastic discussion last night about climate change, how nice it is to NOT be at war, found & built family & community, queer culture & robot culture, for Automatic Noodle @annaleen.bsky.social Already planning the next Phil&Scifi syllabus, feeling lucky to live in hopepunkville AKA Vancouver

A hand holds up a book, Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz. The cover is very colourful, with teal and purplish reds shading into bright orange and yellow

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H.K. Andersen @hkandersen.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Got the new Chuck Tingle novel on release day, cracking it open to start tonight 💀🎲🗡️🏳️‍🌈

Inside cover page of Lucky Day by Chuck Tingle

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H.K. Andersen @hkandersen.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

Bad news is I found a wasp nest. Good news is somehow it looks very cozy and homey? I kinda want to crawl inside with some tea and a blanket and book and take a nap?

A paper wasp nest hangs nestled in the fronds of a cedar tree, viewed from the same height as the nest. The surface of the nest is whorled and woody, like an old but well maintained wooden cabin on a stormy pacific beach.

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H.K. Andersen @hkandersen.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

Went for a long lovely walk this evening. He used to be so much smaller on evening walks on this trail! But also the trees used to be shorter, so. It gives pics of him here this kind of out-of-time character

A trail into a forest. The sides are dense with bushes, and small logs lay across the entry of the trail, which help you hop over the muddy bits during rainy season. Trees rise with eerie thin light grey trunks, and leaves only up at the top canopy layer. The back of a child is visible, walking up the inclined trail into the forest. The pic is all in black and white.

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H.K. Andersen @hkandersen.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Saw an exhibit of work by Håkon Gullvåg at this sprawling hilltop fortress in Halden, in one of the old storehouses. Teens were enthralled and terrified, they refused to be alone with it. This trio was my favourite, reminded me of The Twisted Ones by @tkingfisher.com

A painting about two meters by two meters, under visible timbered ceiling against white walls with two deep window alcoves, a meter or so deep. The painting has a black background and is of a game animal, maybe a reindeer? But kind of a skeleton of the animal, its face is like a skull. There are brishes of browns and dark oranges that dont seem directly representational but are somehow very horror esque.

Same as other painting, a different animal, maybe a kind of deer, where the animal is part skeleton, or flesh is melting, or something. Hard to deacribe but the effect is unsettling.

Another unsettling animal thst is mostly skeleton with flesh melting off.

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H.K. Andersen @hkandersen.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

One nice small moment a day for #pride month. Today, listening to these two read out loud in the hammock in the evening, I learned what chelicerae are

A dad and tween kid snuggled in a hammock reading a book, viewed so their heads but not faces are visible. The book could be read if zoomed in. It is about spiders. The hammock is on a small patio with greenery surrounding it. The summer evening sun washes it all in a gentle warm light.

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H.K. Andersen @hkandersen.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

#pride these shoes did not step on any centipedes today 4/4

A pair of bright red shoes on the authors feet in a book filled office

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H.K. Andersen @hkandersen.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

A small nice moment in a pic for today's Pride celebration. This mango. Best one I have ever eaten #pride

A round mango with a very vibrant dark orange colour and swirl patterns on the skin, sitting on a plain wooden table

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H.K. Andersen @hkandersen.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Happy pride! Still celebrating with one small nice moment each day. Today: had my headphones on as I walked across campus towards home so I ran smack into pedestrian traffic jam (of the scenic and sonic variety). Talking the long way round and enjoying the pipes and drums #pride #SFU

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H.K. Andersen @hkandersen.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Pride month pic-a-day! Youngest told us last night that BTW he needs 10 crème brûlées for "french cafe" language class tomorrow. We improvised - 1 big dish, and 10 patches of burnt sugar that will surely be soggy by the time they eat it, but also serve as scooping guides for the kids. Phew! #pride

An oval clear glass baking dish with yellow creme brulee in it. There are ten little patches of dark brown burnt sugar on top, with spaces in between, because trying to spoon through a full top of burnt sugar that spent the day in a fridge getting soggy would be a total mess for kids to try and serve.

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H.K. Andersen @hkandersen.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Happy pride! One pic a day. I have been reminiscing about different neighbourhoods in LA I got to live or spend time in. I wish I had a pic of one of those little lizards that hang around outside. Instead, here is a cat that came over one afternoon and chilled with us #pride

A lovely ragdoll cat emerges from a doorway.

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H.K. Andersen @hkandersen.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

The war zone in LA today is gutting me. Not surprised that this city has so many people standing up. I lived on and off in Socal; there will be no LA left if you let ICE work. Thank you for your bravery, I am so sorry it is this awful Today's pride pic for them, a coyote caught on night cam #pride

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H.K. Andersen @hkandersen.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

A pic each day of Pride month to celebrate small lovely moments. On a walk yesterday evening with friends to the sunset viewing hill at Burnaby Mountain park. Clear view all the way out to Vancouver island. #pride #SFU

A panoramc view of Metro Vancouver, looking westward. Burrard inlet and the north shore mountains are visible. There are streets and neighborhoods laid out in a grid over big hills, and a cluster of high rises in the middle distance. The sky is orange with sunset light and a high layer of grey-blue clouds above.

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H.K. Andersen @hkandersen.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Happy pride! Some electric pink ginormous rhododendron blooms glowing in the afternoon light #pride

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H.K. Andersen @hkandersen.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Posting a nice moment each day for Pride month, and also, my Science and Values seminar took a field trip today! We went to Rudy Reimer/Yumks archaeology field school in Squamish. He showed around the area and gave us a lot of background knowledge about the area. Super interesting #pride #philsky

A group of out of focus philosophy MA students listen to the local archaeological expert on Squamish historical sites, while standing in the aide of a road in the middle of a whole set of sites that go back 1500 to 12 thousand years

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H.K. Andersen @hkandersen.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Happy Pride month! Pic of a small lovely moment each day. Here is a jewel-encrusted bee doing a barre routine in a gorgeously blue iris near sunset #pride

A fuzzy big bee with shiny eyes and leg bits on a grass stem, leg extended and on the stem as if doing a ballet routine warm up. The stem is right in the middle of a blue iris with yellow highlights and a very deep, rich colour.

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H.K. Andersen @hkandersen.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

So much awful stuff going on and not many avenues for me to help, which overall makes me avoid posting. But it's Pride Month! So a joyful pic each day this month to celebrate small lovely moments. Youngest Child holding a salmonberry wet with fresh rain, on an evening walk #pride

A hand holds up a bright red berry, rather like a raspberry but more golden tinged in hue. Out of focus behind the hand is a trail, with trees framing a blue sky and greenery all around

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H.K. Andersen @hkandersen.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Drama weather out the window today, to go with seminar discussion on Davidson (Actions, Reasons, and Causes; and Laws and Cause) and some Hornsby (Agency and Actions). Putting this after Sellars on Scientific Image, Hempel on DN, and von Wright on action and causation, has been great #philsky

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H.K. Andersen @hkandersen.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Terry Fox sporting a new spring hat #SFU

A statue of Terry Fox, viewed from behind, on which sits perched a rather chipper crow. It is glossy black in the morning sun, framed against the blue sky and some of those weird bushes Arthur Erickson put around the Academic Quadrangle at Simon Fraser University campus. This is no quothing raven, it is definitely a spring chicken I mean crow.

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H.K. Andersen @hkandersen.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Great discussions so far at the Res Philosophica Pragmatism and Scientific Inquiry conference. And this room! #philsci

A screen announces the conference title. A wall with three stained glass windows is behind.

A wide angle view of the room, four stories of outer floor library walkways and a soaring ceiling in huge pine timbers in the style of a lutheran church. But, with Jesuit art.

A view across the room at the top floor view, with ornate metal railings as well.

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H.K. Andersen @hkandersen.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

The Cambridge book table was 👍 this APA. Got both these, total cost $14USD. I've read the Chang book electronically but still prefer to read paper. And I did not even realize Khalidi's book was out! The start of the summer reading pile #philsci #philsky

Two paperback academic books books lay side by side on a wooden surface. On the left is Realism for Realistic People by Hasok Chang. On the right is Cognitive Ontology: Taxonomic practices in the mind-brain sciences by Muhammed Ali Khalidi.

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H.K. Andersen @hkandersen.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Still life in printing room. After a lot of discussion, we are still going to the P-APA. 2 (of 4) travellers in our party may have trouble at the border, for different reasons. Main deciding factor is that we cross at the airport, on Canadian soil. This is not professionally sustainable #philsky

A corner on an office counter. Grey and beige. A black cable plugs into a socket with orange outlets. A stack of pamphlets sits in a pile. An upside down apple rests alone.

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H.K. Andersen @hkandersen.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Canada is so serious about keeping away those HFCS midwest superheroes that SFU has started growing kryptonite

A koi pond in a green space surrounded by a mid century modern academic building. On the surface of the water, in the foreground, is a strange green looking unknown thingy that had a spiky crystalline shape. It could be kryptonite.

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H.K. Andersen @hkandersen.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

I usually recommend to people going to Pitt for the first time that they go to the front of the Cathedral of Learning, up those stairs by the lion head, and then through the revolving doors to get the full "they weren't joking about the Cathedral" effect. #philsky #philsci

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H.K. Andersen @hkandersen.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

I just got such a lovely present from a student: my own embosser! I have a lending library of philosophical scifi/fantasy, usually just write my name inside the cover. Now I can emboss IT IS VERY SATISFYING And has a theme in the middle from a book we read in class, A Psalm for the Wildbuilt.

A copper embosser, the handheld variety, rests on a blank sheet of paper. Next to it is a gold seal that it had embossed. The outer words read, From the Library of Holly Andersen. Inside the circle of these words, there is a stack of books with a mice steaming cup of tea.

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H.K. Andersen @hkandersen.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

I have seen a lot of deer around here and none of them are sporting a rack like that. I think the deer paid off the designer. And maybe to have the crows left off, too. Doing the crows wrong to put a pigeon there. The seagulls would also like a word. #SFU

A sign in a wide covered plaza. It is red, with a large Caution at the top. Then, it reads, Do Not Feed the Wildlife. There are four animal silhouettes. One is a bear, which okay, there are a couple bears who hang around, but mostly only come on campus for leftover Tim Hortons. There is a deer with a huge set of antlers, four points to a side. The most ever spotted by this author was two points a side. A racoon silhouette, which is also weirdly chubby but that is pretty accurate because the raccoons will mug you for your food. They will chase you off and be terrifying and somehow cute at the same time. The fourth and final silhouette is a pigeon. There are oretty much no pigeons on campus. But the crows rule this mountain top. They remember your face. Feed them small snacks to build your crow army.

If the sign were really accurate, it would also have a seagull and a heron.

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H.K. Andersen @hkandersen.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Some pragmatism and scientific inquiry coming up, St. Louis in late April #philsci #philsky

A poster for a Res Philosophica conference titled Pragmatism and Scientific Inquiry. The conference is April 25 to 26 at St. Louis University. There is a webpage for more info that is on the resphilosophica.org website for conferences. It is open to the public and registration is requested. Speakers listed are Holly Andersen, Matthew Brown, Sharyn Clough, Sabina Leonelli, Joseph Rouse, and David Stump.

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H.K. Andersen @hkandersen.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Burrard inlet and Mount Seymour view. Taking a deep breath this weekend.

A long freighter ship sits in a patch of light on fark water, with a gently lit mountain behind it and lights from houses along the shore. It is night. The ski hill lights and freighter lights highlight one another.

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H.K. Andersen @hkandersen.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

It is weird and hard to focus on writing deadlines instead of the rapid escalation of authoritarianism next door. But one thing I can do is make sure SFU remains functional with institutional processes in place. So: writing deadlines. Teaching. Etc. Argh. New boots. Alt text is my new photo fave.

View of the phototakers feet in new black suede boots with plaid red and black laces. The boots go above the ankle and are welted with white thread. The feet are crossed at the ankle on a wooden desk. Out of focus bookshelves in the background suggest an academic office. They look like the kind of boots that would be good for a snowy walk across campus, or for kicking ass and taking names. The red and black laces bring a very "Canada does not want your bullshit" vibe.

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