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Heather Clitheroe 🇨🇦 @lectio.bsky.social · 20h

Looks like the flu and covid vaccination booking has quietly opened up in Alberta: myhealth.alberta.ca/topic/immuni...

myhealth.alberta.ca

Book an immunization appointment

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Monique AC @moniqueac.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It was such a pleasure to be part of this project. You can ready story, “Foliaceous” at the link.

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Dr Sho Jacobs 🍁 @shoshanahjacobs.ca · 02/10/2026

What will our world feel like when the Climate collapses? Sci-Fi authors partnered with artists and scientists to imagine. They created the prototypes of our uncertain future #ManufacturedEcosystems is funded by @sshrc-crsh.canada.ca New Frontiers in Research books.lib.uoguelph.ca/manufactured...

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Manufactured Ecosystems

Manufactured Ecosystems offers seven visions of ecosystems services in the future by science fiction writers from across Canada and North America. Featuring stories by Chinelo Onwualu, Jennifer Gougé,...

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ESA Space Science @science.esa.int · 28/09/2026

A successful Earth flyby improves Juice’s course to Jupiter Earlier today, Juice flew just 8640 km above the Indian Ocean and snapped these images with its onboard monitoring cameras. 1️⃣Africa, by Juice monitoring camera 2️⃣Madagascar, by Juice NavCam 3️⃣Moon, by Juice NavCam 🔭 🧪 #planetsci

Mostly black space, most of Earth visible at the top right of the image. Part of a spacecraft visible on the left.

Part of the island of Madagascar in black and white.

A crescent Moon, with about a quarter of the Moon showing. Many craters are visible.

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 22/09/2026

Happy mushroom season!

A comic titled "Types of mushrooms" with 12 mushroom species. A wrinkly-looking morel is labeled "creepy but tasty". A brownish deadly galerina is labeled "boring but deadly". A witch's butter on a branch is labeled "jiggles if you poke it". A large puffball is labeled "egg". A creepy red-dripping bleeding tooth fungus is labeled "deeply disconcerting". A fly agaric with a green treefrog sitting under it is labeled "frog umbrella". A black chanterelle is labeled "chalice for forbidden elixers". Three straight-stemmed entolomas are labeled "haha, nipples". A bright purple viscid violet cort is labeled "purple is nice". A birch polypore sticking out of a birch trunk is labeled "tree nose". A complex yellow-tpped coral fungus is labeled "cursed citadel where dwells a fairy queen". A Ravenel's stinkhorn is pixellated at the top for your safety, and labeled "NSFW".

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Heather Clitheroe 🇨🇦 @lectio.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Found out last night I did not win the $50k award I was nominated for; found out this morning I did not win the $10k prize I had put in for. 😢

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Heather Clitheroe 🇨🇦 @lectio.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I've been using post-it flags in books for my candidacy exam somebody has just realized he can pluck them from books. VERY NOT GOOD.

Orange cat about to bite a paper page flag

Orange cat pulling said flag out of book.

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Heather Clitheroe 🇨🇦 @lectio.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Starting to pick the apples from our alley tree. They're looking good this year!

A res bucket brimming with apples harvested from the apple tree in our alley.

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Heather Clitheroe 🇨🇦 @lectio.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Have been in a first aid class for two days with way too many people with main character energy and what finally shut them down was a MIME in full face paint walking by.

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Heather Clitheroe 🇨🇦 @lectio.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Have reached the 'having nightmares about showing up to candidacy exams unprepared' stage of candidacy prep.

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Trevor A. Branch @trevorabranch.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

This is seismic news for fisheries scientists. Northern cod is *the* iconic symbol of total fisheries collapse due to overfishing (and other factors) *and* the iconic symbol of a complete failure to recover for decades afterwards. This is like announcing the complete recovery of bison on land.

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cm 🍁 @cmcalgary.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Some sad news. @harrymsanders.bsky.social has passed away. He was a local historian and author, and was involved in many different things in Calgary over the years. He was 59. Obituary tributearchive.com/obituaries/4...

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Harry Sanders Obituary | McInnis and Holloway Funeral Homes | Calgary, AB

View Harry Sanders's complete obituary, share memories, and explore heartfelt tribute posts from the community.

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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Three panel comic. Panel 1: a horseshoe crab watches as a variety of prehistoric creatures swim towards an ethereal light. An ammonite calls back to the crab, “come on, horseshoe crab! We’re all evolving!” Panel 2: the horseshoe crab stays in position and replies, “nahh that’s crazy” Panel 3: the horseshoe crab is superimposed in front of a future premonition: a rather miserable-looking human slouched in the glow of a desktop computer. The horshoe crab swims away and says, “good luck tho”

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Heather Clitheroe 🇨🇦 @lectio.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

If we put King Charles on the loonie, can we call it a chuck buck?

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National Association of Writers in Education @nawewriters.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Full programme announced for Writing Worlds, this year's NAWE Online Conference, 13 & 14 Nov. If you teach or facilitate creative writing, this is the event for you. Come & connect, share, inspire & be inspired. Early Bird discounts until 18 Sep. Info at bit.ly/3jgXMup

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Heather Clitheroe 🇨🇦 @lectio.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Finished Roy Bhaskar's 'A Realist Theory of Science,' and I'm struck by how similar the notion of all scientific knowledge building on its antecedents is to T. S. Eliot's discussion of poetry in 'Tradition and the Individual Talent.' Both exploring disciplines that are intrinsically social acts.

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Stephanie Carvin @stephaniecarvin.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Wake up, babe. The Prime Minister just dropped “hydronym”.

The name Lake Ontario comes from the Wendat word Ontari’io, which, appropriately, means “the lake is beautiful, the lake is big”.

The name is more than 400 years old, predating both the Confederation of Canada and the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America.

We know that America is changing. Their trading relationships, their foreign policies, their national monuments, their hydronyms.

Canadians also know that naming reality means calling it Lake Ontario – then, now and always.

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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 24/08/2026

What if we...

a button design: button is yellow and black for aposematic purposes, and reads 'if you use a.i. don't talk to me, i will bite your face clean off your skull.' in the middle is a bitey-looking beetle with a little skull making a sad face above its mandibles.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 22/08/2026

Watching Prime Minister Carney discussing the breakdown of the Canada-US trade deal at a press conference and just really appreciating living in a country where the leader can speak coherently and knowledgeably about what is actually happening.

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D. Haywick🍁⚒️🎨 @sedhead402.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

One of the NFB's best. As well as the Log Drivers Waltz www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDlP...

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The Log Driver’s Waltz. A Canadian favourite from 1979.

YouTube video by Life in Canada

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Heather Clitheroe 🇨🇦 @lectio.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Watching the CBC rebroadcast of the last Hip concert. What a gift Gord Downie and the band were -- and still are -- to Canada.

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Jackbrat @jackbrat.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I'm going to do my duty as a Canadian tonight and watch "The Tragically Hip: A National Celebration" on CBC. I can't believe it's already been 10 years since we said good-bye to this incredible band 🇨🇦🥺🕊️

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Tragically Hip Canadian Band

ALT: Tragically Hip Canadian Band

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Andrew Baker 🇨🇦 @abakern7.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

You can all watch the Tragically Hip concert here at any time I believe.

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The Tragically Hip: A National Celebration

YouTube video by CBC Music

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Heather Clitheroe 🇨🇦 @lectio.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Did a thing today where we had professional feedback after giving a talk about our research. My "growth feedback" was "you should smile more."

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Man's Fake Smile & Annoyed Reaction

ALT: Man's Fake Smile & Annoyed Reaction

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Marc "Candy Corn" Criley @marcc.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Lush green trees in front of a thick green forested hill with the exception of a single tree sporting orange leaves. A speech bubble from that tree says, "Fuck Summer I'm Done"

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Heather Clitheroe 🇨🇦 @lectio.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

The third most worried man in the world will see you now.

Trailer door with sign that reads #3 Worried Man. A sign taped above it says 'open and close doors quietly please and thank you!'

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Heather Clitheroe 🇨🇦 @lectio.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Seen on a run, just when I needed to see it.

Graffiti on a wooden railing, written in black marker on wood that says "Self love is important. Bless up."

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Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

As folks gear up for the new semester, a reminder if anyone needs it, my Ai statement is available for people to make use of in their own materials. It’s downloadable and printable from my site here spinweaveandcut.com/fall-2025-sy...

a snippet of a mini-comic, at top - straight line stretches from point A to B. Immediately below, same dot at A, then becomes a curving, meandering line that winds through the page and ends at a point with rays and a question mark emanating from it. Text reads: "Nothing can do this for you - for that robs you of experience and conflates answers with learning. Rather, it's all the decisions you make along the way, the mistakes, struggles, and surprises! These pathways you create - this is learning.

https://spinweaveandcut.com/fall-2025-syllabi/

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Heather Clitheroe 🇨🇦 @lectio.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

In other news have eye exam at the end of the month as I'm sure I need more a bump to my reading prescription. Maybe humanities PhDs are actually a scheme cooked up by Big Optometry.

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Heather Clitheroe 🇨🇦 @lectio.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I took a brief break this weekend from candidacy reading....to read. Finished Mac Barnett's "Make Believe: On Telling Stories to Children," Caro Clair Burke's "Yesteryear," and Temi Oh's "Not With A Bang."

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Mindy Weisberger @laminda.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Boss-level science communication here, 10/10 no notes

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Heather Clitheroe 🇨🇦 @lectio.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Burger King had a good kemmer, it seems.

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Mark O’Neill 🐻 @radiobeartime.com · 07/08/2026

Ulysses being interviewed

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M.R. Robinson @mruthrobinson.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Wishing a very happy fall semester to one and all!

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Heather Clitheroe 🇨🇦 @lectio.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

One time the yoofs made Premee and me BOTH cry and we were trying hard not to be choked up over this writing prompt that was so finely wrought and deeply poignant. it was heart-shaking but in all the right ways. then the kiddo was okay bye ttyl gg everybody and we were left in an empty meeting room

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Adam Rawnsley @arawnsley.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Today, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

THREAD/ORIGINAL ART GIVEAWAY This hare linoprint is by my mum, Jo. I'll be sending an original of this to one randomly chosen person who reposts this link to my recently updated website & pops a reply below. www.tom-cox.com The offer is open worldwide. I also have some more art to give away...

A meadow hare, filled with flowers, cut from lino by my mum, Jo.

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Meg Mindlin @invertebabe.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

A conversation science communicators need to have about AI art 🧪🐙🐡🧵

WHY THIS ARGUMENT IS FULL OF CRAP
"Al graphics allow me to communicate science to people who may never get to interact with a scientist"
A CONVERSATION
SCIENCE
COMMUNICATORS
NEED TO HAVE
@invertebabe

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Heather Clitheroe 🇨🇦 @lectio.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

@premeemohamed.com we're on the way! Remember it's yahoo and not yeehaw!

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Heather Clitheroe 🇨🇦 @lectio.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

17 books left on my candidacy reading list. The office space I'm assigned as a grad student is pretty awful, so I decided to rent a desk at a co-working company downtown. I go after work and on the weekends, and it's been incredibly productive.

Candidacy countdown reads 17 items remaining, 122 items completed, 77 days left!

The view from the desk I'm renting - a high rise office desk looking out at skyscrapers and the river valley beyond.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Content will never make you feel as alive as does this holy trinity of “yet agains”

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