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Heather Clitheroe @lectio.bsky.social · 21h

It was like being in a museum exhibit. I've been reading 'May We Feed the King' by Rebecca Perry so it felt especially mimetic. The commitment to the experience was pretty admirable.

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Heather Clitheroe @lectio.bsky.social · 21h

I am working as a ballot counter on election night, and today I went for training and discovered that the election office has a mock polling station set up...right down to the 'I voted!' stickers!

The mock polling station set up for training election workers even includes a roll of the 'I voted' stickers.

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Heather Clitheroe @lectio.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I've been watching for it, too - planning to book when it opens up!

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Heather Clitheroe @lectio.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

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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Heather Clitheroe @lectio.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

That is...kinda wild, actually.

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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

Thanks for the link to the paper!

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

Indigenous communities have kept long records in a number of ways - I've seen a winter count robe that had weather data going back quite some time. There's a good paper out of Ecology and Evolution here about weaving Indigenous knowledge with Western: doi.org/10.1002/ece3...

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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

I work with these programs from time to time -- the legal agreements can be a bit of a pain, but the training opportunities they present are really substantial, and the funding actually makes it possible to be able to go. It's such a good use of science diplomacy.

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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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Heather Clitheroe @lectio.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

How the scenarios play out isn't necessarily prescient, but the ideas behind them have curious echoes to now.

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Heather Clitheroe @lectio.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Hoyle's The Black Cloud has an interesting perspective on how the world reacts to the arrival of an alien (the story gets a little wonky after a while, though). 'The Death of Grass' has an interesting perspective on food security; 'The Demolished Man' commercializes telepathy...

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Heather Clitheroe @lectio.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Is this CFP for a journal or a conference?

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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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Heather Clitheroe @lectio.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Apparently mathematicians do the pedigree thing, too...I thought the math people I know were have a laugh until they sent me the official genealogy site. www.genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu

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Welcome! - The Mathematics Genealogy Project

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Heather Clitheroe @lectio.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Also access to painkillers and antibiotics

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Heather Clitheroe @lectio.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

You have an allowance of 300 a year In coloured under things

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

OMG I remember reading this!!

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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 · 01/09/2026

Congratulations on the long list!! That's so awesome. :)

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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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Heather Clitheroe @lectio.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Think of the benefit to the metric for your ridership! I do that when I feel bad about taking the bus. Do it! For statistics!

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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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