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Susan Joudrey @sujo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

everything in my life feels very urgent right now, and i'm not a fan.

Tiffany @tiffzny.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Me, a few months ago: “there’s no way it’s worth spending money on maternity things, it is such a short amount of time! It’s such a waste!” Me, now: “I will spend any amount of money I need to if it makes me feel even 10% more comfortable for the next one to two months” 🫩

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Tiffany @tiffzny.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Whenever I’m in a crowd during an O Canada anthem I *always* tear up because it’s a *sing a long!!* and it’s always so wholesome to hear the whole audience participate BUT AT THE END OF MY OWN CITIZENSHIP CEREMONY? Cried. Full tears. 🇨🇦

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Tiffany @tiffzny.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Oh wow! This time next week, I'll be a Canadian citizen !!!!! It didn't *really* hit me how much this meant to me until I got the email just now and now I'm sitting at my desk tearing up so I'm very much looking forward to crying in a room full of folks like me next week!! 🇨🇦

iphone lockscreen screenshot, reads Notification Centre and below is an email from Gmail app with subject line that starts with "DN Cit HAL Scheduling / Convoca... Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship..." with body text "NOTICE TO APPEAR - Ceremony Avis de convocation - Ceremony Le francais suit... Good day, The purpose of this notice is to invite you to an In-Person Ca..."

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Tiffany @tiffzny.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

if it is nighttime with at least partially clear skies where you are, a lunar eclipse is in progress and the moon will go deeper into a a red colour now and over the next ~3 hours - go see if you can spot it from your bedroom window! 🌕

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Tiffany @tiffzny.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I am in the Midwest US where the moon is up but also there is a thunderstorm

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Tiffany @tiffzny.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Staying in the air-conditioned atrium with a glass ceiling was so smart

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Tiffany @tiffzny.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

We had such a good time. What a day! What luck with weather! So many kind folks and enthusiastic kiddos and incredibly helpful volunteers and even a few good dogs. ☀️

Image of Tiffany outdoors looking at the sky. There are people behind her.

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Tiffany @tiffzny.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

i have gotten so many emails and phone calls today and have done a handful of interviews and I'M LOVING FOLKS' EXCITEMENT FOR THIS (PARTIAL) SOLAR ECLIPSE weeeee ☀️🌑

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Tiffany @tiffzny.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Quoting only to put this to more eyeballs - I absolutely do nottttttt anticipate this level of craziness tomorrow! And, we’ll be in an area that doesn’t have just a single entrance! April 8, 2024 was bonkers! I still can’t believe how many people showed up.

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Tiffany @tiffzny.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Folks! I am running an event on SMU campus this Wednesday (Aug 12) for the PARTIAL SOLAR ECLIPSE. NS is best-suited in nearly all of North America to see this partial eclipse. We'll be giving out free eclipse glasses and will have SAFE solar telescopes out on the lawn. (ALT text in this image)

Partial solar eclipse viewing event at Saint Mary's University. Join us on the Saint Mary's University campus to observe the partial solar eclipse on Wednesday, August 12! Astronomy experts will have solar telescopes set up to safely view the sun during the eclipse and free eclipse glasses will be available (while supplies last). Do you have eclipse glasses from previous events? Bring them! We'll be easy to find on the lawn along Inglist Street beside the Burke Building. Please free free to drop by! Date: Wednesday, August 12 Time: 2-4pm Visit: https://observatory.smu.ca/whats-up for more info.

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Tiffany @tiffzny.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

no rain! Arkells and Jonas Brothers were 10/10 and tbh I also killed it jumping around through a show at 6 mo pregnant. Go us!

Photo of Tiffany and another woman at a Jonas brothers concert where you can see the brothers on stage just a bit behind them

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Tiffany @tiffzny.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I just spent about 10 minutes sitting in the shade in my driveway picking a containers-worth of blueberries; just what I could reach within arm’s length. This blueberry bush is ~7ft tall and goes down the length of our house. We have. A lot. Of berries.

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Tiffany @tiffzny.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

jonies show tomorrow looks like it’s gonna be HOT then it’s gonna be RAINY and tbh I much prefer the rain rather than the hot

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Tiffany @tiffzny.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

warm in the rooftop tin can / observatory dome

Blurry image of a thermometer held up in the observatory dome showing about 38C or 100F as the indoor temperature

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Tiffany @tiffzny.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

moonrise looks absolutely menacing over Dartmouth right now, enjoy this terrible photo

Image of a city intersection with lights and such but the RED MOON is seen in the sky

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Tiffany @tiffzny.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

As part of a group of amateur and professional astronomers specifically watching for either a flash from impact or a resulting plume, no one in the group (including me) has reported seeing anything yet, at least not anything obvious. Worth a shot here given the rare clear skies in NS, but now sleep

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Tiffany @tiffzny.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I don’t see anything in my image previews at this point and I’ve crashed the imaging software just like this rocket debris has crashed into the moon…. 🥴 Task failed? But images acquired? So maybe a success regardless? In any case, I’ll submit my images to teams Doing Science. 🚀

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David Dickinson @astrodave.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Space junk up, space junk down. We’ve got a high-interest doubleheader tonight, both centered on the U.S. Eastern Seaboard, both involving SpaceX: a pre-dawn launch, and a lunar impact.

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Tiffany @tiffzny.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Moon’s up. Tonight (aka morning of Aug 5) at 3:35am Atlantic, a large piece of SpaceX Falcon 9 debris will impact the edge of the moon (from our perspective). The impact flash itself is unlikely to be seen, but there may be a visible (with telescopes) plume extending out from the disc of the moon.

Image of the blue sky with tiny moon visible

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Tiffany @tiffzny.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

it's blueberry szn, the time of the year where i beg all my neighbours to help themselves to the berry bush before the birds get them all

image looking into a blueberry bush with a number of green berries but some perfectly blue berries

a container full of blueberries against a chunk of blueberry bush

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Tiffany @tiffzny.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

"wait, a microwave [oven] works because of light?" I asked, out loud; as a person with a masters degree in astrophysics, intensely involved in helping the public understand science... ok, whoops, my bad. can we blame this on the fact i'm barely sleeping & ~6 months pregnant? alright thanks guys

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Tiffany @tiffzny.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

this comic's title text: "All discussions of daylight saving time policy are doomed by a mix of contradictory, inconsistent, and impossible preferences, which is why I think the only thing we can really hope to do is to make it worse."

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M.J. Dunlavy @mdunlavyca.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

For no particular reason: here's an explanation for why the sun looks red when there's a lot of particles in the atmosphere. demos.smu.ca/demos/astron...

Tiffany @tiffzny.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I’m not living in the US anymore but if I were, my preference is permanent daylight time and not permanent standard time *ducks* Like you’re already on daylight time for 8 months of the year! It just makes sense to extend that rather than change 8 whole months to standard! *dodges tomatoes*

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Tiffany @tiffzny.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

chat, I don’t think this is where all these #10 buses should be rn

Cropped screenshot from the Transit app showing like 7 #10 buses from Halifax transit stuck on Gottigen street

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Tiffany @tiffzny.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

To me, the most impressive part of the World Cup is how country-specific supporters have been able to be at every game in droves! Tickets were so hard to buy and somehow there’s huge sections and huuuge numbers of people wearing the specific jerseys of the teams playing? I’m in awe.

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Tiffany @tiffzny.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

If you misplaced your broom, it’s on this Halifax Transit bus fyi

Photo of a long handled floor bristle brush broom leaning against four transit seats inside a bus

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Tiffany @tiffzny.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

people in the country I’ve lived for more than a decade tend to not like when I tell them (correctly) that Fahrenheit is the better temperature scale for everyday human-related things

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Dr. Adeene Denton @spacewhalerider.com · 11/05/2026

"Scientists don't want you to know-" Buddy there are so many things I, as a scientist, want you to know and the only thing stopping me from writing more papers and posts about it and then starting a podcast to tell you even MORE things is that I am limited by hours in the day

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 23/06/2026

Begging news outlets to stop illustrating deadly heat waves with happy beach fun 🏖️😎 and life-saving vaccines with terrifying needle assaults 💉😭. Especially on social media (where many/most people get their news) the photo is the most prominent part of the story; these choices undermine it completely

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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

There was one time, showing someone Saturn through the telescope, that I was asked "so is that between us and the moon or is it further away?" It's a logical question, with occultations like this 👇unequivocally proving that the planets are further away! 🔭🧪 📽️ Watch as Venus hides behind the moon 🤩

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Tiffany @tiffzny.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Visible from across much of Canada (and much more) today - in a few hours actually - the moon will cover up Venus in the sky for a short bit. However... viewing this in the sky requires LOTS OF PRECAUTION because it happens IN THE DAYTIME when the sun is up -- and the SUN IS DANGEROUS TO LOOK AT!!

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Tiffany @tiffzny.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Spotted: Venus, tiny Jupiter, and very thin crescent Moon. Mercury is likely in there somewhere but not bad from peering over the fence while my dogs were in the yard!

Photo of clear sky with shades of orange-blue in sunset. There’s a tiny crescent moon. There’s power lines, which an extremely faint dot of Jupiter lines within. Further left is bright dot Venus.

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Tiffany @tiffzny.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

I’m back from a week at the astronomy conference and I had the delight of being on an airplane put into a holding pattern for the first time because we didn’t pass visibility minimums at YHZ at 3am - but we eventually landed in fog so deep I could barely see the wing after landing!

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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Don't forget to watch for Jupiter and Venus together after sunset! On June 9 they'll be very close but even now it's good. Look west after sunset. If it's clear you can't miss them lowish to the horizon. Venus is very bright.

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Tiffany @tiffzny.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

a student brought me a sundae from the Dairy Bar (flavour of the week is banana + chocolate) and truly she needs to just be given her degree right now because she had it filled into a TRAVEL MUG so it wouldn't melt on her way to the office and this travel-mug-sundae idea is GENIUS 😭🙏🍦

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Tiffany @tiffzny.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

This is cool! Sign up to count bikes & pedestrians & more at a specific location and time to assist in collecting a snapshot of micromobility users across Canada. My physical health is 👎 right now so I can't commit to a shift, but I've seen others around Halifax share their counts! Check it out!

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Tiffany @tiffzny.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

I’ve been out of the Midwest for more than a decade now but it is still SO NICE to listen to a thunderstorm and not worry about if I have to take shelter. (It’s thundery over Halifax rn)

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Tiffany @tiffzny.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Moon through a small scope plus a view of the big Observatory dome from the rooftop. I popped in to the this weekend’s public tour of the BGO - and because I popped in, it all decided to quit working. So. I fixed it and let the (super!) PhD student lead the rest of the tour. Great clear night!

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Tiffany @tiffzny.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Moon’s up! Admittedly, it has been a long time since I’ve looked for it. 🌓

Image of blue sky with tree leaves in foreground and tiny moon in sky

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Tiffany @tiffzny.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Jorge and I had a lot of fun chatting about space stuff for @smuhalifax.bsky.social 's "Majorly Speaking" podcast. ✨

Image of two people with eclipse glasses on, sitting in a podcasting studio

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Tiffany @tiffzny.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

complaint: i could google "sunset july 4" to quickly get a simple, correct, sunset time for my location. NOWWW the Google AI overview gives a "summary" which much of the time includes an entirely incorrect sunset.

Screenshot of google search for "sunset july 3" where the AI overview pulls from Time and Date to show 9:02 PM as the sunset time (reasonable, correct)

Screenshot of Google search for "sunset july 4" which shows 8:22 PM as the sunset time... Which.... especially compared to July 3... is entirely incorrect

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Tiffany @tiffzny.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

I watched two YouTube videos and remembered enough about knitting to finish that hat that I last touched in Feb 2026. If you want to learn to knit hats, this video is so good: youtu.be/szX6slq2Q8Y

youtu.be

How to Knit a Hat for Complete Beginners

YouTube video by B.Hooked Crochet

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