Heather Clitheroe

Boots and I had a very good canter today!

The electrochemical society conference is downtown and I overheard a chemist say 'I wonder if they think we're tourists.' My dude you are carrying a chemistry textbook yes we think you're not from here.

My apartment is a disaster, I had nightmares of pipes breaking and flooding it and my entire building, my work emails are piling up, and I have one week left in my candidacy exams. Everything is fine. It's all fine. Everything.

Saw this on a TikTok Livestream just now. They got some snow in Fort Mac.

OMG first draft of all my exam papers are DONE.

Were you bitten or scratched by a skunk in the DT/ Stanley Park area between Sept 22 and Oct 17? Then you need to talk to a doctor ASAP and be assessed for potential rabies exposure. VCH said a skunk tested positive for rabies. Anyone exposed can be given a post-exposure vaccine and stay healthy.

Music playlists coming up strong: today is Radiohead's Okay Computer to start.

Day I don't even know of writing my candidacy exams. I've got one paper left to do (it's started; I'm aiming to finish today). They're all due next Friday at noon; I want to be ready to edit. Also I keep trying and trying to silence the Lean Library popups.

I signed up to count ballots in the Alberta referendum - 7pm to 7am. It's all hand counting, so a very long night...but also a real privilege to see how our democracy works. It probably sounds corny, but I was thinking about the generations of women who were denied the vote whole I was counting.

It’s our country. It’s our future. Let’s keep building Canada strong, together.

Hour 9000 of counting ballots. I found some face wipes in my bag left over from a trip to Singapore. Much rejoicing as we freshened.

On hour six of a twelve hour shift counting ballots for the election. Democracy is starting to smell a little whiffy and look a little rumpled.

On hour six of a twelve hour shift counting ballots for the election. Democracy is starting to smell a little whiffy and look a little rumpled.

This month The Printmakers Matrix contest theme is harvest, so I thought I would submit this print I made for my Manufactured Ecosystems art show about the future of pollinators and pollination. Every crop in my 16” x 20” linocut is one we harvest here

Loving that I just referenced this Guardian story in my field of study exam. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Updating a syllabus and almost named it the Curse Outline, which makes me wonder if we could. If we should. Could we?

Public libraries are becoming so popular even the bears have started trying to get cards. www.instagram.com/reel/DeftV9x...

The most fun I've had in a bibliography!

I just backed LIGHTSPEED & NIGHTMARE: Award-Winning SF, Fantasy, & Horror on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/lig...

Also I am steadily at work on my field of study exams for my candidacy.

The secret is out! My hopeful* little story, "Forward", is in the "Are You Everything Alright" anthology. What if the internet went down and never came back up? *ignore that section in the middle where the narrator lists off everyone she knows who has died recently

👏 Bravo to the finalists of the 2026 #SSHRC Impact Awards! Discover more about these remarkable researchers. sshrc-crsh.canada.ca/en/news/2026... #ImpactAwards

'Best Kebab', Old Street, Hoxton (2003) by Georgia Peskett georgiapeskett.com

Not quite how I expected it to begin, but @alexhughescapell.bsky.social's Mindspace novels anticipated this...

Keep an eye on your internet-connected ovens and lawnmowers. "Anthropic has warned that rogue “AI worms” will soon be able to hijack smart home devices such as ovens and TVs, creating a new cyber security threat that will be difficult to contain."

Announcing our 2027 special issue - STORIES OF ACCESSIBLE FUTURES Submissions open in April 2027 to any author who identifies as a disabled person. More info on this sub call is available on our submissions page. See comments...

And for the record, I am a nationally-recognized doctoral student. Nobody gives me good reviews because they like me. I EARN them.

The SNL 'women dress like whores at the gym' bit just seems like par for the course - not just that he felt empowered to say it, but that people laughed. Misogyny runs so deep that it's running through EVERYTHING.

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This is such an amazing little story...so, so good.

Come away, O human child, and enjoy @mariness.bsky.social's new story of unexpected deals made with fairies in "The Bargain. kaleidotrope.net/autumn-2026/...

Discovering on Monday that your candidacy exams that are supposed to start on Friday haven't been scheduled because the supervisor hasn't secured the examiners is not exactly a great way to go into the second-most critical exams of your doctorate.

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.

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!

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

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...

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

Happy mushroom season!

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. 😢

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.

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

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.