Sara Hastings-Simon 🇨🇦

Hi from Alberta where I’m a professor at University of Calgary in the dept of earth energy and environment. I’m a physicist turned mgmt consultant turned think tanker now researching the energy transition. I love e-bikes and etrikes. And I’m currently on med leave fighting breast cancer.

Bill C-39 proposes one-year federal reviews for major projects. How much faster will it go? Will corners be cut? Can the duty to consult be met? Live webinar Oct 29, 2pm ET w/ environmental lawyer @claireseaborn.bsky.social, @shastingssimon.bsky.social & Ed. www.energyvsclimate.com/invited-buil...

That feeling two days after vaccination when you wake up not feeling like shit and knowing you are more protected against the flu and Covid 👏

Idk why we are taking about the Cheesecake Factory but it’s where I was introduced to the idea of the Portobello burger like 3 decades ago

I too would appreciate being fed nice snacks to distract me from medical procedures

Wether it’s Vivek attacking a sexual assault victim or Acton being assaulted as a 12yo, both sides are at fault. Thank you for having the courage to say this Joe Manchin

I’m not sure if this is just a location thing but the rate of full size or even king size candy bars at Halloween for trick or treating. I keep trying to impress upon my children how this was literally an urban legend when I was a child and it’s totally normal for them 🤯

My son told me he was learning about potential energy in science class today and without missing a beat I said “give me five…up high…no wait, down low” and I’m not sure I’ve ever been prouder of a reaction.

Turns out the happening place to be on a Friday afternoon is the local pharmacy. Had a great time (no really!) getting the family our covid and flu shots and running into @lindsaytedds.bsky.social and a neighbour I havent seen in agggessss.

I’ve apparently reached “wander away from the computer with your computer glasses on and spend the next hr trying to figure out why you can’t see well before it dawns on you” age 🤦‍♀️

Okay, people are STiLL iN LiNE at the Lavern polling station, and results can't roll out until everyone there has voted and the station has closed. Alberta politics has somehow levelled up.

Elections Alberts just confiirmed that they don't know if all of their polls are closed so that's why we don't have results. Given our top resource, it's wild how poorly an oiled machine we are.

Did someone just makeup 10:10 as the time they were going to tell us something?

Tuning into watch some results “Taxes have created an affordability crisis” Noping right out of that live stream.

Not to brag but I now take like $300 worth of these a day to try to make sure no cancer sneaks into my brain so i’m fancy fancy (why do they look like ibuprofen?!)

Protestors Criticized For Looting Businesses Without Forming Private Equity Firm First https://theonion.com/protestors-criticized-for-looting-businesses-without-fo-1843735351/

I got to celebrate with @thatheatherc.bsky.social today and yet again reminded how awesome she is and how knowing her and learning from her makes me more awesome

The idea that something is now a nonnegotiable because it is widely used is absurd. I am 45. Do you have any idea how much and how often the consumer landscape has changed over the course of my life? Demand, rules, infrastructure—all of these things change.

Thanks to my dad I now know there is a Chicago song that was written for Nov 1st in Calgary when we will all be late (or early?) to our meetings and events as the time doesn’t change. m.youtube.com/watch?v=9FzC...

so many good ideas from people here (now me trying to figure out how im going to fit everything into this class!)

Seriously, in a world that seems increasingly disposable it is so satisfying to take care of things and see them last. (if you are in YYC I can highly recommend Jose from theshinedrop.com).

For whoever else needed to hear this (like me) - it’s ok if you don’t want to (or know how) to do the work of caring for you leather boots. You can find a small buisness and have someone do a much better job and end up with shoes that look amazing even though they are 5 or 20(!!?!) years old

Energy policy friends - I'm working on my course plans for winter term and would love some suggestions. What is your favourite energy policy example (and why? what does it illustrate that you think students should know about energy policy)

Yes Bayern should have played better but why in the world is a ref who was suspended last year by the Bulgarian association reffing a Champions league game?! The decision not to give cards for the early fouls against Kimich and Olise was nonsense.

Just want to share that my new book finally has a title!! *The Secret Life of Science: How research is biased and why we need it anyway* will be published with the Yale University Press trade division It puts many best hits of philosophy of science, feminist epistemology, and STS together...

I feel like we in Alberta are not worried enough about the scheduling issues that will come up Nov 1 after the not time change time change. Its like Y2k but it only impacts a few million people and its not clear who is working on it and we have decimated all our IT departments since then.

For reasons - dinner a day early (and with our traditional rotisserie chicken rather than turkey). Happy thanksgiving 🍁🍂

Time for 2026 updates to my annual “opinions about solar” thread, now with storage. If you like these, you might like edition 2 of my book, Solar Power Finance Without The Jargon. A 30% discount code WSQ0437 is valid on publisher website til end of Nov 2026. www.worldscientific.com/worldscibook...

What might look like the notebook of a very organized person but is really the last ditch attempt using ever brain cell and coping strategy to overcome the side effects of the cancer meds and continue to function.

Heat pumps for 🇨🇦 (1 million homes is a bit over 5 or 6% of households in the country by my count) www.canada.ca/en/environme...