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Heather Clitheroe 🇨🇦
@lectio.bsky.social
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PhD student in English lit, adult ed teacher, reader, spec fic writer, and all-around nerd and horsegirl. she/her/they/them
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Heather Clitheroe 🇨🇦 @lectio.bsky.social · Nov 10
Boots and I had a very good canter today!
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@mattcahill.bsky.social happy birthday to us!
November 15, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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whiskeynachos.bsky.social
ensured that even after 50 years, the Edmund Fitzgerald is *still* the last large ship lost on the Great Lakes. It's not just a meme, it's not just a song, it's given the families of working sailors peace of mind that they'd never had before 1975.
November 11, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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whiskeynachos.bsky.social
I'll finish out the day's Edmund Fitzgerald posting by pointing out that Gordon Lightfoot was afraid the shipwreck would just be forgotten, like the thousands of ships lost before her.

Thanks to him, their memory will live forever, and their fame brought about improvements to safety that have...
November 11, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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IT'S TIME!
The Wreck of The Edmund Fitzgerald (Live In Reno)
YouTube video by GordonLightfootVEVO
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November 11, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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Be a flu watcher! If you live in Canada, you get a weekly quiz (two questions) to help track respiratory illness. public.cnphi-rcrsp.ca/fluWatcher/r...
Sign up to be a FluWatcher - CNPHISign up to be a FluWatcher - CNPHI
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November 9, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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smallwondersmag.com
The professor in "Imagine Yourself Happy" by Premee Mohamed takes just four minutes to record a message. Take a few to read it and a few more to have a cry afterward:
Imagine Yourself Happy - Small Wonders
Isn't that interesting? I will die in perhaps two minutes because of something I couldn't even see.
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November 4, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Ghostly BCS for Halloween! "Where They Sleep" @lectio.bsky.social BCS #419: "the shades would wander out from the empty hills. People we knew. But more we didn't, moving slowly along in search of something, somebody. Then they would mill aimlessly" www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/wher...
Beneath Ceaseless Skies - Where They Sleep by Heather Clitheroe
On those late afternoons, when the day slipped away and the night lights came, the shades would wander out from the empty hills, down to the road. All kinds of them. People we knew. But more we didn't...
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October 29, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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You know things are bad when thousands of Albertans are watching the leg livestream at 8:45 in the evening lol #ableg #abpoli #abed #cdnpoli
October 28, 2025 at 2:44 AM
lectio.bsky.social
"Intelligence has indicated that an adversary nation has recently felt emboldened to stake a physical claim within the Canadian Arctic and enforce it militarily. Canada has responded through multiple avenues to dissuade any territorial incursion."
a goose is flying over a grassy field with the words come at me bro behind it
ALT: a goose is flying over a grassy field with the words come at me bro behind it
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October 23, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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"The DND/CAF is seeking visionary essays in hard science fiction that explore how emerging technologies can empower military forces to defend Canada’s sovereignty and national interests in the Arctic."

HARD SCI FI NO FEELINGS ALLOWED
a man and a woman are standing next to each other in a dugout .
ALT: a man and a woman are standing next to each other in a dugout .
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October 23, 2025 at 7:17 PM
lectio.bsky.social
Finally, a contest for @premeemohamed.com and @gianttourtiere.bsky.social... www.canada.ca/en/departmen...
IDEaS fictional intelligence contest: Polar paradigms 2045: Defending Canada’s sovereignty - Canada.ca
Think like an enemy. Disrupt like an innovator. Write like the future depends on it. This contest is a launchpad for game-changing ideas, arming military leaders with bold, mind-bending insights they ...
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October 23, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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a man says " you keep using that word " while talking to another man
ALT: a man says " you keep using that word " while talking to another man
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October 22, 2025 at 1:35 AM
lectio.bsky.social
Also I picked up a TA contract to help my department, and the contracts were all signed at the beginning of the October but somebody forgot to process the pay, so I was told I'd get paid in November followed by 'with kind regards'

idk but that did not feel like somebody's actual kind regards.
October 22, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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We got an active assailant false alert today, immediately followed by an email that said PLEASE DISREGARD LAST MESSAGE AS IT WAS ONLY A TEST MESSAGE, PLEASE DISREGARD LAST MESSAGE AS IT WAS ONLY A TEST MESSAGE

idk but the tone of the email didn't help.
October 22, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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olivia.science
Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
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Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece, we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to relevant work to further inform our colleagues. Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI (black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf. Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al. 2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA). Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe. Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles
September 6, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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Photo of a leaf on rocks with a river behind it.
October 20, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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carrietait.bsky.social
This photo accompanying a news story about the heist at the Louvre is perfection.
October 19, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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drdavidkeegan.bsky.social
🚨 This is inexplicable news to share. If in Alberta and you want flu and covid shots for NEXT year (2026-2027), you have only until December 15 of THIS year to order them.

This is not incompetence. It’s a deliberate choice to prevent as many people ..

bookvaccine.alberta.ca/vaccine/s/pr...

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October 18, 2025 at 4:54 PM
lectio.bsky.social
Had my flu and covid vaccination double header on Friday afternoon. Friday night: fever, Saturday: all day yuck, Sunday: much better!
October 13, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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October 11, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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Oh and the superfecta is that I also go and get my covid vaccine today!
October 10, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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It's a trifecta kind of day: payday, Friday, long weekend ahead. I plunked down my sweet treat allowance on the Ursula K. Le Guin short list, and also Kate Cayley's 'Property.'
October 10, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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ursulakleguin.com
We're thrilled to present the shortlist for the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction:
A white mug with the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction logo holds a spray of lavender next to a stack of the eight books shortlisted for this year's prize: North Continent Ribbon by Ursula Whitcher Remember You Will Die by Eden Robins The City in Glass by Nghi Vo Archangels of Funk by Andrea Hairston The Sapling Cage by Margaret Killjoy Rakesfall by Vajra Chandrasekera The West Passage by Jared Pechaček Blackheart Man by Nalo Hopkinson
June 18, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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WE'RE BLOGGING
October 7, 2025 at 1:58 AM
lectio.bsky.social
Scholastique Mukasabonga's Our Lady of the Nile (translated by Melanie L. Mauthner) was such a good read. Feels eerily familiar when reading it today and looking at America.
October 5, 2025 at 12:17 AM