Ruthanna Emrys
@r-emrys.bsky.social
Author of A Half-Built Garden, Winter Tide, and Deep Roots. Freelance consultant on science policy, policy science, and the future of democracy, governance, and networks. Queer Jewish parent, foodie, cognitive science nerd, collective decision-making wonk.
On my way home from World Fantasy, I stopped by the LeGuin map exhibit at the AA Gallery. Gorgeous and strange, as much meditation space as museum display. I spent a long time contemplating stones and the flows that shape them.
November 4, 2025 at 1:51 PM
On my way home from World Fantasy, I stopped by the LeGuin map exhibit at the AA Gallery. Gorgeous and strange, as much meditation space as museum display. I spent a long time contemplating stones and the flows that shape them.
Author copy acquired! @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social @wtpress.bsky.social
October 30, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Author copy acquired! @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social @wtpress.bsky.social
My Dad doing his part on Cape Cod!
October 18, 2025 at 8:15 PM
My Dad doing his part on Cape Cod!
This is Leon, a very worried Jewish poodle.
October 17, 2025 at 4:54 PM
This is Leon, a very worried Jewish poodle.
We also enjoyed the parade from the safety of our living room.
October 3, 2025 at 6:58 PM
We also enjoyed the parade from the safety of our living room.
3 Oktober in Leiden: bread and herring for all!
October 3, 2025 at 6:56 PM
3 Oktober in Leiden: bread and herring for all!
Ah, the sweet smell of seige-breaking season! Soon there will be free bread and herring to celebrate the first food delivered to Leiden in 1574. In the meantime you can buy t-shirts, which I'm pretty sure you could *not* do in 1574. Or you can break a seige.
September 13, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Ah, the sweet smell of seige-breaking season! Soon there will be free bread and herring to celebrate the first food delivered to Leiden in 1574. In the meantime you can buy t-shirts, which I'm pretty sure you could *not* do in 1574. Or you can break a seige.
Seen (and mooned over) in Ottawa.
September 9, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Seen (and mooned over) in Ottawa.
Haul from the American Book Center in Amsterdam, where I also signed A Half-Built Garden and had an enjoyable yak about solarpunk and AI cults.
September 8, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Haul from the American Book Center in Amsterdam, where I also signed A Half-Built Garden and had an enjoyable yak about solarpunk and AI cults.
I was particularly impressed by the obligatory city flag bearer!
September 6, 2025 at 9:15 PM
I was particularly impressed by the obligatory city flag bearer!
Pride Leiden, where no one is worried about THE CHILDREN as long as they don't fall in the water. My youngest got a little overwhelmed by the noise, eldest loves anything with 80s dance songs!
September 6, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Pride Leiden, where no one is worried about THE CHILDREN as long as they don't fall in the water. My youngest got a little overwhelmed by the noise, eldest loves anything with 80s dance songs!
Flag-raising for Leiden Pride! About the right level of Pride intensity for our household of queer introverts.
September 1, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Flag-raising for Leiden Pride! About the right level of Pride intensity for our household of queer introverts.
We also encountered a bench absolutely covered in germs.
August 24, 2025 at 10:02 AM
We also encountered a bench absolutely covered in germs.
In continuing Leiden expeditions, we went to Naturalis to meet the triceratops!
August 24, 2025 at 10:01 AM
In continuing Leiden expeditions, we went to Naturalis to meet the triceratops!
Tall ships coming in at Sail Amsterdam this afternoon!
August 20, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Tall ships coming in at Sail Amsterdam this afternoon!
I'm enjoying the way Leiden is so thoroughly designed for visual interest. Wall poems, little gardens and parks, places to sit by the canals.
August 8, 2025 at 6:58 PM
I'm enjoying the way Leiden is so thoroughly designed for visual interest. Wall poems, little gardens and parks, places to sit by the canals.
Rhiannon Giddens at the Anthem last night. Absolutely incredible old-time Americana, plus some African music that illustrates the roots of said Americana, plus a couple of pieces in old-time style that Giddens or her bandmates wrote. Plus some delightful deep geekery on banjo lore.
May 12, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Rhiannon Giddens at the Anthem last night. Absolutely incredible old-time Americana, plus some African music that illustrates the roots of said Americana, plus a couple of pieces in old-time style that Giddens or her bandmates wrote. Plus some delightful deep geekery on banjo lore.
The ravens wanted to know if the wolf was gonna eat that. Are you sure? Sharing time is happy time! (The wolf did not share. Or eat.)
April 17, 2025 at 4:11 AM
The ravens wanted to know if the wolf was gonna eat that. Are you sure? Sharing time is happy time! (The wolf did not share. Or eat.)
We were not allowed to feed carrots to the wild boars, not even the teeny babies.
April 17, 2025 at 4:09 AM
We were not allowed to feed carrots to the wild boars, not even the teeny babies.
I am in Ottawa with no working phone data, which means I got all of today's news at once in the evening. I hope that the carrot-hungry wildlife from Parc Omega can provide some small consolation or at least a unicorn (elk) chaser.
April 17, 2025 at 4:08 AM
I am in Ottawa with no working phone data, which means I got all of today's news at once in the evening. I hope that the carrot-hungry wildlife from Parc Omega can provide some small consolation or at least a unicorn (elk) chaser.
Behold, the belated okonomiyaki!
March 8, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Behold, the belated okonomiyaki!
No one appreciated my rendition of "If an eel bites your thigh and the pain makes you cry, that's a moray!"
December 23, 2024 at 8:57 PM
No one appreciated my rendition of "If an eel bites your thigh and the pain makes you cry, that's a moray!"
She was also at pains to tell us that even for the less poisonous frogs, you should still wear gloves to handle them to avoid making either you or the frog sick. And definitely for the terrible poison dart frog, which is *very* toxic!
December 23, 2024 at 8:55 PM
She was also at pains to tell us that even for the less poisonous frogs, you should still wear gloves to handle them to avoid making either you or the frog sick. And definitely for the terrible poison dart frog, which is *very* toxic!
Summer child reacted to the Panamanian Golden Frog as some kids might react to getting a hug from their favorite celebrity.
December 23, 2024 at 8:53 PM
Summer child reacted to the Panamanian Golden Frog as some kids might react to getting a hug from their favorite celebrity.
Winter solstice child requested a Baltimore Aquarium trip for his 10th birthday. "According to my opinion, this is the best place ever!" Summer solstice child, a budding herpetologist, agreed enthusiastically.
December 23, 2024 at 8:52 PM
Winter solstice child requested a Baltimore Aquarium trip for his 10th birthday. "According to my opinion, this is the best place ever!" Summer solstice child, a budding herpetologist, agreed enthusiastically.