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Visual storyteller, story structure editor, and multipassionate generalist. Do you like escape rooms, science project volunteering, and human biomechanics? Me too!
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Last year we received 87 applications & choosing was incredibly difficult! Thank you so much to everyone who applied! 💜

P.S we’re still OPEN to 2026 grant applications! 👀 Visit www.arts.on.ca/grants/recom... on eligibility and how to apply by January 15, 2026 @ 1 p.m. ET.
Ontario Arts Council - Recommender Grants for Writers
www.arts.on.ca
November 28, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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Biochemist Dr. Elizabeth Blackburn was born #OTD in 1948.

She shared the 2009 #Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of the enzyme telomerase & how chromosomes are protected by telomeres. This has 𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘶𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘭 implications for the fields of #aging and #cancer research. #WomenInSTEM
November 26, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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Ainslie’s work looks not just at the problem of train and wildlife collisions, but also the potential solutions — and importantly why governments and companies aren’t always implementing them. projects.thenarwhal.ca/collision-co... #bcpoli
Early warning could reduce train-wildlife collisions | The Narwhal
Researchers at the University of Alberta developed an alert system to reduce wildlife collisions 10 years ago. It’s still not being used.
projects.thenarwhal.ca
November 27, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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Have you downloaded the 2024 edition of Professional Editorial Standards from Editors Canada! The edition has new material on audience considerations, legal considerations, ethical responsibilities, conscious language, fiction editing and more. Get it free:
Professional Editorial Standards
Professional Editorial Standards by Editors Canada clarifies what knowledge, skills and practices are expected of English-language editors.
editors.ca
November 26, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Voyager 1 is almost one light-day from Earth. The intrepid #spacecraft will cross a major distance milestone in November 2026 - 16.1 billion miles. #Voyager1 #lightday

Link for more information: www.popsci.com/science/voya...
November 25, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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Just announced: Donate this week and double your impact!

Two of our wonderful supporters wanted to honour Dr. Jane's legacy, so they have decided to match every donation made between now and 11:59PM ET on GivingTuesday – that's one week from today – up to $15,000.

Photos: Fernando Turmo
November 26, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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EFF is thankful for @session-app.bsky.social, helping us fight to protect end-to-end encryption.
November 25, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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Looking for an editor for your self-published project, book, website, corporate communication and marketing material, article, report and more? Editors Canada has an editor for every specialty: www.editors.ca/hire #HireAnEditor
Hire an editor - Editors Canada
Untangle your communication with Editors Canada! Hiring an editor? Get info on professional editors, editorial skills and our directory.
www.editors.ca
November 24, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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A toxin-secreting gut bacterium may fuel ulcerative colitis by killing protective immune cells that maintain intestinal homeostasis, according to a new study in Science.

The findings suggest potential for new treatment strategies. https://scim.ag/4rjvjqA
An Aeromonas variant that produces aerolysin promotes susceptibility to ulcerative colitis
Ulcerative colitis (UC) is a severe inflammatory bowel disease affecting millions of people worldwide, but the factors driving the condition are poorly understood. In tissue samples from individuals w...
scim.ag
November 24, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Nestled just off the SE coast of Tutuila Island, Fatu Ma Futi is one of American Samoa’s most stunning natural landmarks. Twin rock formations rise dramatically from the turquoise waters of Pago Pago, shaped over centuries by the relentless power of the Pacific Ocean.

#NationalParkOfAmericanSamoa
November 24, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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Incredible……

Colombia declares its entire Amazon Biome off limits to mining & oil extraction.
Colombia Declares Its Entire Amazon Region Off-Limits to Mining and Oil Extraction
At COP30, Colombia's Minister of the Environment announced that the entire Amazon region would be declared free of mining and oil extraction.
colombiaone.com
November 23, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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Untitled
Joni Mitchell
1967
November 21, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Charles Island, BC
Toni Onley
1980
November 22, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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Haida Raven
Bill Reid ~ Haida
1972
November 23, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Medicine Lake
Doris McCarthy
1979
November 24, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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Go beyond castles and spaceships to the broader lands, seas and skies of speculative fiction in tomorrow's webinar! Tanya Gold and Genevieve Clovis will offer an introduction to editing in this fascinating niche. Sign up now: webinars.editors.ca/upcoming_web...
November 24, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Writing builds resilience by changing your brain, helping you face everyday challenges
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Writing builds resilience by changing your brain, helping you face everyday challenges
Resilience is often presented as feats of bravery and endurance. But everyday practices like journaling, drafting a text or even writing a to-do list are manifestations of a capacity to adapt.
theconversation.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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📌FYI...
-The grant you can receive is from $1,500-$5,000.
-We accept 1 application per applicant per year, but you can apply up to 10 recommenders.

🔗Link in bio or visit www.arts.on.ca/grants/recom... for info on eligibility & how to apply by January 15, 2026 @ 1 p.m.
Ontario Arts Council - Recommender Grants for Writers
www.arts.on.ca
November 21, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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Friends, we gather to honor the dearly departed icons of the early web. 🖥️⚰️ Though they have vanished from our screens, their spirit endures both in our memory & in the Wayback Machine, preserved across 1 trillion pages of web history.

Pay your respects ⤵️
archive.org/details/in-m...

#Wayback1T
November 24, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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This is not the way, and @cnygren.bsky.social and I lay out in detail why it isn’t in this essay here. static1.squarespace.com/static/55577...
November 24, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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Buying a tech gift for someone this year? Keep in mind what you're opting them into, and take the time to help set up any device you do get them as privately and securely as possible. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
Think Twice Before Giving Surveillance for the Holidays
With the holidays upon us, it's easy to default to giving the tech gifts that retailers tend to push on us this time of year: smart speakers, video doorbells, bluetooth trackers, fitness trackers,
www.eff.org
November 23, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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Getting ready to start our @twssfu.bsky.social TWSSFU sprints session this morning Sun. Nov 23 at 10:30am PDT on Bluesky #TWSsprints. Open to all #writers everywhere, write for 15mins, break 5mins x 3 sprints. Do some morning pages before you start your day! #WritingCommunity #WritingLife
November 23, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Boston's Mayor Wu playing with Yo-Yo Ma at Symphony Hall
November 23, 2025 at 5:11 AM
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If you'd like to give a book this holiday season to a kid in my class, I am hoping to give all 66 a copy of one of my favorites, Charlotte's Web. Thank you.
www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...
Check out my list on Amazon
www.amazon.com
November 22, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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Google has started automatically opting you in to let it read your stuff to train AI. You need to turn this off in SEVERAL places in your settings (not just for Gmail), if you want to maintain privacy and confidentiality.
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out
A new Gmail update may allow Google to use your private messages and attachments for AI training. Here's how to turn it off.
www.malwarebytes.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:54 PM