Stephanie Pettigrew
@stephpettigrew.bsky.social
History of witches and Huguenots in New France, Data scientist at Library & Archives Canada.
Acadienne 🌠🤍❤️
Acadienne 🌠🤍❤️
Shocking. /s
Looks like their plan to boost productivity by ushering everyone back to the office in an ongoing pandemic didn't play out as expected
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November 20, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Shocking. /s
Me, at the barn this morning trying to pretend I'm not super excited about the snow cause everyone else is so bummed out about it:
a bald man wearing a black turtleneck and a black suit is smiling .
ALT: a bald man wearing a black turtleneck and a black suit is smiling .
media.tenor.com
November 16, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Me, at the barn this morning trying to pretend I'm not super excited about the snow cause everyone else is so bummed out about it:
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The culture of scientific writing tends to suppress style and voice; the same things are prized in popular writing. What happens when you do both, and the distinction begins to blur - is that good or bad?
Are my academic and non-academic writing styles converging? And would that be good?
I spent the first 25 years of my academic career writing scientific papers (and the grant proposals to fund them, of course). I never found that easy – although it got easier through time (and it c…
scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com
November 13, 2025 at 11:25 AM
The culture of scientific writing tends to suppress style and voice; the same things are prized in popular writing. What happens when you do both, and the distinction begins to blur - is that good or bad?
*looks up and glances through office window*
HOLY SHIT THAT IS SNOW
Guess I can break out my winter riding jacket tonight.
HOLY SHIT THAT IS SNOW
Guess I can break out my winter riding jacket tonight.
November 13, 2025 at 11:35 AM
*looks up and glances through office window*
HOLY SHIT THAT IS SNOW
Guess I can break out my winter riding jacket tonight.
HOLY SHIT THAT IS SNOW
Guess I can break out my winter riding jacket tonight.
Well fuck. Guess those of us who live on the Nashwaak need to prepare to give it up for capitalist extraction....
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
New nation-building projects list to include mines, LNG and Iqaluit hydro: sources | CBC News
Prime Minister Mark Carney is set to announce a second set of “nation-building projects,” including at least two focused on critical mineral extraction, one for exporting natural gas and at least one ...
www.cbc.ca
November 12, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Well fuck. Guess those of us who live on the Nashwaak need to prepare to give it up for capitalist extraction....
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Spent all day with horses. Did barn chores, rode my lease horse, then drove from Charters Settlement to Harvey to ride the horse I ride for archery.
Am exhausted, and sore, but happy.
Am exhausted, and sore, but happy.
November 12, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Spent all day with horses. Did barn chores, rode my lease horse, then drove from Charters Settlement to Harvey to ride the horse I ride for archery.
Am exhausted, and sore, but happy.
Am exhausted, and sore, but happy.
I met Bubbles once in downtown Halifax during the height of the Trailer Park Boys fame and let's just say I am not at all surprised at these allegations.
November 9, 2025 at 11:26 AM
I met Bubbles once in downtown Halifax during the height of the Trailer Park Boys fame and let's just say I am not at all surprised at these allegations.
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Setting day in Back Bay. The lobster fleet heads out to open the season.
November 9, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Setting day in Back Bay. The lobster fleet heads out to open the season.
If PP's leadership survives this, he made a deal with the devil at a crossroads. There is no other explanation possible.
November 6, 2025 at 11:10 PM
If PP's leadership survives this, he made a deal with the devil at a crossroads. There is no other explanation possible.
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Another ink landscape for Capital Art Sale starting Dec 11 in Fredericton, NB💕
November 6, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Another ink landscape for Capital Art Sale starting Dec 11 in Fredericton, NB💕
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Agree with this editorial: focus on research impacts, not the identities of the researchers. (And reading the peer reviews and notes from the adjudication committees?!)
www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/5f5c26a...
www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/5f5c26a...
How much are MPs entitled to know about research grants? Not as much as they think
A parliamentary committee is asking for academics’ private information on a strange anti-DEI crusade
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 4, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Agree with this editorial: focus on research impacts, not the identities of the researchers. (And reading the peer reviews and notes from the adjudication committees?!)
www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/5f5c26a...
www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/5f5c26a...
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I was a coms staffer at PSAC when the Harper government slashed the public service — a miserable time for everyone. All it led to was layoffs, followed by the fed govt hiring more temps and expensive consultants. And then eventually hiring back even more people. It takes humans to run a country 🤷♀️
November 4, 2025 at 10:15 PM
I was a coms staffer at PSAC when the Harper government slashed the public service — a miserable time for everyone. All it led to was layoffs, followed by the fed govt hiring more temps and expensive consultants. And then eventually hiring back even more people. It takes humans to run a country 🤷♀️
There is nothing optimistic about today's budget. Fuck you if you're not a member of the multi-millionaire class I guess. Our PM talks a big game about "sacrifices" but then cuts taxes on super yachts. 🙄
November 4, 2025 at 10:56 PM
There is nothing optimistic about today's budget. Fuck you if you're not a member of the multi-millionaire class I guess. Our PM talks a big game about "sacrifices" but then cuts taxes on super yachts. 🙄
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Encore une fois, pas un bon temps pour être fonctionnaire fédérale au Canada.
J'ai pu garder ma job en 2012, on verra cette fois...
J'ai pu garder ma job en 2012, on verra cette fois...
BUDGET FÉDÉRAL | 40 000 fonctionnaires fédéraux en moins
BUDGET FÉDÉRAL | 40 000 fonctionnaires fédéraux en moins
Rêvant d’un gouvernement «plus efficace et efficient», Ottawa entame sa réduction de la fonction publique fédérale et annonce la suppression de 40 000 postes de fonctionnaires.
www.ledroit.com
November 4, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Encore une fois, pas un bon temps pour être fonctionnaire fédérale au Canada.
J'ai pu garder ma job en 2012, on verra cette fois...
J'ai pu garder ma job en 2012, on verra cette fois...
Time change day is probably the worst day to wake up and realize you forgot you ran out of coffee.
November 2, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Time change day is probably the worst day to wake up and realize you forgot you ran out of coffee.
I stand (sit?) Corrected; power just came back on. I was halfway through making plans for lunch, choosing which Southside restaurant I wanted to eat at.
Its the whole north side thats down?? Dang, guess I won't be logging back into work today.
October 28, 2025 at 12:49 PM
I stand (sit?) Corrected; power just came back on. I was halfway through making plans for lunch, choosing which Southside restaurant I wanted to eat at.
Its the whole north side thats down?? Dang, guess I won't be logging back into work today.
October 28, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Its the whole north side thats down?? Dang, guess I won't be logging back into work today.
I actually had an acquaintance (won't call them a friend) make a derisive remark about how all my socials have become horse content.
Like, the world is a dark fucking place, of course I'm going to spend my free time focusing on what gives me joy. The alternative is despair.
Like, the world is a dark fucking place, of course I'm going to spend my free time focusing on what gives me joy. The alternative is despair.
October 25, 2025 at 9:45 AM
I actually had an acquaintance (won't call them a friend) make a derisive remark about how all my socials have become horse content.
Like, the world is a dark fucking place, of course I'm going to spend my free time focusing on what gives me joy. The alternative is despair.
Like, the world is a dark fucking place, of course I'm going to spend my free time focusing on what gives me joy. The alternative is despair.
Dean: "I'm not happy with my guitar tone.... time to buy new gear!"
Me: "why am I having so much trouble with my ankles when riding?.... time to buy new stirrups!"
Me: "why am I having so much trouble with my ankles when riding?.... time to buy new stirrups!"
October 24, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Dean: "I'm not happy with my guitar tone.... time to buy new gear!"
Me: "why am I having so much trouble with my ankles when riding?.... time to buy new stirrups!"
Me: "why am I having so much trouble with my ankles when riding?.... time to buy new stirrups!"
Marysville giving us all those late October spooky vibes with this early morning fog.
October 24, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Marysville giving us all those late October spooky vibes with this early morning fog.
DAAAAMMMNNN
BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV is set to effectively disband Opus Dei in the coming weeks.
This would be the most sweeping internal reform of his pontificate — and a dramatic continuation of Pope Francis’s legacy.
This would be the most sweeping internal reform of his pontificate — and a dramatic continuation of Pope Francis’s legacy.
NEW: Pope Leo Set To Break Up Opus Dei
If Pope Leo does indeed approves a plan that effectively dissolves Opus Dei’s structure, it would be the most significant internal action of his short pontificate to date.
open.substack.com
October 17, 2025 at 6:05 PM
DAAAAMMMNNN
Received a gift from Dean today! Its a pendant with a horse bow and arrow ❤️🏹
October 14, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Received a gift from Dean today! Its a pendant with a horse bow and arrow ❤️🏹
When you leave home for the barn at 7:30am and don't get back home til 1:30pm.
October 13, 2025 at 5:08 PM
When you leave home for the barn at 7:30am and don't get back home til 1:30pm.
Horses, food, nap. 10/10 long weekend, would recommend.
October 12, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Horses, food, nap. 10/10 long weekend, would recommend.
Me to Dean: "hey do you think you could game instead of watching YouTube? I wanna read."
Dean: "you make my life so hard."
Me: "I know, I'm such a bitch."
Dean: "you make my life so hard."
Me: "I know, I'm such a bitch."
October 11, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Me to Dean: "hey do you think you could game instead of watching YouTube? I wanna read."
Dean: "you make my life so hard."
Me: "I know, I'm such a bitch."
Dean: "you make my life so hard."
Me: "I know, I'm such a bitch."