Well, glad to share good news! Vol3 is trending at #17 in its category -- that is AWESOME news. #IReadCanadian kobo.com/ca/en/ebook/year-s-best-canadian-fantasy-and-science-fiction-volume-three

Hey, astronomers. Can you imagine astronomy research without ADS?!?!? No? So, have you filled out the ADS survey yet? Help archives help you! (Help archives keep funding!) docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Come one, come all! Join us for the launch of Year's Best Canadian F&SF Volume 3 this Saturday, Nov 8 at Bakka-Phoenix @ 3pm. Ten contributors will be doing brief readings from their work and the fine folks at @bakkaphoenix.bsky.social will have copies for sale. See you there and pls share WIDELY.

It’s insulting to tell 🇨🇦 scientists we need international scientists to run to our rescue & ensure innovation. 🇨🇦 scientists have exceeded expectations with paltry funding. If the gov funded Tricouncil > & sustainably; imagine how innovative we’d already be!! /End

It’s hard not to feel insulted by the Canadian federal budget’s implication that researchers currently working in Canada aren’t good enough, so they’ll spend a bunch of taxpayer money to bring in “top talent” from elsewhere.

Yes, but could we please use some term other than “soft skills”? Both “non-technical” and “professional” are more descriptive.

Canadian federal budget, p456. Men like crypto and women like trains, apparently. budget.canada.ca/2025/report-...

🛸ok i’m going to close submissions this coming sunday november 9 at 11:59pm eastern. 🛸as always, anything sent even a minute late will be deleted unread! so you have five more days to send me your best stuff. 🛸pro pay! no rights! sim/sub ok! fast response!

Today's community drabble is, "Interlunar Confidential" by Pauline Barmby. The theme was "conspiracy." Find Pauline Barmby at @pbarmby.bsky.social Care to drabble with us? Join the fun at reachyourapex.com/drbl #authors #drabbles #writingprompts

Surely the members of the Standing Committee on Science and Research have better things to do than sift through the personal details on every researcher who has applied for or reviewed a grant in the past five years.

Still unclear on why I have to reset our car’s clock for daylight savings time *separately* for each driver profile. Are there households where only one member observes DST?

GTA friends! Now you know what you’re doing on Saturday afternoon!

Research funds are scarce & competition is fierce. A recent paper by @andreasdeblock.bsky.social & colleagues explores how this competition shapes science—its practices, risks & ethics—and proposes ways to make funding fairer & more effective👇 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... #AcademicSky #HPS #scipol 🧪

New story sent out to get its first rejection. Not quite like sending your kid off to the first day of school but..

Last night’s most adorable visitor: toddler in red-and-white striped Dr Seuss hat. Uninterested in candy, just wanted to greet our pumpkin and pat the top of its head.

Live in the Northern Hemisphere and want to see a comet older then the Solar System? Nice overview of upcoming pre-dawn visibility for interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS with small amateur telescopes 🔭🧪

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Hey Bluesky peeps, could you help spread the word? My Shirley Jackson Award-nominated gothic fiction book THE ATROCITIES is on sale today for $1.99 on Kindle. www.amazon.com/Atrocities-J...

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Temporary panic earlier today: thought I had deleted the GoogleDrive folder with all of my teaching materials back to 2007. Not so: I had only moved it. But what if?? Back that shit up, kids.

As a science fiction writer/astrophysics professor I think I’m gonna need this book.

Sometimes you just need to escape for a little while. Short stories are great for that. Visitors welcome. Subscriptions are good too. clarkesworldmagazine.com

Look, the only question is whether you pronounce “aunt” like “ant” or like “ont”. (Both are correct.)

I find there's a huge mismatch between the standard advice that people give about scientific conference talks, and how people actually give talks. So I picked out the most important pieces of advice that are most often ignored. 🧪

Seven hours of darkness, four airports, three time zones, two Q-400s, and one 787: what I did today before work.

You should read this anthology of Black speculative fiction from Canada: houseofanansi.com/products/as-...

Less than a week to take advantage of our October eBook special. I heard you like short stories.

"Rockets tend to be very noisy, so people probably don't want them like in their downtown areas."

We're SIX DAYS AWAY from the end of our Kickstarter and 75% FUNDED 🚀✨ Remember, it's YOUR donations keeping us a proudly pro-rate magazine, which financially compensates the skilled authors who bring Apex to life. Help artists thrive in 2026 and donate TODAY 💜👽 www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

Thei wante us talkinge alone on our phones to a demon thei created, and not goinge places and being wyth each othir yn art and joy and communitye. Thei want cinemas to shut downe, and broadwaye to go darke. Thei want wryteres to stop writinge. Thei want to sell us hell and have us pay for it.

Have realized my paper recycling box has been a lot emptier with the (partial) postal strike. I realize we need a national postal service and all, but it’d be nice if its business model didn’t have to include me carrying 90% of the contents of my mailbox directly to recycling, unread.

LLMs were trained on (stolen) fiction and the unfiltered contents of the internet. Of course they make thing up. They were trained on made-up stuff.

It's October 21... HAPPY RELEASE DAY! Ghost to Ghost to Ghost - an anthology of 19 Haunting Tales from Canada. Happy publication day to the authors of these wonderful short stories and flash fiction. The paperback has been available for a while and today the eBook is here. books2read.com/u/3GkdOL

Sophie’s story is really lovely and is my favorite of the whole bunch.

Celebrate Cronyn Observatory's 85th Anniversary on Oct 25th! Join us for talks on the Observatory's history, explore artifacts, and observe through telescopes (weather permitting). 8-10pm, FREE admission!

RELEASE DAY! Year's Best Canadian F&SF Volume 3 is now available! Grab ebooks at all retailers and print via Amazon, with Ingram to follow shortly for bookstore & library sales. Grab your copy today and pls share WIDELY! #BookRelease #NewBook #SpecFic #fantasy #sciencefiction #canada #Booksky 💙📚🪐

Downloads of my Bright Comets app are picking up. This can only mean one thing: There's a bright comet out there! Well, two actually! Free download: apps.apple.com/gb/app/brigh... #comet #astronomy

If you're interesting in observations of stellar populations/nearby galaxies, Dan Weisz's group is hiring two postdocs! Come work with me and live in paradise in California 🌞 aas.org/jobregister/...

I started an SF story along those lines about a year ago … should have finished it faster I guess.

🔊Announcing a new Physics/Astro PhD scholarship scheme in Edinburgh, for students from a Black heritage, inc mixed Black background. Please help me spread the word. The scholarship covers all tuition fees, living costs & research travel. #blackinSTEM 🔭👩‍🔬⚛️ ℹ️: www.ph.ed.ac.uk/studying/pos...

I loved this story and it absolutely meets the moment. Well done @ellybangs.bsky.social!

night shades is OPEN for submissions 🛸 pro pay 🛸 500 words max 🛸 all speculative 🛸 quick response/ simul. ok 🛸 looking for 23 stories this time guest reader for this call is @leilasedai.bsky.social 🛸 beam em to us! www.nightshadesmag.com

It’s still a few months away from release but I’m at @canconsffh.bsky.social in Ottawa promoting the anthology about small town Canadian superheroes called Super Canucks that Mat Del Papa and I edited together. Coming March 2026 from @latitude46pub.bsky.social I have postcards to share. #cancon2025

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There are some good ideas in the report, which is here: www.rbc.com/en/wp-conten... Too bad the article quotes include some nonsense like “We need [political science majors] to know how to use ChatGPT to write and edit an e-mail”. Why, exactly?

This is something people who are chatbot-curious should be doing by default: ask it about something you *do know about*, not something you *don't know about*.

If you think that professors exist as repositories of knowledge that students ask for answers, you’re missing the entire point of a college education. We’re here to teach students how to do research, how to analyze and argue, how to think for themselves — how to find the answers on their own.

Odds of getting JWST time still better than getting a story accepted by any single speculative fiction market - with the admittedly major difference that you can’t send your JWST proposals anywhere else.

"The Traveling Mountain" is out in audio!! Listen to the mountain and wonderbird come alive in this fabulous narration by @darthj.uno! Thank you Kat & the @khoreo.bsky.social team 💜