Thinking about Boston Bar, its bowling alley, about too many small towns in disasters over the last six years. (The beautiful bowling feature via @joshkozelj27.bsky.social)

I’m going to be at Vancouver KidsBooks today around noon signing copies of CANADA’S ENDANGERED ANIMALS. If you are around and want to pop in and say hi, please do so! I will have stickers and bookmarks.

Today! 1pm! Great Blue Heron Nature Reserve in Chilliwack! Book launch day is officially happening, and as promised there will be snacks, books, and endangered animal shaped cookies.

Had my wedding reception on Sat (got married 5 years ago) and just received our photos. They are So Awful and I could not be more delighted. We had 18 disposable cameras and six kids under seven, so every other photo is of someone’s feet, a blurry shot of a table. Absolutely spectacular. No notes.

Book launch is this Sunday (June 28) at 1pm at the Great Blue Heron Nature Reserve in Chilliwack. Come for the book, come for the snacks, I don’t judge.

It’s here! CANADA’S ENDANGERED ANIMALS, in the flesh! The books arrived at my door late last week, which means they will be in bookstores near you either now or very soon. The book is beautiful, the illustrations by Alex MacAskill are spectacular, and I guess the writing is okay.

Any researchers, conservationists, scientists have thoughts on the IUCN red list and its effectiveness, and want to help kids understand it better? Send me a DM! I'd love to do an interview for my next book. #sciencesky #IUCN

Vancouver Island marmots are coming out of hibernation, and they are hungry. Today was the first day of feeder installs.

Book launch - postponed. Blame the capriciousness of shipping. Come on June 28 instead so that there will be physical books at the launch.

Got the long form, I am living the dream

Just realized I will likely not be working in a newsroom when the Census results are out, and man am I ticked.

As promised, book launch details! Coming to Chilliwack’s Great Blue Heron Nature Reserve on Saturday, May 30 at 1pm. Come for stickers, come for animal facts, come for cookies in the shape of endangered animals!

I think I understand the feast-famine dichotomy of freelancing now.

Love seeing all the amazing journalism up for awards this year! Congrats to all the nominees!

Book swag hot off the press! (Free if you come to my book launch on May 30 — details to come.)

#PlaceDetective🔎: Drive too fast between the Fraser Valley communities of Agassiz and Harrison Hot Springs, and you might miss it: a small sign secured to an antique pillar, beckoning visitors into more than a century of history. @gracekennwrites.bsky.social writes.

It didn’t arrive on a meteorite, crashing into a suburban town to feast on human flesh. But an alien blob has been circulating in British Columbian waters, spreading its colonies in marinas and oyster farms. Grace Kennedy writes. 🪸👽

It’s … alive! Loved writing this story about violet tunicates for @thetyee.ca Whenever there’s an opportunity to talk to scientists about slimy blobs, you have to take it.

Watching the Artemis return with the kids, which is both extremely cool and extremely nerve-wracking.

The horrors persist but so do the Oregon spotted frogs. (Another frog interview today, this time in agricultural frog-land.)

Adobe AI agent: This document is too long. Read my summary instead. Me: This is a children's book. With many pictures. I sure hope I, a 32-year-old adult, could read it fully by myself.

One month of prep, six surprise fry, two unexpected snails, and now finally this one adorable bristlenose pleco.

First time doing taxes as a freelancer and I am NOT loving it.

Wetland zen from yesterday. (Thanks @cangeo.bsky.social for giving me a reason to get out with frogs!)

I got to spend a spectacular (if chilly) day out near Sts’ailes checking out Canada’s most endangered frog on assignment for @cangeo.bsky.social 10/10 would always recommend a visit with these handsome froggy boys. You can read a small recap of the day here: gracekennedywrites.ca/2026/03/10/i...

Celebrating Anne Shirley’s birthday with photos from my garden, as she would have wanted.

Today is a Day of Mourning in BC for the tragedy in Tumbler Ridge. Our thoughts are with the families of those who lost their lives, students and staff, first responders, and the entire Tumbler Ridge community. Please join us in observing a moment of silence at 12:00 PM (PST).

So today's speech by the LG *is* the throne speech in an altered form I did not pick that up from yesterday's press release Sounds like it will be short and focused on the Tumbler Ridge tragedy, rather than the government's priorities for the session

Tomorrow will be a day of mourning in BC and the government's throne speech is being pushed back The legislature will observe a moment of silence in honour of Tumbler Ridge at noon tomorrow followed by a speech from The lieutenant governor at 2PM #bcpoli

RCMP press conference is happening now. RCMP say that as police approached the school, they were shot at. The suspected shooter is identified as Jesse Rootsellar (I'm not sure if that's the correct spelling.)

Hey Canadian media ... "born as a biological male" is not the move when you're reporting on what happened in Tumbler Ridge. Here's is the @transjournalists.org Style Guide if you are covering this story today styleguide.transjournalists.org

If you want to help Tumbler Ridge from afar, consider donating. Every bit helps: even if you can only afford $5, it’s still like you’re buying a grieving parent a cup of coffee. Which I know a lot of us would do in person if it was our community.

A message from Trent Ernst, the only reporter who lives in Tumbler Ridge

Mayor of Tumbler Ridge Darryl Krakowka: "I will know every victim. I've been here 19 years ... I don't call them residents, I call them family." www.youtube.com/live/-SIOpuE...

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

Obsessed. Thank you @michellecyca.com @gabrielledrolet.bsky.social and @thenarwhal.ca for this quiz that I will now make absolutely everyone take. projects.thenarwhal.ca/lovebirds-quiz

I have a lot of stuff on the go (book coming out, freelance work, book I need to write) which is great! But it means I have not spent enough time with my favourite ugly endangered fish: the Roundnose Grenadier.

It’s hard to believe the time has come already, but you can pre-order my book CANADA’S ENDANGERED ANIMALS for your nature-loving kids (or yourself, I don’t judge). It’s only $17.95 (less than a child’s average biweekly berry budget) and will be shipped to you in mid-May. (Pre-order links in 🧵)

The world is full of horrors, but yesterday I got to learn about DNA testing for microscopic worms and today I am going to learn about how blueberry farmers can make better nesting opportunities for bumblebees, so it’s not all bad

Live your life so security guards mistake you for a teenager (sitting cross legged on the floor of the library reading a local history reference book)

Cow tools from the study author. Delightful thread. Plus! video of the talented Veronika, using her tools.

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It’s A LOT right now. I needed to take a breath, maybe you do too? Perhaps with some of my favorite fishes, right here in Minnesota:

CBC News is adding 33 local journalists and creating 11 new bureaus, increasing its Canadian footprint from 66 to 77 locations. Many of the new positions are based in Central and Western Canada:

After being sick for four weeks straight, I am finally ready to share some *professional updates* First, remember that Sumas flood? I wrote about it for Country Life in BC’s January edition. You can find it wherever fine agricultural news is sold. (The Mill Store in Chilliwack for example.)

This unsettling blog from @christhompson.bsky.social had me thinking: Would editors at the NYT or WaPo also sit on leaks about a planned attack on, say, Greenland, to protect US military members while they killed Danish citizens?

Pro tip: if you are feeling disgruntled at the state of the world, you can read Simon Garfield’s ALL THE KNOWLEDGE IN THE WORLD. A good read, although I now have a suspicious urge to buy another set of encyclopedias.

Manifesting the energy I want to see in 2026 by watching Barad Dur collapse at midnight.

As some of you may know, I left @fvcurrent.bsky.social last June — but I didn’t abandon journalism! My first freelance article for @thetyee.ca was published today, and you can check it out below.