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Samantha Jones

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Earth scientist. Writer. Editor. Black Canadian & white settler. 🪨🌊 Sessional Instructor + PhD Candidate Arctic carbon cycling. ✍🏼 Attic Rain, NeWest Press, 2024.

English speaker, rusty French, learning Suomi

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Failing at hiding from the heat 🥵

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Somewhere, somehow a sighthound is watching.

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Today’s office. Hashtag take the 🌵

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Excited to have new writing in the Ex-Puritan! I hope you enjoy Sciatica Ornithology and all the other fantastic work in the spring issue. This piece finds the birds in what was probably the worst time of my life. #Poetry #CanLit #ChronicPain #Birding #Ornithology ex-puritan.ca/sciatica-orn...

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When a kind poetry soul sends you some treats. Thank you @ryanfitzpublic.bsky.social ❤️ #poetry #CanLit #abovegroundpress @periodicities.bsky.social

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Miracle solution is unplug it lol

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Meme-making Monday.

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When your life has a colour scheme… at a magical stage in my career where I have orchestrated a transition that has the things I read for fun and wonder becoming part of my scholarship. I’m lingering in this place 😍

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Updating my five-year scholarly plan 😂😂

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Assistant to the regional researcher.

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Ant eating nectar haha

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On it! And already discovered new dream job.

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Now I have to get home 😂😂

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I’ve lived with chronic back pain for decades. Just over a year ago I was at the hospital for intense pain, and I spent about two years not being able to walk and some days not even stand long enough to pack kiddo’s lunch. Today I walked my kid to school for the first time. 🙏🏽❤️

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Big congrats to my friend and fellow geographer Joyce Percel on her hot-off-the-press paper, “Hauntings of Absence and Erasure: Black Archival Practices of Property Data.” Available open access now at @antipodeonline.bsky.social! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Why is this adult content 😂😂 ??!Adam’s tiny biblical wiener

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Them: How’s your dissertation going? Me (ADHD brain): Good but also look at this!! 🤪

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Greyhound fact: greyhounds love online shopping. (Raincoat handmade by ZipItPup on Etsy)

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Now here’s a story to warm your heart. My parents and sister are the neighbours! So so glad Wilson is back home. I knew Tennessee would be a hero! Thank you from afar to all of the community and first responders who helped rescue this goodest boy 😍 www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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😍😍 the manuscript to physical book process is a journey. Learning that folks you look up to accepted the invite to blurb is ❤️ I know people are busy and get so so many requests, but it means so much to a debut author. 🙏🏽

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Some of the pots kiddo and I put together yesterday. 🌈

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Check our website for more information including upcoming writing workshops. Share with your friends, we look forward to hearing from you! 3/3 #poetry #CanLit #Climate #Work #Workers #Labour workandclimatepoetryanthology.wordpress.com/2024/05/13/c...

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We are seeking submissions of up to three poems about work in the age of global warming, written by working people about labour they have done themselves. New and previously unpublished poets welcome! --- Deadline: July 31, 2024 2/3

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Call for submissions, a 🧵 I'm excited to be one of the editors working on this fine project! Workers of the Warming World Unite! A Poetry Anthology. --- Has your job, workplace, industry, or livelihood been affected by changing environmental conditions? 1/3

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Home office

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When you get a chance to write the proposal of your dreams and your books-in-waiting are like 🎉 it’s our time to shine!

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Thesis Statement. For friends at UCalgary courageous enough to show up and demand we do better. Free Palestine ✊🏽🇵🇸

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Last weekend to see! Love that it’s free and full of families. 🖤 Check out Building Black Civilizations: Journey of 2000 Ships by Ekow Nimako at Glenbow at the Edison in Calgary today or tomorrow if you can!!

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Good morning from the boop-iverse 👽

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So much happens behind the scenes to transform a manuscript into a book! Working on page proofs 🤩 Thankful for the team at NeWest Press for all of their fantastic efforts on this project.

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This has a few dollar bills and a lighter spread out on the hood of a car energy

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the NYPD police commissioner did a bike chain drop to end his comments at a press conference.

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Reports are that we smashed it with over 3000 dinos! Final tally still pending.

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She’s a world record holder, babes!! My book is coming out this year and I’ll defend my PhD this year or early next, but most importantly, I dressed up as an inflatable dino with a bunch of other weirdos and we made magic happen 😍🦖🦕

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Trip to Drumheller this morning to smash the Guinness World Record of number of people gathered dressed in dinosaur costumes!! (The audacity of that asteroid 😱)

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Reminded about Caturday by @katharinehayhoe.com! ‪Our dear cat Muffin that comes for story time every night. It’s absolute clockwork. His fav time of day! 🥰

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Things that make me smile 100% of the time… a tumbleweed tumblin past me. 😍🌬️🟤

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After a hectic end of semester with the course I’m teaching, my own thesis deadlines, and personal surprises, I get some time for me. Which means a few days of just listening (I know I know I relax like a weirdo). Let’s go!! #SoTL #CourageousPractices

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Thesis cat doing end of semester type shit. Just kidding unthesis cat doing what he does best, preventing thesis.

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omg eye panniers i love this! i also like my big spectacles for this reason.

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i think if my whole face becomes an eye bag, then technically i won't have eye bags

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Arié (pronoun = name) - #FreeThemAll 🏳️‍🌈ⵣ🪬's avatar Arié (pronoun = name) - #FreeThemAll 🏳️‍🌈ⵣ🪬 @ariemoyal.com
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“We don’t want to wait for them to teach about our genocide 20 years later when we have the means & opportunities to stop it right now,” Palestinian-American activist Nerdeen Kiswani

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