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Nina Munteanu
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I'm an eco-fiction author, limnologist/aquatic ecologist, photographer, instructor at UofT. I explore and celebrate the fractal Natural World from microscopic diatoms and miniature lichens and fungi to the giant cedars and pines of old-growth forests
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Nina Munteanu @aliennextdoor.bsky.social · 5h
Check out my interview on fellow SF Canada writer Simon Rose's site about "Through the Portal" anthology I co-edited with Lynn Hutchinson Lee @lynnhutchinsonlee.bsky.social #anthology #ecofiction #interview simon-rose.com/nina-muntean...
Nina Munteanu: Revisiting “Through the Portal Anthology” - Simon Rose
An Interview with Nina Munteanu: Revisiting “Through the Portal Anthology” Ten months ago, on my Dec 2, 2024 post, I interviewed Nina Munteanu on the anthology she and co-editor Lynn Hutchinson Lee wo...
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Nina Munteanu @aliennextdoor.bsky.social · 1d
Popular ecofiction this month ... #ecofiction #books #novels #bookstoread
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Nina Munteanu @aliennextdoor.bsky.social · 1d
My short story "The Way of Water" will appear in the German speculative magazine NOVA Issue #37 this fall. I just LOVE the cover! #writing #shortstories #Nova #cover
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Nina Munteanu @aliennextdoor.bsky.social · 1d
Embracing change: Living and Writing from the Ecotone #onwriting #ecotone #change #WritingCommunity www.realityskimming.com/post/embraci...
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Nina Munteanu @aliennextdoor.bsky.social · 1d
Same day, same forest, found some lovely Licorice Fern on a Big Leaf Maple tree ... #forest #BigLeafMaple #ferns #LicoriceFern #forestwalks
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Nina Munteanu @aliennextdoor.bsky.social · 1d
Found this sweet little Hygrocybe miniata growing among three mosses on a cedar stump in my local forest today... They are only about 2 cm tall ... #mushrooms #fungi #Hygrocybe #waxcaps
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Nina Munteanu @aliennextdoor.bsky.social · 2d
Embracing Change in the Ecotone... #onwriting #change #ecotone #WritingCommunity www.realityskimming.com/post/embraci...
Writer Nina Munteanu on Embracing Change in the Ecotone - Reality Skimming
Writer Nina Munteanu describes the evolution of her work through ecological parallel of the verge, a place of great transition.
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Nina Munteanu @aliennextdoor.bsky.social · 3d
Today, I found this sweet tiny white mushroom growing among various ferns on a big leaf maple tree ... Does anyone have any idea what it is? #mushrooms #fungi #bigleafmaple #nature #photography
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Nina Munteanu @aliennextdoor.bsky.social · 3d
Found these gorgeous Scarlet Fairy Helmets in a buckthorn thicket by a river ... Aren't they stunning? #mushrooms #fungi #mycena #NaturePhotography
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Nina Munteanu @aliennextdoor.bsky.social · 3d
The Witch's Hat and other Fungi Tales... #fungi #mushrooms #nature #photography ninamunteanu.me/2021/12/12/7...
The Witch’s Hat and Other Fungi Tales
Witch’s Hat (Hygrocybe conica) by cedar tree, ON (photo by Nina Munteanu) In my recent wanderings in the small cedar forest by the river near my house, I chanced upon a community of emerging …
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Nina Munteanu @aliennextdoor.bsky.social · 3d
Finding magic in mushrooms in early fall ... #foraging #mushrooms #fungi #Nature #photography themeaningofwater.com/2020/10/18/f...
Finding Magic in Mushrooms in Early Fall—Foraging
Scarlet Fairy’s Helmet (Mycena strobillinoides) in cedar forest, ON (photo by Nina Munteanu) As the nights grow still and crisp with the north wind, I sense the change in the air. Restless an…
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Nina Munteanu @aliennextdoor.bsky.social · 3d
When a mushroom looks like a rock ... #mushrooms #fungi #Tricholoma #nature #photography themeaningofwater.com/2023/12/17/t...
Tricholoma terreum: When a Mushroom Looks Like a Rock…
A pair of Tricholoma terreum mushrooms amid the litter of a pine cedar forest, ON (photo by Nina Munteanu) My daily walks often take me through the forests on a small path along the river. The narr…
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Nina Munteanu @aliennextdoor.bsky.social · 5d
Using character-coupling to give voice to 'the other' in #ecofiction ... #onwriting #WritingCommunity #theother #writingfiction ninamunteanu.me/2024/02/18/t...
The Use of Character-Coupling in Eco-Literature to Give Voice to the Other, Part 1: Introduction
A trickster wind stirs up clouds of drifting snow, ON (photo and rendition by Nina Munteanu) Not long ago, I was driving through a short tunnel that I typically take to go to work and, glanc…
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Nina Munteanu @aliennextdoor.bsky.social · 5d
"Warrior", a Spirit Bear in the Great Bear Rainforest... her story... #SpiritBear #bears #GreatBearRainforest #rainforests themeaningofwater.com/2020/01/18/w...
“Warrior”, A Spirit Bear in the Great Bear Rainforest
Her name was Warrior, for the scar gauged across her nose, just below her left eye. The close-up of this female Spirit bear (Ursus americanus kermodei) was captured by photographer Michelle Valberg…
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Nina Munteanu @aliennextdoor.bsky.social · 8d
Check out Nina's Boulder for wonderful mosses ... #moss #ecology themeaningofwater.com/2024/06/16/m...
Moss—A Study of ‘Nina’s Boulder’ in Jackson Creek Old-Growth Forest
“[Mosses] are the most overlooked plants on the planet. But they’re gifts, too. They provide us with another model of how we might live.”Robin Wall Kimmerer Upper slope of creek watershed dominated…
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Nina Munteanu @aliennextdoor.bsky.social · 9d
A studyof what grows on five old maples in an Ontario old-growth forest... #lichens #mosses #liverworts #oldgrowth #forest #Ontario themeaningofwater.com/2025/06/15/a...
A Diversity of Life on Five Ancient Maple Trees—A Tree Study
Large sugar maples amid old-growth hemlocks on the drumlin slope, Mark S. Burnham Forest, ON (photo by Nina Munteanu) . The Mark S. Burnham Provincial Park is one of few remaining and well-preserve…
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Nina Munteanu @aliennextdoor.bsky.social · 9d
Review of "A Diary in the Age of Water" ... #bookreview #books #ecofiction ninamunteanu.me/2025/03/16/r...
Review of “A Diary in the Age of Water”: Women, Water, Numinosity, and the Transformation of the World
“It is a novel to learn from, and it is a novel to take forward into life as inspirational guide. Each of us is called upon to examine, not only our relationship with water, but with all Earth gift…
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Nina Munteanu @aliennextdoor.bsky.social · 9d
The big question about forever chemicals... #foreverchemicals #water #toxicity ninamunteanu.me/2024/10/06/i...
Ironic Tragedy of Forever Chemicals & Growing Infertility: Are We Solving Our Own Population Explosion Through Toxicity?
Screenshot In the passage below of my eco-fiction dystopian novel A Diary in the Age of Water, the year is 2065 and the diarist Lynna (a limnologist at the University of Toronto) reflects on the st…
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Nina Munteanu @aliennextdoor.bsky.social · 9d
When art helps story ... #art #writing #storytelling #illustrations #coverart #books #WritingCommunity ninamunteanu.me/2024/06/02/w...
When Art Helps Story
No writer works alone. Sure, we may work alone when writing, but all other aspects of getting our writing out to you, the reader, involves a team of other people. Like all good things, writing is a…
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Nina Munteanu @aliennextdoor.bsky.social · 9d
My books are feeding Meta's AI Brat... #AI #artificialintelligence #onwriting #pirating #WritingCommunity ninamunteanu.me/2025/09/28/m...
My Books Are Feeding Meta’s AI Brat
On March 20, 2025, in an article in The Atlantic entitled “The Unbelievable Scale of AI’s Pirated-Books Problem”, Alex Reisner disclosed how META pirated millions of books and research papers to tr…
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Nina Munteanu @aliennextdoor.bsky.social · 10d
Ode to an #oldgrowth #forest ... a photo essay of Catchacoma Forest #photography #NaturePhotography #Catchacoma themeaningofwater.com/2024/09/29/o...
Ode to An Old-Growth Forest: A Photo Essay of Catchacoma Forest
Main trail through old-growth hemlock forest, Catchacoma ON (photo by Nina Munteanu) At lunch time I reached the trailhead of the Catchacoma old-growth hemlock forest off Highway 507. The trail was…
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Nina Munteanu @aliennextdoor.bsky.social · 10d
A study of the Catchacoma wetland... #Sphagnum #wetlands #marshlands #Catchacoma #ecology #nature themeaningofwater.com/2024/05/19/t...
The Wetlands of Catchacoma Forest: Hidden Treasures of Sphagnum Moss and Carnivorous Plants
During my walks through the hemlock old-growth forest of Catchacoma, I am always drawn to the golden light that shines through from the large open wetland just north of the trail. Old-growth hemloc…
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Nina Munteanu @aliennextdoor.bsky.social · 10d
Club moss ... a study #mosses #environment #science #ecology themeaningofwater.com/2024/12/29/c...
Club Moss: From Giant Tree to Little Plant—A Study & An Evolution
Dendrolycopodium obscurum in a bed of Polytrichum moss of Catchacoma Sphagnum wetland, ON (photo by Nina Munteanu) I’ve been visiting Catchacoma old-growth forest and associated wetland for several…
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Nina Munteanu @aliennextdoor.bsky.social · 11d
Life on a cedar stump ... #ecology #environment #moss #lichen #science #forest themeaningofwater.com/2025/09/14/s...
Schrödinger’s Tree & the Cedar Stump
Illustrative concept of Schrödinger’s Cat . Most of us are familiar with the thought experiment in probabilities that physicist Erwin Schrödinger devised to illustrate the paradox of quantum superp…
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Nina Munteanu @aliennextdoor.bsky.social · 13d
Coming home to BC... #travel #Canada #BritishColumbia #Ontario themeaningofwater.com/2025/09/07/r...
Returning Home…
Nina stands next to a giant redcedar, BC (photo by Anne Voute) . It’s been a few months since I moved back to British Columbia from Ontario. I don’t have a place to live yet (currently crashing at …
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