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Martha Bátiz
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Mexican-Canadian writer, professor & translator based in the Greater Toronto Area. Book, music & animal lover. Mother of three. “A Daughter’s Place,” my first novel, is now available through your favourite bookseller! Published by House of Anansi Press
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Martha Bátiz @mbatiz.bsky.social · Nov 26
My first #novel, based on the lives of the daughter, niece, sisters, and wife of legendary Spanish writer Miguel de #Cervantes, author of #DonQuixote, and published by the amazing #HouseOfAnansiPress, can be preordered now. Secure your copy!

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admirablewomen.bsky.social
Who invented non-reflective glass?

American physicist & chemist Katharine Burr Blodgett in 1938.

It revolutionized optics--& led to the coatings used today in everything from eyeglasses to phone screens. She was the first woman to earn a PhD in #physics from Cambridge, 1926. #WomenInSTEM #inventor
Black-and-white 1950s photograph of physicist Katharine Burr Blodgett in her General Electric laboratory. Seated at a desk, she wears glasses and a striped short-sleeved blouse, holding a ruler and examining papers with focused intensity. Shelves of bottles and equipment line the background — the workspace of the woman who invented non-reflective glass. Side-by-side demonstration of Katharine Burr Blodgett's 1938 invention: non-reflective glass. Left: three colorful yarn balls (red, blue, yellow) are clearly visible through coated glass with no glare. Right: the same balls appear blurred and distorted by reflections through ordinary clear glass. A powerful visual proof of the invisible coating that revolutionized lenses, windows, and screens.
December 12, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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Ha llegado la edición 54 de Siruela o, para ser precisa, la reimpresión 53. Añadidas 11 de bolsillo, hemos alcanzado la insensata cifra de 65 ed. en España.

Gracias a mi tribu lectora y librera por hacer que lo impensable sea imparable. Gracias emocionadas, incrédulas, infinitas.
December 12, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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And over in the Canada Conservative subreddit, it’s a flurry of racist comments and accusations of bribery.

Every accusation is a confession.
December 12, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Corina Machado appears on the balcony of Oslo's Grand Hotel after secretly fleeing Venezuela.
December 11, 2025 at 3:52 AM
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Pauciloquent 1. Using few words in conversation, laconic, taciturn. “Poor Payton Prickwillow, persistently picked upon for his predictably pauciloquent persona, perplexed passerby with his preternatural proficiency in parakenesis and placeable paraphrasing the piffle of prattling poltergeists.”
December 10, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Terra Oliveira / @terraoliveira.bsky.social ;
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Terra Oliveira
Terra Oliveira is the author of Itinerant Songs (July 2025), and the founding editor of Recenter Press. A finalist in the 2024 Sandy Crim...
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December 10, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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Whales can communicate across whole ocean basins 🫧 sound travels 4× faster in water than in air.
An entire underwater world connected by song. 🌊🐋💙

#YourDevocean #OceanRegeneration #WhaleVoices #DeepSeaConnection #ListenToTheOcean
December 9, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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Pioneering new treatment reverses incurable blood cancer in some patients #UK

www.bbc.com/news/article...
Blood cancer therapy reverses incurable leukaemia in some patients
Seven out of 11 patients with incurable cancer who had the treatment appear to be cancer-free.
www.bbc.com
December 9, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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Hoy Carmen Martín Gaite cumple cien años. Murió hace 25, pero seguimos invocándola.

«Avanzo alegre y sola
en la exacta mañana
por el camino mío que he encontrado
aunque no haya salida».

#CarmenMartínGaite
December 8, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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🌱 ¡Nuestra conexión con la naturaleza es más profunda de lo que crees! 🌍
December 6, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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Phillis Wheatley, first published African-American female poet, died #OTD in 1784.

Born in W. Africa, sold into slavery at 7 & one of the best-known poets in 18th-century America. Her achievements were a catalyst for the fledgling antislavery movement.

poetryfoundation.org/poets/philli... #poetry
Open antique book showing the engraved frontispiece portrait of Phillis Wheatley on the left page. The right page reads: “MEMOIR AND POEMS OF PHILLIS WHEATLEY, A NATIVE AFRICAN AND A SLAVE. ALSO, POEMS BY A SLAVE. THIRD EDITION. BOSTON, PUBLISHED BY ISAAC KNAPP, No. 25 Cornhill. 1838.” Beneath the main title is a short abolitionist verse beginning “Some view the sable race with scornful eye…” Oval portrait engraving of Phillis Wheatley, a young Black woman, seated at a writing desk in profile. She wears a simple 18th-century dress with white neckerchief and cap, thoughtfully touching her chin with one hand while holding a quill pen over paper with the other. An inkwell and small book rest on the table. Surrounding the oval is the caption: “PHILLIS WHEATLEY, NEGRO SERVANT TO MR. JOHN WHEATLEY, OF BOSTON.”
December 5, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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Frank Gehry, who in the second half of the 20th century forged a new language in architecture, becoming one of the most famous architects of his time, has died at the age of 96, according to a spokesperson at Gehry Partners.
https://cnn.it/4oEoblZ
December 5, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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Well done! A Massachusetts church displayed an “ICE was here” sign in its Nativity scene.
December 4, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself
Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.
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December 5, 2025 at 3:49 AM
mbatiz.bsky.social
I’ll be closing my #debutnovel promotion activities this year at the Bloor/Gladstone branch of the #Toronto #PublicLibrary with a talk about #migueldecervantes and the #women in his family. Save the date and join me if you can! 📚🎉🇨🇦🇪🇸🥰

#canlit #latinawriter

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December 4, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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Vaccinate your children, yourselves and your pets.
December 2, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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writersfest.bc.ca
Significant cuts to public arts funding are affecting organizations across the country, including the Vancouver Writers Fest.

Support the stories that make us who we are. Please consider making a one-time or monthly donation this Giving Tuesday.

writersfest.bc.ca/donate
December 2, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Great culture can save lives. Literally.

Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard
December 2, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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irenevalmore.bsky.social
En cada hogar anida la memoria de quien partió a lo desconocido, incluso sin papeles ni permisos: abuelos, tías, hijos. La lejanía de los seres queridos, las barreras del idioma, el rechazo racista, la solitaria indefensión y el fantasma del fracaso.

www.milenio.com/cultura/labe...
🎨 Román Rivas
Seres errantes | Por Irene Vallejo
Irene Vallejo reflexiona sobre identidad y migración, y expone cómo la diversidad construye comunidad, pese a los mitos y temores que alimentan la xenofobia.
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November 30, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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Bravo! 🎉🎉🎉
November 30, 2025 at 5:38 AM
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My #HistoricalFiction roundup includes titles by 4 Canadian women novelists: Donna Jones Alward, @annykchoi.bsky.social, @cestima.bsky.social & Natalie Jenner.

Find your next fab read among them. #ReadWomen #Kafka #Austen #Titanic #Korea #1920s
November 29, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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November 28, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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Save the date #Toronto! Dec 3rd from 7-8pm at the #DonMills branch of the #TorontoPublicLibrary to talk about my #debutnovel #ADaughtersPlace

Do come & help me spread the word! #booklovers #historicalfiction #NorthYork

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November 28, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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November 28, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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This Friday and Saturday only, our Prose and Poems hats, puzzles, and tote bags are 50% OFF at the Anansi Bookshop! 🧢 These make perfect gifts for the stylish book lovers in your life.

📍 Our bookshop is located at 128 Sterling Road, Toronto. Friday hours: 1pm - 6pm. Saturday hours: 11am - 5pm.
November 27, 2025 at 2:31 PM