What a fascinating angle! Science fiction often shapes our understanding of science, like Isaac Asimov said, "The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom." 🪐📚 #SciFiWis

The book is out! Please order for your libraries! 30% off w/code: HAL30 link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

The book is out! 30% off at the moment if you buy via the publishers, code: HAL30 link.springer.com/book/10.1007... Empirical studies of reading and readers are combined with theoretical, epistemological, and methodological reflections on why reading science (in) fiction matters.

NEW PODCAST! Episode 2x1: Style over [the] Substance: Beauty is Pain womenmakesciencefiction.org/podcast/

NEW @womenmakesf.bsky.social PODCAST! Episode 2x1: Style over [the] Substance: Beauty is Pain womenmakesciencefiction.org/podcast/

The most important news from today's reshuffle:

NEW PODCAST EPISODES - womenmakesciencefiction.org/podcast-seas...

It's in production, it's real, and it's available for pre-order (coming mid-September 2025). 'Reading Science/Fiction: Practices, Pleasures and Publics' explores the relationship between reading science in fiction and engaging with science. www.brownsbfs.co.uk/Product/Cham...

Listen up, cause I'm only telling you this once. I'm not bedtime story lady, so pay attention... #TankGirl is 30! Tank Girl is a revolutionary bit of cinema, just thirty years ahead of its time. amycchambers.com/2020/06/05/w...

YOU MUST TAKE YOUR MEDICATIONS TO HAVE STRENGTH TO CRUSH YOUR ENEMIES.

www.theverge.com/film/657990/... #WomenMakeSF #AIMakeSF?

Science Fiction Film and Television | Call for Co-Editors Deadline: 1st August 2025 Find out more and how to apply: bit.ly/SFFTV-CFE-25 @gerrycanavan.bsky.social‬ @baftss-sff-sig.bsky.social ‬@horrorlex.bsky.social‬

Coming soon in @jcmsjournal.bsky.social, "A24's Academic Style; or, Coming of Age in an Era of Student Debt."

Quakers refuse to exclude trans people from their facilities: ‘This is what Love requires of us’

will there be a restaurant at the end of the universe

Climate change and energy: We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard. buff.ly/wlQM5VU The emissions from individual AI text, image, & video queries seem small—until you add up what the industry isn’t tracking & consider where it’s heading next. — MIT Tech Review

Some pics from #Pint25 Manchester! All research talks should be given holding a pint! I love the poster my talk inspired - instead of Marie Curie being the only woman scientist most people remember she's the one STEM wants you to forget... (perfection) #SciComm #WomenInScience #WomenInSTEM

Properly stumped by a nice softball question at a talk I gave: can you give a top films featuring women engineers? It turns out the answer was I can come up with three films. But not many more b/c of the issues w/women being represented as “soft” biomedical scientists not engineering/material sci

#WomenMakeSF amycchambers.com/2020/06/25/w...

🌟Scholars and activists interested in women’s health, femtech, and capitalism.🌟 Our new piece, forthcoming in Signs, introduces the concept of “investment feminism” as a useful way to understand how financialization shapes the conversation around femtech and gender health equity. tinyurl.com/ffcs67h

Imagine having the president of the United States tell you that you’ve done a “great job on eggs”

Taught on algorithmic care and violence, computational governance, and Swedish SF Aniara (#WomenMakeSF) today. It was a good day. But I wish this class was not on a Friday.

I n a world ravaged by climate change, a couple wanting children have to submit to an intrusive assessment of their relationship in Fleur Fortuné’s surreal, stylish debut www.theguardian.com/film/article... #WomenMakeSF

This is the nub of the article that I disagree with. Sticking to the evidence *requires* picking a side on many issues that should never have been politics but now are: climate change, vaccines, public health... Staying neutral denies the science and that can't be scientific or right.

I have finished my mammoth set of marking for the first semester of 2024/5. I'm from the 1900s be kind, it takes me a long time to process stuff...

Chicago native Eve L. Ewing’s new book, ‘Original Sins: The (Mis)education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism,’ drops today. Check out our interview with her. thetriibe.com/2025/02/eve-...

Reading student essay on '1900's [sic] Manchester Rave Scene'

Would you like to edit one of the most prestigious sf journals? (Deadline: 1 June). www.sf-foundation.org/fresh-about

Everyone needs this today.

A timely cartoon for @newscientist.bsky.social

Yesterday, TCM blasted this clip to all its social media platforms. The network, as the kids say, understood the assignment.

When someone asks what my favorite movie is I can FEEL all the movies leaving my body

Tesla Gigafactory, Berlin (Collaboration with @politicalbeauty.bsky.social )

Teen Vogue 🤝 The Onion Last Legacy Media Sources standing against fascism

Went to see CYBORG: A DOCUMENTARY this evening. Felt like the filmmakers got bored halfway through and handed control to the Cyborg Foundation to make an extended ad reel. But prior to that offered some interesting engagement with subject Neil Harbisson who was more ‘human’-ised than I’ve seen 1/?

Today someone said ‘Read before you eat’ in relation to allergen labels. It felt like such an allergic motto, it had to be immortalised in the sketchbook 👇🏼

put it this way, it's not a hand signal you'd do if you very much wanted people *not* to think you are a Nazi

Marking: a mood. RIP David Lunch - all filmies should get time off to grieve/rewatch Twin Peaks.

Publisher just sent us a review of our book! 'These tender and raw narratives subvert the notion that LGBTQIA+ Mormons, especially women and femmes, are “distant, othered, and inherently broken' scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/dial/art...

So pleased that this is the week the boiler decided to break. Engineer coming tomorrow 🤞❄️🤞

Call for Papers for our first event! Join us at our hybrid workshop - Writing Global Histories of Socio-Economic Rights at the University of Sheffield, 5-6 June 2025. Please send us a keyword, abstract, and bio at [email protected]. The deadline is 15 February. See more details below!

Drop everything and read "A Muppet History of the Book" by Henry Handley @bookgreeble.bsky.social, published in SHARP News (The Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, & Publishing) #muppets #bookhistory #popbibliography #grover #martians #bookmateriality

In case there’s anyone that doesn’t know: when this video passes your feed you are required to repost it. It is the lore. The deep magic.

I really wish everyone jumping on the generative AI bandwagon would step back for a hot minute and do some critical thinking. Even thirty seconds should do the trick

I have started marking. I have read one page. And reloaded TURNITIN five times already. I hate it. I have rage.

“I go up," said the elevator, "or down." "Good," said Zaphod, "We're going up." "Or down," the elevator reminded him. "Yeah, OK, up please." There was a moment of silence. "Down's very nice," suggested the elevator hopefully. "Oh yeah?" "Super." "Good," said Zaphod, "Now will you take us up?” #H2G2

Showing this to my students while explaining the importance of placing song titles in quotation marks

#genderandscience #medsky open.substack.com/pub/insideme...