The Descent (2005) 🎬🖤 Directed by Neil Marshall

China’s latest energy data offers a signal worth paying attention to. In 2025, emissions from energy and industry fell by 0.3%, modest, but notable, even as total energy consumption rose by 3.5%. The key driver? A continued surge in solar power capacity.

Kansas is canceling driver’s licenses and birth certificates for transgender residents—retroactively. What happens when equal protection depends on which state line you cross? My latest newsletter:

More hope from mRNA vaccines. In this instance, individualized vaccines were given to women with triple negative breast cancer following surgery and adjuvant therapy. The results are quite remarkable. Despite cancer finding a ‘T cell-evading’ work-around in some patients. #Science 🧪

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"Mother of Chemotherapy" Dr. Jane Wright died #OTD in 2013. + Helped shift cancer treatment from palliative care to modern chemotherapy by establishing methotrexate as a foundational treatment for breast cancer in 1951 + Only woman co-founder, American Society of Clinical Oncology #WomenInSTEM #BHM

So stoked for Alysa Liu! 🥇🎉 Also—Amber Glenn became the first American and only second woman to land 3 triple axels at an Olympics. I feel like more people should be talking about this! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 #AlysaLiu #AmberGlenn #BladeAngels #TeamUSA

From @theathletic.com: What a comeback from Amber Glenn. The American figure skater had a nearly flawless routine in her free skate after her disappointing women’s short program. “What a brilliant, redemptive skate. She just fought so hard.” nyti.ms/4arq55z

Liu is the first American woman to win an individual figure skating gold medal since Sarah Hughes in 2002. n.pr/3OhUjzv

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BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide. This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.

My husband on Alyssa Liu’s beautiful short program: “it’s like there are some people who are really good at swimming, but then you see a fish.”

Romania has decoupled economic growth from pollution faster than anywhere else in EU. Its net greenhouse gas emissions intensity fell 88% between 1990 & 2023, so each euro’s worth of economic activity heats planet 10 times less. Emissions have plunged by 75%. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Big news! My story “Psychomanteum” has been named one of 10 semifinalists in the Everard Entertainment + Roadmap Writers Short Story Competition! I’m honored to have my work recognized alongside such talented writers. 📖➡️🎞️

No, I will not be getting up today. But thank you for your suggestion #DogsOfBluesky

“Not to punish evil is equivalent to authorizing it." Leonardo da Vinci

This pup found a stick shaped like an old timey pipe earlier today and has already solved three mysteries. 13/10

NightTide is growing. 🖤 I wrote about why we chose depth over news churn, how the magazine has evolved, and why NightTide is becoming a home for long-form horror criticism, identity, and thought leadership. Proud of this team. Proud of this work. Welcome home. 👻 nighttidemag.com/2026/02/02/h...

"Our new analysis shows that it is far more dangerous to be pregnant than to have an abortion, and this gap in mortality risk is even larger than previously recognized.” - lead study author Maria Steenland. In fact, the mortality risk of pregnancy is 44 to 70 times higher than from abortion.

Oh look, another book nook! Phenomenal way to channel stress into creative work.

GDT's Frankenstein is coming back to theaters beginning tomorrow for one week. Paris Theater in NYC and the Egyptian Theatre in Los Angeles. Also, Chicago, Dallas, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Washington DC, Boston, San Francisco, Seattle, Orlando, and Springfield, VT.

Really happy that @storystudiochicago.bsky.social is co-sponsoring a fundraiser to support the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant & Refugee Rights on Saturday, January 24th at 4:30pm 🧵 www.eventbrite.com/e/fundraiser...

I want to be living in a period of time where English majors and fine art majors study for their dissertations. I do not want to continue living in a time where I know history majors will be studying us closely.

Things are grim right now but as a reminder of who we are and why we fight, this is the US Women’s figuring skating champion.

North Carolina, come see me this Thursday at @flyleafbooks.bsky.social with @polkfiction.bsky.social !!! flyleafbooks.com/event/morgan...

This made me feel a little better about myself. #Horror #HorrorCommunity #ScriptSky #WritingCommunity #HorrorFamily #ScriptSky+ www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/stra...

Remember, there are still good people in the world. We all have the power to make a corner of our planet or community a better place.

This is one of our favorites!

Michelle Obama talks to Jimmy Kimmel about Rob Reiner and Michele Reiner. This is from tonight’s episode.

"Margaret is in many ways emblematic of Chicago’s literary community today and what makes it wonderful." Huge thanks to @mbwwelch.bsky.social for this full circle moment a few weeks before the 10-year anniversary of @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social. chireviewofbooks.com/2025/12/09/e...

Sinners is a period piece horror film that cost about $95 million. it brought in $367 million worldwide. don't tell me people don't go to the movies anymore. they do. they're just tired of constant remakes.

Indian speculative fiction evolved through Bengali "kalpavigyan" and post-Independence "scientifiction." Today, as this piece shows, Indian SF is finding its voice anew—bridging caste, gender, and global imagination with universal storytelling. By @gautambhatia88.bsky.social

Breaking: Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old

BREAKING: The House just passed my bipartisan legislation to help make it easier for moms to get through airport security and travel with the breastmilk they need for their newborns. Now it heads to the President's desk to be signed into law.

BREAKING: The Supreme Court denied an attempt to challenge Obergefell v. Hodges, the case affirming marriage equality nationwide. Our freedom to marry remains the law of the land.

She's absolutely right. As a producer with several films in development with female directors, I can say it is an absolute uphill battle to get execs to fund their projects. Great scripts are sitting on shelves while a generation of our most talented women sit idle. www.avclub.com/kristen-stew...

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If alcohol, tobacco and drugs aren’t allowed within 1,000 feet of schools—tear gas shouldn’t be either. We send our kids to school to learn, not receive front row seats to Trump’s extreme enforcement tactics. I’m demanding Trump’s Education Secretary Linda McMahon do something to stop this.

BREAKING: A court ordered the Department of Defense to stop censoring educational materials discussing race and gender in schools on military bases. Books removed from the schools must be returned to the shelves immediately.

I’m reading some of my work at a Deep Dish reading this Thursday, October 23rd at 6:30 PM! Deep Dish is a speculative fiction series celebrating science fiction, fantasy, and horror. Hope to see you there! *6:00 time from the image below has been updated to 6:30.

Kanchha Sherpa, the last surviving member of the first expedition team to scale Mount Everest, has died. He was 92. 🧵

Congratulations to all the runners today at the Chicago Marathon! I hope you’re taking a moment after crossing the finish line and enjoying all that the best big city in the nation has to offer.

Sometimes we need a moment, but if you tune out completely, they win. Fascism doesn’t need your support, just your silence.

We're getting personal w/ my #FirstPeriod story... Part 1! 🩸🩸🩸 Please watch/listen to this short video & share your own first period story in the comments or via repost - be sure to tag me & to link our crowdfunding campaign for #BleedFilm (shared in the comments). 😉 Thanks for listening, gang! ♥️

We are absolutely THRILLED to announce the 2025 winner of the Adam Morgan Literary Leadership Award is @samiraahmed.bsky.social!!! As a national leader of Authors Against Book Bans, Samira uses activism to combat censorship, and we are so grateful for the work she does.

What??? Psychomanteum has advanced to Semifinals at Slamdance (top 1%)! 🙊 #Slamdance

Chicago just went all in on renewable energy and is demonstrating that it works. Chicago now powers EVERY city-owned building – from airports to police stations – with renewable energy. That includes O’Hare airport.